Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good patient data
Century Health is applying AI to clinical data to uncover new applications for drugs.
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The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your…
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New Summit is raising a new $100 million fund to back climate tech and underrepresented fund managers
The size of the new fund suggests that it is bullish that it can convince LPs to open their wallets based its impact-focused approach.
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Amazon will have to publish an ads library in EU after all
Amazon will have to provide information about the ads running on its platform in a publicly accessible online archive after all, following a decision by the European Union’s highest court Wednesday. The ads transparency requirement is contained in the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), an online governance and algorithmic accountability rulebook, which has applied to […]
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Is Franchise Ownership Your Next Wealth Move? Here’s How It Compares to Four Other Income Streams
Let’s explore how owning a franchise business stacks up against four alternative income streams: a corporate job, real estate investments, non-franchise business ownership and passive investments.
Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model, but it can’t beat GPT-4
If you wanted to raise the profile of your major tech company and had $10 million to spend, how would you spend it? On a Super Bowl ad? An F1 sponsorship? You could spend it training a generative AI model. While not marketing in the traditional sense, generative models are attention grabbers — and increasingly […]
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Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks
Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace. The sanction, of close to $8M (or in local currency: PLN 31,850,141), also calls out the e-commerce giant for deceptive design elements which may inject a false sense of urgency into the purchasing process and mislead […]
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7 Key Ways Virtual Currencies Improve on Traditional Finance
Virtual currencies are common forms of financial activity. A quarter into the 21st century, the average individual has become aware of (and often comfortable using) things like Apple Pay, digital…
Investor Alert: “Buy the Rumor, Sell the News!”
Everyone knows that the Fed is going to cut rates at some point this year. That is the worst kept secret on the planet helping to explain how we keep…
Four things you need to know about China’s AI talent pool
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. In 2019, MIT Technology Review covered a report that shined a light on how fast China’s AI talent pool was growing. Its main finding was pretty interesting: the number of elite AI…