Center for Data Innovation

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Christian Vahlensieck, co-founder of Alp Bio, a Switzerland-based startup developing an AI-powered platform that helps pharmaceutical companies predict immune reactions to biopharmaceutical drugs. Vahlensieck explained how Alp Bio combines machine lear...

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from June 6, 2026, to June 12, 2026, featuring New Mexico ranchers using AI-powered sensors to help manage livestock during droughts and a new maritime AI tool that enables analysts to track global vessel activity.

New Zealand’s geographic information agency, Land Information New Zealand, has developed a high‑resolution 3D coastal visualization that offers detailed views of the nation’s shoreline. Through the 3D Coastal Mapping Programme, the agency captured terrain, vegetation, buildings, and underwater features using laser‑based lidar mapping. The project provides continuous coastal m...

Researchers at Poland’s Forest Research Institute have created a dataset of detailed 3D scans of more than 10,000 trees, called TreeScanPL10K, to advance species identification and forest‑structure analysis. Using ground‑based laser scanners that captured each tree from multiple angles, they recorded precise measurements of trunks, branches, and canopies. The annotated datase...

CNN recently filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, alleging that the company copied more than 17,000 CNN articles, videos, and images to power its AI search products without permission or compensation. The case arrives amid a broader wave of AI copy...