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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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| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service, as an invite-only beta in the US — LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users globally — says that video is the fastest-growing format on its platform alongside original written work, shared news and other content.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Julia Boorstin / CNBC: |
Reddit raises $300M Series D at $3B valuation, with Tencent, Sequoia, a16z, Fidelity among investors, says it has 330M MAUs, half between the ages 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.| 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 … | 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.
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Android Police. Tweets: @jacknicas, @aaschapiro, @ronwyden, @tomgara, @jamesrbuk, and @amelscript
| Reuters: |
Goldman Sachs, Point72, others invest $44M in business credit startup Nav, which offers easy credit report viewing and a marketplace for financial products — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nav, a startup that gives small businesses free access to their credit reports, said on Monday …
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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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