Venture Capital firm Sofinnova Partners has launched Sofinnova.AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that it hopes will transform its approach to life sciences investment. The platform harnesses billions of data points spanning scientific literature, emerging therapeutic fields, and technological breakthroughs, and connects them with the firm’s own proprietary knowledge accumulated over 50 years.
Rewalk Robotics Ltd. has integrated advanced sensing technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) into its latest exoskeleton prototype to enable autonomous decisionmaking. This milestone, coupled with Rewalk’s capabilities, holds enormous potential to create a new generation of exoskeletons that are more intuitive and respond to real-world conditions that users encounter daily, Rewalk CEO Larry Jasinski told BioWorld.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is clearly a more activist agency of late, although much of that activism has been around mergers and acquisitions. The latest FTC move, however, deals with investigative authorities that will be applied toward artificial intelligence (AI), which Katie Bond of Keller & Heckerman LLP said will give the agency considerable powers of discovery regardless of the merits of the enforcement action.