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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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Meet the Xconomy Awards San Diego Digital Trailblazer Finalists

Xconomy

San Diego’s prowess in computer science, medical devices, and life sciences makes it a natural hub of innovative digital health companies. This is part of a series of articles about the finalists for the Xconomy Awards San Diego. Here are brief profiles of the finalists.

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

TechCrunch LA

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. “By the time Norman became an operating machine we had four generations of devices preceding it.

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Job Destroyers or Helpers? Amazon, FedEx Hiring More Robots & Humans

Xconomy

Advances in robotics and artificial intelligence technologies have stoked fears that machines are coming for humans’ jobs in a variety of industries. The article highlights a FedEx (NYSE: FDX ) shipping center in North Carolina that has deployed autonomous “tugging” robots that haul large and unusual items around.

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As Facebook Fights Fake News, LeCun Sees Bigger Role for A.I.

Xconomy

That’s according to Yann LeCun , a machine learning expert and Facebook’s director of A.I. Bloomberg reported this week that PolitiFact, the Associated Press, and the other outside organizations Facebook has enlisted to fact check articles are. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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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Xconomy’s Top Innovation Stories of the Half Year

Xconomy

The articles were selected, in part, because they paint a bigger picture of what’s happening nationally. San Antonio Entrepreneur Center Opens Using Dallas Nonprofit as Model. David Holley reports on an effort to boost San Antonio’s startup scene, with ideas from another part of the Lone Star State.