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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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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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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
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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| Craig S. Smith / New York Times: |
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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| Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia says it earned $289M from sales of its chips to cryptocurrency miners in Q1 of 2018, but expects crypto revenue to decline by two-thirds in Q2 — Nvidia Corp. revealed for the first time how much revenue it generated from chip sales to the cryptocurrency market — and said that figure will be much smaller in the second quarter.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox reports first financial results since IPO, with Q1 revenue of $316.3M, up 28% YoY, vs $308.7M est., as paying users reach 11.5M, up from 9.3M last year — Dropbox made its debut as a public company earlier this year and today passed through its first milestone of reporting its results … | Byron Spice / Carnegie Mellon School …: |
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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| 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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| Ben Brody / Bloomberg: |
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.| Aaron Boyd / Nextgov: |
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Silver Lake to buy ZPG, owner of UK property portals Zoopla, PrimeLocation, and SmartNewHomes, for about £2.2B, a 30% premium on its Thursday closing price — The UK housing market has cooled down on the heels of the EU/Brexit referendum vote, but that hasn't stopped M&A activity around property market companies.
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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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| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
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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As part of GDPR compliance, Google updates its privacy policy for more clarity, improves controls to manage your data, adds more services under data portability — Last year, we outlined Google's commitment to comply with Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) … | Reuters: |
Source: Chinese game-streaming platform Huya priced its IPO on NYSE at $12/share, offering 15M American Depository Shares and raising $180M — (Reuters) - The initial public offering of Chinese game-streaming platform Huya Inc on the New York Stock Exchange was priced at $12 per share …
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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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