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After her husband passed away from ALS, Indu Navar started an organization that uses AI to study ALS and other neurological diseases.

These SURF grants enabled young researchers interested in robotics to collaborate with esteemed faculty, build professional networks and receive financial support to focus solely on their project, paving the way for their future career or academic opportunities.

Meanwhile, in the federal courthouse in San Francisco, artists are suing companies Stability AI, DeviantArt, Midjourney and Runway AI. Their legal complaint describes the firms' AI-powered image generators as "copyright-laundering devices, promising customers the benefits of art without the costs of artists."

OpenAI today announced the launch of NextGenAI, a consortium of 15 leading research institutions dedicated to using artificial intelligence to accelerate research breakthroughs and transform education.

First Ascent Biomedical, a Miami biotech company and cancer researcher, will receive $2 million in funding from the Florida Cancer Innovation Fund. The grant is intended to accele

NextGenAI, whose 15 founding academic partners include Harvard, the University of Oxford and MIT, will be funded with $50 million in research grants, compute funding, and API access from OpenAI, the company said. Students, educators, and researchers will be eligible to receive awards, which will be doled out over the coming months.

Safe Superintelligence has become one of the most valuable companies in tech thanks to the reputation of former OpenAI researcher Ilya Sutskever.

Google has developed an AI tool to act as a virtual collaborator for biomedical scientists, the U.S. blue chip said on Wednesday.