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How AI brings accessibility and equity to healthcare

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that during the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, 28 million American citizens didn’t have health insurance at any point during the year. And although many Americans did have health insurance, it often does not cover everything individuals need like mental health services and follow-up breast cancer screenings, which aren’t always covered. This is where artificial…
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Precision healthcare AI tools eyed by investors

Artificial intelligence and machine learning promise to transform healthcare across the board, but particularly through the use of precision medicine. Precision medicine is often defined differently than the common phrase “personalized medicine,” which simply means…
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AI Weekly: Defining, debating and honoring AI innovation

Want AI Weekly for free each Thursday in your inbox? Sign up here. It’s the beginning of Pride month. At VentureBeat, it’s also the beginning of a six-week-long deep dive into AI innovation, culminating in our fourth annual AI Innovation Awards to be presented at Transform 2022 on July 19th in San Francisco. We are excited about our amazing nominating committee that, along with members of…
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Lenovo looks to bring AI intelligence to the edge

Organizations are increasingly deploying edge computing capabilities for a growing number of use cases where AI will play a pivotal role. Among the many vendors eyeing a piece of the artificial intelligence (AI) edge pie is Lenovo. It recently announced the availability of…
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Rendered AI streamlines synthetic data for GIS digital twins

Satellite imagery promises to play an essential role in creating digital twins that could help model carbon emissions, increase farming yields and monitor the oceans. One hope is that the rising volume of satellite data could automatically detect changes, predict trends and recommend actions.  However, much of this data, in the form of multispectral imagery, lidar and radar data, is outside the…
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The role of AI in data privacy

In 2021, consumers became very aware of data privacy, especially as it is related to their rights regarding personal information gathered as they browse the internet and interact with websites. All companies, but especially ecommerce companies, are facing new challenges as…
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TensorFlow now defaults to Intel oneDNN AI optimizations  

The open-source TensorFlow machine learning library is getting faster, thanks to a collaboration between Google and Intel. The open-source oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) developed by Intel is now on by default in TensorFlow, a project led by Google. OneDNN is an open-source cross-platform performance library of deep learning building blocks that are intended for developers of both…
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