Redpanda’s “power to the data engineer” strategy lands a $100M Series C funding round

Redpanda’s “power to the data engineer” strategy lands a  0M Series C funding round

In an era of dried-up funding and Data Lakehouse vendor supremacy, Redpanda is going against the grain. The company just secured a $100 million Series C funding round to execute on an unconventional strategy. Redpanda Founder and CEO Alex Gallego shares how things work for the company. Back in early 2022, a $50 million Series […]

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The EU AI Act effect: Background, blind spots, opportunities and roadmap

The EU AI Act effect: Background, blind spots, opportunities and roadmap

The EU Parliament just voted to bring the EU AI Act regulation into effect. If GDPR is anything to go by, that’s a big deal. Here’s what and how it’s likely to effect, its blind spots, what happens next, and how you can prepare for it based on what we know. The last few months […]

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Foursquare moves to the future with a Geospatial Knowledge Graph

Foursquare moves to the future with a Geospatial Knowledge Graph

From a consumer-oriented application, Foursquare has evolved to a data and product provider for enterprises. The next steps in its evolution will be powered by the Foursquare Graph. Welcome to Orchestrate all the Things, a newsletter with stories about Tech, Data, AI and Media and how they flow into each other shaping our lives. If […]

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Scaling laws for AI Large Language Models and the inverse scaling hypothesis

Scaling laws for AI Large Language Models and the inverse scaling hypothesis

What are the scaling laws for AI Large Language Models and the inverse scaling hypothesis? How is that related to the Dunning-Kruger effect? The last couple of years have been an AI model arms race involving a number of players from industry and research. Google, DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, in collaboration with both OpenAI and Nvidia are […]

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Andrew Ng’s Netail offers AI for retailers to ease change from physical to digital

Andrew Ng’s Netail offers AI for retailers to ease change from physical to digital

Retail is big business. But like many other sectors it’s undergoing a transformation, largely affected by the shift of consumer behavior from physical to digital. Many retailers are looking to analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to help them cope with the challenges. Andrew Ng, among the most prominent figures in AI, is now turning his sights to doing precisely that with his new venture Netail.

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Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave looks at the technology’s past, present and future

Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave looks at the technology’s past, present and future

Quantum computing could be a disruptive technology. It’s founded on exotic-sounding physics and it bears the promise of solving certain classes of problems with unprecedented speed and efficiency. The problem, however, is that to this day, there has been too much promise and not enough delivery in the field, some say. Perhaps with the exception of D-Wave.

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Graph database market maintains momentum, new Neo4j 5 offers cloud and on-premises ease of use and parity

Graph database market maintains momentum, new Neo4j 5 offers cloud and on-premises ease of use and parity

Graph platform Neo4j today announced the general availability of Neo4j 5, the latest version of its cloud-ready graph database. Neo4j is following up on its achievements in 2021, which include surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue, closing a $325M series F financing round at over $2B valuation, which it calls “the largest funding round in database history,” and launching a free tier of its fully managed cloud service.

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