SDG 2. ZERO HUNGER SubPlant

Agritech SupPlant Raises $10-Million to Accelerate South African Agriculture Growth

June 14, 2021, by Luis Monzon

Today SupPlant, a leading precision agriculture hardware-software solution, has announced its recent funding round, raising $10-million partially dedicated to accelerating its penetration into the South ...

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SDG 3. GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING InterVenn Biosciences

InterVenn Biosciences Announces Clinical Validation of World’s First Glycoproteomic Diagnostic Test

June 10, 2021, by Business Wire Technology News

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI–InterVenn Biosciences announces it has completed clinical and analytical validation of GLORI, a liquid-biopsy diagnostic test for female pelvic tumors

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SDG 16. PEACE JUSTICE & STRONG INSTITUTIONS MILA

Four Mila core members recognized as AI 2000 most influential scholars in Canada and worldwide

June 10, 2021, by Brigitte Tousignant

Three Mila university professors, Joëlle Pineau (McGill), Jian Tang (HEC Montréal), and Aaron Courville (UdeM), as well as Yoshua Bengio (UdeM), Mila’s Founder and Scientific ...

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SDG 3. GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING Gabbi

Portland startup Gabbi raises $1M to develop breast cancer risk assessment tool

June 10, 2021, by Charlotte Schubert

Gabbi CEO Kaitlin Christine. (Gabbi Photo) New funding: Gabbi, a Portland-based health care startup, has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round of funding. The ...

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SDG 5. GENDER EQUALITY

Gender bias in, gender bias out: providing businesses with the right solutions to mitigate gender bias in AI

June 8, 2021, by Emma Lalancette

It is striking how AI is infiltrating deeper and deeper into people’s lives, often in unexpected ways that challenge society’s collective assumptions. Today, AI aids ...

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SDG 3. GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING BIOMARKERS

Permutation-based identification of important biomarkers for complex diseases via machine learning models

June 3, 2021, by Nature Communications - current - nature.com science feeds

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SDG 3. GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING

Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning

June 3, 2021, by Nature - Issue - nature.com science feeds

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SDG 3. GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING CANCER

AI-based pathology predicts origins for cancers of unknown primary

June 3, 2021, by Ming Y. Lu

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03512-4 A deep-learning-based algorithm uses routinely acquired histology slides to provide a differential diagnosis for the origin of the ...

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SDG 3. GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING CANCER

Deep learning predicts cardiovascular disease risks from lung cancer screening low dose computed tomography

June 3, 2021, by Hanqing Chao

Nature Communications, Published online: 20 May 2021; doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23235-4 Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) for lung cancer screening offers an opportunity for simultaneous CVD risk estimation ...

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SDG 4. QUALITY EDUCATION

Helping students of all ages flourish in the era of artificial intelligence

June 3, 2021, by Daniel Ackerman | MIT News Office

A new cross-disciplinary research initiative at MIT aims to promote the understanding and use of AI across all segments of society. The effort, called Responsible ...

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SDG 16. PEACE JUSTICE & STRONG INSTITUTIONS Sentinels

Amsterdam-based Sentinels bags €5.7M from INKEF Capital to fight financial crime; here’s how

June 2, 2021, by Editorial team

Recently, Amsterdam-based AI company Sentinels raised €5.7M funding in a Seed Round led by INKEF Capital, with participation from strategic angel investors and industry leaders ...

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SDG 15. LIFE ON LAND

AI-Controlled Crop Harvester Could Have Big Implications for Energy Sustainability

June 2, 2021, by Alex McFarland

Physicists at the Technical University of Denmark have developed the world’s smallest fruit harvester controlled by artificial intelligence (AI), which enables a harvester measuring just ...

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SDG 4. QUALITY EDUCATION Esme Learning

Esme Learning and MIT Launch Online Executive Education Courses in AI Leadership, Leading Health Tech Innovation

June 2, 2021, by Business Wire Technology News

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AILeadership–New online courses in Leading Health Tech Innovation and AI Leadership from MIT and Esme Learning will prepare learners for the future of ...

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SDG 5. QUALITY EDUCATION SDG 16. PEACE JUSTICE & STRONG INSTITUTIONS

What we can learn from Sweden and Finland about preparing the public for a future with AI

June 1, 2021, by Linda Pantale

If you ask technologists what technology is primed to change the world the most in the next 20 years, AI is likely to come up. ...

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RESPONSIBLE AI

Une enquête menée par Fico et Corinium s’intéresse à l’IA responsable dans les entreprises

May 31, 2021, by Zacharie Tazrout

La société FICO connue pour le “Credit score/FICO Score”, un indicateur utilisé pour prévoir les problèmes de crédits, a publié un rapport intitulé “L’état de ...

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SDG 2. ZERO HUNGER SDG 15. LIFE ON LAND

How AI innovation is improving agricultural efficiency

May 31, 2021, by Articles on TechRepublic

Commentary: Agricultural innovation is accelerating thanks to AI. Will it be enough?

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SDG 16. PEACE JUSTICE & STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Artificial intelligence: UK and EU take legislative steps – convergence or divergence?

May 31, 2021, by Techradar - All the latest technology news

The market be watching to see how closely the UK AI strategy aligns with the EU framework.

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SDG 3. GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING Ada Health

Berlin-based healthtech startup Ada Health raises €73.8M from Samsung, Bayer, others

May 28, 2021, by Vishal Singh

Berlin-based healthtech startup Ada Health, announced that it has raised $90M (approx €73.79M) in its Series B round of funding led by Leaps by Bayer ...

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SDG 3. GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING Ibex

Ibex wins European approval for breast cancer-spotting AI pathology tool

May 27, 2021, by Andrea Park

Ibex wins European approval for breast cancer-spotting AI pathology tool apark Wed, 05/26/2021 – 10:59

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SDG 15. LIFE ON LAND TerraClear

TerraClear raises $25M for its rock-picking farm tech as it sees fully autonomous version on horizon

May 27, 2021, by Kurt Schlosser

TerraClear’s Rock Picker mounted on a skid steer, in front of a pile with the fruits of its robotic labor. (TerraClear Photo) New funding: TerraClear, ...

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