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Intel announces three 5G chips: a second-gen AI-focused high-end Xeon Scalable CPU, Atom P5900 for 5G base stations, and an updated eASIC for datacenters
Enveil, a startup working on homomorphic encryption, raises $10M Series A led by C5 Capital, with Mastercard, Capital One Ventures, and others participating
Volocopter, which aims to develop an autonomous air taxi service, extends its Series C by another €37M, taking the round total to €87M
ZeroFox, a SaaS that detects risks on social media and digital channels such as phishing and malicious file sharing, raises $74M led by Intel Capital
Colorado-based Outrider, which operates a SaaS platform for fully- and semi-autonomous truck fleets, emerges from stealth with $53M in seed and Series A
SentinelOne, which provides autonomous, real-time, AI-based endpoint security protection, raises $200M Series E led by Insight Partners at a $1B+ valuation
Huntress, a SaaS cybersecurity provider, raises $18M Series A led by ForgePoint Capital as it expands into additional market segments and geographies
UltraSense Systems, maker of ultrasound technology to sense movement and gestures through a range of materials like metal, glass, and wood, raises $20M Series B
Strategy Analytics: global smart speaker shipments hit 146.9M in 2019, up 70% YoY; Amazon led with 38.5M, down from 49.5M in 2018, followed by Google with 29.8M
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How AI is being used to detect and fight ransomware attacks, and how criminals could use AI to plot more efficient ransomware attacks
Roboflow: Popular autonomous vehicle data set contains critical flaws
Inside the global cybersecurity market, which could be worth $266B by 2024, its talent shortage, and the role of automation and AI in addressing the skills gap
Intuition Robotics, which makes companion robots for elderly people, raises $36M Series B co-led by Sparx Group and OurCrowd
Datometry raises $17M Series B led by WRVI Capital to virtualize data warehouses, following its $10M Series A in June 2017
Democratic senators propose the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Act that would place a moratorium on facial recognition use by federal agencies, police
Q&A with McAfee CTO Steve Grobman on unusual types of ransomware, the state of AI in orchestrating and defending against cyberattacks, and deepfake detection
Boston- and DC-based Carbon Relay raises $63M led by Insight Partners to automate Kubernetes app deployment, bringing its total raised to roughly $70M
GitHub launches a subsidiary in India, saying it's home to its third-largest community of developers and it saw 22% growth there over the past year
FTC orders Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft to reveal acquisition data
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Atari acquires Wonder, a hybrid mobile gaming and entertainment platform
Hazelcast, which develops a speedy in-memory computing platform, raises $50M Series D and debt co-led by EBRD and DEG, following its $21M Series C in June 2019
Automox raises $30M Series B for developing a platform to automate configuration, patching, management, and inventory of enterprise endpoints
Cherre, which is using AI to index and analyze real estate data from disparate public and private sources, raises $16M Series A led by Intel Capital
Paystand, which is building a blockchain-based platform to make commercial B2B transactions as easy as Venmo payments are for consumers, raises $20M Series B
Dallas-based Worlds, which lets enterprises model their physical spaces in 3D and then observe them using AI, comes out of stealth with a $10M Series A
Amazon launches Brand Voice, a fully managed service within Amazon Polly for letting brands work with Amazon's engineers to build custom text-to-speech voices
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Mysterious startup Shadow under scrutiny after Iowa caucus meltdown
Deliverr, which operates a US shipping logistics platform for e-commerce, raises $40M Series C, led by Activant Capital, bringing its total raised to $70M+
Google Fiber says it will no longer offer a linear TV package to new customers, and is partnering with streaming service FuboTV, after adding YouTube TV in Dec.
Toronto-based BenchSci, which is using AI to accelerate drug discovery research and reduce related costs, raises $22M Series B led by F-Prime Capital
Seattle-based Kaskada raises $8M Series A for its machine learning feature engineering platform
Labelbox raises $25M Series B, led by a16z, to grow its data-labeling platform for AI model training
Gabi, which lets users upload their home, car, or renters insurance policies to compare them with other providers and find better offers, raises $27M Series B
Facebook Gaming launches a toolkit for creators, letting them remove comments, mute viewers for short periods, or ban people from the stream, in real time
EA reports Q3 revenues of $1.98B, beating expectations, on growth of its live services to $993M, up 27% YoY; digital net income was $4.13B for 2019, up 15% YoY
Amazon reports Q4 "other" category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $4.78B, up 41% YoY, and subscriptions services revenue of $5.24B, up 32% YoY
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