June 3, 20210CommentsOne Concern raises $45M from SOMPO to scale its disaster resilience platform across Japan
June 3, 20210CommentsGong, which uses AI to provide insights on customer behavior and improve sales, raises $250M Series E led by Franklin Templeton, at a $7.25B valuation (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
June 3, 20210CommentsAmazon says it will require police departments that need Ring security footage to publicly post requests in Ring’s Neighbors app, beginning next week (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
June 3, 20210CommentsTwitter starts rolling out Birdwatch fact checking notes on iOS, Android, and desktop, visible only to participants in its pilot program (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
June 3, 20210CommentsChinese researchers unveil WuDao 2.0, an AI model they say was trained using 1.75T parameters, 10x more than GPT-3, to simulate conversational speech and more (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
June 3, 20210CommentsUnlike Alibaba, Tencent has so far avoided an antitrust crackdown in China, likely due to it investing in upstarts instead of driving them out of business (Li Yuan/New York Times)
June 3, 20210CommentsZuckerberg says WhatsApp will add multi-device support, introduce ‘view once’ disappearing feature