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Sara Bloomberg
2 years
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@SFBusinessTimes
San Francisco Business Times
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Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference kicked off Tuesday. Here's what Marc Benioff said, and what he didn't say, after making controversial comments about San Francisco last week.
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff downplays political controversy at Dreamforce keynote, focusing on AI products, but then Trump tech czar David Sacks arrived.
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San Francisco Business Times
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The CEO of humanoid robotics startup Figure AI says he won't sell its robots to the military. But what about police departments? Here's what Brett Adcock said at Dreamforce in San Francisco.
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Figure AI's CEO discusses potential police use of humanoid robots in Dreamforce discussion with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
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San Francisco Business Times
4 months
Tim Draper has raised millions for a new venture capital fund at his eponymous firm Draper Associates. Here's what we know.
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Draper Associates raises $200M for its eighth fund, investing in AI, robotics, crypto and unconventional ideas like brain-computer interfaces.
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San Francisco Business Times
4 months
OpenAI says that more than a quarter of U.S. workers use ChatGPT and that AI is a potential boon for productivity and expanding the "economic pie." But this technological revolution might be different from previous ones.
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OpenAI reports 28% of US workers use ChatGPT, highlighting productivity gains. Experts warn of potential job disruptions and income impacts.
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BrightAI
4 months
The field is where we operate. San Francisco is where we build. BrightAI’s new HQ anchors our work to prevent failures in critical infrastructure, before anyone notices a problem. @BloomReports in @SFBusinessTimes:
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BrightAI, by SmartThings creator Alex Hawkinson, uses AI to monitor infrastructure and has raised $78 million to date to boost productivity without replacing workers, including a recent $51 million...
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San Francisco Business Times
5 months
San Francisco startup Wispr AI wanted to build a device to leverage artificial intelligence, but when it connected to current digital assistants, the CEO says "they all sucked." So here's what's next.
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After three years of designing a device for the artificial intelligence era, Wispr realized that AI technology wasn't advanced enough, yet, for the requirements of such a device. So it pivoted to...
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@SFBusinessTimes
San Francisco Business Times
4 months
"The most expensive medications are the ones that don't work," a startup CEO told the Business Times — here's what she is trying to do about it.
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San Francisco startup Arine uses artificial intelligence to optimize medication management, and has now raised $66 million for an effort to reduce health care waste and improve patient outcomes.
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San Francisco Business Times
4 months
Venture capital investors poured nearly half their funds into AI startups last quarter, with Bay Area companies receiving significant investments.
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Half of all VC investments went to AI companies in Q2 this year, and Bay Area startups took a big chunk of the billions spent globally.
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San Francisco Business Times
5 months
A Fremont startup sued McDonald's for blocking their approach to fixing the chain's notoriously fragile ice cream machines, but a ruling last year led to a settlement.
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Fremont startup Kytch ends its lawsuit with McDonald's over ice cream machine repair device.
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@SFBusinessTimes
San Francisco Business Times
5 months
Here's what you need to know this week about artificial intelligence in the Bay Area: Humans still outperform on creativity, xAI is burning $1 billion a month, G7 softens tone on regulation, OpenAI lands DoD contract, funding rounds and more must reads.
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Here's what you need to know this week about artificial intelligence in the Bay Area.
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San Francisco Business Times
5 months
Meta's $14.3 billion deal with Scale AI and its founder Alexandr Wang shows that the AI race is still wide open and moving fast. Who could be next?
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Meta's $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI intensifies the AI talent race. Will Apple follow suit or stick to accessing other companies' technology? Experts weigh in.
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San Francisco Business Times
5 months
A Fremont startup sued McDonald's for blocking their approach to fixing the chain's notoriously fragile ice cream machines, but a ruling last year led to a settlement.
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Fremont startup Kytch ends its lawsuit with McDonald's over ice cream machine repair device.
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San Francisco Business Times
5 months
Fintech isn't dead, but there probably won't be another Chime. Here's why and how financial services startups are evolving.
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Venture capitalist Drew Glover explains why Chime's IPO success marks the end of an era for fintech startups and predicts future industry trends.
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@SFBusinessTimes
San Francisco Business Times
6 months
Elon Musk used to claim that he gave OpenAI $100 million in funding. He just confirmed the actual number, and it is much lower.
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Elon Musk confirms $44.5 million investment in OpenAI before leaving in 2018. He's now suing the company for alleged fraud and breach of contract.
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@SFBusinessTimes
San Francisco Business Times
6 months
Apple and OpenAI were founded by UC Berkeley alumni. Now the college is doing what it can to avoid missing out on a piece of the action when the next big idea spins out of its campus.
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UC Berkeley launches a unique venture fund to invest in startups, aiming to capture value from future innovations developed by alumni like Apple and OpenAI.
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Laura Yecies
6 months
Too many women are told to “wait and see.” That didn’t sit right with me. Thank you to @BloomReports at @SFBusinessTimes for covering why we built @Osteoboost: to offer women a proactive path forward. https://t.co/Dw7wm8wCYb
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Redwood City startup launches OsteoBoost, a vibrating belt to combat bone density loss in postmenopausal women.
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Osteoboost
6 months
A vibrating belt that mimics effects of impact exercise to help women fight bone loss? That’s Osteoboost. - FDA-cleared - Clinically proven to slow bone loss in the spine and hips - Now available nationwide @BloomReports covers it in @SFBusinessTimes: 🔗
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Redwood City startup launches OsteoBoost, a vibrating belt to combat bone density loss in postmenopausal women.
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San Francisco Business Times
6 months
Amazon's Zoox is planning on manufacturing "hundreds and then thousands" of self-driving cars in this East Bay city.
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Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle startup Zoox will scale up production next year in a massive Hayward manufacturing facility.
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