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Trump to sign American AI Initiative executive order that will prioritize federal funding for AI, create resources for AI researchers, establish standards, more — Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the United States, but other nations, including China, Canada, and France …
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| South China Morning Post: |
IDC: Apple's Q4 smartphone shipments in China fell 19.9% YoY and Xiaomi fell 34.9% but Huawei shipments grew 23.3% — Huawei racks up 23 per cent gain in shipments in fourth quarter against 9.7 per cent slump in industry shipments.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has partnered with the US Department of Veterans and will soon let veterans access their digital health records through iPhone's Health app — Apple has announced that it will soon support accessing digital health records for veterans through the Health app on iPhone.
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Apple, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Fortune, Apple Must, iPhone Hacks, MacStories, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @aneeshchopra, @kifleswing, and @rickybloomfield
| Reuters: |
Autonomous vehicle startup Nuro says it has raised $940M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, valuing the company at $2.7B — (Reuters) - Autonomous technology startup Nuro said on Monday it raised $940 million from SoftBank Group Corp, which valued the Silicon Valley-based company at $2.7 billion.
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Ars Technica, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Silicon Valley Business …, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. Tweets: @teddyschleifer
| Julia Boorstin / CNBC: |
Reddit raises $300M Series D at a $3B valuation, with Tencent, Sequoia, a16z, Fidelity among investors, says it has 330M MAUs, half between the age of 18 and 24 — - CEO Steve Huffman says the company will use the investment to improve Reddit's website and work to take digital ad market share away from Facebook and Google.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces the general availability of an API for Google Docs task automation — Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company's online office suite.
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Current and former contractors employed by Apex Systems to work at an Apple “black site” talk about living in fear of terminations, inadequate facilities, more — Apple's new campus in Cupertino, California, is a symbol of how the company views itself as an employer …
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Business Insider, AOL, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @joshuabrustein, @business, and @laura_nelson
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Report finds evidence of 90+ cases of child sex offenses via dating services like Tinder, as UK considers expanding age verification checks to dating apps — The UK government has said it could legislate to require age verification checks on users of dating apps, following an investigation …
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The Times & The Sunday Times, CNET, BBC, and Engadget
| Kate Losse / New Republic: |
While tech companies' mission statements claim their work has a higher purpose, CEOs also keep them vague so employees can't use them to make concrete demands — Tech workers are using company mission statements to hold their CEOs accountable. — Companies in Silicon Valley are wonderfully fond …
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Silicon Florist, Telecoms.com, New Republic, and New Republic
Tweets: @newrepublic, @khanoisseur, @schulte_stef, and @timoreilly
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Uber releases Ludwig, an open source AI toolbox built on top of TensorFlow that allows users to train and test AI models without having to write code — Want to dive earnestly into artificial intelligence (AI) development, but find the programming piece of it intimidating? Not to worry — Uber has your back.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Sean Parker-backed startup Brigade, which tried to stimulate civic debate, splits up as it looks for buyer, and Pinterest hires ~20 members of its team — Facebook co-founder Sean Parker bankrolled Brigade to get out the vote and stimulate civic debate, but after five years …
Tweets: @techcrunch and @joshconstine
| Bill Bostock / Business Insider: |
Apple and Google's mobile app stores host Absher, an app from Saudi Ministry of the Interior to help men in the country track and dictate where women can travel — - Apple and Google have been criticized by rights groups for hosting Absher, an app which allows men in Saudi Arabia to track and control where women travel.
Tweets: @aaschapiro and @amelscript
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