HTC outs an always listening, dual-screen smartphone with its own AI assistant

 Just when you thought HTC might be ready to hang up on its smartphone efforts, the…

Omidyar, Hoffman create $27M research fund for AI in the public interest

 eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman are among the backers of a new…

Sources: Amazon quietly acquired AI security startup harvest.ai for around $20M

 Amazon’s AWS cloud services division quietly acquired cyber security firm harvest.ai last year, TechCrunch has learned.…

Microsoft launches a new cloud platform for connected cars

 Microsoft isn’t building its own connected car — but it is launching a new Azure-based cloud…

Huawei to pre-load Amazon’s Alexa AI on US version of its Mate 9 flagship

 Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is having a good CES. Not only landing inside additional speaker hardware…

Crunch Report | Zuckerberg Gets One Step Closer to Jarvis

Waymo gets 100 new Chrysler Pacifica minivans outfitted with Waymo technology, Starry raises another $30 million,…

HyperScience, with $18m in Series A funding, offers AI to solve back-office problems

 You can’t swing a bag of cats these days without hitting a company that’s working on…

Microsoft officially outs another AI chatbot, called Zo

 What are chatbots for? I asked Zo, Microsoft’s officially launched chatbot, currently available on the Kik…