Artificial Intelligence

Innovate Faster: AWS Launches New Accelerator to Boost Generative AI Startups

by | Apr 10, 2023
Generative AI could revolutionize industries ranging from film and healthcare to tech and manufacturing. The AWS Generative AI Accelerator seeks to be a gamechanger for entrepreneurs already developing minimal viable products in this space, offering valuable resources like production assistance, customized mentoring, networking opportunities, and connections with potential investors. Deadline to apply is April 17.
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Tricolor CEO Highlights AI Innovation as a ‘Breakthrough’ Tool to Advance Financial Inclusion for Underserved Hispanic Customers
by | Apr 6, 2023
Tricolor, the largest used vehicle retailer to the Hispanic market in the US, has secured a new patent for its innovative AI tool called Automás. The tool lets customers self-select and finance vehicles, generating offers for different models and financing terms with machine learning. A unique feature of Automás is that it empowers customers to customize their own financing terms within the parameters of the system-generated offer.
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Elon Musk, Other Tech Leaders Call for 6-Month Pause on the ‘Dangerous Race’ to Giant AI Systems
by | Mar 29, 2023
The request was made in an open letter signed by major players including Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI, the lab that created ChatGPT and GPT-4; Emad Mostaque, founder of the London-based Stability AI; and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts, researchers, and backers signed the letter, including academics from UT Dallas.
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Blackboxstocks Partners with Boosted.ai to Bring Cutting-Edge Tech to Retail Investors
by | Mar 3, 2023
Blackbox said it will leverage the advanced machine learning algorithms from Boosted.ai in conjunction with the predictive analytics of the Blackbox platform. “Integrating the cutting-edge technology of Boosted.ai into the Blackbox platform is a significant step forward in our ongoing mission to provide our users with the best trading information possible," said Brandon Smith, CTO of Blackboxstocks.
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Dallas Regional Chamber Launches Life Science Recruitment Campaign

The campaign builds on the region's thriving tech sector as the foundation of Dallas-Fort Worth's growing biotech and life science ecosystem. “What we’re seeing now is the cumulative effect of convergence across industries—and that gives DFW an edge," says Mike Rosa, the DRC's economic development chief.

The DRC's new VP of Economic Development, Kelly Cloud, is spearheading efforts to attract startups and established life science companies to Dallas-Fort Worth.
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AI—Ready or Not?
by | Feb 16, 2023
North Texas universities are gearing up for the AI revolution, readying students for the jobs of tomorrow. Here's a look at what's happening at SMU, TCU, the University of North Texas, UT Arlington, and UT Dallas, as published in our annual 2023 Dallas Innovates magazine.
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John Carmack’s New Holy Grail: Artificial General Intelligence
by | Feb 2, 2023
John Carmack, the iconic Dallas game developer, rocket engineer, and VR pioneer, is setting his sights on AGI. If successful, his moonshot effort would be a ‘change-the-world-level’ event.
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Irving’s Caris Life Sciences Closes On $400M Secured Term Loan

by | Jan 23, 2023

Caris Life Sciences, the Irving-based biotech company, announced Thursday that it closed a senior secured term loan providing up to $400 million in capital from OrbiMed and Braidwell, bringing its funding total since 2018 to roughly $1.7 billion.

Caris, a molecular science and technology company that is actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare, said it will use the proceeds to repay debt, improve its unique precision medicine platform, and for general corporate purposes....

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New Charles Schwab Platform Seeks to Help DIY Investors with Thematic Investing
by | Jan 15, 2023

Thematic investing is an old, but growing trend that offers investors a way to profit from emerging trends they believe in and are passionate about, a report in International Business Daily said....

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Lantern Pharma’s New Drug Candidate for Mantle Cell Lymphoma Shows Promise
by | Dec 22, 2022
The Dallas-based biopharmaceutical company expects to begin testing the drug candidate in a “first in human” trial in mid-2023. The drug was developed using the publicly traded company’s AI/ML drug development platform.

Lantern, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, recently published insights on how AI can be used to find new indications for cancer drugs in record times with significant reductions in costs.
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Check Out the Emerging Tech Trends This Dell Technologies Leader Is Tracking
by | Aug 10, 2022
Rakesh Apte, Dell's director of product management and innovation strategy, lays out the emerging trends driving the future of innovation in the technology space that companies big and small should have their eyes on.
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From TikTok Recommendations to New Trends, The Mark Cuban Foundation Aims to Teach Students About AI

by | Jun 16, 2022
The charitable foundation of Dallas Mavericks owner and serial entrepreneur Mark Cuban—is teaming up with local tech firms to launch its free AI Bootcamps for high school students across North Texas and beyond.

“These young leaders can now participate in the conversation around how AI should be developed and used,” Cuban has said. “We’re giving them a seat at the table.”  

Applications are now open.
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Pieces Helps Speed Patient Identification for National Cancer Study
by | Jun 8, 2022
Irving-based Pieces, a health care-focused AI company, is teaming up with a Philadelphia firm to accelerate patient identification for a National Cancer Institute colorectal cancer study. Nearly 10,000 participants will be needed across the U.S. Pieces will use its analytics platform—which combines AI with natural language processing, to “read” through hundreds of thousands of electronic colonoscopy notes and records—to quickly identify patients that meet the study’s criteria.
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‘Cross-Border VC’: Dallas Venture Capital Raises $80M to Invest Alongside Its $50M India Fund
by | May 25, 2022
Dallas Venture Capital is "poised to bootstrap two large start-up ecosystems in the U.S. and India," says co-founder Dayakar Puskoor.

The venture firm—which has an office in Irving and another in Hyperabad, India—plans a combined deployment of the funds over four to five years.
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With $4M in Funding, Dallas Startup Aims to Streamline the Hiring Process
by | May 11, 2022
Dallas-based software startup HireLogic aims to improve the job interview process with its AI- and machine learning-powered platform, designed to help automate the screening process. Its CEO says he wants to help companies "gain insights from interview data to make faster, better hiring decisions."
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