Google Fi gets $70 unlimited mobile plan plus free Google One membership
OpenAI teaches AI teamwork by playing hide-and-seek
Microsoft Teams now supports Oracle digital assistant
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GitLab raises $268 million at a $2.7 billion valuation
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
LinkedIn launches Skill Assessments for coding, design software, and business tools
Pico and ZeroLight demo Boundless XR, untethered VR streaming from PCs
TuSimple raises $120 million to expand its fleet of driverless delivery trucks
Trulioo raises $52.8 million to verify customers’ identities
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
$100 million Grant for the Web program seeks alternative online business models
VMRay raises $10 million for real-time malware monitoring and mitigation tools
Salesforce debuts Manufacturing Cloud and Consumer Goods Cloud
Crisp launches with $14.2 million to cut food waste using big data
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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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ProBeat: Wolfram’s natural language understanding looks incredibly useful
Apple details Overton AI development tool, whose models have processed ‘billions’ of queries
Google says its AI detects 26 skin conditions as accurately as dermatologists
Element AI raises $151 million to bring AI to more enterprises
Shape Security eyes IPO after raising $51 million at $1 billion valuation
Panoramic raises $35 million to unify and model marketing data
Incredible Health raises $15 million to match nurses with hospital jobs
ARCore’s persistent Cloud Anchors keep AR objects around
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