Heather Bassett, MD, is Chief Medical Officer with Xsolis, an AI-driven health technology company fostering payer-provider collaboration. gettyAs a physician, I learned early that a recommendation and an order are not the same thing: one informs judgment, the other changes what happens next. That distinction now matters in how leaders think about AI. For most…
Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak announced that the company has implanted its vision-restoring chip, PRIMA, into its first patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited eye disease that gradually destroys central vision. Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, the brain implant company, explained onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt how the company’s work with PRIMA fits…
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch…
Big promises collide with a basic consumer need…
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Lindsey Witmer Collins is Founder and CEO of WLCM.AI, an Inc. 5000 company building AI solutions for enterprises, and Scribbly Books. gettyI have lived and breathed Silicon Valley for my entire career. I’ve helped more than 100 startups go to market, often with software that went on to win awards from Apple, Fast Company, the…
Casey Merolla, President, Community Financial Institutions, SRM. gettyIf you’ve led a major system conversion, you likely know the anxiety of waiting for something to break at 2 a.m. on cutover weekend that will lead to your name headlining the postmortem. I’ve spent much of my career advising organizations through these decisions and know that fear…
The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems‘ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract that could be worth nearly $50 million to the startup. WindBorne currently has about 700 weather balloons flying around the globe, collecting atmospheric sensor readings that the company sells to customers and also feeds into…
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