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Palantir will start paying employee bonuses in stock units instead of cash...
Palantir, the controversial data-analytics company founded by Peter Thiel, is making a big change to the bonuses it pays employees.Instead of getting cash bonuses, Palantir employees will receive...
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The former Apple engineer who created the programming language Swift has...
Chris Lattner, the former Apple engineer who created the iOS programming language Swift, joined the artificial intelligence chip startup SiFive in January to head platform engineering there.While...
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Elon Musk just criticized the artificial intelligence company he helped found...
Elon Musk criticized OpenAI, one of the world's top AI research organizations, saying it lacks transparency and that his confidence in its technology's safety is "not high."OpenAI is racing to be the...
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Europe reveals its ambitious tech blueprint to take on Silicon Valley and China
Europe revealed its ambitious plans to challenge the US's and China's dominance in tech and artificial intelligence.The European Commission wants to make it easier for local businesses, tech firms, and...
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Chinese tech giant Tencent backed AI startup SenSat in a $10 million funding...
Launched in 2018, AI startup SenSat has already raised $10 million in a Series A fundraising round led by Tencent. The London-based firm uses drones and AI to create 'digital twin' versions of...
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Here's what you need to know about Grimes, the Canadian singer dating Elon...
Grimes, the Canadian singer, revealed in a recent interview that she's seven months pregnant after a month of hinting to it on social media.The internet is furiously speculating whether the father is...
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Intuit is reportedly about to buy Credit Karma for $7 billion, and a Wall...
Intuit is in talks to buy Credit Karma for $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. A Wall Street analyst says the deal could give Intuit's artificial intelligence effort a needed boost.UBS...
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This startup can predict heart failure over the phone using AI and speech...
Corti.ai developed technology to save thousands of people from suffering cardiac arrests. The company combines advanced voice and pattern recognition technology to predict these cardiac arrest cases in...
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A top exec at $7 billion UiPath warns that the turbulence at SoftBank-funded...
Artificial intelligence startups are attracting billions of dollars in outside investment, but the market could soon contract, according to UiPath's AI head, PD Singh.One sign of this is the recent...
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says China could supplant Silicon Valley as...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged the United States government to get more invested in the ongoing tech race between China and the US.In an op-ed published Friday morning in the New York Times,...
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The pope has joined forces with Microsoft and IBM to create a doctrine for...
The Vatican called for stronger regulation of the use of artificial intelligence in a plan announced on Friday, Reuters first reported.The document also said AI tools should work fairly, transparently,...
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Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are under pressure to follow Google and drop...
Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon are under pressure to stop using gender labels such as "man" or "woman" for their facial recognition and AI services.Google announced its AI tool would stop adding gender...
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eBay, Domino's, and more are using AI that's eerily human-like to write ads...
Phrasee is a company that uses artificial intelligence to power copy for major companies like eBay, Domino's, Groupon, Hilton, and Virgin Holidays.The technology creates human-sounding phrases for...
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Nobel laureate Robert Shiller identifies a rising 'existential threat' to the...
The fear of artificial intelligence and its ability to displace workers pose an "existential threat" to our sense of economic strength, Robert Shiller, the Nobel Memorial Prize-winning Yale University...
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Billionaire investor Steve Cohen is reportedly raising money for a new fund...
Billionaire investor Steve Cohen is stepping outside the hedge fund industry and creating a private-markets fund, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.The fund, named Point72 Hyperscale, will act as...
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Clearview AI scraped billions of photos from social media to build a facial...
A software startup that scraped billions of images from major web services — including Facebook, Google, and YouTube — is selling its tool to law enforcement agencies across the United States.The app...
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Hot automation startup UiPath brings on a veteran exec who was at Microsoft...
UiPath is bringing on industry veteran Ted Kummert as its new executive president of product and engineering. Kummert — who spent nearly 25 years at Microsoft and was most recently chief product...
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Microsoft quietly adds a chief scientific officer to its upper leadership in...
Microsoft promoted Eric Horvitz – a longtime technical fellow and Microsoft Research director – to chief scientific officer, a new C-suite role at the company.Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Healthcare,...
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How IBM turns flashy AI projects like a robot that can debate humans into...
IBM is known for its splashy demonstrations of new AI-powered research initiatives like 'Project Debater,' a robot that can debate humans, and IBM Watson. While those publicity stunts are helpful in...
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CEO Satya Nadella's decision to name Microsoft's first-ever chief scientific...
Microsoft quietly appointed its first chief scientific officer last week.It's the latest addition to Microsoft's C-suite, which analysts say includes other uncommon roles like executive vice president...
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