June 29, 2018
Leena AI builds HR chatbots to answer policy questions automatically
Say you have a job with a large company and you want to know how much vacation time you have left, or how to add your new baby…
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June 29, 2018
Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly. After a rough first impression, an apology from the CEO, several years of patching…
Read articleJune 28, 2018
Facebook is using machine learning to self-tune its myriad services
Regardless of what you may think of Facebook as a platform, they run a massive operation, and when you reach their level of scale you have to get…
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IQ Capital is raising £125M to invest in deep tech startups in the UK
The rapid pace of technology innovation and applications in recent decades — you could argue that just about every kind of business is a “tech” business these days…
Read articleJune 26, 2018
Shone wants to automate container ships
While everybody is focused on self-driving cars, Shone is working on autonomous technologies for container ships. The startup doesn’t want to turn those giant ships into unmanned vehicles,…
Read articleJune 26, 2018
Ping Identity acquires stealthy API security startup Elastic Beam
At the Identiverse conference in Boston today, Ping Identity announced that it has acquired Elastic Beam, a pre-Series A startup that uses artificial intelligence to monitor APIs and help…
Read articleJune 25, 2018
OpenAI’s ‘Dota 2’ neural nets are defeating human opponents
Artificially intelligent systems taking on human competitors is a grand tradition of computer science; thankfully, we’re still in the cute stages that don’t feel quite like War Games…
Read articleJune 21, 2018
FB Messenger auto-translation chips at US/Mexico language wall
Facebook’s been criticized for tearing America apart, but now it will try to help us forge bonds with our neighbors to the south. Facebook Messenger will now offer…
Read articleJune 20, 2018
Beamery closes $28M Series B to stoke support for its ‘talent CRM’
Beamery, a London-based startup that offers self-styled “talent CRM”– aka ‘candidate relationship management’ — and recruitment marketing software targeted at fast-growing companies, has closed a $28M Series B funding…
Read articleJune 19, 2018
Google injects Hire with AI to speed up common tasks
Since Google Hire launched last year it has been trying to make it easier for hiring managers to manage the data and tasks associated with the hiring process,…
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