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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

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As part of farmers’ integrated pest program, they often spray fungicide applications 12 times per year in order to yield fruits and vegetables. His firm has an impact fund focused on the future of food and began investing in alternative proteins in 2016 before expanding that to delivery systems in agriculture technology, he said.

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From improving cancer treatments to saving the bees, these are the companies in IndieBio’s latest class

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As the early-stage, biology-focused accelerator arm of SOSV, IndieBio gives the companies in its program $250,000+, mentorship and full access to a biology lab to bring their ideas to life. The SF program is led by Managing Director Po Bronson, while the New York program is led by Managing Director Stephen Chambers.

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Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

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From there, a series of enzymatic and chemical reactions are performed that draw out DNA molecules. With the right programming, Umapathi is confident his platform allows liquids to be manipulated in even more complex ways, like using magnetic fields to draw certain molecules out of samples for further analysis.

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Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT, but still suffers from limitations

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Anthropic , the startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees that’s raised over $700 million in funding to date, has developed an AI system similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT that appears to improve upon the original in key ways. Called Claude, Anthropic’s system is accessible through a Slack integration as part of a closed beta.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. They now use what they learn about a program to help build unit tests. But it’s a perfect job for LLMs that collect information as you write your program.”

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

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Due to the complexity and scale of the challenge, not all businesses have the resources to move toward net-zero at the necessary pace, and many are lagging. Going green makes good business sense. Smart spaces can reduce energy use when unoccupied, while predictive/preventive maintenance can reduce wasteful downtime.

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Clinical Decision Support Systems: How They Improve Care and Cut Costs

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Luckily, the most routine part of this job can be done by computers — or, to be more specific, by clinical decision support systems. Broadly speaking, a clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a program module that helps medical professionals with decision making at the point of care. MYCIN expert system interface.