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AI Weekly: The Biden administration, algorithmic bias, and restoring the soul of America

January 23, 2021
This week, Joe Biden made his case to the American people about how to restore the soul of America and talked about “what we owe our forebears, one another, and generations to follow.” Biden chose to run for president in reaction to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, South Carolina, and on Wednesday he became the first president to mention white supremacy in a presidential…
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Google is investigating an AI researcher over the handling of sensitive data

January 21, 2021
Google is investigating an artificial intelligence researcher after it detected that “an account had exfiltrated thousands of files” and shared them externally. Margaret Mitchell, a co-lead of the Ethical AI unit, has been locked out of Google’s corporate systems over the matter.  She’s not fired **yet**. But apparently they’ve told her she will be locked out for at…
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AlphaICs raises $8 million for AI-at-the-edge processors

January 20, 2021
AlphaICs has raised $8 million in funding for artificial intelligence processors for edge computing. The round was led by Emerald Technology Ventures and Endiya Partners. The Milpitas, California-based company was started in 2016 by Vinod Dham, a former Intel executive known as the “father of the Pentium.” He teamed up with younger chip designers to develop Real AI processors for edge…
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OncoHost raises $8 million to develop AI that predicts cancer treatment responses

January 19, 2021
OncoHost, a company developing AI technology to characterize, analyze, and predict patient response to treatment, today announced it raised $8 million. The company says the funds will be used to finance OncoHost’s ongoing clinical trials, open a U.S.-based affiliate, and prepare for the upcoming launch of the company’s AI-based host response profiling platform. The death rate from cancer…
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