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[Image from Pixabay]The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative recently announced the establishment of the Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub to drive children’s healthcare innovation. Launched in collaboration with the Boston-based Charles H. Hood Foundation — which has committed $15 million toward the effort over the next five years — the hub will focus on developing technologies and treatments tailored specifically for children, meeting unmet needs in pediatric medicine. Leveraging MIT’s life science strengths, the hub will provide seed funding and strategic support for bold, high-impact research projects with the potential to transform children’s healthcare. In addition to supporting researchers with…

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Between 2013 and 2024, global private sector investment in artificial intelligence (AI) has surged, with a few countries leading the charge. Recent data reveals that 12 nations accounted for the bulk of global AI funding during this period, underscoring a growing international race for technological leadership. The United States leads by a wide margin, raising $471 billion—more than the rest of the world combined. China follows with $119 billion, while the United Kingdom, Canada, and Israel round out the top five with $28 billion and $15 billion each, respectively. Read also: Top countries leading in artificial intelligence patents This concentrated…

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Facebook parent company Meta Platforms, Inc. has officially launched its own, free standalone Meta AI app, a move aimed at delivering a more personal and integrated AI experience across mobile devices, the web, and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The app is available on iOS through the Apple App Store and on the web — with no mention of when an Android version could come. Powered by a version of its new, divisive quasi open source Llama 4 mixture-of-experts and reasoning model…

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Last month, Brett Adcock, founder of robotics startup Figure AI, claimed in a post on X that his company “is now # 1 most sought-after private stock in the secondary market.” But the company has sent cease-and-desist letters to at least two brokers who run secondary marketplaces, those brokers told TechCrunch. These people said Figure AI’s cease-and-desist letters demanded that they stop marketing the company’s stock. Both brokers said they received the letters for the first time after Bloomberg reported in mid-February that Figure was seeking a $1.5 billion round at a $39.5 billion valuation — a fifteenfold increase from…

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#mlnews #apple #nolamarck Your update on the latest news in the AI and Machine Learning world. OUTLINE: 0:00 – Intro 0:15 – Sponsor: Weights & Biases 3:30 – Apple to scan iDevices for illegal content 14:10 – EU approves chatcontrol 15:20 – Machine Learning FAQ book 17:40 – TimeDial & Disfl-QA Conversation Datasets 20:30 – VoxPopuli Speech Dataset 21:00 – Google Tensor chip coming to Pixel 6 21:30 – Pentagon uses AI to predict events 23:10 – Sketch your own GAN 24:45 – Can a Fruit Fly learn Word Embeddings? 26:00 – Master Faces beat facial recognition system 27:25 -…

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Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of Losing the Nobel Prize, and host of the Into the Impossible podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – InsideTracker: and use code Lex25 to get 25% off – Athletic Greens: and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil – Magic Spoon: and use code LEX to get $5 off – MasterClass: to get 15% off – Onnit: to get up to 10% off EPISODE LINKS: Brian’s Twitter: Brian’s YouTube: Books and resources mentioned: Losing the Nobel Prize: Into the Impossible: PODCAST INFO:…

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Tue 29th Apr, 2025Cisco has announced the launch of Foundation AI, an open-source reasoning model designed specifically for IT security applications. This innovative tool is engineered to seamlessly integrate into existing security frameworks, enabling businesses to swiftly and accurately address queries with its robust architecture featuring eight billion parameters. Developed under the guidance of Cisco’s Chief Product Officer, Jeetu Patel, Foundation AI was trained using a dataset comprising 200 billion tokens based on the Llama 3 framework. The objective behind this development was to create a compact yet powerful model suitable for smaller operational environments, capable of running on Nvidia…

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