Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2017

That was one of the issues raised Wednesday during a panel discussion at a conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning held at the MIT. But if driverless cars become a reality, those vehicles will also need to be able to reliably communicate with each other, using wireless communications technologies.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made big headlines almost six years ago when he wrote a blog post called “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?”

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2018

Mountain View, CA-based Diffbot gleans unstructured data scattered across websites, ads, blog posts, videos, and other public online assets to create a knowledge repository that can be mined by companies for their specific purposes.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2019

Drug discovery startup Insitro burst onto the scene last year with ambitions of using machine learning techniques to find new therapies. Now the company has its first pharmaceutical partner.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2017

Artificial intelligence is a booming business in 2017, but one that also comes with significant baggage in the form of public misunderstanding, potential job losses, and fear. Last fall, A.I.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Mountain View, CA-based Esperanto is vying with a host of competitors to create new processors for high-order tasks like machine learning and deep learning, while also minimizing power consumption. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Today’s artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated they’re capable of handling specific tasks, such as identifying pictures of cats or spotting cancer in CT scans. [ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from technology leaders about 2018 trends and 2019 forecasts.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Cerence is a spinout from pioneering speech recognition company Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN ), and it will carry on the work of Nuance’s former automotive division —a longtime player in the hotly competitive drive to equip vehicles to take full advantage of voice interactivity, artificial intelligence, and mobile Internet connections.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Google, as it develops its smart home systems, is turning to a company that already knows how to navigate the terrain of a household—corridors, kitchens, cat beds, cast-off shoes, and chair legs included.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2018

Artificial intelligence is poised to infiltrate nearly all aspects of human life. Given this development, technologists are focusing on how to ensure the technology usage is governed by ethics. The general rule is that power begets responsibility,” says Michael Stewart, founder and CEO of Lucid AI , an AI startup in Austin. “If

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Gets Real , our annual robotics and artificial intelligence conference at Google’s offices in Kendall Square, let’s connect a few dots around the topic of automation. As we gear up for Robo Madness 2017: A.I.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. That’s according to Yann LeCun , a machine learning expert and Facebook’s director of A.I. research.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

But it turns out VCs weren’t the only driving force behind the change in fundraising prospects for the young companies now inventing chips suited for artificial intelligence tasks, and daring to compete with giant chipmakers such as Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA ), says Silicon Valley Bank ’s Matt Trotter.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

About a year and a half ago, we started the Walmart Labs blog, to give a voice to our internal associates, to share solutions and challenges they were facing every day, and using that as a way to attract technical talent. Those include machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, and other areas.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

About a year and a half ago, we started the Walmart Labs blog, to give a voice to our internal associates, to share solutions and challenges they were facing every day, and using that as a way to attract technical talent. Those include machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, and other areas.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Xconomy asked technology and innovation leaders around our network to reflect on the most important developments in their industries during 2017, and the answers were appropriately wide-ranging.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. That data can also be via web crawls, where we are applying natural language, machine learning, and other techniques to extract or validate facts from web pages. In the case of the U.S.,

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

stands to gain valuable experience toward the development of autonomous, machine-learning systems and self-driving cars. As an example of advanced AI technology, it’s not particularly sexy or glamorous. But as a pragmatic industrial product, Brain Corp. two years ago as vice president of marketing and product development. Brain Corp.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

New York-based UiPath is the latest such company to score a haul, announcing Tuesday it raised $225 million in a Series C funding round co-led by earlier investor CapitalG —the growth equity investment fund of Google parent company Alphabet—and Sequoia Capital, a new investor.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2018

The San Jose, CA-based company, begun in 2003 by four co-founders who bootstrapped its funding, has built a customer base of 1,100 firms including Google, GM, Siemens, Cisco Systems, LinkedIn, Comcast, and Juniper Networks.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2017

A few years ago, industry analysts seemed to think Silicon Valley would win the race to get self-driving cars on the road—and plenty of tech giants are involved in their development, including Apple, Google, Uber, Tesla, and Intel.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Think about the retailer e-mails we receive daily or the ads that appear on Google or our social media sites. Houston —Knowledge is power, but too much of a good thing can render data meaningless. That’s the struggle many retailers have in an age of data analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

What if your Google search for ‘Paris Hilton’ listed your top result as the Hilton Hotel in Paris, because it knew your interests were not in the other direction? " Your browser would consult its intelligence of what you and she like and dislike, take into account your current location, and then suggest the right movies and restaurants.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Google Plus. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. blog comments powered by Disqus. 20 hrs ago. Smartphones.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Take Watson , IBM’s artificial intelligence platform as an example: it has advanced significantly since it handily defeated human opponents on the Jeopardy game show four years ago. Luckily, we are still in control of the machines, but who knows what can happen with all the connected devices and smart computers? Time will tell.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

One of the leading contenders in the A.I. chip race, Graphcore , announced Thursday it pulled down $200 million in a Series D fundraising round that set its valuation at $1.7

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Convoy , an online marketplace that connects shippers with freight truck fleets and independent drivers, announced today it raised $185 million in a Series C fundraising round led by CapitalG, the growth equity investment fund of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. regions, CEO Dan Lewis says.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2020

Remdesivir, the investigational Gilead Sciences antiviral drug, looks more likely than ever to become the first treatment authorized by the FDA to treat patients with COVID-19.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ]

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2019

Freenome , one of the rivals racing to detect the earliest signs of cancer through blood tests, announced Wednesday it has raised $160 million in a Series B funding round. The money boosts Freenome’s fundraising total to $238 million.

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