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AI Medical Tools Show Promise as Health Tech Markets Rally
artificial intelligence // October 29, 2024

Wayne State scientists are developing artificial intelligence models to cut costs in complex drug design, while Stanford research reveals ChatGPT-4 achieving 92% medical diagnostic accuracy — outperforming human doctors scoring 74%. This wave of AI breakthroughs is reflected in financial markets, where health tech stocks...

Stanford Report: Human Oversight Boosts AI Gains
artificial intelligence // April 15, 2024

What a difference 10 years makes. Just a decade ago, artificial intelligence couldn’t understand language or images; now it can. AI is also revolutionizing workforce productivity by enhancing efficiency and output quality, according to the 2024 AI Index Report from the Stanford University Institute for...

Bankman-Fried’s Parents Seek to Quash FTX Lawsuit
Legal // January 17, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents say they can’t be held accountable for their son’s actions at FTX. Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried were sued last year by FTX, with the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange alleging that the pair used their backgrounds as Stanford University law professors to enrich themselves as their...

AI’s Future Is Becoming Indistinguishable From the Future of Work
artificial intelligence // January 09, 2024

As the artificial intelligence (AI)-driven workforce takes shape, an emerging downstream impact is a new perspective on historic, traditionally labor-centric, cost structures as firms chase AI-fueled efficiencies. This, as Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and a former member of the European Parliament,...

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Bankman-Fried’s Parents Seek to Quash FTX Lawsuit

January 17, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents say they can’t be held accountable for their son’s actions at FTX. Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried were sued last year by FTX, with the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange alleging that the pair used their backgrounds as Stanford University law professors to enrich themselves as their son carried out his own fraud during his time as […]

FTX Accuses Bankman-Fried’s Parents of Helping ‘Plunder’ Company

September 19, 2023
A new lawsuit accuses alleged cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents of their own malfeasance. The suit, filed Monday (Sept. 18) by the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, says that Joseph Bankman and Barbara...

Google Dives Into DDAs

November 13, 2019
Google is planning to launch consumer checking accounts next year in partnership with Citigroup and Stanford University, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday (Nov. 13). Code-named Cache, the...

Apple’s Tim Cook Preaches Tech Firm Responsibility

June 16, 2019
In a speech at Stanford University, Apple CEO Tim Cook said tech firms in Silicon Valley have to assume responsibility for “chaos” they create. The speech encompassed privacy violations and...