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SUNNYVALE, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google announced on Monday that it would grant about $25 million globally next year to humanitarian and environmental projects seeking to use artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up and grow their efforts. The “AI Impact Challenge” is meant to inspire organizations to ask Google for help in machine learning, a form of AI in which computers analyze large datasets to make predictions or detect patterns and anomalies. Google’s rivals Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) tout “AI for good” initiatives too.

Focusing on humanitarian projects could aid Google in recruiting and soothe critics by demonstrating that its interests in machine learning extend beyond its core business and other lucrative areas, such as military work, After employee backlash Google this year said it would not renew a deal to analyze U.S, military drone footage, Google AI Chief Operating Officer Irina Kofman told Reuters the challenge was not a reaction to such pushback, but noted that thousands of employees are eager to work on “social good” projects even though they do not sterling silver baseball glove cufflinks directly generate revenue..

At a media event on Monday, Google showcased existing projects similar to those it wants to inspire. In one, Google’s computers recently learned to detect the singing of humpback whales with 90 percent precision from 170,000 hours of underwater audio recordings gathered by the U.S. government. The audio previously required manual analysis, meaning “this is the first time this dataset has been looked at in a comprehensive way,” said Ann Allen, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ecologist.

Identifying patterns could show how humans have affected whales’ migration, Allen said, Eventually, real-time audio analysis could help ships avoid whale collisions, To be sure, the data have gaps since sterling silver baseball glove cufflinks whales are not always singing, and getting vessels to use animal location data could require new regulation, two whale experts said, Julie Cattiau, a Google product manager for the whale work, said Google plans to make the whale software available to additional organizations to improve, Google will not charge for such tools, Cattiau said, though users could choose to pair them with paid Google cloud services..

Jacquelline Fuller, vice president of Google nonprofit arm Google.org, said impact challenge applications would be due Jan. 20 and judged on total potential beneficiaries, feasibility and ethical considerations. This year, Google.org filtered grant applications with its own machine-learning tool for the first time, Fuller said, after receiving a record number of entries for an Africa-specific competition. (This story corrects the amount Google will grant to $25 million, not $20 million, in the headline and first paragraph. Reuters corrects paragraph five to make clear projects may not directly generate revenue.).

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Early gains on Wall Street fizzled and sent global stocks lower on Monday after reports that the U.S, is planning an additional $257 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese goods if upcoming talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail to end a trade war between two of the world’s largest economies, Additional tariffs on goods from China could be implemented as early as December, according to a Bloomberg report, The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 245.39 points, or 0.99 percent, to 24,442.92, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 17.44 points, or sterling silver baseball glove cufflinks 0.66 percent, to 2,641.25 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 116.92 points, or 1.63 percent, to 7,050.29.7,050.29..

The Dow had shot up more than 300 points shortly after the opening of trade, and at one point in afternoon trading was down more than 500 points. “Obviously, this trade skirmish is metastasizing potentially into something worse than it already is,” said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia. Many stock indexes are already in official correction territory - meaning down 10 percent from recent highs - as investors fret about corporate earnings and global economic growth.

The MSCI world equity index .MIWD00000PUS lost early gains to slide nearly 0.7 percent, The index is down nearly 10 percent so far this month and has shed $6.7 trillion in market value since its January peak, Shares in Europe closed broadly higher following Standard & Poor’s decision to leave Italy’s sovereign rating unchanged, prompting relief that there was no ratings downgrade, Europe’s autos sector .SXAP jumped 4.9 percent, its strongest day since August 2015, after a report that China was considering halving sterling silver baseball glove cufflinks the tax on car purchases to boost demand for autos, which has suffered from a trade war and slowing economic growth..

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