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Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group have announced their departures from the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. Senior researcher Alex Hanna, and software engineer Dylan Baker, will join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit research institute, Distributed AI Research (DAIR). In a post announcing her resignation on Medium, Hanna criticizes the “toxic” work environment at Google, and draws attention to a lack of representation of Black women at the company. “Prior to… Source link

Yandex Announces Completion of Restructuring of its Taxi Group Assets Moscow, Amsterdam, December 21, 2021 – Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that it has completed the previously announced restructuring of the ownership of MLU B.V., its joint venture with Uber (“MLU”). The restructuring was completed in two stages: … Source link

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / December 21, 2021 / Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX:YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that it has completed the previously announced restructuring of the ownership of MLU B.V., its joint venture with Uber (“MLU”). The restructuring was completed in two stages: The acquisition by Yandex of Uber’s 18.2% interest in Self Driving Group and… Source link

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / December 21, 2021 / Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX:YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that it has completed the previously announced restructuring of the ownership of MLU B.V., its joint venture with Uber (“MLU”). The restructuring was completed in two stages: The acquisition by Yandex of Uber’s 18.2% interest in Self Driving Group and a 4.5% interest in… Source link

EquityStory.RS, LLC-News: Yandex N.V. / Key word(s): Miscellaneous/Miscellaneous21.12.2021 / 14:15 MSKThe issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Yandex Announces Completion of Restructuring of its Taxi Group Assets Moscow, Amsterdam, December 21, 2021 – Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that it has completed the previously announced restructuring of… Source link

Good luck to her, because this will be a tough battle. Big Tech carries out its own AI research with much more money, effectively sucking oxygen out of the room for everyone else. In 2019, for instance, Microsoft Corp. invested $1 billion into OpenAI, the research firm co-founded by Elon Musk, to power its development of a massive language-predicting system called GPT-3. A Harvard University study on AI ethics, published Wednesday, said that investment went to a project run by just 150… Source link

Google Cloud announced a major deal today with The CME Group to move CME’s futures and options markets to the cloud over a 10-year period. The deal has several components, including a $1 billion investment from Google into CME. Google would not say how much the total deal is worth, however. Philip Moyer, VP of strategic industries at Google Cloud, says this isn’t your standard deal where Google simply helps the customer move workloads to the cloud. “Instead,… Source link

The logo of Google is seen in Davos, Switzerland January 20, 2020. 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Nov 4 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has invested $1 billion in CME Group (CME.O) and has struck a separate deal to move the exchange operator’s trading systems to the cloud, the companies said on Thursday. Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link

Barry Silbert, Founder and CEO, Digital Currency Group  David A. Grogan | CNBC Digital Currency Group is selling shares to SoftBank and Google’s venture capital arm in a deal that values the crypto conglomerate at more than $10 billion.  The Manhattan-based, private company announced a secondary round on Monday, in which existing investors are selling shares to new backers. The $700 million deal was led by SoftBank and included Google’s Capital G and Ribbit Capital, among others.  Digital… Source link

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