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ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI

The Verge

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry ).

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Released from court oversight, a Seattle research institution rebrands and resets

GeekWire

It also was set up as a nonprofit that operated like a biotech company, taking discoveries through early-stage research to manufacturing and clinical trials. Casper, who became interim CEO in 2019 before permanently taking the helm in early 2020, recommended that the institution voluntarily enter receivership.

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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI chatbots on its copyrighted work

GeekWire

Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism,” the complaint says, as reported by The Times. The BBC, CNN and Reuters made similar moves, The Verge reported in October. OpenAI previously reached a deal to license stories from the archive of The Associated Press.

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Waymo and Cruise dominated autonomous testing in California in the first year of the pandemic

The Verge

But companies licensed to operate AVs on public roads in California still logged nearly 2 million miles of testing, with two of the top operators, Waymo and Cruise, comprising the bulk of those miles thanks to what some safety drivers allege was a lax attitude toward safety. million miles it drove in 2019.

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Amazon withholds its ebooks from libraries because it prefers you pay it instead

The Verge

Amazon is withholding ebook and audiobook versions of works it publishes through its in-house publishing arms from US libraries, according to a new report from The Washington Post. In fact, Amazon is the only major publisher that’s doing this, the report states. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Tech Moves: Rad Power Bikes co-founder resigns; WRF CEO Ron Howell to retire; and more

GeekWire

Ty Collins (right) and Mike Radenbaugh, co-founders of Rad Power Bikes, win Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2019 GeekWire Awards. The duo won Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards in 2019. University of Washington, for example, has earned more than $445 million in licensing revenue through WRF.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. In July 2019 it became OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider and invested $1 billion in the company to support its quest to create “artificial general intelligence.”