Points of View

Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared.

Last month during ESPN’s hit documentary series The Last Dance, State Farm debuted a TV commercial that has become one of the most widely discussed ads in recent memory. It appeared to show footage from 1998 of an ESPN analyst making shockingly accurate predictions about the year 2020.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Driving A Silicon Renaissance

The semiconductor is the foundational technology of the digital age. It gave Silicon Valley its name. It sits at the heart of the computing revolution that has transformed every facet of society over the past half-century.
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A Massive Opportunity Exists To Build ‘Picks And Shovels’ For Machine Learning

Many multi-billion-dollar companies have been built by providing tools to make software development easier and more productive. Venture capitalists like to refer to businesses like these as “pick and shovel” opportunities, a reference to Mark Twain's famous line: “When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.”
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Deep Learning Has Limits. But Its Commercial Impact Has Just Begun.

There has been increased hand-wringing across the AI community in recent months about the limitations of deep learning.
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AI Will Transform The Field Of Law

The law touches every corner of the business world. Virtually everything that companies do—sales, purchases, partnerships, mergers, reorganizations—they do via legally enforceable contracts. Innovation would grind to a halt without a well-developed body of intellectual property law. Day to day, whether we recognize it or not, each of us operates against the backdrop of our legal regime and the implicit possibility of litigation.

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To Understand The Future of AI, Study Its Past

A schism lies at the heart of the field of artificial intelligence. Since its inception, the field has been defined by an intellectual tug-of-war between two opposing philosophies: connectionism and symbolism. These two camps have deeply divergent visions as to how to "solve" intelligence, with differing research agendas and sometimes bitter relations.

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News & Press

FORBES
This Harvard MBA Just Raised $21 Million To Help Emergency Workers Get Crucial Data On Callers
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BUSINESS WIRE
Kyruus Secures $30 Million Investment From Francisco Partners
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CISION PR NEWSWIRE
RapidSOS Raises $21M to Help First Responders Take on Unprecedented Pandemic
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CNBC
Everlywell CEO Julia Cheek on Covid-19 testing
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DOMINO DATA LAB
Domino Data Lab Announces New ML Model Monitoring Product, $43M in New Funding, and Innovations to its Enterprise Data Science Management Platform
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Net App
NetApp to Acquire Spot
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Thanks to a startup and an investor, 100,000 gowns are being sent to Mass. hospitals
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TECH CRUNCH
Walmart partners with fashion consignment marketplace thredUP
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BUSINESS WIRE
Kyruus to Power Boston Children’s Hospital’s Next Phase of Digital Transformation
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MSN
Everlywell receives FDA authorization for at-home coronavirus testing kit
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INSIDER
Rent the Runway just joined the growing list of retailers selling reusable face masks
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VENTURE BEAT
Scopely acquires Scrabble Go developer PierPlay
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PERISHABLE NEWS
Freshly Expands With New B2B Platform: Freshly for Business
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CISION PR NEWSWIRE
Harry's Donates $1 million in Shaving Supplies to Help Medical Workers Stay Safe During COVID-19
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YAHOO FINANCE
Qumulo Wins 2020 Data Breakthrough Company of the Year Award for Data Storage
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LovePop
Two Weeks of Sleepless Nights Turn 3D Card Maker Into PPE Provider
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DESIGN WORLD
The 3D printing industry steps up to help battle the COVID-19 pandemic
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
From Adult Toys to Business Software, Coronavirus Is Rearranging the Subscription Landscape
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