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Some of the Best Reads for Casual Friday: Artificial Intelligence

Xconomy

Or, maybe instead, it’s a day filled with long lunches and listless Internet surfing, as you seek out all the interesting articles you missed during the week. This week, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence, one of the buzziest fields in tech.

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Three Good Snags Pre-Seed Funding

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based employee wellness and artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Three Good announced that it has raised a seed funding round. The company says it is using both artificial intelligence and traditional psychology to help companies beat employee burnout. in seed funding.

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Cities are wrestling with a potential new exodus in the COVID-19 era, but Urban-X still believes in their future

TechCrunch LA

While the accelerator program backed by the BMW-owned Mini Cooper automaker and the venture capital firm Urban Us is based in Brooklyn, it’s conducting its latest program virtually, with participating startups coming from Atlanta, Sydney, San Francisco, Boston, Burlington, and Los Angeles, according to a statement.

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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030

TechCrunch LA

The company said it conducted over 25,000 fully-integrated fusion reactor core experiments, optimized using machine learning programs developed in collaboration with Google and processing power from the Department of Energy’s INCITE program, which leverages exascale-level computing, TAE Technologies said.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

By and large, these workers have not benefitted much from recent technology improvements available to office-based workers—think new email and workplace-collaboration technologies, or advanced sales and HR systems.

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Girls in STEM and Cyber Security Among Top Startups at Eureka Park 2018

Tech.Co

Near the nation’s capital, Arlington, VA has a thriving startup community that supports female-led companies, startups in STEM, cyber security, defense, and everything in between aimed at improving the status quo. The Boolean Girl is a place where girls can feel empowered and learn to code. Deep Learning Analytics.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch LA

Last week, I wrote about an alternative to venture capital called revenue-based financing and before that, I jotted down some notes on one of VCs’ favorite spaces: cannabis tech. The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger this week as Fika Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm, announced its sophomore investment fund.

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