Overseas:
2. Game industry TV ad spend decreases in May, led by Nintendo with 45.6% of spend
3. Amazon Spark, the retailer’s two-year-old Instagram competitor, has shut down
4. Facebook is creating photorealistic homes for AIs to work and learn in with Habitat
5. Berkeley and Adobe researchers have created a tool to detect whether faces have been Photoshopped
6. Walmart’s JV partner Eko teams up with Refinery29 on interactive videos
8. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory’s AI can visualize objects using touch
China:
1. Zhejiang Province to Build China’s First County-Level Driverless Test Zone
2. Poor Quality, Lack of Blockbusters Drop China’s Box Office For the First Time in Nine Years
3. Huawei prepares for 40%-60% fall in international smartphone shipments
5. Beauty app Bevol 美丽修行 raised Series A funding, led by Qingsong Fund 青松基金
6. Facial recognition tech helps find missing persons in China, performed 201,198 operations in 2018
Cross-border:
1. Tencent launches video streaming in Thailand, eyes SE Asia expansion
2. Ericsson, Nokia secure key 5G contracts in China
Emerging Market:
1. Indonesia expects more foreign investment after ratings bump to ‘BBB’
2. India-based retail tech startup Arzooo built by former Flipkart execs bags $1m pre-series A
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