Artificial intelligence

Technology that is used in detecting vehicle speeds with radar is being developed for checking a person's vital signs without direct contact. (PHOTO: DEPOSITPHOTOS.COM)
Apr 30, 2025

AI is giving a boost to efforts to monitor health via radar

Noncontact health monitoring has the potential to be more comfortable and easier to use than traditional methods, particularly for people looking to monitor their vital signs at home.

Jay Larsen
Mar 28, 2025

In a technological age, good corporate citizenship requires good communicating

From the early 2000s to today, we’ve had early-stage companies grow to be world leaders in their business category - thanks to risk-taking innovators.

Brian Jagger, co-founder and chief technology officer of GuardRailz AI in Meridian, right, instructs Melody Bales in using artificial intelligence at the new AI Literacy Center in CWI’s Academic building in Nampa. (PHOTO: MARC LUTZ, IBR)
Mar 14, 2025

New center at CWI helps students, staff learn to use AI as educational tool

It’s part of the school’s goal to stay at the forefront of tools and technology that will only help create opportunities for students to achieve the most out of their education and careers.

Mar 5, 2025

AI pioneers who channeled ‘hedonistic’ machines win computer science’s top prize

Reinforcement learning is what led a Google computer program to beat the world's best human players of the ancient Chinese board game Go in 2016 and 2017.

Scott Wallin - Director of HR Business Partners - Idaho National Laboratory
Feb 28, 2025

Power List – Human Resources Heroes – Scott Wallin

Scott Wallin expands HR at Idaho National Laboratory, integrating workforce strategy to enhance research, talent development, and community impact.

Dr. Kimberly Gardner, center, responds to a question during the Idaho Business Review Breakfast Series panel discussion focused on AI in the Workforce, while Noah Riley, left and Debbie Critchfield, right, listen. (PHOTO: MARC LUTZ, IBR)
Feb 14, 2025

First Breakfast Series of 2025 goes digital with focus on AI pluses and pitfalls

“We’re living in a society that the the volume and the velocity of content that is thrown at us that we consume, that we don’t bother fact checking is amazing,” said Jason Crawforth

GetWhys, a Boise-based tech firm specializing in marketing insights, recently raised $2.75 million in funding to drive its growth. (PHOTO: GETWHYS)
Feb 6, 2025

Boise AI tech startup secures millions for seed round funding

With the current round of funding, the company’s coffers total $3.5 million, which it stated will be used to expand its engineering team, support product development and support the growth of its customer base.

Elon Musk arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)
Feb 5, 2025

Judge: Musk’s claims of harm from OpenAI are a ‘stretch’

But the judge also raised concerns about OpenAI and its relationship with business partner Microsoft and said she wouldn't stop the case from moving to trial as soon as next year so a jury can decide.

The logo for the app DeepSeek is seen on an iPhone Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
Jan 29, 2025

DeepSeek has rattled the AI industry. Here’s a quick look at other Chinese AI models

Beijing has also invested heavily in the semiconductor industry to build its capacity to make advanced computer chips, working to overcome limits on its access to those of industry leaders.

Yoshua Bengio, Scientific Director Mila Quebec AI Institute, speaks to the Associated Press during the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, England, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
Jan 29, 2025

Report: General purpose AI could lead to array of new risks

It comes amid warnings this week about artificial intelligence from the Vatican and the group behind the Doomsday Clock.

Jan 15, 2025

St. Luke’s partnership seeks to reduce clinician burnout

The health system used Ambience’s AI platform for most of 2024 throughout 11 of its specialty practices to help automate routine tasks such as documentation, coding and clinical documentation improvement, along with patient summaries for clinicians integrated into the Epic records program.

May 4, 2023

AI pioneer has big concerns over ‘deep learning’

(THE CONVERSATION) If you wanted to check someone’s pulse from across the room, for example to remotely monitor an elderly relative, how could you do it? You might think it’s ...


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