

Google and Facebook: Digital ad market is avoiding coronavirus disaster

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Why financial services need to make customer advocacy a priority (VB Live)

Amazon reports $75.5 billion in Q1 2020 revenue: AWS up 33%, subscriptions up 28%, and ‘other’ up 44%

PwC’s workplace contact tracing app won’t share info with public health officials

Vida Health raises $25 million to treat chronic health conditions remotely

How Draganfly brought a ‘pandemic drone’ to the U.S.

Udemy: Online course enrollment surged 425% amid lockdowns

LinkedIn’s AI gives job candidates feedback on their interview answers

HTC launches Vive Sync app to let remote teams collaborate in VR

Microsoft Teams passes 75 million daily active users

Amazon bought cameras from Chinese company on U.S. blacklist to screen for coronavirus

Ruha Benjamin on deep learning: Computational depth without sociological depth is ‘superficial learning’

Current Health partners with the Mayo Clinic for remote coronavirus patient monitoring

Salesforce’s AI Economist taps reinforcement learning to generate optimal tax policies

Google Meet one-ups Zoom with free 60-minute meetings for consumers

Zillow now lets you e-sign your leases

Alphabet reports $41.2 billion in Q1 2020 revenue: Google Cloud up 52%, YouTube up 33%, and Other Bets down 21%

Rapid7 acquires cloud infrastructure automation platform DivvyCloud for $145 million

MIT researchers release Clevrer to advance visual reasoning and neurosymbolic AI

Red Hat: Shift to Kubernetes and microservices is happening faster than expected

BrainBox raises $8.59 million to optimize HVAC systems with AI

Secret Double Octopus raises $15 million to authenticate employees without passwords

Companies equip cameras with AI to track social distancing and mask-wearing

Templafy raises $25 million to help workers create company-compliant documents

Codota raises $12 million for AI that suggests and autocompletes code

GV joins $50 million round in Rome Therapeutics to research ‘junk DNA’ for cancer therapies

Terminal taps AI to help companies build remote engineering teams

Workplace from Facebook now lets employees draft posts for executives

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Magic Leap’s consumer retreat is good news for the AR/XR industry

Robots, AI, and the road to a fully autonomous construction industry

Randori raises $20 million to spot cyberattacks with AI

Peak.AI raises $12 million to bolster enterprise AI adoption

Boston Dynamics open-sources health care robotics toolkit for telemedicine, vitals inspection, and disinfection

FreeWire raises $25 million to bring ultrafast charging to electric vehicles

Researchers find actively exploited iOS flaws that were open for years

StereoSet measures racism, sexism, and other forms of bias in AI language models

Magic Leap announces layoffs and enterprise refocus to ensure second AR headset

Google’s hybrid cloud platform Anthos hits general availability for AWS, in preview for Azure

Granulate raises $12 million to optimize server performance with AI
