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Six West Coast Tech Leaders Share Top Developments of 2017

Xconomy

Xconomy asked technology and innovation leaders around our network to reflect on the most important developments in their industries during 2017, and the answers were appropriately wide-ranging.

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Privacy Advocate Richard Holober on the Tech Backlash of 2017 

Xconomy

elections, democracy, free speech, fairness in hiring, sexual harassment, privacy, data security, and the future job market for humans in the age of robots and artificial intelligence. We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S.

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Clean Energy Entrepreneur Desai on Tech’s Pitfalls & Promise in 2017

Xconomy

Xconomy: Do you think 2017 was a. While she says she is concerned about tech’s impact on children, in particular—see more on that below—Desai says she still believes the positive impacts that emerge from innovative technologies outweigh the bad. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Partnership on AI Adds Corporate, NGO Members, Charts Initial Course

Xconomy

Artificial intelligence is a booming business in 2017, but one that also comes with significant baggage in the form of public misunderstanding, potential job losses, and fear. Last fall, A.I.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

It was Iconiq that put a whopping $80 million into ServiceTitan just last year — and while the 2017 cash infusion may have been larger, the company’s valuation has continued to rise.

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Amazon, Uber, and Bill Gates’s Robot Tax: An Automation Snapshot

Xconomy

As we gear up for Robo Madness 2017: A.I. Gets Real , our annual robotics and artificial intelligence conference at Google’s offices in Kendall Square, let’s connect a few dots around the topic of automation.

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Cybersecurity Firm Illumio’s Alan Cohen on the Tech Backlash of 2017

Xconomy

One of the largest and most consequential data breaches in 2017 afflicted credit reporting agency Equifax, and it was hardly the only victim.