Facebook opens analytics and FbStart to developers of the 34,000 bots on Messenger
Facebook hasbeen putting a bigeffort into growing Messenger as a bot platform this year. Nowthere are 34,000 of these botsin existence, built to automatically feed you news and entertainment, let you shop, and...
Rasa Core kicks up the context for chatbots
Context is everything when dealing with dialog systems. We humans take for granted how complex even our simplest conversations are. That’s part of the reason why dialog systems can’t live up to their...
The Perspective Shift You Need To Make If You’re Always Feeling Unmotivated
Ive been suffering from a bout of something bloggers and entrepreneurship gurus dont seem to cover very often: feeling deeply, darkly unmotivated. Over the past few weeks, Ive been living in one of the...
Grail is raising at least $1 billion to fund its early cancer screening test
The early cancer screening startup Grail plans to raise more than $1 billion in Series B financing, possibly up to $1.8 billion. While the company doesnt want to name investor names, only mentioning...
10x, founded by the ex-CEO of Barclays, raises $46M to take on ancient banking...
The fintech revolution continues apace, and while many startups are hoping that newer and better tech will help them take business away from traditional banks, today a company has received a large round...
Jeff Bezos should totally buy a coffee startup
The benefits of Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods more or less went live this week, with price cuts out the wazoo as well as a bunch of Amazon Echo devices available...
