Ukraine unveils an AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson called Victoria Shi, who will make official statements “written and verified by real people”
Victoria Shi is modelled on Rosalie Nombre, a singer and former contestant on Ukraine's version of the reality show The Bachelor
Sources: NYC-based Runway, which uses AI to let users generate videos from text descriptions, raised ~$100M from Google and others at a ~$1.5B valuation
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Research: Indian startups raised a record ~$36B in 2021, up from ~$11B in 2020; SoftBank invested $3B+ and Tiger Global was among the most active investors
Sneha Shah / The Economic Times : Tweets: @gagan_arora1 , @ettech , @ettech , and @omkar_raii Tweets: Gagan Arora / @gagan_arora1 : This is the best time ever for Indian startups ...
Research: Indian startups have raised a record ~$36B in 2021, up from ~$11B in 2020; SoftBank invested $3B+ and Tiger Global was among the most active investors
India's startup ecosystem has notched up record investment of nearly $ 36 billion in privately held companies this year as demand … Tweets: @omkar_raii Tweets: Dr.Omkar Rai / @omka...
Drishti, which develops AI-powered video analytics tech for improving manual assembly line efficiency, raises $25M Series B from Sozo Ventures, a16z, and others
Kenrick Cai / Forbes :
How IT companies in India transitioned 4M employees to work remotely, including by moving desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes
IT companies had to move desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes as they could not procure laptops in multiple thousands at such short notice. Tweets:...
MIT researchers say they used AI to discover new potent antibiotics that treat drug-resistant diseases
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times :
MIT researchers say they used AI to discover new potent antibiotics that treat drug-resistant diseases
Machine learning uncovers potent new drug able to kill 35 powerful bacteria — Artificial intelligence has been used to discover new antibiotics effective against untreatable dise...
Google says its AI model found breast cancer in screening mammograms with fewer false positives and fewer false negatives than human experts found
Denise Grady / New York Times :
Google says its AI has made significant improvements at reading mammograms to detect breast cancer in a research study of images from around 90K cases
Computers that are trained to recognize patterns and interpret images may outperform humans at finding cancer on X-rays.