MWC cancellation disrupts launch plans for Chinese mobile giants
China’s biggest smartphone makers are delaying new product launches that had been scheduled around the Mobile World Congress (MWC) after the event organizer…
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Understanding Airbnb’s new, stubborn lack of profits
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. This morning we’re exploring Airbnb’s…
U.S. Senators propose facial recognition moratorium for federal government
Two Democratic U.S. Senators today proposed legislation that requires a moratorium on facial recognition use by federal agencies, government employees, and law…
How enterprise is placing conversational AI to work
The marketplace for conversational AI is predicted to develop to greater than $15 billion by 2024, from $4.2 billion in 2019. And for good cause — the…
Starling Bank raises another £60M from existing backers
Starling Bank, the U.K.-based challenger bank founded by banking veteran Anne Boden, has raised another £60 million from its existing investors, Merian Global…
Microsoft trains world’s largest Transformer language model
Microsoft AI & Research calls the largest Transformer-based language generation model ever and open-sourced a deep learning.
Popular iOS and Mac email apps scrape inboxes to profit from personal data
A new report today dives into a few iOS and Mac email apps/services that aren’t being very transparent about selling users’ personal data. Notably, one of them…
Yahoo and Tumblr lost 33% of their web traffic in the past several years
If there were any major sites that took a web traffic pummeling in 2019 it was Yahoo and Tumblr. That’s according to a new report from SimilarWeb. The report…
Google Chrome to start blocking downloads served via HTTP
Google has announced a timetable for phasing out insecure file downloads in the Chrome browser, starting with desktop version 81 due out next month. Known in…
Saudi VC Firm Hires Google Exec To Grow Tech Unicorns
Saudi Arabia’s STV, one of the country’s largest venture capital firms, has enlisted the help of a Google employee, Ivan Jakovljevic, with the hope of…