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Nervana’s $400M+ Buyout Reflects Key Tech Trend in Machine Learning

Xconomy

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Intel Combines Global AI Work Under Former Nervana Systems CEO

Xconomy

Roughly seven months after Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) acquired San Diego-based Nervana Systems, the chipmaker is consolidating its portfolio of artificial intelligence businesses in one group, headed by former Nervana CEO Naveen Rao. Rao plans to remain in San Diego, according to a spokeswoman for Intel Nervana.

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Rivaling Google, Web-Mining Diffbot Opens Its Knowledge Graph to All

Xconomy

Diffbot , a tech startup that continuously scours the Web to assemble a “knowledge graph” of billions of facts in context, announced today that it’s opening up the searchable resource to the public—with starter rates as low as a cable TV bill.

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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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Tech Hiring Trends: Buzzwords, Trump Effect, and Gender-Pay Gap

Xconomy

Data is table-stakes for doing practically anything interesting in tech, and it’s the fuel for machine learning algorithms. . —In the last two years, big data has fallen off the buzzword bingo card. And of course we’re not talking about a little data here or there. It’ got to be big. So there’s probably.

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Girls In Tech Showcases Women Founders In SF Pitch Competition

Xconomy

Her search for solutions spurred her to move from her native Bulgaria to find greater resources in Vienna, where she began developing what is now a tablet computer that can display the text from any online source in a full page of Braille.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. blog comments powered by Disqus. Let’s compare. We came to play.