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Overall VC Fundraising Drops 33%, But AI Investment Surges

Tech.Co

This time around, the responsible party is one that hadn’t even entered the public consciousness in 2021: Artificial intelligence. Billion for US Startups in 2025 The total deal value has hit $162.8 Major AI investments have marked the lion’s share of the growth in 2025 so far. This just in!

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GumGum Jumps Into Publishing With New Site

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based GumGum , the developer of computer vision and artificial intelligence software focused on the advertising industry, has jumped into the online publishing business, saying it has started a new online publication call The Visionary.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication? If so, will you also have your own account system? Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers? For customer service?

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USC, Amazon Plan Center for Machine Learning Research

L.A. Business Journal

to create a research center focused on privacy and security issues related to machine learning and artificial intelligence. USC is partnering with Amazon.com Inc.

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Elon Musk Warns On Runaway Artificial Intelligence

socalTECH

Elon Musk , the technology mogul and visionary who has brought us such technology innovations widespread electronic payments via PayPal, electric cars via Tesla Motors , and commercial rocket service via SpaceX , warns that artificial intelligence has the threat of becoming mankind''s "biggest existential threat" last week.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release.

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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

TechEmpower

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day.