In the news this week: A bevy of partnerships to bring artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to medical applications, and more. Keeping pace with news and developments in the real-time analytics market can be a daunting task. We want to help by providing a summary of some of the items our staff came across each week. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in healthcare and medical diagnosis is perhaps one of the most promising applications of the technology for the public good. Frequently, the main inhibitor to the use of AI in these fields is the lack of internal familiarity with the technology.

Rolls-Royce develops an AI ethics framework and trust process, a UK consortium aims to bring quantum computing to the enterprise, and more. Keeping pace with news and developments in the real-time analytics market can be a daunting task. We want to help by providing a summary of some of the items our staff came across each week. Rolls-Royce has announced an AI ethics framework and trust process that can help gain society's trust of the technology and accelerate the next generation of industrialization, known as industry 5.0. The AI ethics framework is a method that any organization can use to ensure the decisions it takes to use AI in critical and non-critical applications are ethical.

In the news this week: many AI solutions providers make their offerings and access to critical datasets available for free to help fight COVID-19. Keeping pace with news and developments in the real-time analytics market can be a daunting task. We want to help by providing a summary of some of the items our staff came across each week. C3.ai announced it will make a unified, federated, open data image of critical COVID-19 data publicly available at no cost to the global research community beginning on April 13, 2020, accessible at https://c3.ai/covid. This month's offerings will be complemented in May when additional datasets will be added.