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  Out Of Bedtime Stories? Meta Is Testing An AI App To Do The Job For You

  Meta is testing StoryKit, an AI-powered storytelling app that creates personalised bedtime stories for children using custom characters, settings, moral lessons, and music.

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  Potholes Cost Cities Millions Every Year, AI May Have Found The Solution

  Fleet management company Samsara is using AI and truck-mounted cameras to detect potholes and monitor road damage in real time.

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  Meta To Build Humanoid Robots For Your Home After Secret Startup Buy

  Meta has acquired startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) to integrate its "physical AI" models into its research division, signaling a major push to develop humanoid robots capable of performing domestic tasks and operating in human environments.

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  Yahoo in Talks to Buy Ad Service BrightRoll: Report

  Online search and advertising company Yahoo Inc is in talks to buy digital video advertising service provider BrightRoll for around $700 million, tech blog TechCrunch reported.

• AOL Q1 Profit Misses Estimates; Shares Tumble

  AOL Inc on Wednesday reported its quarterly profit fell, missing expectations as it sheds businesses and upgrades its advertising operations, sending its stock tumbling 22 per cent.

• Opera to Buy US Mobile Video Ad Platform AdColony

  Norwegian mobile phone software firm Opera Software ASA on Tuesday said it is to buy US-based mobile video advertising platform AdColony, lifting its earnings forecast for 2014.

• China’s Tencent Invests in Reddit, Sparking Free Speech Protests

  Tencent’s investment values Reddit, the link-sharing website at $3 billion. 

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  Verizon Buys Faded Internet Pioneer AOL for $4.4 Billion

  AOL was a technology behemoth in 2000 when it bought Time Warner for more than $160 billion. That deal became a disaster and AOL was spun off from Time Warner in 2009 and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange at a value of $3.4 billion.

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  Yahoo in Talks to Buy Ad Service BrightRoll: Report

  Online search and advertising company Yahoo Inc is in talks to buy digital video advertising service provider BrightRoll for around $700 million, tech blog TechCrunch reported.

• Opera to Buy US Mobile Video Ad Platform AdColony

  Norwegian mobile phone software firm Opera Software ASA on Tuesday said it is to buy US-based mobile video advertising platform AdColony, lifting its earnings forecast for 2014.

• AOL Q1 Profit Misses Estimates; Shares Tumble

  AOL Inc on Wednesday reported its quarterly profit fell, missing expectations as it sheds businesses and upgrades its advertising operations, sending its stock tumbling 22 per cent.

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  Microsoft to get video content from AOL

  Online media group AOL Inc said on Friday it would offer its video content on Microsoft Corp's platforms, starting this summer.

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  AOL raises China presence with Sun Media Group partnership

  AOL is making a push into China with its digital video studio Makers, which struck a partnership on Thursday with the country's privately held Sun Media Group.

• S&P 500 ends down, breaks string of record closes

  Despite the declines for the day, both the Dow and the S&P 500 reached all-time intraday highs - with the Dow touching 15,144.83 and the S&P 500 reaching 1,635.01.

• Citigroup's star Silicon Valley analyst fired on Facebook IPO fallout

  The firing of Citigroup stock analyst Mark Mahaney on Friday in the regulatory fallout from Facebook Inc's initial public offering was greeted with shock and dismay in Silicon Valley, where Mahaney was a well-known and well-liked figure.