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Explosion snags $6M on $120M valuation to expand machine learning platform

TechCrunch

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. “Fundamentally, Explosion is a software company and we build developer tools for AI and machine learning and natural language processing. .

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How Facebook fights fake news with machine learning and human insights

The Parallax

To combat fake (or “false”) news, McNally says, Facebook now employs a wide range of tools ranging from manual flagging to machine learning. READ MORE ON FACEBOOK AND PRIVACY. What’s in your Facebook data? More than you think. Ready to #DeleteFacebook? Follow these 7 steps. 7 ways to boost your Facebook privacy.

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Adversarial machine learning: 5 recommendations for app sec teams

TechBeacon

In 2016, Microsoft released a prototype chatbot on Twitter. The automated program, dubbed Tay, responded to tweets and incorporated the content of those tweets into its knowledge base, riffing off the topics to carry on conversations.

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FireEye acquires Respond Software for $186M, announces $400M investment

TechCrunch

Like many companies today, FireEye is focused on using machine learning to help bolster its solutions and bring a level of automation to sorting through the data, finding real issues and weeding out false positives. The acquisition gives them a quick influx of machine learning-fueled software. The stock closed at $14.24

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Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte

TechCrunch

At the core of Union is Flyte , an open source tool for building production-grade workflow automation platforms with a focus on data, machine learning and analytics stacks. But there was always friction between the software engineers and machine learning specialists. ” Image Credits: Union.ai

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Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos

TechCrunch

But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. In a LinkedIn post published a month ago, WaveOne’s former head of sales and business development, Bob Stankosh, announced the sale.

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CAIOs are stepping out from the CIO’s shadow

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In 2016, Andrew Ng, one of the best-known researchers in the field of AI,wroteabout the benefits of establishing a chief AI officer role in companies, as well as the characteristics and responsibilities such a role should have.