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Microsoft hires Apple 5G chief to develop new HoloLens and AI products

Most of Apple’s key executives and engineers are anonymous, never appearing on stage or in news stories, but Rubén Caballero is an exception — a long-term wireless engineering VP who helped develop multiple iPhones dating back to the original model, and reportedly red-flagged the iPhone 4’s antenna design internally before it became infamous. Now Caballero has joined Microsoft, his LinkedIn…
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Apple’s Voysis acquisition will boost Siri’s IQ in a respected AI test

If you’ve ever used Apple’s Siri, you probably know the digital assistant has specific strengths and weaknesses, including annoyances that have stopped some people from using it at all. Instead of a top-to-bottom refresh of the service, Apple has spent nearly a decade making small improvements to various features, and another one’s on the way. The company has acquired an Irish voice AI…
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DeepMind’s AI models transition of glass from a liquid to a solid

In a paper published in the journal Nature Physics, DeepMind researchers describe an AI system that can predict the movement of glass molecules as they transition between liquid and solid states. The techniques and trained models, which have been made available in open source, could be used to predict other qualities of interest in glass, DeepMind says. Beyond glass, the researchers assert the…
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98point6 raises $43 million to expand its AI-powered telehealth service

98point6, a telemedical startup whose platform pairs clinicians with AI to provide text-based care, today announced that it secured $40 million in financing. CEO Robbie Cape, a former Microsoft executive and the founder of the family organization company Cozi, said the capital would be used to hire three times more physicians by the end of April. The hope is that with the expanded team, a new free…
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