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Kite launches Pro plan for its AI-powered Python code completions, adds JavaScript support

May 12, 2020
Kite, which suggests code snippets for developers in real time, today announced a Pro plan for $19.90 per month ($16.60 per month if you sign up for a whole year). Additionally, the company debuted a new engine for Python completions and added JavaScript support, its second programming language. Support for both languages is now powered by deep learning. Kite also shared that 250,000 developers…
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Intel Capital commits $132 million to 11 AI startups

May 12, 2020
Intel today announced that Intel Capital, its global investment organization, committed a total of $132 million to 11 startups focused on AI, automation, and chipset design. It follows a year in which the firm invested $466 million in 36 new companies (and 35 follow-on…
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DispatchTrack raises $144 million to optimize delivery routes with AI

May 12, 2020
Logistics startup DispatchTrack today announced it raised $144 million in the company’s first-ever financing round. CEO Satish Natarajan says it’ll be used to support product research and development, as well as business, segment, and geographic expansion. The logistics market is an increasingly attractive investment in light of the novel coronavirus pandemic. With customers either choosing or…
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How Walmart uses AI to enable two-hour Express Delivery

May 11, 2020
Last month, Walmart launched Express Delivery, a service that allows customers to receive orders in two hours or less. Pilot tests began across 100 U.S. stores on April 16, and Walmart plans to expand Express Delivery to nearly 1,000 stores in early May and about 2,000 in…
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AI Weekly: CDPA bill shows progress on coronavirus-tracking data privacy, but there’s still a ways to go

May 9, 2020
Contact tracing has quickly emerged as the go-to method of tracking the spread of the coronavirus among the general population, but there have been crucial questions around the most effective, ethical, and legal ways of doing so. New legislation introduced this week, the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), seeks to enact legal guardrails around the collection and use of people’s…
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DeepMind compares the way children and AI explore

May 8, 2020
In a preprint paper, researchers at Alphabet’s DeepMind and the University of California, Berkeley propose a framework for comparing the ways children learn about the world to the way AI learns. The work, which was motivated by research suggesting children’s learning…
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Exer launches AI-based fitness coach on your mobile phone

May 8, 2020
Just in time for the home fitness craze, Exer has launched its AI-based coach that shows you how to exercise correctly at home. The first product available now is the Perfect Plank by Exer iPhone on the App Store and on Product Hunt, said Exer CEO Zaw Thet in an interview with VentureBeat. “Unfortunately, people can’t go to a gym now,” Thet said. “We started this a few years ago, and I…
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