
Outgoing French president will move his foundation to Paris’ Station F mega-campus

Germany clears the way for self-driving cars to hit the roads

Bing now serves up bots from Facebook Messenger, Slack, and other chat apps

Apple invests $200M in Corning from manufacturing fund to develop new glass for future products

Samsung returns to Tizen for the Z4, only its fourth smartphone to use the OS

U.S. court rejects Uber’s call for private hearing in trade secrets case brought by Alphabet

Uber hires logistics brokers to continue push into trucking

AI Weekly: Microsoft chases Amazon, Toyota taps Nvidia, humans brace for dystopia

American Express’s new Alexa skill lets you pay bills with your voice

VoiceLabs lets Alexa developers make money with sponsored messages

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How to create the ‘perfect’ AI-driven bot

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Data-first tools score $1.8 billion to make US workers super-productive

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Why your next malware infection might be AI-controlled

Cisco to acquire AI startup MindMeld for $125 million

iTunes and SAP Digital Boardroom are coming to the Windows Store

Nvidia reaches out to VCs to fund and build the AI ecosystem

Twitch will broadcast a marathon of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Nectar Labs brings smart liquor tracking to the bar business

Ubuntu arrives in the Windows Store, Suse and Fedora are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Visual Studio Mobile Center finally gets Windows support

Microsoft launches Xamarin Live Player preview for debugging Android and iOS apps without SDKs or emulators

Microsoft details OneDrive files on-demand, offline access on Android and iOS, and iMessage integration
Okta Moves to Modernize Critical Government Identity Infrastructure, Achieves FedRAMP Certification From the U.S. Government

Google’s Allo combines artists with neural networks to turn your selfies into stickers
Former CEOs of Cushman & Wakefield and JPMorgan’s Global Real Assets Group Join RealtyShares Board of Directors

Verizon beats AT&T to acquire wireless spectrum holder Straight Path for $3.1 billion

Vivid Vision raises $2.2 million to build VR tools to treat ‘lazy eye’

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Dear Facebook: Your mobile app has gotten way too complicated for old people like me

Cancer screening firm Guardant Health raises $360 million to sequence tumor DNA of 1 million patients

Netflix opens EU customer service hub in Amsterdam and commits to creating 400 new jobs

Backed by Andy Rubin, Lighthouse raises $17 million for its AI home assistant

Uber must be licensed as a transport service, rules top EU court

Snap CEO on Facebook threat: ‘Just because Yahoo has a search box, it doesn’t mean they’re Google’

On-demand freight delivery platform Ontruck raises $10 million from Atomico, others

Design Inc. shuts down self-service platform, blames poor growth and business model

6 AI startups win $1.5 million in prizes at Nvidia Inception event

U.S. government officials say airline laptop ban could expand to Europe

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How ambient computing will help chatbots evolve
