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Tesla | December 29, 2020

Elon Musk said Friday that it's now "impossible" to take Tesla private - even though doing so could lead to more innovation at the electric car maker. Tesla's share price is nearly eight times higher than it was at the start of the year, and it entered the S&P 500 as its fifth-largest member on December 21. Musk, responding to comments from YouTuber Dave Lee on Twitter, said Friday that "engineering, design & general company operations...

VentureBeat | March 11, 2020

This week, a team of scientists at Salesforce published a study detailing an AI system — ProGen — they say is capable of generating proteins in a “controllable fashion,” such that it could unlock new approaches to protein engineering. If their claims pan out, it could lay the groundwork for meaningful advances in synthetic biology and material science — a highly desirable outcome in the midst of the devastating coronavirus outbreak. As Salesforce research scientist ...

The Verge | February 20, 2020

As platforms prepare for the upcoming 2020 election season, Twitter and Facebook are divided on whether a video posted by the Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign would violate their policies on manipulated media. On Thursday, Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign posted a video to Twitter that was edited to make it appear as though there was a long, embarrassing silence from Bloomberg’s Democratic opponents after he mentioned that he was the only candidate to have ever started a bu...

VentureBeat | March 12, 2020

Amazon is using AI and machine learning to predict context from customers’ queries. In a preprint paper accepted to the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval scheduled to take place this month, Amazon researchers describe a system that predicts activities like “running” from queries like “Adidas men’s pants.” It could help to improve the quality of search results on Amazon.com, which could enhance the overall Amazon shopping exper...