Indus.ai raises $8 million for construction site management AI
Facebook’s Portal TV lets you watch shows during video calls
Canopy provides a blueprint for privacy-focused content recommendations
Acronis raises $147 million for tools that back up, protect, and restore data
Google Assistant adds 9 new AI-generated voices
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Uber begins mapping public roads in Dallas for its self-driving systems
Amazon open-sources its Topical Chat data set of over 4.7 million words
AI helped Facebook identify and ban 200 white supremacist groups
OpenAI teaches AI teamwork by playing hide-and-seek
Microsoft Teams now supports Oracle digital assistant
Telstra extends mobile plan to Google Nest devices
Kaia raises $8 million to treat chronic pain with AI-guided exercise
Pinterest’s Lens can now recognize 2.5 billion home and fashion objects
TuSimple raises $120 million to expand its fleet of driverless delivery trucks
Trulioo raises $52.8 million to verify customers’ identities
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Apple study suggests chattier users prefer chattier AI assistants
Google schedules Pixel 4 hardware event for October 15
New AI technique targets Alexa’s contextual understanding
Trigo raises $22 million to challenge Amazon Go with automated grocery stores
VMRay raises $10 million for real-time malware monitoring and mitigation tools
Vivo Nex 3 has a 99.6% screen-to-body ratio
Salesforce debuts Manufacturing Cloud and Consumer Goods Cloud
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At Qualcomm, 5G is headed everywhere and into virtually everything
Microsoft improves conference room audio with AI that taps multiple mics
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