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Facebook has 'no answer' to accusation it values 'flagrant displays of bulls***'

The Independent - Tue 16 Jul 19

US Senators attacked the social media giant's plans to launch its own Libra cryptocurrency

Facebook data scandal: Site reaches $5bn settlement with regulators over privacy issues

The Independent - Fri 12 Jul 19

Federal Trade Commission investigated allegations company shared information with Cambridge Analytica

AI program beats pros in six-player poker—a first

Phys.org - Fri 12 Jul 19

Artificial intelligence programs have bested humans in checkers, chess, Go and two-player poker, but multi-player poker was always believed to be a bigger ask. Mission: accomplished.

Landmark AI system beats poker pros in multi-player Texas hold 'em

New Atlas - Thu 11 Jul 19

A team of computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the Facebook AI Research lab has created an AI system that, for the first time, has defeated several poker professionals ...

An AI Bot Just Beat Poker Pros In Six-Player Texas Hold’em

Discover Magazine - Thu 11 Jul 19

(Credit: LightField Studios/Shutterstock) The best poker players in the world can cash in on millions of dollars in a game. Played in casinos, poker clubs, private homes and on the internet, ...

AI beats professionals at six-player Texas Hold ’Em poker

Newscientist - Thu 11 Jul 19

For the first time, an AI has won six-player, no-limit Texas Hold ’Em, beating professional poker players who each have more than $1 million in winnings

No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

Nature News - Thu 11 Jul 19

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02156-9Triumph over five human opponents at Texas Hold 'em brings bots closer to solving complicated real-world ...

AI conquers multi-player no-limit poker

Cosmos Magazine - Thu 11 Jul 19

Researchers show that artificial intelligence can beat the best in the world’s most popular gambling game. Barry Keily reports.

Facebook AI beats professional poker players in major artificial intelligence breakthrough

The Independent - Thu 11 Jul 19

Pluribus became the first computer to win at no-limit Texas hold 'em

Facebook’s new poker-playing AI could wreck the online poker industry—so it’s not being released

MIT Technology Review - Thu 11 Jul 19

Multiplayer poker is the latest game to fall to artificial intelligence—and the techniques used could be vital for trading, product pricing, and routing vehicles.

At Last, AI beats professionals in six-player poker

TechXplore - Thu 11 Jul 19

An artificial intelligence program developed by Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with Facebook AI has defeated leading professionals in six-player no-limit Texas hold'em poker, the ...

Carnegie Mellon and Facebook AI Beats Professionals in Six-Player Poker, Science Blog - Fri 12 Jul 19

Artificial intelligence has now pretty much conquered poker

ScienceNews - Thu 11 Jul 19

A new artificial intelligence called Pluribus is a real card shark at six-player no-limit Texas Hold’em.

Facebook's poker-playing AI beats world's top pros in multiplayer game

Techspot - Fri 12 Jul 19

We’ve already seen artificial intelligence get the better of humans in Go, Chess, and computer games such as DOTA 2 and Starcraft II. Back in 2017, Libratus, an artificial intelligence program ...

AI smokes 5 poker champs at a time in no-limit Hold’em with ‘relentless consistency’

TechCrunch - Thu 11 Jul 19

The machines have proven their superiority in one-on-one games like chess and go, and even poker — but in complex multiplayer versions of the card game humans have retained their edge... until ...

Facebook's artificial intelligence-powered machine defeats FIVE Texas hold'em champions at once 

Daily Mail - Thu 11 Jul 19

The AI, built at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, is the latest example of the superior powers of machines and the first time one beat multiple opponents in a complex game.

Facebook AI Pluribus defeats top poker professionals in 6-player Texas Hold ‘em

Ars Technica - Thu 11 Jul 19

Pluribus beat five other human players with an unconventional bet sizing strategy

AI forces poker pros to fold in Texas Hold'em tourney - CNET

CNET Cutting Edge - Thu 11 Jul 19

A bot built by CMU and Facebook deals defeat to humans.

A bot can now beat poker pros at six-player Texas Hold 'Em

CNN - Thu 11 Jul 19

The feat represents the first time AI has beaten top human players in a poker game with this many players.

My poker face: AI wins multiplayer game for first time

The Guardian - Thu 11 Jul 19

Pluribus wins 12-day session of Texas hold’em against some of the world’s best human players Rack up another win for the machines. An artificial intelligence called Pluribus has emerged ...

Facebook and CMU's poker AI beat five pros at once

Engadget - Thu 11 Jul 19

Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have built another artificial intelligence bot that beat some top poker pros. While AI bots have been to best professional players in one-on-one ...

Facebook and CMU’s ‘superhuman’ poker AI beats human pros

The Verge - Thu 11 Jul 19

AI has definitively beaten humans at another of our favorite games. A program, designed by researchers from Facebook’s AI lab and Carnegie Mellon University, has bested some of ...

‘Superhuman’ AI Crushes Poker Pros at Six-Player Texas Hold'em

Gizmodo - Thu 11 Jul 19

Computer scientists have developed a card-playing bot, called Pluribus, capable of defeating some of the world’s best players at six-person no-limit Texas hold’em poker, in what’s considered ...

The Poker-Playing AI That Beat the World’s Best Players

SingularityHub - Mon 15 Jul 19

Poker is a powerful combination of strategy and intuition, something that’s made it the most iconic of card games and devilishly difficult for machines to master. Now an AI built by Facebook ...

Poker AI takes out pros in six-handed game

The Engineer - Fri 12 Jul 19

An AI programme has beaten some of the world’s top professionals in a six-handed game of Texas hold’em, the most popular format of poker. Known as Pluribus, the AI was developed ...

Even when it comes to Texas Hold’em, card sharks can’t out-bluff the AI

Fastcompany Tech - Thu 11 Jul 19

Beating humans in multi-player poker has been a coveted prize in AI circles because winning involves comprehending unknowns, and bluffing. Researchers from Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University ...

Game-theory research better allocates military resources, fight cancer

ScienceDaily - Mon 15 Jul 19

A game-theory research using artificial intelligence may help treat cancer and other diseases, improve cybersecurity, deploy Soldiers and assets more efficiently and even win a poker game.

Army game-theory research better allocates military resources, fight cancer

Eurekalert - Mon 15 Jul 19

.S. Army game-theory research using artificial intelligence may help treat cancer and other diseases, improve cybersecurity, deploy Soldiers and assets more efficiently and even win a poker ...

In a first, AI program beats pros in six-player poker

The Hindu - Fri 12 Jul 19

Artificial intelligence programs have bested humans in checkers, chess, Go and two-player poker, but multi-player poker was always believed to be a bi