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How I Raised It with Sachin Dev Duggal of Engineer.ai
Produced by Foundersuite.com, “How I Raised It” goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital.
This episode is with Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO of Engineer.ai a Santa Monica based startup that provides a human-assisted AI platform to build custom software products.
Engineer.ai raised a $29.5 million Series A venture rounds in a deal led by Lakestar Advisors (Germany) Jungle Ventures (Singapore) and Deepcore (Japan).
In this episode, Sachin Dev Duggal talks about raising capital for a startup whose “front end is SaaS and back end is a marketplace,” some of the fundraising false starts, why he believes the funding success formula is made up of “purpose + persistence” and more.
Read full story @ https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QbAUveHF8oA0vsSjnkvpk
Darren Huston, president and CEO of Priceline.com
Despite the three U.S. Internet giants failing to crack China, Darren Huston, Priceline seems to have a found a way. But there’s still plenty of work to do.
Does AI have a gender?
Artificial Intelligence is utilizing advances to enable medicinal experts to recognize and treat malignant growths; crisis responders anticipate and plan for looming cataclysmic events; police distinguish lawbreakers and securely incapacitate bombs; associations improve items, administrations and procedures and younger students get custom fitted assistance from virtual instructors fit to their learning style.
Using robots and programming operators, the machine may even play out these assignments alone or as a colleague working together with people. In the event that we are going to fabricate machines that assume jobs that mimic human thinking, conduct and exercises, as a general public we ought to guarantee that those machines advantage all individuals from society, paying little heed to their age, gender, religion or status in the public eye, as opposed to reproduce human predispositions, sustain abberations or enlarge the hole between the wealthy and the less wealthy. On the off chance that Engineer AI is a recreation of human insight, who does it reenact and does it have a gender? Regardless of whether you see gender as socially developed by one’s condition and culture, a naturally decided factor as in the essentialist viewpoint, or cling to the hypothesis of individual contrasts, gender plays a job in what our identity is.
Read full story @ https://ainewsalert.blogspot.com/2019/12/does-ai-have-gender.html
Darren Huston, The Priceline Group CEO, discusses the company's euro bond offering, and Rocketmiles deal. Also Huston provides his outlook on travel.
Alibaba Cloud growing for sure but only in China
Amazon Web Services (AWS) isn’t threatened by the development of Alibaba Cloud as that is just developing in China right now and doesn’t have quite a bit of a nearness in the US or different nations, AWS CEO Andy Jassy has said.
As indicated by a report in Nikkei Asian Review on Thursday, AWS is set to take a major jump with Artificial Intelligence and quantum figuring.
Read full story @ https://www.reddit.com/user/engineer-ai/comments/efs8m6/alibaba_cloud_growing_for_sure_but_only_in_china/
Darren Huston Amsterdam Memories
I am Darren Huston, well known business person. Everybody praised my business decision which leads my organization several steps ahead. Well-being a business person I don’t get that much time for personal life but whenever I get sometime I also love to do small small things to give myself relaxation.
Amsterdam city is among one of the beautiful places of Netherlands. Here you can visit several places few are my favourites like Vondelpark, it located in the Old South district of Amsterdam. This beautiful park serves as a popular gathering spot for locals and tourists as well.It’s a place where people can walk, relax, play sports on the grass, bike along pathways and enjoy a herring sandwich or Dutch beer at one of the park’s horeca facilities. I, Darren Huston usually like this place for walking I love walking, here I love to walk barefooted. Barefooted walking is good for your body, it relax your muscles, increase blood circulation.
Second place is Scheepvaart museum or National Maritime Museum, this museum is features with 18 rooms of exhibits and artifacts.The museum’s collection of carvings gives visitors’ idea that how sailors passed their time while at sea. Moored outside the museum is a replica of the Amsterdam, an 18th-century ship which sailed between the Netherlands and the East Indies.
Third is Bloemenmarkt, this is the world’s only floating flower market. This market consist more than a dozen different florists and garden shops as well as souvenir stalls.Here anyone can purchase tulip, narcissus, daffodil and other bulbs as a lasting memento of their trip to Amsterdam. Flower variety of this place is incredible. Here you can find unique and fresh flowers.
Last but not the least Canals of Amsterdam, built during the 17th century to control the flow of the Amstel River and to add acres of dry land to the city. A boat ride along one of the city’s 100 canals offers visitors a relaxing way to view traditional Dutch architecture. Lined with elm and lime trees and crossed over by more than a thousand bridges, the canals are home to some 2,000 houseboats, including houseboat hotels.
Well said darren huston, basketball this time look bit fishy.
Team USA roster update
Williamson, Beal and Harrs make it seven players to withdraw from the team. Now 15 players remain on Team USA’s summer roster after names like Zion, Beal, Harden, Harris and A.D. withdrew
The final roster will be announced on Aug. 17
Zion Williamson, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, will not be playing with Team USA this summer at the FIBA World Cup, Team USA director Jerry Colangelo told The Athletic. This comes after Williamson missed most of Las Vegas Summer League due to a bruised knee, and discussions about whether he was out of shape. Per Shams Charania, Williamson and the Pelicans want the rookie to spend the offseason getting “fully integrated” with the franchise.
Washington Wizards star Bradley Beal reportedly dropped out of consideration on Monday as well. He’ll miss the event due to the upcoming birth of his child, according to Yahoo’s Chris Haynes. Furthermore, Philadelphia 76ers swingman Tobias Harris has removed himself from consideration, per the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Keith Pompey.
Read full article @ https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/team-usa-roster-update-zion-williamson-joins-bradley-beal-as-latest-stars-to-withdraw-from-2019-fiba-world-cup/
Vivo Eyes AI-Driven 5G Devices in 2020
Past Xiaomi and Realme, one Chinese cell phone brand that has seen stunning development in India is Vivo which will twofold down on its endeavors to create Artificial Intelligence (Engineer AI)- empowered 5G gadgets in 2020 to coordinate the quick paced way of life of buyers, a top organization official said on Wednesday. The brand took a major jump with catching 17 percent piece of the overall industry - its most elevated ever - in the second from last quarter (July-September period) this year.
It is currently third in the India cell phone advertise - after Xiaomi and Samsung - and as per Nipun Marya, Director Brand Strategy, Vivo India, the brand has recorded its most elevated ever piece of the overall industry of 23 percent for the long stretch of October (as per German statistical surveying firm GfK).
Read full story @ https://www.reddit.com/user/aliamalhotra/comments/efr6dv/vivo_eyes_aidriven_5g_devices_for_india_in_2020/
Darren Huston, Priceline Group Pres. & CEO, discusses business and investment strategies and Priceline for the Apple Watch.
