GLOBAL POLICY
The vice-president of Huawei asked the U.K. to revisit their ban on the company, now that President Trump has been defeated. (Guardian)
Microsoft said last week that hackers backed by Russia and North Korea are targeting COVID-19 vaccine makers. (TechCrunch)
EU ministers discussed new laws to be adopted that would oblige internet firms to remove extremist content. (BBC)
After suspending Ant Group's IPO, China drafts new antitrust law to target big tech firms. (Financial Times)
US POLICY
President-elect Biden hired several former Facebook executives into his transition team. (Politico)
Obama said in a recent interview that disinformation architecture on the internet is the "single biggest threat to our democracy." (Vox)
The Trump administration once again delayed its ban on TikTok. (Verge)
In an exemption to previous trade restrictions, the U.S. is allowing Qualcomm to sell 4G mobile chips to Huawei. (Reuters)
Biden proposes $300 billion in tech funding over the next four years for AI and quantum R&D. (WSJ)
TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Facebook increases its use of machine learning to sort and prioritize flagged posts. (The Verge)
How one barrier to interoperability, the diversity of human languages, may be diminished through machine translation technologies. (arXiv)
Researchers propose a new technique that relies on simple signals to improve robot performance. (MIT Tech Review)
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WHAT WE'RE READING
President Trump has attacked the integrity of the election in over 300 tweets since election night. (NYT)
Social media platforms saw a sharp increase in the number and variety of conspiracy theories and false claims questioning the legitimacy of the election. (NBC News)
Jaan Tallinn donated cryptocurrency to Faculty AI, a London-based company that sells AI to companies and governments. (Fortune)
CORPORATE POLICY
Hyundai reportedly to buy robotics company Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for up to $1 billion. (Business Insider)
IBM and AMD partner to improve AI and cybersecurity practices through confidential computing in the cloud. (AnandTech)
Autonomous delivery firm Nuro raises $500 million, bringing valuation up to $5 billion. (Reuters)
Snap acquires Voca.ai, a company that makes AI-based voice agents for call centers. (TechCrunch)
Amazon releases AWS Glue DataBrew, a non-coding visual data search and preparation tool. (Amazon)
ETHICS & THE RULE OF LAW
A Bangladesh teenager has won the International Children's Peace Prize for developing a mobile app countering cyberbullying. (BBC)
Recent ransomware attack on Capcom may have compromised personal data of roughly 350,000 people. (Verge)
Dorsey and Zuckerberg will once again face Congress on the topic of the 2020 election. (TechCrunch)
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