Analysis
Trump is President. What’s Silicon Valley going to do about it?
‘Beauty in a box’ subscription startup Birchbox to open brick-and-mortar store in Paris
Apple’s Beats1 lineup is still one big experiment
BotBeat Weekly: This week’s top bot stories
Twitter testing new layout for Moments
Wooden Sugr Cube speakers to get Amazon’s Alexa
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4 areas ripe for making money with AI
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How AI helps marketers invest in the right ads
Atlassian expects Trello to generate just $4 million in revenue this fiscal year
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3 questions marketers should ask before investing in AI
Westworld is full of sex and violence, but the show’s Google Home bot won’t talk about it
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Apple’s AirPods are a no-brainer — if you have the latest iPhone
Two Bit Circus raises $15 million to build next-generation micro-amusement parks
Inside LinkedIn’s desktop redesign rolling out now
Oracle acquires API development startup Apiary
Samsung rolls out Android Nougat 7.0 to Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, other devices to follow in first half of 2017
Encrypted email service ProtonMail now supports Tor to thwart meddling governments
A research scientist made an Alexa skill for keeping up with machine learning papers on arXiv
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4 big problems plaguing chatbots
Microsoft brings Office Lens to the iPad
The History Channel Alexa skill is getting popular among Echo owners
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How AI is enabling the intelligent enterprise
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How WeChat bots are running amok
Slack introduces threaded replies
Vimeo rolls out tools that let reviewers provide time-coded feedback and notes on individual frames
Football legend Joe Montana invests $250,000 in Blend’s Genie bots
Sales CRM startup Pipedrive raises $17 million from Atomico and others
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The rise of the mobile citizen developer
Encrypted email service ProtonMail seeks volunteers to translate app
Toshiba considers selling stake in its semiconductor business to Western Digital
Google app for Android now stores offline search queries, shows results when you get back online
5 bots to try this week: ChatterOn, MyKAI, Pepper.ai, Music Bot, and Botpress
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Why 2017 is the year of data-driven AI
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Chatbots are still missing one important ingredient
Google Assistant actions can now talk about religion, eldercare, and city services
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