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Useful Sensors launches AI in a Box, aiming to establish a different paradigm for edge computing and TinyML
Would you leave a Google Staff Research Engineer role just because you want your TV…
Redpanda’s “power to the data engineer” strategy lands a $100M Series C funding round
In an era of dried-up funding and Data Lakehouse vendor supremacy, Redpanda is going against…
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…
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…
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…
Data intelligence platform Alation bucks economic trends, raises $123M
For Satyen Sangani, CEO and cofounder of leading data intelligence vendor Alation, data intelligence has…
Technical
Data management in 2024. Open data formats and a common language for a sixth data platform
What data management in 2024 and beyond will look like hangs on one question. Can…
Amazon Neptune introduces a new Analytics engine and the One Graph vision
Amazon Neptune, the managed graph database service by AWS, makes analytics faster and more agile…
Aerospike Graph: A new entry in the graph database market, aiming to tackle complex problems at scale
“Graph database growth is going strong through the Trough of Disillusionment.” And “Graph Analytics go…
LinkedIn’s feed evolution: more granular and powerful machine learning, humans still in the loop
LinkedIn’s feed has come a long way since the early days of assembling the machine…
Useful Sensors launches AI in a Box, aiming to establish a different paradigm for edge computing and TinyML
Would you leave a Google Staff Research Engineer role just because you want your TV…
Socio-Technical
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
Using graph-powered analytics to keep track of ESG in the real world
What does sustainability actually mean for organizations? Can it be measured, and if yes, how…
Salesforce’s AI Economist research wants to explore the equilibrium between equality and productivity
Economic theory is known to be constrained by a number of inefficiencies in its modeling.…
Use Cases
Wayve and Microsoft partner to scale autonomous vehicles
Circa 2017, there was a lot of hype around autonomous driving. If one were to…
Viable aims to quantify qualitative customer feedback with AI
There is an implicit assumption in most analytics solutions: The data analyzed and the insights…
Averting the food crisis and restoring environmental balance with data-driven regenerative agriculture
Modern agriculture was broken long before pandemics, wars, supply chain disruptions, and fertilizer shortages. Regenerative…
Trullion tackles applying AI to accounting workflows
Most of us do not consider accounting to be a separate line of business. But…
Lexmark looks to strengthen its IoT solution to remain competitive
Arguably, two of the most iconic examples of digital transformation are Kodak and Amazon. Kodak…
How Netflix built its real-time data infrastructure
What makes Netflix, Netflix? Creating compelling original programming, analyzing its user data to serve subscribers…