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UC San Diego Health is on the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence into clinical and operational processes, and it’s beginning to save lives. The health system uses an AI algorithm called COMPOSER to predict sepsis before clinical manifestations, according to a study published in January. Patients who check into the emergency department are continuously monitored for more than 150 variables that could be linked to sepsis, including lab results, vital signs, medications and more. When patients are at risk, the AI algorithm notifies nursing staff through the EHR. “We found early detection of sepsis resulting in 20% drop of mortality in our emergency department patients with sepsis, which is really, really huge and translates to 50 lives saved on an annual basis here a...[Read More]

The Elk Grove Police Department plans to add three aerial drones to assist in the line of duty, a trend that many law enforcement agencies have recently adopted to contribute to service. As a part of the Police Department’s Drone as a First Responder (DFR) program, deployed drones will amplify officers’ ability to respond to live 911-operator dispatch calls and send necessary resources to a scene for service, enabling staff to locate, report and track suspects and vehicles involved in ongoing crimes. Keep Reading This Article at the MSN.com

The California Highway Patrol announced its first-ever arrest with the aid of a Flock Safety camera, and suspect identification in the state will likely never be the same. In a news release Friday, the CHP said that the camera aided in the search for a person suspected in a non-fatal shooting on the Bay Bridge, which connects San Francisco and Oakland in the Bay Area. The suspect’s vehicle was captured on a Flock camera near Treasure Island, which sits between the two cities. Keep Reading This Article at the MSN.com

(FOX40.COM) — Sacramento County residents struggling to pay off fines or traffic tickets can now request a reduction for their citations without having to appear in court. Residents can request a reduction from Sacramento Superior Court by using the court’s new online service called MyCitations. Sacramento Superior Court officially launched the online service on Wednesday. The online tool includes an online application that allows individuals facing financial hardship to request a reduction to help pay off their citation, court officials said in a press release. Keep Reading This Article at the MSN.com

THE California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has awarded a joint venture of Systra and Typsa a $US 131.2m contract to design track and the overhead line electrification (OHLE) system for the first section of the state’s planned high-speed network. The joint venture will produce high-level designs for track and OHLE on the 273.6km section from Merced to Bakersfield, and detailed designs for the 190.4km currently under construction. This will include trackside cable runs, ducts beneath the track, access walkways, fencing and drainage. Keep Reading This Article at the International Rail Journal

WHILE SAN JOSE is getting cozy with artificial intelligence, the city is preparing safety nets for its own partnerships. The city published a set of employee guidelines on AI last July. Now, it’s nearly done with an AI policy with requirements for companies that work with San Jose. This policy was created in tandem with the Government AI Coalition — a collective of public agencies nationwide that work together to flesh out policies to help use AI responsibly. Keep Reading This Article at MSN.com

PowerSchool, the powerhouse educational software company based in Folsom, has agreed to be acquired by Bain Capital in a deal worth $5.6 billion, the companies announced Friday. The purchase will earn shareholders of the capital region’s largest publicly-traded company $22.80 a share when the deal closes later this year. Bain executives said in a joint announcement that PowerSchool provides “significant opportunities to expand” amid a surge of cloud-based and so-called software-as-a-service K-12 educational technology. The company already provides service to 17,000 schools and other educational institutions with access to 55 million students across 90 countries. Keep Reading This Article at MSN.com

As California considers policies and regulations around artificial intelligence, the conversation should center on its effects on people, experts and policymakers agree. The state has gotten started: It released guidelines for state use of AI earlier this year. Amy Tong, secretary of the state’s Government Operations Agency, was tasked with assessing the effect of generative AI on vulnerable communities; its effect on workforce development for existing and future workforces; and recommending state procurement guidelines. “(Talking about AI) shouldn’t be tech-driven,” Tong, who’s the former director of the state’s Technology Department, said on a panel at the CalMatters Ideas Festival in Sacramento on Wednesday, which was moderated by CalMatters reporter Khari Johnson. “People should be at ...[Read More]

While the federal government appears content to sit back and wait, more than 40 U.S. states are considering hundreds of AI regulation bills. California, with its status as a tech-forward state and huge economy, has a chance to lead the way. So much so, in fact, that the European Union is trying to coordinate with the state on AI laws. The EU opened an office in San Francisco in 2022 and dispatched a tech envoy, Gerard de Graaf, to better communicate about laws and regulations around AI. We are living through what de Graaf calls “the year of AI.” De Graaf and deputy head of the EU office in San Francisco Joanna Smolinska told CalMatters that if California lawmakers pass AI regulation in the coming months, the state can emerge as a standard bearer for the regulation of AI in the United State...[Read More]

Dive Brief: The volume of corporate data placed into artificial intelligence tools by workers skyrocketed 485% from March 2023 to March 2024, exposing businesses to heightened risks, according to a report released Tuesday by cybersecurity company Cyberhaven. Workers are putting company data into personal “shadow AI” accounts that, unlike enterprise versions, potentially expose whatever is shared with them to the public, according to the research. “AI usage at work is increasing at an exponential rate and so is the amount of corporate data pasted or uploaded to AI tools,” the report said.   Keep Reading This Article at the CFO Dive

California could soon deploy generative artificial intelligence tools to help reduce traffic jams, make roads safer and provide tax guidance, among other things, under new agreements announced Thursday as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to harness the power of new technologies for public services. The state is partnering with five companies to create generative AI tools using technologies developed by tech giants such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google- and Amazon-backed Anthropic that would ultimately help the state provide better services to the public, administration officials said. “It is a very good sign that a lot of these companies are putting their focus on using GenAI for governmental service delivery,” said Amy Tong, secretary of government operations for California....[Read More]

If you visited a Planned Parenthood in the continental United States in the past few years then the company Near Intelligence, a data broker, probably knew it — and may have sold that information to anti-abortion activists. If you attended certain houses of worship or patronized particular pharmacies, the data broker known as Outlogic allegedly sold that information. Near Intelligence filed for bankruptcy in December. Outlogic agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commision to stop selling user location data, while insisting regulators had found “no misuse of any data.” Both were among nearly 90 companies on the latest version of the California data broker registry that self-reported selling data about where people are or have been. For the first time this year California requires ...[Read More]