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Datasaur, a semi-automated text data-labeling tool, raises $1 million

ICE’s warrantless facial recognition searches trigger Maryland bill

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As robotic grasping improves, rivals debate the metrics of success

Securiti.ai named most innovative startup at RSA

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OpenAI’s Jeff Clune on deep learning’s Achilles’ heel and a faster path to AGI

NeurIPS requires AI researchers to account for societal impact and financial conflicts of interest

Google launches TensorFlow library for optimizing fairness constraints

Google Cloud AI removes gender labels from Cloud Vision API to avoid bias

Stanford and NYU: Only 15% of AI federal agencies use is highly sophisticated

Google Cloud launches Dialogflow Mega Agent with 20,000 intents

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OnSiteIQ raises $4.5 million to improve construction safety using AI and 360-degree imagery

AI Weekly: Machine learning could lead cybersecurity into uncharted territory

Galaxy Buds+ with Spotify is good, but it could be great

Andrew Yang brought AI into American politics, and it isn’t going away

U.S. Senators propose facial recognition moratorium for federal government

Slack launches App Home in general availability

Samsung debuts Galaxy Buds+ with 2-way speakers and longer battery life

How AI is fighting, and could enable, ransomware attacks on cities

White House’s proposed budget would increase investments in AI and quantum computing

Microsoft trains world’s largest Transformer language model

Facebook launches 3D deep learning library for PyTorch

IEEE calls for standards to combat climate change and protect kids in the age of AI

Labelbox raises $25 million to grow its data-labeling platform for AI model training

Andrew Yang warns against ‘slaughterbots’ and urges global ban on autonomous weaponry

Google researchers release audit framework to close AI accountability gap

Meena is Google’s attempt at making true conversational AI

Google’s AI powers real-time orca tracking in Vancouver Bay

AI Weekly: Calls for facial recognition moratorium highlight need for protection from surveillance tech

Kneron raises $40 million to grow edge AI chip design operations

CB Insights: AI startup funding hit new high of $26.6 billion in 2019

ServiceNow acquires AI for IT startup Loom Systems

GM’s Cruise rolls out Origin, an autonomous electric vehicle with no steering wheel

Microsoft open-sources ONNX Runtime model to speed up Google’s BERT

From Washington State to Washington, D.C., lawmakers rush to regulate facial recognition

World Economic Forum launches toolkit to help corporate boards build AI-first companies

Facebook launches PyTorch 1.4 with mobile customization and Java support

VCs double down on hot Seattle startup scene with $10 million Allen Institute AI Incubator investment

Apple acquires edge AI startup Xnor
