Washington’s tech industry hasn’t been immune to the pandemic. Companies such as the IT giant DXC and the event-organizing platform Cvent cut jobs amid the slowdown. But some, including the hot cloud-computing company Appian, committed to hundreds of new hires.
Indeed, plenty of other good business news came from Washingtonian’s Tech Titans during the past year. Our 2021 winners who were selected through both reporting and an informal process of nominations from their peers managed to start up new and innovative companies, close on huge funding rounds, ink massive contracts, and announce initial public offerings.
Some of this year’s Tech Titans expanded their companies not only in spite of the pandemic but because of it. Michael Chasen, founder of the “edtech” firm Blackboard, leveraged the demand for at-home education to launch Class, a company that creates virtual classrooms using Zoom. Class has already raised more than $40 million. Blake Hall, founder of ID.me, wh
Say hello to GDPR for artificial intelligence on April 16, 2021, 8:11
Why it matters: In trying to find a balance between encouraging innovation in artificial intelligence and ensuring that companies don t abuse it for various purposes, the European Commission will soon propose a set of regulations that will no doubt raise tensions with the US at a time when the region lags behind the rest of the world in the AI race.
Last year, the European Commission revealed its plans for a generational project that s supposed to reduce the region s dependence on outside companies for digital products and services. Various proposals are still up for public debate, but most of them revolve around the creation of a new digital market policy that will have wide-ranging implications for tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and all the other companies that collect an enormous amount of data to feed it to AIs.
COPENHAGEN One of the existential challenges facing the free world today is its disunity over emerging technologies. Divergence between the United States and the European Union in this area has helped China and other autocratic regimes as they forge ahead with developing new tools and establishing rules and norms that will guide many aspects of our lives, economies, and
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