Collaborate Disseminate
The general tone of Chris Baraniuk’s February 23, 2021 article on the BBC website, “How Google’s hot air balloon surprised its creators,” available at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-how-googles-hot-air-balloon-surprised-its-creators is o… Continue reading Will AI Short Circuit Cybersecurity?
RealityEngines.AI, an AI and machine learning startup founded by a number of former Google executives and engineers, is coming out of stealth today and announcing its first set of products. When the company first announced its $5.25 million seed round last year, CEO Bindu Reddy wasn’t quite ready to disclose RealityEngines’ mission beyond saying that […] Continue reading RealityEngines launches its autonomous AI service
Google and its flagship search portal opened the door to the possibilities of how to build a business empire on the back of organising and navigating the world’s information, as found on the internet. Now, a startup that’s built a search engine tailored to the needs of enterprises and their own quests for information has […] Continue reading AlphaSense, a search engine for analysis and business intel, raises $50M led by Innovation Endeavors
RealityEngines.AI, a research startup that wants to help enterprises make better use of AI, even when they only have incomplete data, today announced that it has raised a $5.25 million seed funding round. The round was led by former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt and Google founding board member Ram Shriram. Khosla Ventures, Paul […] Continue reading RealityEngines.AI raises $5.25M seed round to make ML easier for enterprises
After serving for more than 17 years at Google and its parent company Alphabet, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down as the executive chairman of the company.
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“It’s basically RT and Sputnik,” he said on Saturday. Continue reading Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will ‘Engineer’ Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is concluding his tech tour of the West Coast today with a visit to Google’s Mountain View campus. Mattis spent time at Amazon and the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, earlier in the week. His key takeaway from all the socializing with tech leaders is that the Department of Defense needs to embrace technology coming out of the private sector… Read More Continue reading The US Government must work with tech companies if it wants to remain competitive in AI
“While investing in basic research typically doesn’t make sense for a business, it has been a winning strategy for our nation.” Continue reading In Op-Ed, Eric Schmidt Argues for Government Role in Basic Research
Civis Analytics, a company founded by the chief analytics officer of Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, has raised $22 million in Series A funding. Founder and CEO Dan Wagner told me that after the election, he discovered that many organizations — whether they were in politics, government or business — were dealing with problems similar to the ones he faced during… Read More Continue reading Eric Schmidt-backed data science startup Civis Analytics raises $22M