SoCal's XPRIZE Launches $2M AI Hackathon with Google

XPRIZE Launches Hackathon With $2 Million Prize Pool, Backed by Google

XPRIZE, the world's leader in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, backed by Google, today announced the Build with Gemini XPRIZE at Google I/O…

OC Startup Companies, OC Startup NewsAngela IglesiaJune 17, 2026XPRIZE, Anousheh Ansari, Startup, AI, artificial intelligence, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Peter Diamandis, Gemini XPRIZE, Innovation, Google, Southern California

Irvine's Revive Empowers Agents With New AI Property Tool

Orange County’s Revive unveils major Revive AI upgrade to help agents show homeowners their true selling potential

Irvine technology company advances AI-powered home value intelligence for real estate agents, homeowners and investor clients…

What You Need to Know: AI’s Next Bottleneck

An article we liked from Thought Leader Neal Bloom of Rising Tide Partners:

AI’s Next Bottleneck Isn’t the Model — It’s the System

From brain-inspired compute to 4W mobile constraints to edge infrastructure—what’s actually limiting AI now…

OC Startup News, OC Startup ResourcesAngela IglesiaMay 20, 2026guest post, startup, Neal Bloom, Rising Tide Partners, AI, artificial intelligence, technology

Alpha Persuade AI Summit 3/26/26

The AlphaPersuade Summit returns in 2026.

Join Beall Applied Innovation and RhetAI Coalition once again for a day of groundbreaking research conducted by their coalition’s global teams, transformational keynotes by leading minds who are investigating AI’s persuasive power, and a plenary roundtable reunion of their inaugural keynote speakers to discuss what has changed in the world of AI and Persuasion since 2024…