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Hold Your Horsepower: For Mobility Industry, “Reality Is Sinking In”

Xconomy

Because there is no legal framework in place at either the state or federal level for fully autonomous vehicles to operate on the nation’s roads, there would presumably be human “safety attendants” on board in GM’s ridesharing fleet.

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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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Tech Industry Lobby Proposes Data Privacy Laws; Critics Call Them Weak

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The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

He does see the opportunity for some broadly applicable frameworks though. Horvitz emphasizes that AI is not one thing, but rather a collection of technologies applied in a wide variety of contexts, each with its own operative questions.