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Honda and Google to collaborate on in-vehicle connected services

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Honda and Google have agreed to integrate Google’s in-vehicle connected service into an all-new model that will come to market in the second half of 2022 in North America. Honda and Google have been collaborating since 2015 with the broader automotive industry to introduce the Android platform to automobiles.

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Volvo Cars in strategic partnership with Google to build Android into next generation connected cars

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Volvo Cars announced a “close” partnership with Google to develop the next generation of in-car infotainment and connectivity solution based on Android, offering access to a wide array of apps and services. We are making an important strategic step with the Google partnership. It will launch on new Volvo models within two years.

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Android Auto makes its debut with support from multiple automakers and tech companies

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Android Auto made its debut at the 2014 Google I/O annual technology conference in San Francisco as the first innovation resulting from the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA)—a coalition of tech companies and auto industry leaders launched in January by Google, NVIDIA, Audi, GM, Honda and Hyundai committed to bringing the Android platform to cars.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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Elon Musk tried to merge Tesla and OpenAI, emails reveal

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During that time, OpenAI continued to make waves in the AI industry – most recently through the unveiling of Sora, an impressive AI text-to-video generator. Even then, the probability of being a counterweight to Google is small. Musk forwarded an email from a person whose name has been redacted. It just isn’t zero”.

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Robert Bosch Venture Capital invests in DeepMap; HD mapping for autonomous vehicles with centimeter-level real-time localization

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The company’s approach to mapping, which leverages embedded software on the vehicle, is very compelling and relevant for highly automated as well as autonomous driving, within Bosch and the whole automotive industry. DeepMap has assembled a 75-person team with extensive experience at launching maps at massive scale.

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