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Salesforce acquires Convergence: enterprise AI market signals
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This startup acquisition helps reveal where enterprise AI is headed. Salesforce bought Convergence a month ago, less than one year after launch Was disappointed with it (both UI and performance) when I tested it two months ago. Convergence raised $12M from Shopify, SFDC, and
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California AI Employment Law Claims Face Tens Billions Settlement
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Not sure where we as an industry go from here but, assuming standard rates in California for employment law claims, the right magnitude to think of is “tens of billions of dollars” in settlements.
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Google’s Legal Practices Against Underfunded Startups Examined
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And, again, the most publicly documented case of this in tech is an obscure startup that couldn’t afford lawyers, Google.
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YouTube Recruiting Discrimination Case Highlights Hiring Bias
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The most publicly verified evidence of this in tech is the YouTube recruiting fracas, where the plaintiff had a screen grab of an email by recruiting management to line recruiters saying to kick out of pipeline all candidates that were not in correct demographics.
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Tech Companies Systematically Direct Illegal Behavior via Email
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I feel extremely confident that a reporter who set out to write this story about the tech industry could find approximately equally bad emails unambiguously directing illegal behavior, at many companies, as a policy choice.
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DeepMind AI Weather Lab: Tropical Cyclone Prediction Preview
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You can play with the preview version at https://
deepmind.google.com/science/weathe
r?zoom=2.5&lat=0&lng=60&showTracks=true&showEnsembleTracks=false&showEnsembleMarkers=false&showCyclogenesisMarkers=false&showCones=false
… More details in the blog post at: https://
deepmind.google/discover/blog/
weather-lab-cyclone-predictions-with-ai/
… Research paper: https://
storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media
/DeepMind.com/Blog/how-we-re-supporting-better-tropical-cyclone-prediction-with-ai/skillful-joint-probabilistic-weather-forecasting-from-marginals.pdf
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Google DeepMind advances cyclone prediction with new weather AI initiative
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Accurate weather prediction is extremely important for keeping people safe, particularly when it comes to dangerous cyclones. Exciting to see this new initiative from @GoogleDeepMind & @GoogleResearch in partnership with @NWSNHC
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Instagram’s AI 3D Photo Integration Beta Impresses with Seamless Stereoscopic Conversion
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The beta 3D photo integration with Instagram is very well done! Every static photo becomes an AI generated stereoscopic 3D photo, and there is a “3D” button that lets you toggle the feature on and off for comparison. Every photo I looked at “just worked”, with no glaring
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Industry Prioritization Dynamics: Competing Urgent Demands
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The industry is aware of this and one reason for the cacophony is it is acutely aware that the wheel that has squeaked most recently is the most likely one to get greased, and given typical behavior is multiple simultaneous wheels demanding attention…