Stay calm, PR pro — ChatGPT is new, but not nuanced
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // It’s only natural to worry about the consequences of new technology, especially in the communications business. If we went back a few millennia, we’d encounter…
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No. 790: Celebrations, simulations and numerous innovation variations, as we try to love our lawmakers
Walk off: Welcome to Friday, intrepid innovators, as we top off another exciting workweek and kick off another well-earned weekend – two off days to turn off the tech…
No. 787: Stocking the lab, nominating a pioneer and hitting the fairway – with shrimp on the barbie, mate
Sunny disposition: Mind the glare, dear readers – it’s Wednesday already, and we’re blazing into the back half of this sunny springtime work-sprint. It’s been a sun-drenched stretch here…
Northwell, Aegis open eyes with Aussie AI investment
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health and friends have flipped the switch on a retinal-imaging, disease-preventing startup leveraging an artificial intelligence tech developed down under. Say g’day to Optain, an…
Lots left to debate, but AI’s already changing medicine
By TERRY LYNAM // Debates rage across all economic sectors over the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence, and its growing influence on our lives. When it comes to AI…
Spotting opioid overdoses before they happen, with AI
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook University computer professor with an AI algorithm that detects substance abuse through language has refocused the impressive prediction technology on opioids – with…
LI leaders board tech trailblazer’s school bus summit
By GREGORY ZELLER // A national school bus-safety sovereign has summoned a king’s court of Long Island leaders for the region’s first-ever School Bus Safety Summit. Virginia-based BusPatrol America, a…
No. 769: Stock markets rise, aquafarming scores, clean water flows and we have proof (proofreading, that is)
Fractional forward: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we check off one-quarter of March and one-half of another busy workweek. We’re here to nuance your numerators by the most…
As AI evolves, the battle for control begins in court
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // In a haunting scene from 1968’s iconic “2001: A Space Odyssey,” sentient computer HAL 9000 turns off two astronauts’ life-support systems so it can assume…
Marcum-Hofstra CEOs suddenly feel a little better
By GREGORY ZELLER // Inflation? Recessions? You worry too much, according to middle-market CEOs, who are suddenly feeling better about the national business climate. So says the latest CEO Survey…
For expectant (and new) moms, bots to be thankful for
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news, expectant women of Long Island: Artificially intelligent “pregnancy chatbots” are now taking appointments. To be clear, the intelligence is legit: The Northwell Health Pregnancy…
At CSHL, the brains (and the funding) of the operation
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cornerstone of Long Island’s world-class scientific foundation has broken ground on an evolutionary leap in neuroscience research. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory stuck ceremonial shovels in…
Feinstein’s $6.7M award maps road to vagus riches
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has begun an ambitious mapping mission that may chart the course to the human race’s healthiest future. A $6.7 million…
Northwell startup stakes $100M for health tech, equity
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health has added another economic-development engine to its impressive collection. Already busily commercializing research and generating early-stage enterprises through its Northwell Ventures and Northwell Holdings…
Major investors back forward-looking ‘neural interface’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cutting-edge California company’s mind-over-matter brain/computer interface device has caught Northwell Health’s attention. Santa Barbara-based startup Cognixion has announced a $12 million seed-funding round led by…