Waymo clarifies it actually wants $1.8 billion from Uber
Last week, Uber’s legal team told Judge William Alsup that Waymo was seeking $2.6 billion for an allegedly stolen trade secret related to the company’s autonomous vehicle efforts. Over the weekend,...
View ArticleAccela gets acquired by Berkshire Partners as it looks to move govtech...
Boston-based private equity shop Berkshire Partners announced this afternoon that it is acquiring Accela — a nearly 20 year old startup that sells regulatory management solutions to government clients....
View ArticleArtificial intelligence is about the people, not the machines
It takes money to make money and right now a lot of that money is going into the development of artificial intelligence. Ray Dalio explains the importance of understanding and how he and his hedge...
View ArticleJudge delays Waymo/Uber trial until December 4th
This morning, Judge William Alsup ruled that the Waymo v. Uber trial would be delayed until December 4th. The trial had initially been expected to start with jury selection next Tuesday on October...
View ArticleIs this Tesla’s electric truck? | Crunch Report
Today’s Stories Missouri forms public-private partnership to advance Hyperloop One route Tesla electric semi truck possibly spied in new photo Judge delays Waymo/Uber trial until December 4th Credits...
View ArticleRasa Core kicks up the context for chatbots
Context is everything when dealing with dialog systems. We humans take for granted how complex even our simplest conversations are. That’s part of the reason why dialog systems can’t live up to their...
View ArticleButterfly nabs $2.4M seed round to improve managers with targeted tips
One of life's puzzles that eludes me most is how a person could enjoy corporate trainings enough to spend their time designing and running them. Perhaps only with disdain for the status quo can a...
View ArticlePetuum secures $93M Series B to push AI into the mainstream
With a shortage of machine learning developers bearing down on the industry, startups and big tech companies alike are moving to democratize the tools necessary to commercialize artificial...
View ArticleDeepgram opens up its machine transcription platform to everyone
Deepgram, a startup applying machine learning to audio data, is releasing its machine transcription platform this morning for free. No more will you have to pay for other services like Trint to get the...
View ArticleDow Jones said that Google was buying Apple, and the bots bought it
There you have it. Steve Jobs' will + Dow Jones + Apple Park = Google's buying Apple. I think we finally have algorithmic transparency. This morning Dow Jones shot some fake news out over the wires...
View ArticleROSS Intelligence lands $8.7M Series A to speed up legal research with AI
Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research. The startup is announcing an $8.7 million Series A...
View ArticleTensorFlow Lattice ensures your machine learning models follow global trends
Google's TensorFlow team released TensorFlow Lattice today to help developers ensure that their machine learning models adhere to global trends even when training data is noisy. Lattice draws from the...
View ArticleTerminal makes it easy for companies to open international offices
Born out of a frustration with recruiting within the peninsula-trapped City of San Francisco, Terminal is a platform allowing companies to tap into talent abroad. Starting with campuses in...
View ArticleFeedzai closes $50M Series C to help banks and merchants identify fraud with AI
Feedzai is announcing a $50 million Series C this morning led by an unnamed VC with additional capital from Sapphire Ventures. The six year old startup builds machine learning tools to help banks and...
View ArticleIntel to ship new Nervana Neural Network Processor by end of 2017
Intel has formally unveiled its Nervana Neural Network Processor family of chips designed for machine learning use cases. The technology underlying the chips is heavily tied to Nervana Systems, a deep...
View ArticleApple makes the case that even its most banal features require a proficiency...
Amidst narratives of machine learning complacency, Apple is coming to terms with the fact that not talking about innovation means innovation never happened. A detailed blog posting in the company's...
View ArticleGoogle’s AVA data set raises the bar for identifying human actions in videos
Today Google announced a new labeled data set of human actions taking place in videos. That may sound obscure, but it's a big deal for anyone working to solve problems in computer vision. © 2024...
View ArticleNew venture capitalists find strength in numbers
Ian Rountree, the thirty something captain at the helm of Cantos Ventures, an SF-based micro-fund, is characteristic of a new breed of venture capitalists in tech — a group of small funds looking to...
View ArticlePrimer helps governments and corporations monitor and understand the world’s...
When Google was founded in 1998, its goal was to organize the world’s information. And for the most part, mission accomplished — but in 19 years the goalpost has moved forward and indexing and usefully...
View ArticleThe most overlooked path to commercialize AI is for companies to do it...
The Bessemer Process patented in 1856 by Sir Henry Bessemer is one of the inventions most closely associated with catalyzing the second industrial revolution. By reducing the impurities of iron with an...
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