Return of the Graph: Geospatial Knowledge Graphs, Personal Knowledge Graphs, and Evolution. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 24, Spring 2023

New types of graphs, and a new era for the Year of the Graph Newsletter The Year of the Graph Newsletter, keeping track of all things Graph year over year, is back after a long hiatus. Read on to learn more about how the evolution of the newsletter follows the evolution of the domain and […]
Read More →Heroes journey: Notes towards a Personal Knowledge Graphs Book

The hero’s journey is a common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home transformed. Writing a book is like a journey too. Writing the first Personal Knowledge Graphs book involved more than one hero and a few crises. Now the PKG […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →AI politics: From pausing to regulating AI, it’s all about winning hearts and minds

“The Letter” was just the beginning. Welcome to the AI politics show. Grab some popcorn, or better yet, get in the ring. “I got a letter from the government Future of Life Institute the other day I opened and read it, it said they were suckers They wanted me for their army or whatever Picture […]
Read More →Orchestrate All The Things: Owning Tech, Data, Media, AI, Writing, and Content

On AI-generated content, writing, new, old, and broken media, platforms, models, audiences, and body parts. Why do so many people want to be writers? That’s the kind of question SEO-optimized content is generated for. I for one did not, at least not in the romanticized way many people think about writing. But when i was […]
Read More →ChatGPT is AI’s Facebook moment. Don’t fall for it this time.

GPT-4, arguably the most powerful AI model ever, has just been released. The expectation was that this was going to be massive. OpenAI’s announcement does not focus on model size, but on capabilities. They seem impressive, and GPT-4 is purportedly being used at the likes of Stripe and Morgan Stanley. The question i posed just before […]
Read More →Striim brings cloud-modernization tool to AWS

Can real-time technology help companies save during economic hardship? Alok Pareek thinks it can. Pareek is the cofounder and executive VP of products at Striim, a vendor whose goal and motto is to, “help companies make data useful the instant it’s born”.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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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