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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 open data formats lead to…
Business
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…
Red Hat and IBM team up to enhance AIops with an open-source project
AIops is what you get when you combine big data and machine learning to automate…
Technical
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…
Neo4j’s roadmap in 2023: Cloud, Graph Data Science, Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs
Neo4j recently announced new product features in collaboration with Google, as well as a new…
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…
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…
Socio-Technical
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.…
How efficient code increases sustainability in the enterprise
Everything counts in large amounts. You don’t have to be Google, or build large AI…
Use Cases
How Netflix built its real-time data infrastructure
What makes Netflix, Netflix? Creating compelling original programming, analyzing its user data to serve subscribers…
What will applied AI look like in 2022?
AI adoption has skyrocketed throughout the last 18 months. Besides Joe McKendrick, who wrote the…
LinkedIn and Intel tech leaders on the state of AI
AI is on a roll. Adoption is increasing across the board, and organizations are already…
An AI-powered revenue operating system for aviation and beyond: FLYR Labs Lands $150 Million in Series C Funding
A multi-trillion dollar business in crisis, upending incumbents, unfettered ambition, and pragmatic deep learning. FLYR’s…
Data, analytics, machine learning, and AI in healthcare in 2021
What do you get when you juxtapose two of the hottest domains today – AI…
Data meets science: Open access, code, datasets, and knowledge graphs for machine learning research and beyond
A new interconnected ecosystem for research is shaping up, and machine learning is just the…