Points of View

AI Will Revolutionize Healthcare. The Transformation Has Already Begun.

Healthcare is perhaps the most important sector in the U.S. economy. It is the largest: close to $4 trillion per year is spent on healthcare in the United States. It employs more people than any other industry, accounting for 11% of all American jobs. Nearly one quarter of all U.S. government spending is on healthcare.
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GPT-3 Is Amazing—And Overhyped

The Internet is buzzing about GPT-3, OpenAI's newest AI language model.

GPT-3 is the most powerful language model ever built. This is due more than anything to its size: the model has a whopping 175 billion parameters. To put that figure into perspective, its predecessor model GPT-2—which was considered state-of-the-art and shockingly massive when it was released last year—had 1.5 billion parameters.

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Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared.

Last month during ESPN’s hit documentary series The Last Dance, State Farm debuted a TV commercial that has become one of the most widely discussed ads in recent memory. It appeared to show footage from 1998 of an ESPN analyst making shockingly accurate predictions about the year 2020.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Driving A Silicon Renaissance

The semiconductor is the foundational technology of the digital age. It gave Silicon Valley its name. It sits at the heart of the computing revolution that has transformed every facet of society over the past half-century.
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A Massive Opportunity Exists To Build ‘Picks And Shovels’ For Machine Learning

Many multi-billion-dollar companies have been built by providing tools to make software development easier and more productive. Venture capitalists like to refer to businesses like these as “pick and shovel” opportunities, a reference to Mark Twain's famous line: “When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.”
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Deep Learning Has Limits. But Its Commercial Impact Has Just Begun.

There has been increased hand-wringing across the AI community in recent months about the limitations of deep learning.
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News & Press

BUSINESS WIRE
Domino Data Lab Named a Leader in Notebook-Based Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Evaluation by Global Research Firm
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HCP WIRE
Qumulo Appoints Elissa Fink to Board of Directors
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TECH CRUNCH
Xometry raises $75M Series E to expand custom manufacturing marketplace
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BETAKIT
CLEARBANC, TOUCHBISTRO AMONG 7 CANADIAN STARTUPS IN CB INSIGHTS FINTECH 250
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FORTUNE
Fortune Names Two Highland-backed Founders, Michele Romanow and Julia Cheek, in 40 Under 40 List
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MILITARY.COM
After Initial Ban, Pentagon Approves 5 Small Commercial Drones for Troops
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BUSINESS WIRE
Turbonomic Named to the Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fast-Growing Private Companies for the Fifth Time
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FORBES
ThredUp Unveils New Platform And $175 Million In Funding As Resale Trend Accelerates
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CISION PR NEWSWIRE
Lovepop Launches New Interactive Line of Cards and Toys for Kids
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TECH CRUNCH
Qumulo scores $125M Series E on $1.2B valuation as storage biz accelerates
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BUSINESS WIRE
Esri, GeoComm, RapidSOS Partner to Bring Advanced Situational Awareness Solution to First Responders
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CTECH
NetApp completes Spot.io acquisition for $450 million
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MARTECHSERIES
ZeroEyes Partners with RapidSOS to Immediately Inform 911 When Weapons Are Detected
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CISION PR NEWSWIRE
Cove and RapidSOS Partner to Bring Advanced Emergency Response System to Home Security Industry
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FORBES
This Harvard MBA Just Raised $21 Million To Help Emergency Workers Get Crucial Data On Callers
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BUSINESS WIRE
Kyruus Secures $30 Million Investment From Francisco Partners
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CISION PR NEWSWIRE
RapidSOS Raises $21M to Help First Responders Take on Unprecedented Pandemic
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CNBC
Everlywell CEO Julia Cheek on Covid-19 testing
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