Intro

Google’s AI has a medical breakthrough, Apple raids HBO for maybe it’s biggest name, Instagram seems to be plateauing by one metric—going gangbusters in another, what to expect from CES and, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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Links:

• A.I. Is Learning to Read Mammograms (NYTimes)
• Apple Deal Returns Former HBO Boss Richard Plepler to Spotlight (NYTimes)
• HERE’S WHAT’S NEXT FOR GADGETS IN 2020 (The Verge)
• Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory, the company behind its new Cameos feature, for $166M (TechCrunch)
• Instagram User Growth in the US Will Drop to Single Digits For the First Time (eMarketer)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• How to lose a monopoly: Microsoft, IBM and anti-trust (Benedict Evans)
• Windows: Facing the New Decade (2010–2020) (Steven Sinofsky)
• Ghosts in the Clouds: Inside China’s Major Corporate Hack (WSJ)
• 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age (Yahoo News)
• This time, for sure! Ars Technica’s 2020 Deathwatch (Ars Technica)

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