Microsoft is plowing billions into Asia to boost AI and data center infrastructure. Latest: CEO Satya Nadella announced a $2.2B investment into Malaysia, its largest ever.
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Microsoft announces plans to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia over four years and train 200,000 people with AI skills in the country (@saritharai / Bloomberg)

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Microsoft's Nadella is in Jakarta, Bangkok & Kuala Lumpur this week preaching AI. SE Asia is shaping to be one of the biggest US vs China battlegrounds for tech giants+startups in AI, data centers. tinyurl.com/5n77mmsy
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Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion to build out cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Indonesia, betting on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to spur growth trib.al/h7JXwCz

AI startups are offering to create digital clones of professionals, with the potential to change how we do our jobs trib.al/ayLl4JJ

The rise of AI clones in business
Startups like Touchcast & Synthesia are building lifelike AI twins - and VCs are using them to raise money, professors are extending office hours, analysts' AI twins are engaging with clients
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An Indian deepfaker's showing the world it's never been faster, cheaper & easier to use AI to influence elections in 2024, a historic year with 60+ elections around the world incl India
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Amazing tale about deepfakes and their potential impact on elections around the world. One Indian expert explains why it's become easier and cheaper than ever to influence voters. Saritha Rai Jillian Deutsch Shirin Ghaffary Emily Birnbaum
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It’s never been easier or cheaper to create a deepfake, or more urgent to regulate them. So how do they work? trib.al/DOhLLzO

AI startup Bridgewise has raised $21 million Series A from SIX Group, others
Tel Aviv-based startup builds AI models to provide investment research on global securities to brokerages, wealth advisers & exchanges
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Tel Aviv-based Bridgewise, which uses AI to provide investment analysis to brokerages, wealth advisors, and exchanges, raised $21M Series A led by SIX Group (@saritharai / Bloomberg)

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AI chipmaker Hailo raises $120M at $1.2 billion valuation, as chip startups accelerate growth of AI

Hailo specializes in chips for the edge, to help robots, smartphones etc handle AI compute needs locally & not cloud data centers
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Israel-based AI chipmaker Hailo raised a $120M Series C extension from Israeli firms and family offices at a $1.2B valuation, taking its total funding to $340M (@saritharai / Bloomberg)

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Hailo Technologies, an Israel-based AI chipmaker, raises $120 million in funding trib.al/zl71YC2

AI startup co-founded by three 24-year-old Stanford alums is trying to make fax machines work for, and not against, healthcare
Tennr gets $18M fm Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator++ for AI tools that analyze, respond to faxes
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This startup bets AI can help fix global accountant shortage
Fieldguide raises $30M from Bessemer ++ to build AI tools for audit, fraud detection, forensic services - saving accountants and auditors the tedium of repetitive work Bloomberg Bloomberg Technology
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One AI startup is trying to make fax machines work better for health care trib.al/oktDAdu

Check out how this AI startup aims to improve healthcare with better fax machine technology. Learn more at: news.google.com/rss/articles/C… #healthcare #AI #technology

Fieldguide, which plans to use AI to alleviate an accountant shortage, raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer, and counts 40 of the top 100 CPA firms as clients (@saritharai / Bloomberg)

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Startup Fieldguide raises $30 million to try and fix a worldwide accountants shortage with AI trib.al/eYyG2TT