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

Xconomy

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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Peeking Into Your Neighbor's Remodel, With Porch's Founders

socalTECH

Co-founder and CEO Matt Ehrlichman and CTO and co-founder Eric Schleicher sat down to talk to us about the new startup, which is split between San Diego and Seattle. I actually started my first technology startup out of Stanford twelve years ago. Eric Schleicher: I''ve been involved in technology since the late 90''s.

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Interview with Darrius Thompson, OpenCandy

socalTECH

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M But, due to lack of visibility or lack of resources, or lack of know-how around marketing, they lack distribution and monetization. It's a perfect balance--David is very business savvy, and Tim is very technology and development oriented.