

Tipalti raises $150 million to automate payment workflows with AI

G Suite is now Google Workspace because ‘work is no longer a physical place’

Scener raises $2.1 million for virtual theater parties that ease social isolation

SendinBlue raises $160 million to automate repetitive marketing tasks

Strigo raises $8 million to help software companies train their customers remotely

Baidu’s smart home group seeks to raise capital at a $2.9 billion valuation

Seismic raises $92 million to automate sales processes

Pew: 26% of U.S. adults get their news from YouTube

U.S. judge blocks Trump administration’s TikTok download ban

Facebook’s Oversight Board to launch in October — but not for election cases

After boycotts, advertisers and social media giants agree on steps to curb hate speech

Microsoft details how it improved Bing’s autosuggest recommendations with AI

Facebook removes ‘inauthentic’ Chinese accounts for U.S. political interference

Researchers create dataset to advance U.S. Supreme Court gender bias analysis

Microsoft is bringing Edge to Linux developers in October

Microsoft Teams is getting virtual commutes and Headspace meditation

How U.S. tech policy could change if Democrats win back the Senate

PredictHQ forecasts live TV sports viewership to help local food outlets meet demand

Trump to block TikTok and WeChat downloads in the U.S. from September 20

ByteDance mulls TikTok IPO to clinch U.S. agreement

Mozilla add-on crowdsources research into YouTube’s opaque algorithm

Google Meet hardware promises AI features starting at $2,700

Spotify adds virtual event listings as COVID-19 threatens 2021 tours

Twitter expands election misinformation rules to include posts that claim victory prematurely

Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and misinformation

Synthetic media targets politics ahead of U.S. presidential election

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Building Wakanda

AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos

The Social Dilemma: How digital platforms pose an existential threat to society

Cosmose AI raises $15 million to track in-store shoppers using smartphone data

Twitter labels video shared by Trump aide as ‘manipulated media’

Researchers built a data set for training AI to detect natural disasters from social media images

IBM will use AI to pipe in simulated crowd noise during the U.S. Open

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The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies

PopID’s face-based payments pose privacy and security risks

ACTO raises $11.5 million to bolster life sciences sales with AI

TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer quits after less than 3 months

Researchers’ AI can perform 3D motion capture with any off-the-shelf camera

Chrome 85 arrives with tab management, 10% faster page loads, and PDF improvements
