Apple's new AI acquisition has some healthcare experience

Lattice, the "dark data" startup Apple snapped up earlier this week, may well have aspirations in the healthcare space. Apple acquired the company a few weeks ago according to Tech Crunch, which says a source put the deal at $200 million. Lattice is working on using artificial intelligence to turn "dark data", which is unstructured, largely unusable data generated through digital interactions, into structured, usable data. Obviously Apple is working on a number of different initiatives, and the company has declined to comment on its plans for the acquisition. But there is reason to think that Lattice might be taken up as part of Apple's many healthcare efforts.