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The Honor View 30 Pro goes official, hinting at the upcoming Huawei P40 Pro design

While not quite having the same reach as parent company Huawei, Honor makes some solid smartphones that certainly pack a punch, the latest being the Honor View 30 Pro. Unveiled at a behind-closed-doors event, the Honor View 30 Pro also gives us a very minor hint at what to expect from the Huawei P40 series late in March. The 6.57-inch device comes with a FHD+ LCD display and dual punch-hole…
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OpenAI’s Jeff Clune on deep learning’s Achilles’ heel and a faster path to AGI

Neural networks learn differently from people. If a human comes back to a sport after years away, they might be rusty but they will still remember much of what they learned decades ago. A typical neural network, on the other hand, will forget the last thing it was trained to do. Virtually all neural networks today suffer from this “catastrophic forgetting.” It’s the Achilles’ heel of…
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Ripcord raises $45 million to digitize paper records with robotics and AI

Staff at a California school district reportedly spent 20% of their time searching for lost documents until they retained the services of a records management company. It’s not a unique problem — the average manager spends four weeks out of the year looking for records, by some estimates. In search of a solution five years ago, three entrepreneurs — NASA veteran Kim Lembo, former Apple…
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L1ght raises $15 million for AI that protects children from online toxicity

L1ght, a fledgling AI startup that wants to help technology companies combat online toxicity, bullying, and abuse, has raised $15 million in a seed round of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Western Technology Investment. The company’s substantial seed funding comes as tech companies are struggling to contain offensive and harmful behavior on their platforms.
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