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Autto, the simplified automation provider, has announced that it has raised $1m in funding, its second significant round since the company launched in February 2018. The finance has been raised from existing angel investors, a UK government grant, and new investment from Tangible, a corporate legal platform in the US. The funding will be used…
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The co-founder of Google’s London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind has been placed on leave amid controversy over some of its work. Mustafa Suleyman is taking a period of absence, it was reported on Wednesday night. DeepMind, which Google paid around £400m for in 2014, is seen as a leading force in AI research but has…
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Competition watchdogs at the European Commission have begun probing potential anti-trust issues relating to Facebook’s digital currency project Libra. The European Commission is “currently investigating potential anti-competitive behavior” related to the Libra Association amid concerns the proposed payment system would unfairly shut out rivals, the EU authority said in a questionnaire seen by Bloomberg and…