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Microsoft steps up calls for regulation of facial recognition tech; research group AI Now stresses urgency for companies to open their AI algorithms to auditing — AFTER A HELLISH year of tech scandals, even government-averse executives have started professing their openness to legislation.
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| Jackson Ryan / CNET: |
DeepMind's new AI program, AlphaZero, taught itself to play and beat the world's best AI in three different board games: chess, shogi, and Go — Humans have mostly accepted that they will never be as good at chess as the robots, but now even the robots have to accept they will never be as good as other robots.
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Sources: Apple acquired Platoon, a UK-based startup which uses analytics to source talent like musicians and writers to produce, distribute, and sell their work — Spotify has made some significant moves to bypass record labels and work directly with artists, and there are signs that Apple …
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Walmart to acquire the assets of Art.com, an online seller of art and wall decor which, a source says, was recently bringing in $300M in sales annually — - Marc Lore, head of Walmart's U.S. e-commerce business, has said the company could one day own upwards of 40 digitally native brands.
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EU's technology commissioner: EU should be worried about Huawei and other Chinese tech companies because of the risk they pose to bloc's industry and security — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union should be worried about Huawei [HWT.UL] and other Chinese technology companies …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will rebuild Edge to run on Google's open source Chromium project and will make it available on macOS, Windows 7, and Windows 8 — A Chromium version of Edge will also arrive on Windows 7 and Windows 8 — Microsoft is announcing some significant changes to its Edge browser today.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Winklevoss' Gemini exchange says it will add support for Bitcoin Cash on December 10, after receiving approval from NY regulator — The Winklevoss-owned Gemini crypto exchange is adding support for bitcoin cash (BCH), the firm announced Friday. — Specifically, the New York-based startup … | Anirban Sen / Livemint: |
Andy Rubin's Essential has acquired CloudMagic, maker of the Newton email app that the India-based startup shut down in September — Andy Rubin's Essential Products has acquired CloudMagic less than three months after the startup's founder Rohit Nadhani said its flagship email app Newton Mail was shutting down
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Inside the collapse of Defy Media, which raised $70M and oversaw 50+ YouTube creators, including Smosh, many of whom are still owed money — Ryland Adams is one of YouTube's most prominent creators, best known for his collaborative work with boyfriend Shane Dawson and his time as a host on Clevver …
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Sources: ByteDance, the startup behind popular video app TikTok, is in talks to raise $1.45B for its first venture fund to invest in AI and media content — China's ByteDance, the world's most valuable startup worth $75 billion, is in talks to raise the equivalent of more than $1 billion … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank hires Kirthiga Reddy, former managing director of Facebook India, as the first female partner to manage its $100B Vision Fund — SoftBank hired Facebook Inc. executive Kirthiga Reddy as a partner at its $100 billion Vision Fund, the first woman to join a group of just a dozen … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
FTC's Consumer Protection Bureau head cannot participate in investigations involving 120 companies like Facebook, Equifax, Uber, due to conflict of interest — The list of 120 includes Uber, Twitter, and Equifax — The Federal Trade Commission's top consumer protection official is prohibited …
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FCC to investigate if carriers submitted incorrect coverage maps after an initial review of speed test data suggested significant violations of agency's rules — The federal government keeps a map that highlights areas that have or don't have broadband service.Sponsor Posts
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