Artificial Intelligence
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RPA startup Automation Anywhere nabs $300M from SoftBank at a $2.6B valuation
The market for RPA — Robotic Process Automation — is getting a hat trick of news this week: Automation Anywhere…
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Logojoy raises $4.5 million for AI-generated logos
Bespoke brand assets don’t come cheap. The average logo designer on freelance site Upwork charges about $45 per hour, and…
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Apex.AI raises $15.5 million for autonomous-vehicle software
Apex.AI is emerging out of stealth today with quite the claim — an operating system for autonomous vehicles that will never…
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How AI and machine learning are supercharging cybersecurity (VB Live)
Every year malicious cyber activity rips off the U.S. alone anywhere between $57 billion and $109 billion, and the average…
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Google Assistant can now set Nickelodeon character alarms and reply to broadcast messages
Google Assistant has added the ability to set alarms with characters from Nickelodeon’s Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…
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UK watchdog has eyes on Google-DeepMind’s health app hand-off
The shock news yesterday that Google is taking over a health app rolled out to UK hospitals over the past…
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Baidu leads $300M investment to bring its search smarts to elevator ads
China’s largest search engine Baidu is getting an offline revenue boost after it led a $300 million strategic round in…
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Microsoft launches container support for Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft is today introducing container support for Azure Cognitive Services in preview. This will allow users of Azure Cognitive Services pre-made…
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Microsoft to acquire Xoxco as focus on AI and bot developers continues
Microsoft has been all in on AI this year, and in the build versus buy equation, the company has been…
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Hippo raises $70 million for data-driven home insurance
U.S. home insurers raked in $95 billion in revenue last year, and according to a recent Jupiter report, insurance tech companies are…
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