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San Diego Roundup: Qualcomm, Philter, Stella Labs, VC Funding & More

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Let’s catch up with the latest tech news in San Diego. —San Diego’s AON Devices was among 10 startups selected to compete at a recent pitch competition hosted by the corporate venture capital arm of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ). Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Berkeley’s SkyDeck Offers Chip Design Support Worth Millions to Startups

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The current land rush in chip development, spurred as new technologies such as artificial intelligence create new needs, is pitting established semiconductor companies like Intel and Nvidia against tech titans like Facebook that are building their own chips. A wave of next-generation chip companies has also entered the fray.

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Nuance Spinout Cerence Vies With Tech Giants in Voice-AI for Auto

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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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Gates Grant Helps Sirenas Extend Hunt for Drugs From Sea Organisms

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San Diego-based Sirenas , which has developed technology to rapidly isolate and synthesize potential drug compounds from marine organisms, said it has received a $775,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company now has 19 full-time employees, Esquenazi said. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Girls In Tech Showcases Women Founders In SF Pitch Competition

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Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

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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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The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

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I moderated the panel, which consisted of experts in the complementary fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. What are some examples of government-funded research in AI and robotics that is happening today that will set the stage for tomorrow’s products?