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    • Fiddler raises $10.2M Series A, co-led by Lightspeed and Lux Capital, for AI that explains its reasoning, which it aims to launch next year (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Fiddler raises $10.2M Series A, co-led by Lightspeed and Lux Capital, for AI that explains its reasoning, which it aims to launch next year  —  Explainable AI, which refers to techniques that attempt to bring transparency to traditionally opaque AI models and their predictions, is a burgeoning subfield of machine learning

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    • The Spotify for Artists app on iOS and Android gets a big revamp, with real-time stats for any song, after Apple's artist dashboard exited beta last month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: The Spotify for Artists app on iOS and Android gets a big revamp, with real-time stats for any song, after Apple’s artist dashboard exited beta last month  —  Spotify this morning is rolling out an updated version of its app for artists, across both iOS and Android. The Spotify for Artists

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    • How massively popular short-video app TikTok holds our attention, using AI to churn through a deluge of images and sounds to deliver the best bite-size content (Jia Tolentino/New Yorker)

    {$inline_image} Jia Tolentino / New Yorker: How massively popular short-video app TikTok holds our attention, using AI to churn through a deluge of images and sounds to deliver the best bite-size content  —  On the popular short-video app, young people are churning through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content.

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    Tools and Weapons, book review: Tech companies, governments and smart regulation

    Technology is increasingly behind both global crises and breakthroughs, obliging the companies that create it to take responsibility for security, privacy and the impact of social networks and AI. That needs to go hand-in-hand with intelligent regulation says Microsoft. Tools and Weapons, book review: Tech companies, governments and smart regulation Source: ZDNet Microsoft

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    • Register to Vote Now

    Today is National Voter Registration Day, and if you haven’t before, this is an excellent opportunity to register to vote before the presidential election. All over the country today, volunteers are coordinating efforts to create awareness around the importance of voting and how just easy it is to sign up. According… Read more… Register to

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