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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

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The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Snap investment Hardworkers. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Yellow investment SketchAR. making their way to Los Angeles.

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How To Be A Leader When Machines Are Smarter Than You

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Yet most executives are struggling with how to harness this data with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and use it to hone their intuition and improve their business leadership. Your job is thinking big enough about your future opportunities, and letting the data and machine learning do the incremental work.

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Elementary Robotics is making its quality assurance robots commercially available

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Barnehama also emphasizes that Elementary’s robots are not designed to replace every human interaction or assessment in the manufacturing process. “Machine learning paired with humans always performs better,” says Barnehama. million in financing that Elementary closed at the end of 2019.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

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Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. Founder Alix Peabody designed a line of female-focused canned rosĂ©. Modsy scores $37M to virtually design your home. Beverages are being disrupted, there's no stopping it. Fundraising.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

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.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. billion investment in 2018.