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Landing AI raises $57M

Landing AI has raised a Series A funding round of $57 million. The investment was led by McRock Capital.

Google invests $1B in derivatives marketplace CME

Google Cloud, part of Alphabet, has made an investment of $1 billion in derivates marketplace CME Group (CME). The companies have also inked a cloud agreement. 

UC Berkeley researchers receive $2M grant to build criminal justice Big Data tools

CS Prof. Joseph Hellerstein, and Assistant Profs. Aditya Parmeswaran and Sarah Chasins, are among the principal investigators of a new lab that received a $2 million grant from the NSF.

The practical way this tech company is fighting racist algorithms — Fast Company

Pinterest’s new technology builds on the company’s efforts to establish a more inclusive product experience, writes Elissaveta Brandon. Here is the link: https://www.fastcompany.com/90673897/pinterest-gets-80-million-beauty-related-searches-monthly-heres-how-theyre-making-those-results-less-racist

Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls — Ars Technica

Nvidia Maxine uses Generative Adversarial Networks to re-create video frames, writes Timothy Lee. Here is the link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/nvidia-used-neural-networks-to-improve-video-calling-bandwidth-by-10x/