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Today's AI headlines: AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team, Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the O

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AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.

Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order

What Flock’s defenders are missing

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Flock, the police-tech giant known for its network of some 120,000 automatic license plate readers around the US, announced some changes to its platform last Thursday. The updates are meant to prevent…