Recode Daily - Walmart bets that Jet can help it catch up to Amazon - Aug 08, 2016

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That $3 billion Walmart-Jet.com deal that was reported in the works last week, the one that made too much sense not to happen? It's happening. Official word is expected this morning. The deal will give Jet access to Walmart's deep pockets, vendor network and physical presence, while Walmart will add Jet's e-commerce expertise and technology in its battle to gain ground on Amazon.
[Jason Del Rey | Recode]
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From high-frequency trading to "quant" data science, technology already powers much of the action on Wall Street (check out the new breed of network switches that enable trading at close to the speed of light). Now the machines are gunning for the jobs of fund managers. A machine intelligence system called Emma AI is getting its own fund to run, tapping neural nets to think like an analyst.
[Mark Bergen | Recode]
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[Sam Byford | The Verge]
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[Eric Johnson | Recode]
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[Jonathan Cheng | Wall Street Journal]
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Recode Daily - Walmart bets that Jet can help it catch up to Amazon - Aug 08, 2016