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Ripcord raises $45 million to digitize paper records with robotics and AI

Staff at a California school district reportedly spent 20% of their time searching for lost documents until they retained the services of a records management company. It’s not a unique problem — the average manager spends four weeks out of the year looking for records, by some estimates. In search of a solution five years ago, three entrepreneurs — NASA veteran Kim Lembo, former Apple…
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U.K.’s top cop calls for government to legislate police use of AI

(Reuters) — Britain’s most senior police officer on Monday called on the government to create a legal framework for police use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence. Speaking about live facial recognition, which police in London started using in January, London police chief Cressida Dick said that she welcomed the government’s 2019 manifesto pledge to create a legal framework…
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Karius raises $165 million to identify infectious diseases with AI

Approximately 9% of the U.S. population has been diagnosed with an infectious disease. Worldwide, these diseases are the second-leading cause of death after heart disease, and they’re responsible for more deaths annually than cancer. Mickey Kertesz and Tim Blauwkamp — who worked together at Moleculo, a startup spun out of Stanford that focused on commercializing technology for generating long…
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AI is not just another technology project

AI, unlike any other initiative is a business transformation enabler and not another technology system implementation that business users need to be trained on. Traditionally, businesses choose either the classic waterfall approach of linear tasks, or the agile approach…
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AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria

The use of AI to discover medicine appears to be paying off. MIT scientists have revealed that their AI discovered an antibiotic compound, halicin (named after 2001‘s HAL 9000), that can not only kill many forms of resistant bacteria but do so in a novel way. Where many antibiotics are slight spins on existing medicine, halicin wipes out bacteria by wrecking their ability to maintain…
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