Medical experts have detailed a unique case involving a man who received 217 COVID-19 vaccinations over 29 months. It is advisable to receive COVID-19 vaccinations as the virus mutates and immunity decreases. However, no government worldwide suggests receiving more than 200 vaccines in a short period of time. An individual …
Read More »Unitary AI receives $15M for multimodal video moderation
Online media content moderation remains controversial. New regulations and public concern will likely keep it a priority for years. Weaponized AI and other tech advances make it harder to address. Cambridge, England-based Unitary AI believes it has found a better way to moderate content by using a “multimodal” approach to …
Read More »Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raises $65M for preventative healthcare with full-body scans
Daniel Ek’s health tech startup Neko Health raised €60 million ($65 million) in its first external funding round. Lakestar, Atomico, and General Catalyst led Series A. Neko Health, founded in Sweden in 2018 by Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, exited stealth in February with the promise of preventative healthcare through full-body …
Read More »SnapCalorie estimates food calories from photos using AI
Wade Norris wanted to create a life-changing project at Google. He co-founded Google Lens, a computer vision app that displays object information. It didn’t satisfy. Norris and aerospace systems engineer Scott Baron founded SnapCalorie, a health-focused startup, several years ago. AI-powered SnapCalorie estimates a meal’s calories and macronutrients from a …
Read More »Just like New Zealand, Australia has banned TikTok from government-issued gadgets
To join the growing list of Western countries that have banned TikTok on government-issued smartphones, Australia made the move today. Mark Dreyfus, the Attorney General, made the announcement and promised that the ban would be enforced “as quickly as practical.” According to Dreyfus, “input from intelligence and security services” was …
Read More »Dozer comes out of hiding to help programmers create real-time data apps “in minutes”
From video-recommendation engines and online banking to the developing AI revolution, data has become one of the world’s most valuable assets. Yet, consolidating data from disparate sources (e.g., databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and so on) into a format usable in real-time scenarios can be a monumental task in today’s …
Read More »Restructuring cuts more Convoy jobs
Seattle-based digital freight network Convoy is closing its Atlanta office and laying off workers. Convoy has fired workers three times in a year. CEO and co-founder Dan Lewis announced the restructuring on LinkedIn Thursday as Convoy moves to a new customer service model that automates many employee tasks. This change …
Read More »A glimpse of the future as seen by Sam Altman
Sam Altman, the former CEO of Y Combinator and, as of 2019, the co-founder and co-CEO of OpenAI, the company he famously co-founded with Elon Musk and numerous others in 2015 to develop artificial intelligence for the “benefit of humanity,” spent an hour with this editor late last week in …
Read More »ChatGPT is improved by Claude from Anthropic, however it still has drawbacks
Anthropic, a company that was co-founded by former employees of OpenAI and has garnered over $700 million in funding to date, has created an AI system that is comparable to OpenAI’s ChatGPT but differs from it in several significant areas. Anthropic’s technology, called Claude, is now in closed beta and …
Read More »Significant Increase in Scarlet Fever Cases, Say UK Authorities
In light of a “substantial surge” in infections, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has updated its estimates of the nation’s scarlet fever cases. A total of 27,486 probable cases of the illness were reported by the organization between September 12 and December 18 of this year. The Guardian reported …
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