draganfly Pandemic Drones Grounded in Connecticut But Demand Surges Elsewhere Draganfly's COVID-19 monitoring drone faces setbacks after a quick termination in Westport, but overwhelming demand from private and public sectors keeps new U.S. pilots on the schedule.
ai FDA-Cleared AI Triage Tool Offered Free to Support Radiology Departments Medical startup Nines provides its FDA-cleared AI triage software at no cost until June 30 to assist overwhelmed radiology departments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tool automatically identifies potentially critical brain conditions on CT scans to help doctors prioritize urgent cases.
openai OpenAI Introduces Jukebox AI That Generates Music With Vocals OpenAI unveils Jukebox, a new machine learning framework that generates raw audio music complete with lyrics and singer voices. While the output shows impressive local coherence, the AI still struggles to replicate larger musical structures like repeating choruses.
chatbots COVID-19 Chatbots Show Alarming Inconsistencies in Data and Privacy As overwhelmed hospitals turn to chatbots for COVID-19 triage, major disparities emerge in how these tools source medical information and handle user data. These inconsistencies raise serious concerns about the reliability of health guidance during a critical crisis.
comet.ml Comet AI Raises $4.5M to Streamline Machine Learning Model Management Comet.ml secures $4.5 million in funding to expand its infrastructure-agnostic machine learning platform. The company's tools help data scientists track, explain, and optimize AI models across various computing environments.
nvidia Nvidia and Partners Release Open Source AI Framework for Medical Research Nvidia and King's College London launch Project MONAI, an open source framework designed to improve reproducibility in healthcare AI research. The alpha release integrates with PyTorch and focuses on tasks like 3D organ segmentation and brain MRI classification.
stanford Stanford AI Conference Weighs Surveillance Against Saving Lives in Pandemic Experts at a Stanford HAI conference explore how artificial intelligence can combat the coronavirus while debating the ethical limits of surveillance technology. Discussions highlight the delicate balance between emergency public health tracking and the risk of permanent privacy erosion.
microsoft Microsoft AI Framework Optimizes Pandemic Lockdown Policies Researchers from Microsoft and partner institutions develop an AI system that automatically learns optimal lockdown and social distancing policies based on disease parameters. The framework outperforms traditional modeling tools by simulating real-world population movement and infection rates.
ai AI Breast Cancer Screening System Outperforms Human Radiologists in Study A new artificial intelligence system surpasses human experts in predicting breast cancer from mammograms, significantly reducing both false positives and false negatives.
clearview Hackers Steal Client List from Controversial Facial Recognition Startup Clearview An unknown hacker breaches Clearview AI and steals a customer list detailing police and government use of its controversial facial recognition software. The company dismisses the incident as a normal part of modern life despite patching a security flaw.
ai MIT Artificial Intelligence Uncovers Powerful New Antibiotic Scientists at MIT use an AI model to identify a novel antibiotic that kills highly resistant bacteria without triggering immediate resistance. The discovery marks a major step forward in the fight against dangerous superbugs.
nvidia NVIDIA Smashes Records with $30 Billion Q2 Revenue Driven by AI NVIDIA reports record second-quarter revenue of $30 billion, fueled by massive demand for data center AI infrastructure. The company also announces a massive $50 billion share repurchase authorization.
nvidia NVIDIA Reports Record $130.5 Billion Annual Revenue Driven By Blackwell Demand NVIDIA announces massive fiscal 2025 growth with $39.3 billion in Q4 revenue, fueled by the successful ramp of its Blackwell AI supercomputers and rising demand for reasoning AI.
nvidia NVIDIA Smashes Records with $22.1B Quarterly Revenue Driven by AI NVIDIA reports massive growth for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, earning $22.1 billion in revenue largely due to surging data center demand. CEO Jensen Huang declares that accelerated computing and generative AI have officially reached a global tipping point.
nvidia NVIDIA Posts Record $26 Billion Q1 Revenue, Announces Stock Split NVIDIA reports massive 262% annual revenue growth driven by unprecedented data center demand for AI. The chipmaker also announces a ten-for-one stock split to make shares more accessible.