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What Is xAI? Elon Musk Reveals New Startup To Rival OpenAI

Tech.Co

The billionaire SpaceX chief certainly knows how to build an AI company, having co-founded ChatGPT owner OpenAI back in 2015, only to sell his stake three years due to a perceived conflict of interest with his electric vehicle company Tesla. Corp” in Nevada, according to business records seen by the Financial Times. Will xAI Rival OpenAI?

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Taiwanese reassurances that water shortages won’t hit chipmaking show climate change’s direct threat to tech

TechCrunch LA

Intel alone used 9 billion gallons of water in 2015). But as Moore’s Law drives down the size and increases the demand for even more precision and fewer impurities in the manufacturing process, water use at fabs is going up. ”

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The Five Major Tech Trends of 2016

Xconomy

“Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences. The All-Important User Experience.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

socalTECH

I don't know if you've done a career test since leaving school, or thought much about your career, but it's career testing on steroids, using machine intelligence and artificial intelligence. We're getting some really incredible insights and intelligence into the workforce, and what their motivations are, and drivers.

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How Phyn Is Bringing The World Of High Tech To Water Conservation, With Ryan Kim

socalTECH

After about six or seven years of that, in 2015, in the larger WeMo space at CES, we demonstrated something we had been working on. It was really clear that we had tapped into a demand that was not really outspoken. Ryan Kim: We had started to develop this technology awhile ago, while we were developing the WeMo platform.

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

socalTECH

We ended up all going to three different colleges in the Fall of 2015. What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. I went to Berkeley.

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