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10-03-2023 Activist Gets Temporary Block on Black Startup Grant Program

10-03-2023 Activist Gets Temporary Block on Black Startup Grant Program

PLUS: Spain turns to ChatGPT as a resource for the country's infectious disease physicians.

Lisa D. Sparks
October 03, 2023

Intro

Today’s Top 5 News Stories in Tech, Race, and Gender

1 / Fearless Fund Has Set-Back in Its Fight to Help Black Woman-Led Startups

After the Fearless Fund’ won a stay of an injunction against its efforts to fund Black woman-owned startups, a federal appeals court in Atlanta put a temporary block on the Fearless Fund’s grant application program.

This isn’t the end for Fearless Fund as the case is now going through the appeals process.

It’s odd to watch such efforts by anti affirmative action activist Edward Blum. It seems inconceivable to work so hard to deny those who’ve been denied opportunities to finally gain access to funding.

US appeals court blocks venture capital fund's grant program for Black women

According to the Fearless Fund, businesses owned by Black women in 2022 received less than 1% of the $288 billion that venture capital firms deployed. The fund aims to address that disparity.

www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-blocks-venture-capital-funds-grant-program-black-women-2023-09-30

2/ Microsoft Helps Spain’s Infectious Disease Doctors Leverage Faulty AI Chatbot

Madrid Health Service, a pioneer in applying Generative Artificial Intelligence to improve diagnosis for patients with rare diseases – Centro de noticias

news.microsoft.com/es-es/2023/09/15/madrid-health-service-a-pioneer-in-applying-generative-artificial-intelligence-to-improve-diagnosis-for-patients-with-rare-diseases

3/ AI Researcher Shares Tough Truths with U.S. Lawmakers

“My hope is that our representatives are critical consumers of information abt this tech. & not falling for the narrative that this is moving too fast for regulation to keep up. Your job is to protect rights & those aren’t changing so fast.” @emilymbender
— @[email protected] on Mastodon (@timnitGebru)
10:23 PM • Oct 2, 2023

4/ Scientist Who Unlocked “The Software of Life” Shares Her 20-Year Journey to Overnight Success

This scientist’s decades of mRNA research led to both COVID-19 vaccines

Half an hour outside Philadelphia, in a modest suburban home, lives a quirky, cheerful 65-year-old scientist who’s a big part of the reason people might be able to throw away their masks next…

nypost.com/2020/12/05/this-scientists-decades-of-mrna-research-led-to-covid-vaccines

5/ If Facial Recognition Gains Popularity in Banning Journalists … We’d Lose Important Stories

This is a possible use case for facial recognition technology that deeply worries me.
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill)
8:03 PM • Oct 2, 2023

What’s Happening in Tech

Amplify: Connect, Elevate & Sustain Hispanic and Latino Tech Professionals

Arctic Wolf's Amplify series is intended to connect, elevate and sustain underrepresented tech professionals.

www.eventbrite.com/e/amplify-connect-elevate-sustain-hispanic-and-latino-tech-professionals-tickets-705468012817?aff=erelexpmlt

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