Innovation

Google's new artificial intelligence algorithm, dubbed LYNA, accurately detects the spread of breast cancer — but the company is taking pains to highlight that the tool is meant to assist, not replace, human pathologists.

IDx, a developer of artificial intelligence-based diagnostic tools, secured $33 million in its most recent financing round.

Researchers at New York University in New York City trained an artificial intelligence algorithm developed by Google to distinguish between two common types of lung cancer, Wired reports.

A team of researchers from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Clinical Data Science — both in Boston — and technology vendor Nvidia developed an artificial intelligence model to generate "synthetic…

Amazon plans to release at least eight new hardware devices powered by Alexa-enabled voice-controlled software, including a microwave, according to CNBC.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will fly around the moon on the company's Big Falcon Rocket in 2023, according to CNBC.

A federal appeals court upheld a CRISPR patent awarded to the Cambridge, Mass.-based Broad Institute in a unanimous decision Sept. 10, STAT reports.

Four scientists have won coveted awards from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation for their contributions to genetics research and development of a widely-used anesthetic known as "milk of amnesia," the foundation announced Sept. 11.

Artificial intelligence algorithms are saving lives by changing the way patients are matched with kidney donors, Quartz reports.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, is only months away from revealing a product developed by his neurotechnology company Neuralink, according to claims he made during a Sept. 6 interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience."