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China, a hotbed for ‘AI’ investors

Bloomberg To see the future of artificial intelligence, look East, said venture capitalist Jim Breyer. “China right now represents about half of the most interesting AI investment opportunities in the world,” Breyer said at the CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha conference in New York. Breyer’s bullishness about China stems from the accelerated deployment of internet technologies in urban and rural …

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EU working on digital tax to stem outflow of ‘bags of money’

­­­­­­­­­­­Bloomberg European Union finance ministers are developing a new way to tax digital companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc. to raise money from an industry that they say provides less than it should to public coffers. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told colleagues at a meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, that the bloc should agree to a tax …

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Murdoch makes Brexit appeal for Sky deal approval

Bloomberg James Murdoch played to concerns about the post-Brexit UK economy in advocating for the approval of 21st Century Fox Inc.’s bid for pay-TV company Sky Plc, as the government committed the deal to months of additional scrutiny. The Fox CEO and son of billionaire Rupert Murdoch, speaking to an audience of broadcast industry top brass, responded to a decision hours …

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