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Walmart, Microsoft Deepen Partnership as Both Grapple With Amazon

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So says retail giant Walmart (NYSE: WMT ) as it announced this morning a five-year partnership with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) to use machine learning and other technologies, deepening an existing partnership between two of Amazon’s biggest rivals.

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Cloudera, Hortonworks Plan To Merge As $5.2B Cloud Data Platform

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The goal of the combined entity is to provide a leading data platform. Palo Alto, CA-based Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR ) and Santa Clara, CA-based Hortonworks (NASDAQ: HDP ) said they expect the merger to close during the first quarter of 2019 if it passes an antitrust review. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Healx Bags $56M to Advance Affordable, AI-Based Orphan Drugs

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The biotech has just raised $56 million in Series B funding to bankroll its mission to use AI and machine learning to create affordable rare disease treatments. It is not surprising that venture capitalists have been knocking on the door at Healx.

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San Diego Tech Roundup: Ezoic, Trust & Will, Oska Wellness & More

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—Ezoic, a startup that developed software for web publishers that uses machine learning techniques to personalize layouts and ad placements for site visitors, raised $33 million to further develop its technology. Based in Carlsbad, in northern San Diego County, Ezoic launched its platform in 2011.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center

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We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing. We've also really been investing in the tech community.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center

socalTECH

We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing. We've also really been investing in the tech community.

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As Facebook Fights Fake News, LeCun Sees Bigger Role for A.I.

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As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. That’s according to Yann LeCun , a machine learning expert and Facebook’s director of A.I.

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