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CIT Announces Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 Fall Solicitation Awards and Upcoming Solicitation

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Jim Duffey, Virginia’s Secretary of Technology, said, “This solicitation continues the CRCF mission to advance outstanding projects in the Commonwealth that leverage public and private investments to strengthen and expand economic development across the state.”. “We Matching Funds Program . About the CRCF and R&T Roadmap.

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Seattle startup Truveta raises $95M for ambitious vision to aggregate data across healthcare systems

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The 17 partners provided funding for the Series A round in roughly equal amounts, reflecting shared ownership and governance of the company. And it will de-identify the data, assuring patient anonymity, in accordance with guidelines issued by the U.S.

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GeekWire Summit: Telehealth experts say COVID-19 created an opportunity to reimagine healthcare

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The nonprofit is on track for 1.6 The pandemic helped raise awareness and demand for the remote delivery of healthcare, but even more important, said the panelists, was the pressure it put on government regulations and the insurance industry to support telehealth. By the spring of this year, it was providing 70,000 visits per week.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?

Vox

His goal is to develop a technology that helps humans “merg[e] with AI” so that we won’t be “left behind” as AI becomes more sophisticated. In March, many of them, including Musk, signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on developing AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4.

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

Vox

“Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology,” wrote Zuckerberg wrote in a separate Facebook post. “It Meta also fine-tuned its model to mitigate against this kind of behavior and put out new guidelines barring certain illegal and harmful uses.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

Stephen Hawking has said , “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” They are being developed to improve drone targeting and detect missiles. In order to be very good at the narrow task of text prediction, an AI system will eventually develop abilities that are not narrow at all.