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House Democrats release 3,519 Facebook ads from Russia-linked accounts, spanning 2015 to 2017, showing a coordinated campaign to sow distrust in US politics — - House Intelligence Committee Democrats publish 3,519 ads — Posts targeted specific groups to inflame civil discord
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Google faces pushback after demoing its Duplex service, a voice-based assistant programmed to sound as human as possible, which many found uncanny — The most talked-about, futuristic product from Google's developer show isn't even finished yet — and Google hasn't agreed how to do it.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says it's designing features using Duplex voice assistant tech to have “disclosure built-in” and will “make sure the system is appropriately identified” — The search giant's lifelike AI will identify itself to callers. — Earlier this week …
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Researchers say they can embed audio commands to Siri, Alexa, and Google's Assistant in music and spoken text in such a way that humans can't detect them — Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant.
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Spotify announces a hateful content and conduct policy to distance itself from controversial artists and introduces AudioWatch tool to scan its back catalog — Spotify has announced a new hate content and hateful conduct policy as it looks to distance itself from controversial music artists … | Dan Rys / Billboard: |
Spotify removes R. Kelly and rapper XXXTentacion from the service's playlists, including-algorithmically generated ones, as part of new “hateful conduct” policy — YOUTUBE — Beginning today (May 10), Spotify users will no longer be able to find R. Kelly's music …
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Lithium Technologies to shut down Klout website and the Klout score on May 25, is planning a new social impact scoring methodology based on Twitter — Klout, the online social influence platform founded way back in 2008, is closing down on May 25. — The San Francisco-based startup …
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Medium abruptly ends feature that let publishers use the platform to collect revenue from their own subscriptions, affecting 21 publishers — “Could we have a better metaphor for the way Silicon Valley considers local journalism?" fumed the owner of one of these remaining publications.
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Apple cancels $1B Irish data center because of delays in the approval process that have stalled the project for more than three years — DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple ditched plans to build an 850 million euro ($1 billion) data center in Ireland because of delays in the approval process …
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White House science adviser Michael Kratsios tells over 40 companies at AI summit that the Trump administration plans a hands-off approach to AI regulation — The White House unveiled a hands-off regulatory approach to foster the development of artificial intelligence at a gathering of more than 40 companies in Washington Thursday.
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Free stock trading app Robinhood raises $363M Series D led by DST Global at a $5.6B valuation — Robinhood, the free stock trading app, has raised $363 million in a new investment round valuing the company at $5.6 billion. — The Series D round, announced Thursday, makes Robinhood …
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Internal AT&T documents show it made a $600K deal with Cohen days after inauguration, specifying he would advise on Time Warner merger and on matters before FCC — Three days after President Trump was sworn into office, the telecom giant AT&T turned to his personal attorney, Michael Cohen … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
FCC says that the Obama-era net neutrality rules from 2015 will end on June 11; Senate may vote as early as next week on whether to reject the FCC repeal — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said in a notice Thursday that 2015 landmark U.S. open internet rules will cease around June 10.
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Seattle-based XNOR.ai, which is building a platform that lets developers deploy AI to devices more easily, raises $12M Series A led by Madrona Venture Group — “AI for Everyone, Everywhere” may sound like a science-fiction slogan, but it's actually the name given to software …
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USA Today publisher Gannett to acquire search marketing company WordStream for $130M in cash plus up to $20M if certain goals are met — WordStream, the paid search software company that helps advertisers manage their PPC campaigns, has been acquired by the Gannett Company for $150 million.| CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon's Alexa division has a “health & wellness” team of over a dozen people, focusing on areas like diabetes management and assistance to new mothers — - Members include Missy Krasner, a former Box health executive, and veteran engineer Larry Ockene.
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Carnegie Mellon says it will offer the first AI degree program in the US, awarding a “bachelor of science in artificial intelligence” degree beginning in fall — New AI Major Addresses Growing Demand for AI Specialists — Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science …
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