China and their activities here in the homeland. Im Peter Bergman and i have the privilege of introducing our final speaker for today. This isnt attorney general of the United States john dimmers who runs the National Security division. For the purposes of this conversation leads the China Initiative at the department of justice, hes kindly agreed to speak to a for about 25 minutes and that will get some questions from the audience. Can you give us an overview of what the chinese have been doing and what youve been doing to counter rights for the past since youve been in office . Thanks peter for having me thanks for Homeland Security group for having me. And for all of you here. Thanks for spending some time talking about these. Issues on the china side, what a shift since i was first in the National Security division, to today where were really the subject of this part is a great power that is really our focus these days. In addition i know jay tab was just here talking about domesti
Angel funding. Those are the earliest and smallest rounds. You have series a, later funding of series b, and so on. Generally speaking, series a is still a small round, meant to fund a company for a year, possibly two. Ill give you some context. Zoom, a company we have had on the show, is worth 21 billion now. But its series a, the first round of venture funding, was 6 million. Six. Some kind of Silicon Valley record leading a series a round to a Company Called one pass for 200 million likely the biggest series a in history, the biggest investment the firm has made. One password seems like a promising country. It deals with password management and security. But 200 million . On the first round of Venture Capital . Arun joins the reporters this week. John schwartz of dow jones and katie roof who covers venture journal. One more bit of c this is seriet was 285 million. That was a series c. What are you doing investing 200 million, and you did it with some other investors as well, in a se
How is Artificial Intelligence shaping our society from offices to living rooms devices with human like characteristics are quickly creeping into our lives the besides the benefits what are the risks and will they i take over the world one day this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter w. Now many of us interact every day with siri apples voice activated digital personal assistant siri can find information gives us directions sends messages plays music one example of how ai is becoming a bigger part of everyday life chances are its on all your devices can mimic areas of Human Behavior and could soon learn about our feelings and our emotions the key sentence there the key word mimic the machines are getting smarter of course but experts are divided as to when well move from basic ai to the scary stuff of Science Fiction if at all but there are real and relatively immediate threats almost 50 percent of american jobs are under threat over the coming 15 years and healt
Shooting and killed the two boys hanging outside that van. It was november 2019. They were 14 and 11 years old. Their names Kevin Hernandez and sean withing ton. Both suspects were already in custody on unrelated charges. It may not extinguish that anguish, that disbelief, that apprehension but maybe it brings a sense of direction and purpose that we have to find some conclusion, some resolution to these types of senseless acts of vice lense. Detective had search wants last week and found multiple guns including an ak47 assault rifle, 60,000 of marijuana and methamphetamine and 10,000 in cash. The suspects in the case are facing murder charges as well as a gang enhancement. Investigators are keeping much of the investigation under wraps right now, but they say it was done with the help of electronic and physical surveillance and there are other persons of interest out there and more arrests may come. And new at noon, San Francisco mayor is reveal ag prior relationship with former publi
Good afternoon, everyone. Im peter. I have the privilege of introducing our final speaker for today. The assistant attorney general of the United States who run it is National Security division and for the purpose of this conversation also importantly leads the China Initiative at the department of justice. He has kindly agreed to, were going to speak for probably about 25 minutes and then we will take some questions from the audience. So let me start sir with can you give us an overview of what the chinese have been doing and what youve been doing to counter it over the past since youve been in office . Great. Thanks very much. Thanks for the Homeland Security group for having me and for all of youse who are here watching on line or later on. Thanks for spending some time talking about these issues. On the china said let me say what a shift from the first time i was in the National Security division when we were doing all Counter Terrorism all the time to today where were really in th