New: Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have agreed to extend the deadline for their industry-shaking $69 billion merger. The extension will give the two parties more time to negotiate with the UK competition regulator about addressing its concerns.
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Sonio raises 13 million euros in series A for health AI
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AI and health: Sonio raises 13 million euros in series A https://actuia.com/actualite/ia-et-sante-sonio-leve-13-millions-deuros-en-serie-a/
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Preply Raises $70M to Expand AI Language Learning Platform
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Exclusive: Language learning startup Preply has raised $70 million of fresh funding from investors. The startup, which was founded by Ukrainian entrepreneurs, will use the fresh cash to ramp up its use of AI. https://
cnbc.com/2023/07/19/ukr
ainian-founded-preply-bags-70-million-for-ai-assisted-language-app.html
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Meta’s Open AI Statement Backed by Facebook OpenAI Investors
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Worth pointing out that Meta's new "Statement of Support for Meta's Open Approach to Today's AI" includes several famous early Facebook or OpenAI investors along w/ some of Meta partners. About a third of signatories work at universities or are researchers inside of companies.
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Meta’s momentum: investor confidence in tech giant’s AI direction
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my money is on meta. On an absolute roll.
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Market Dynamics and Temporal Positioning in AI Evolution
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true, these things are definitely not static. relative to both time and your position in the market!
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Allcyte Pioneer Approach Validated Across AI Industry
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Yeah, team Allcyte (acq. EXAI) were pioneers here. Several are following because this approach makes pragmatic sense. And we have evidence it works 🙂
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AI-Powered Drug Response Testing Transforms Cancer Treatment Selection
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If I told you that cancer drugs weren't selected on the basis of how a patient's biopsied cancer cells reacted to said drugs, wouldn't you say that was nuts? Today, @exscientiaAI announced the initiation of EXCYTE-1 to study the relationship between ex vivo drug response in
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Crypto Blockchain Startup VC Funding Decline Data Analysis
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Here’s a link to all the data: https://
news.crunchbase.com/web3/crypto-bl
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Web3 Funding Plummets 76% Amid AI Investment Surge
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Since last year I’ve been curious how Web3 would do during amid all the the AI hype, and now @crunchbase has new numbers showing how investments dollars are holding up. Web3 funding has fallen 76% year-over-year, from $7.5 billion in Q2 2022 to just $1.8 billion in Q2 2023.