AI / Machine Learning

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…

Jun 30, 2022

4 AI research trends everyone is (or will be) talking about

Using AI in the real world remains challenging in many ways. Organizations are struggling to…

Jun 28, 2022

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?…

Jun 22, 2022

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…

Jun 6, 2022

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…

Jun 3, 2022

Data / Analytics / Data Science

Data is going to the cloud in real-time, and so is ScyllaDB 5.0

ScyllaDB started with the aim of becoming a drop-in replacement for Cassandra. It’s growing to…

Feb 18, 2022

How Netflix built its real-time data infrastructure

What makes Netflix, Netflix? Creating compelling original programming, analyzing its user data to serve subscribers…

Feb 17, 2022

Rendered.ai unveils Platform as a Service for creating synthetic data​ to train AI models

As more organizations are turning to synthetic data to feed their data-hungry machine learning algorithms,…

Feb 3, 2022

MinIO becomes a unicorn after a $103 Million Series B round funding

MinIO, the de facto open source standard for multi-cloud storage, took an early bet in…

Jan 26, 2022

Machine learning is going real-time: Here’s why and how

Organizations are turning to machine learning because of the return on investment. The ones doing…

Jan 25, 2022

API3, the first-party blockchain oracle, is releasing beacon data feeds with Amberdata

In theory, Web3 is all about decentralization. In practice, it can be very centralized. API3…

Jan 19, 2022

Up and to the right: TigerGraph scores $105M Series C funding, the Graph market is growing

The largest funding round to date in the graph market is good news not just…

Feb 17, 2021

2021 technology trend review, part two: AI, knowledge graphs, and the COVID-19 effect

AI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological…

Jan 20, 2021

Graphs and Knowledge Connexions. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 22, Autumn 2020

As 2020 is coming to an end, let’s see it off in style. Our journey…

Nov 30, 2020

Innovation

Open-source growth and venture capital investment: Data, databases, challenges, and opportunities

Open-source software used to be poorly understood by commercial forces, and it’s often approached in…

Jul 7, 2021

Graphs as a foundational technology stack: Analytics, AI, and hardware

How would you feel if you saw demand for your favorite topic — which also…

May 28, 2021

Superconductive scores $21M Series A funding to sustain growth of its Great Expectations open source framework for data quality

Ensuring data quality is essential for analytics, data science and machine learning. Superconductive’s Great Expectations…

May 20, 2021

Open-source software economics and community health analytics: Enter CHAOSS

Trying to capture the value open-source software generates can be a bit chaotic. The CHAOSS…

May 3, 2021

Other Topics

Open source observability marches on: New Relic and Grafana Labs partnership brings benefits to developers

The perfect observability storm with open source leading the way, and a partnership that makes…

Aug 10, 2020

Another globally distributed cloud native SQL database on the rise: Yugabyte Raises $30 million in Series B Funding

Your good old on-premise SQL database is in terminal decline. Being a pure-play open-source cloud-native…

Jun 9, 2020

A Gmail for databases: CockroachDB aims for the top, stocks up with $86.6M new funding

Stay-at-home means more remote work and more online business globally. Global business online means a…

May 5, 2020

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