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Immunai Raises $20M to Provide a Complete Understanding of the Immune System With Single Cell Profiling

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The human immune system is a complex network made up of cells, proteins, and organs that protect your body. Advances in technology have allowed researchers, scientists, and physicians to understand this sophisticated system like never before. Immunai, cofounded by Noah Solomon, leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide a complete profile of the immune system. The company just launched from stealth with a fresh $20M in funding. Noah shares with us how Immunnaii is building the largest database for immunology.

Kustomer Acquires Reply.ai to Bring Intelligent Chatbot Capabilities to its Customer Service Platform

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Another day and another acquisition in NYC Tech. This time, Kustomer, the enterprise-level customer service platform, has agreed to acquire Reply.ai to shore up its automated chat capabilities in the platform. Reply.ai was founded in 2016 and raised a total of $3.7M in funding.

Is China An AI Security Concern?

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Recently, the Interior Department ordered the grounding of its drone fleet that was made in China or contained Chinese parts. This comes on the heels of similar actions taken by the Department of Homeland Security in May and the United States Army in 2017. While political pundits credit the ban to the Trump administration’s policy initiatives […]

What Happens When The Unmanned Awakens And Becomes Self-Aware?

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The star of the Super Bowl wasn’t on the field, but the robot in Michelob ULTRA commercial. The metal beast was featured living and playing among humans, taking any opportunity to show off his brute strength. The bot smugly proves he do anything better than his organic citizens, except down a cold one. In the closing caption,  […]

We Propose a New Stack for the Net

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Back in the ancient tech times, when phone signals traveled over wires and TV signals traveled through the air, the limitations of then-existing hardware and software compelled a layered, flexible approach toward getting any information from Point A to Point B. The most elegant and powerful solution to this situation was the TCP/IP stack, which […]

This NYC Startup Just Raised $4M to Create Emotionally Intelligent Chatbots

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Have you ever wanted to have a real conversation with a chatbot and not just shout basic commands at it? Well now you can with Hugging Face, a social AI chatbot that has meaningful conversation with users. The concept was developed by focusing on how social and entertainment use cases can be applied to machine […]

This NYC Startup Just Raised $5.4M To Redefine Fast Fashion by Leveraging Social Media

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How many times have you looked on Instagram and seen a celebrity or influencer wearing a shirt that you love, but have no idea where to get? For the 800 million Instagram users, this is an issue that happens daily. Thankfully with Choosy this problem is no more. Choosy is an AI-driven social shopping platform […]

This Groundbreaking NYC Chatbot Startup Just Raised $5M to Change The Hospitality Industry

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How many times have you called multiple restaurant just to see if they are open and nobody picks up or you called to make a reservation and ended up getting put on hold for five minutes? This annoying and time-consuming ritual occurs at least once a week for New Yorkers, and it seems like there […]

This NYC Startup Just Raised $15.5M to Expand Its Creative AI Service

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Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola are some of the most universally recognized brands, partly because of their ubiquitous and iconic logos. So how can a fledgling company create a logo that can stand its own against highly recognized brands and logos? The world’s first automated branding agency, Tailor Brands, is giving companies of all sizes an […]