NY Innovation Monitor

Publishing 22 items — generated 2025-12-21 18:00:01Z UTC

  1. Meta acquires voice startup Play AI
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    Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices....

  2. RocGrowth First Thursday Meetup for Creatives and Startups at Roc Brewing On September 7th
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    Embrace creative collisions & community synergy! 🎨 Join RocGrowth & StartUp Grind every 1st Thursday. Whether you're a startup pro, creative, or suppo...

  3. Rebecca W. Doerge Named Provost of RPI
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    Rebecca W. Doerge Named Provost of RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) today announced the appointment of Rebecca W. Doerge, Ph.D....

  4. Planning Board to Review Two Projects, 530 Units
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    BFC Partners is bringing plans for 530 apartments on two downtown area sites to the Planning Board on Monday for review.  The company is planning a se...

  5. Calling All Alumni Entrepreneurs: Apply for ’CUSE50 Awards
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    Did you cultivate your entrepreneurial skills as a student at Syracuse University and either founded or currently own your own business as an Orange a...

  6. D’Youville University Taking 285 Delaware for Medical School
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    D’Youville University has identified 285 Delaware Avenue as the planned location for its proposed College of Osteopathic Medicine, pending pre-accredi...

  7. WISE Women’s Business Center Awarded Grant From Empire State Development, Celebrates Entrepreneur of the Year Award
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    The WISE Women’s Business Center, in collaboration with the Whitman School of Management, announced the renewal of WISE as an Entrepreneurial Assistan...

  8. Law Professor Receives 2025 Onondaga County NAACP Freedom Fund Award
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    College of Law Professor Suzette Meléndez, director of the Syracuse Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, was honored with a 2025 Onondaga County NAACP Fr...

  9. Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots
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    Therapy chatbots powered by large language models may stigmatize users with mental health conditions and otherwise respond inappropriately or even dan...

  10. Campfire Bears: A Camping Adventure Story
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    Who keeps sneaking big bites from Ari Rae’s campfire meals and treats? Is it the work of a bear? Or is the culprit some other critter?  I haven’t be...

  11. The countdown’s almost over: 2 days until TechCrunch All Stage 2025 kicks off in Boston
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    This isn’t your average startup conference. TC All Stage is where high-growth startups get sharper, faster, and more fundable — in just one day. Wheth...

  12. Shocking! Bow Miner cloud mining income revealed: XRP earns $20,000 a day, ETH earns $35,000 a day, and BTC is even more amazing!
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    Say goodbye to traditional mining and welcome the new era of smart wealth Imagine lying on a beach chair, drinking an iced drink, while your crypto as...

  13. A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar
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    A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues....

  14. Elon Musk’s Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl
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    Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has pivoted from antisemitism to anime girl waifus. Musk wrote in an X post on Monday that AI companions are now available...

  15. Malaysia will require trade permits for U.S. AI chips
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    Malaysia is introducing new export restrictions on U.S. AI chips in an attempt to prevent these chips from being smuggled into China....

  16. NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others
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    Google is adding notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits to its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assist...

  17. Prime Day event drove over $24B in U.S. e-commerce sales, gen AI traffic was up 3,300%
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    Amazon’s Prime Day, which leads to an overall boost to U.S. e-commerce thanks to competitive sales, saw a significant increase in retail traffic drive...

  18. Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center
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    Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computat...

  19. Batavia police seek information after apparent targeted shooting on Hutchins Place
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    Batavia police are investigating a shooting that injured one person early Sunday morning. Officers responded to reports of shots fired around 3:15 a.m...

  20. Big Reveal: D’Youville Student Housing
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    D’Youville University is planning graduate-level student housing for a site once targeted for a new medical school.  The proposed five-story building ...

  21. Study: Quick, pain-free breast imaging system shows promise in early clinical tests
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    Automated scan takes less than a minute and produces AI-powered, clear 3D images....

  22. Empire State of artificial intelligence
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    WIVB-TV news program Buffalo Brief featured Venu Govindaraju in a lengthy interview about UB’s work involving artificial intelligence....