Google Cloud launches new machine learning API into open beta

Building on the machine learning tools it unveiled earlier this year, Google Cloud Platform on Wednesday announced it's launching two machine learning APIs into open beta. The new Google Cloud Natural Language API allows a user to reveal the structure and meaning of text. Google promises support for a variety of languages, starting with English, Spanish, and Japanese. In a separate blog post, Google demonstrated how the Natural Language API could be used to analyze stories from the New York Times. In another example, digital marketers could use the API's sentiment analysis capabilities to monitor online product reviews or customer calls to service centers.