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CNBC | February 12, 2020

Sequoia partner Michael Moritz defended Google’s 2006 acquisition of YouTube, saying it “saved” the video service in the $1.65 billion deal, as it was being ravaged by copyright threats over unlicensed music that users were posting. “The killing fields at YouTube, it certainly wasn’t Google. The killing fields were called Universal, Warner, Sony with their battalions and phalanxes of lawyers, their ferocious attack dog agents, who were making these extraordinary thr...

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...

VentureBeat | March 04, 2020

Amazon’s Alexa just became a bit more useful thanks to the addition of new features aimed at commuters, weather watchers, and basketball fans. They build on previous commute-, weather-, and sport-related Alexa services introduced throughout the past year, and point to Amazon’s bid for dominance in the growing voice-enabled devices market. Now you can ask Alexa to send information about your commute, traffic conditions, or directions to a destination directly to your phone. Simply say...

INNOVATION, SOFTWARE, FUTURE TECH

expert.ai | February 08, 2023

On February 7, 2023, Expert.ai, a company specializing in AI for language understanding, released new features for its Natural Language (NL) platform, aimed at enhancing its purpose-built NLP workflow support. With the new features, Expert.ai's NL platform can find complex entities and their relationships, which helps it understand text better. The new features include more options for on-premise deployment and taxonomy management, the ability to store core data with Kuberne...