Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas (Ryan Merket/RuntimeWire)
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Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google’s Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
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The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
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