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Zendrive, which uses AI to lower insurance premiums by accounting for good driving habits, raises $37M Series B led by XL Innovate
Homeis, a social network for immigrant communities and expats, raises $12M Series A led by Canaan and Spark Capital
Cerebras Systems unveils a record 1.2T transistor chip for AI
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who says the company is now working with 4,500 AI startups, compared to 2,000 in April, 2017
How cities like Katowice in Poland, Hangzhou in China, and Frisco, Texas are embracing esports tournaments in a bid to revive their economies
Berlin-based game studio Klang raises $23.3M led by Novator Partners to develop a MMO space colony simulation called Seed, bringing its total raised to $37.4M
Canalys: North American wearables market hit $2B in Q2, 2019, as market leader Apple grew 32% YoY with 2.9M shipments, Fitbit grew 18%, and Samsung grew 121%
Mux, a video streaming analytics platform with clients like CBS Interactive, PBS, and Vimeo, raises $20M Series B from TPG's Evolution Media, Accel, and YC
Facebook AI Research, DeepMind, NYU, and University of Washington debut SuperGLUE, a series of AI benchmarks to measure natural language processing performance
Slack announces new administrator features for Plus and Enterprise customers, including announcement channels and workflow automation
Shopify launches a web chat feature called Shopify Chat to let customers talk to merchants, says it plans to expand it to SMS and Android in the future
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Google says Course Kit, its toolkit for teachers launched last year, will now be called Assignments and be able to detect plagiarism
Kasten, which offers a platform for policy-based backup, recovery, and migration for Kubernetes applications, raises $14M Series A led by Insight Partners
Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘unethical’ and ‘anti-competitive
The FCC says 5G is safe, but that won’t stop conspiracy theorists
Ezoic, which is developing an AI-powered website optimization platform for digital publishers, raises $33M, bringing its total raised to nearly $40M
Swiss startup DeepCode raises $4M seed to expand its AI-powered system for code reviews that is mostly trained using data from open source GitHub repositories
Samsung unveils Galaxy Book S, a $999 ultra-thin 13" laptop with LTE, claimed battery life of 23 hours, and a Snapdragon 8cx chipset, coming in September
Comcast expands Internet Essentials to ~3M more low-income households, says it's provided 100K+ subsidized computers since 2015 in addition to broadband access
Cockroach Labs, developer of the open source distributed database project CockroachDB, raises $55M Series C co-led by Altimeter Capital, Tiger Global, and GV
Opsani, which is working on AI-based DevOps software to continuously optimize cloud apps, raises $10M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures
Armory, which commercializes the open source continuous delivery platform Spinnaker, raises $28M Series B led by Insight Partners
Recogni raises $25M Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures for its power-efficient integrated module that collects and locally processes data for autonomous cars
Harver, which offers pre-hire assessment software for high-volume hiring in enterprises, raises $15M Series B from Insight Partners
Amazon announces general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech and "newscaster style" in Amazon Polly, its cloud service that converts text to speech
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Waze now lets Carpool drivers invite up to four other riders to join a carpool; previously, riders beyond the first had to initiate requests to join a carpool
Ford acquires Quantum Signal, a developer of virtual testing environments for unmanned remote and autonomous systems, to boost its self-driving car effort
Attabotics, which hopes to make fulfillment centers more efficient with its robots, raises $25M Series B led by Coatue, Comcast Ventures, Honeywell
Chrome 76 arrives with Flash blocked by default, a new safeguard to prevent Incognito mode detection, PWA improvements, and more
Identity verification startup Truework raises $12M Series A round led by Sequoia Capital
Maryland-based Trinity Cyber raises $23M from Intel and others for its real-time threat mitigation services and hires ex-DHS Advisor Tom Bossert as CSO
Sales enablement platform MindTickle raises $40M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its total raised $81M+
Spectral MD, a Dallas-based startup developing an AI-powered burn and wound imaging system, raises $27M in research funding from the US Department of Health
Facebook says it will migrate Instant Games from the Messenger app on iOS to the Gaming tab in Facebook's main app starting later this summer
Q2 AWS sales grew 37% YoY, the first sub-40% growth rate since Amazon started sharing AWS figures; "other" revenue, mostly its ad business, was $3B, up 37% YoY
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