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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 learning infrastructure that powers it.…
Business
Top AI investors reveal State of AI in 2022
If you think artificial intelligence (AI) is moving at a breakneck speed and it’s almost…
How to apply decision intelligence to automate decision-making
Decision intelligence is one of those terms that sound vaguely familiar, even if you’ve never…
What development of LLM best practices means for the enterprise
Large language models (LLMs) and multimodal AI are the cutting edge of AI innovation, with…
JupiterOne scores $70M series C funding, achieves unicorn status
Cloud security solutions are experiencing increased “growth and adoption.” Cybersecurity platform JupiterOne is using graphs…
Managing disaster and disruption with AI, one tree at a time
Ingesting loads of fine-grained data helps, but it’s not enough to make fine-grained predictions. You…
Could machine learning and operations research lift each other up?
Is deep learning really going to be able to do everything? Opinions on deep learning’s…
Technical
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.…
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?…
Striim brings cloud-modernization tool to AWS
Can real-time technology help companies save during economic hardship? Alok Pareek thinks it can. Pareek…
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…
Socio-Technical
Fair forecast? How 180 meteorologists are delivering ‘good enough’ weather data
Weather forecasts, too, are all about data and models these days. But balancing accuracy and…
You.com is taking on Google with AI, apps, privacy, and personalization
Award-winning AI research? Check. Startup and enterprise experience? Check. Venture capital and Mark Benioff backing?…
The data science and AI market may be out for a recalibration
Data science roles are still “sexy” but not immune to the job market turmoil. Being…
Resisting the urge to be impressed, knowing what we talk about when we talk about AI
A brief history of recent advances in AI, what they mean, and why you should…
The EU AI Act could help get to Trustworthy AI, according to the Mozilla Foundation
The EU AI Act may turn out to be one of the most influential legal…
The EU AI Act: What you need to know
After data privacy and GDPR, the EU wants to leave its mark on AI by…
Use Cases
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…
Own your newsfeed, own your data
A guide to keeping all your news sources and items in one place We all…
Hybrid AI through data, space, time, and industrial applications: Beyond Limits scores $113M Series C to scale up
Machine learning approaches to AI alone don’t cut it. Good old-fashioned AI alone does not…
Data governance and context for evidence-based medicine: Transparency and bias in COVID-19 times
In the early 90s, evidence-based medicine emerged to make medicine more data-driven. Three decades later,…
Garbage in, garbage out: Data science, meet evidence-based medicine
Did you ever wonder how data is used in the medical industry? The picture that…
Scientific fact-checking using AI language models: COVID-19 research and beyond
Fact or fiction? That’s not always an easy question to answer. Incomplete knowledge, context and…