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AI to transform Healthcare of the future in the shadow of COVID-19

AI technologies are already in place in many retail stores and other industries, but a July 2020 study by chipmaker Intel Corp. found that 84% of the respondents — made up of 234 senior decision-makers inside U.S. healthcare organizations — have already deployed or expect to deploy AI within their healthcare operations. That’s up from a previous Intel study in 2018, when a little more than one-third of the respondents said they were using or planning to implement AI.

AI-based Recycler AMP Robotics gains $55M in new funding from Investors

1 week ago2 days ago George Leopold

AMP Robotics Corp., an AI startup developing technology that sorts recyclable materials, has raised an additional $55 million in its latest funding round. The Denver-based AI startup launched in 2015 has so far raised more than $71 million in two funding rounds.

How RPA could help distribute and track COVID-19 vaccines

3 weeks ago1 week ago Kyle Wiggers

The first shipments of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines arrived at health systems across the U.S. this month, a significant milestone in the fight against a pandemic that has infected and killed millions of people. But vaccine distribution and administration is a major logistical challenge, not least because both vaccines require cold storage. Nevertheless, Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. public-private COVID-19 treatment partnership, optimistically aims to vaccinate tens of millions of people by year’s end.

COVID-19 vaccine distribution algorithms may cement health care inequalities

4 weeks ago3 weeks ago Kyle Wiggers

Earlier this month, following the U.S. Federal Food and Drug Administration’s emergency approval, the federal government began distributing doses COVID-19 vaccine to health systems throughout the country. But shipments must be prioritized in a country of over 300 million people. This logistical challenge has fallen on algorithms designed to account for a range of factors in identifying which populations are most vulnerable.

“Raising during COVID was not so difficult, I had to say no to other 2-3 investors” — Riccardo Osti, CEO, Wonderflow

4 weeks ago4 weeks ago Akansha Srivastava

Wonderflow, the European big data company — that helps companies by implementing their AI technology to analyse consumer feedback in electronics, HR, financial services and more — recently closed a £1.8 million investment.

Stanford and Carnegie Mellon find race and age bias in mobility data that drives COVID-19 policy

2 months ago2 months ago Kyle Wiggers

Smartphone-based mobility data has played a major role in responses to the pandemic. Describing the movement of millions of people, location information from Google, Apple, and others has been used to analyze the effectiveness of social distancing polices and probe how different sectors of the economy have been affected.

K Health raises $42 million to expand its AI-powered telemedicine platform

2 months ago2 weeks ago Kyle Wiggers

Tel Aviv-based K Health today closed a $42 million series D round to grow its telemedicine offering, bringing its total raised to date to $139.3 million. Beyond the fundraising, the 250-employee company announced it will collaborate with the Mayo Clinic to integrate the health system’s Clinic Data Analytics Platform, which includes clinical decision support tools for Mayo Clinic patients and doctors.

Google updates COVID-19 forecasting models with longer time horizons and new regions

2 months ago2 months ago Kyle Wiggers

In August, in partnership with the Harvard Global Health Institute, Google launched a set of models — the COVID-19 Public Forecasts — that provide projections of COVID-19 cases, deaths, ICU utilization, ventilator availability, and other metrics for U.S. counties and states. Today, the two organizations released what they claim are significantly improved models — trained on public data from Johns Hopkins University, Descartes Labs, the United States Census Bureau, and elsewhere — that expand beyond the U.S.

COVID-19 AI model detects the virus through digital cough recordings

2 months ago2 months ago Victoria Loskutova

Alongside the whole craziness happening in the world right now, phenomenal inventions are being created. For instance, MIT researchers have been working on an AI model that can detect people infected with COVID-19 through a digitally recorded cough.

AWS releases models and datasets to help predict COVID-19’s spread

3 months ago2 months ago Kyle Wiggers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today open-sourced a new simulator and machine learning toolkit for anticipating and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.

Amazon reports $96.1 billion in Q3 2020 revenue: AWS up 29%, subscriptions up 33%, and ‘other’ up 51%

3 months ago2 months ago Emil Protalinski

Amazon today reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2020, including revenue up 37% to $96.1 billion, net income of $6.3 billion, and earnings per share of $12.37 (compared to revenue of $70.0 billion, net income of $2.1 billion, and earnings per share of $4.23 in Q3 2019).

MIT researchers say their AI model can identify asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers

3 months ago2 months ago Kyle Wiggers

Researchers at MIT say they’ve developed an algorithm that can diagnose COVID-19 by the sound of someone’s cough, even if that person is asymptomatic.

GTC 2020: Using AI to help put COVID-19 in the rear-view mirror

3 months ago3 months ago Ryan Daws

This year’s GTC is Nvidia’s biggest event yet, but – like the rest of the world – it’s had to adapt to the unusual circumstances we all find ourselves in. Huang swapped his usual big stage for nine clips with such exotic backdrops as his kitchen. AI is helping with COVID-19 research around the world… Read more »
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Nvidia claims Cambridge-1 is the U.K.’s fastest supercomputer

3 months ago3 months ago Kyle Wiggers

During its annual GPU Technology Conference, which kicked off with a virtual keynote today, Nvidia unveiled a slew of health care-related initiatives aimed at accelerating workloads in drug discovery, preventative medicine, and more.

Facebook uses AI to help people support each other

3 months ago3 months ago Ryan Daws

Facebook has deployed an AI system which matches people needing support with local heroes offering it. “United we stand, divided we fall” is a clichéd saying—but tackling a pandemic is a collective effort. While we’ve all seen people taking selfish actions, they’ve been more than balanced out by those helping to support their communities. Facebook…

Facebook’s AI matches people in need with those willing to assist

3 months ago3 months ago Kyle Wiggers

Facebook says it has deployed a feature in its Community Help hub to make it easier for users to assist each other during the pandemic. As of this week, AI will detect when a public post on News Feed is about needing or offering help and will surface a suggestion to share it on Community Help.

Einride raises $10 million to bolster autonomous trucking growth during the pandemic

4 months ago3 months ago Chris O039Brien

Sweden’s Einride had been on a roll before COVID-19 threw up a potential roadblock to the development of its electric and autonomous trucking platform. With its customers and partners being impacted in very different ways, the company is taking steps to ensure it can keep pushing ahead amid the uncertainty of the global pandemic.

How automation is helping companies pivot in the pandemic

4 months ago4 months ago VB Staff

The pandemic has put a spotlight on the role of automation in business. To learn how the technology landscape is evolving, the benefits companies are achieving beyond cost savings, how automation improves business resiliency and more.

COVID-19 should be a wake-up call for AI

4 months ago3 months ago Paul Sawers

The global pandemic has been cited as a “wake-up call” for many things — the environment, economic and social rights, and general global inequalities. However, scientist, author, and entrepreneur Gary Marcus thinks that the COVID-19 crisis should also be considered a wake-up call for AI.

Combatting COVID-19 misinformation with machine learning

4 months ago4 months ago VB Staff

As machine learning has evolved, so have best practices, especially in the wake of COVID-19. Join this VB Live event to learn from experts about how machine learning solutions are helping companies respond in these uncertain times – and the lessons learned along the way.

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