AI / Machine Learning

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…

Mar 6, 2023

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…

Nov 29, 2022

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…

Oct 24, 2022

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…

Oct 14, 2022

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

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

Databases, graphs, and GraphQL: The past, present, and future

GraphQL was never conceived as a query language for databases. Yet, it’s increasingly being used…

Mar 30, 2021

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

Innovation

DeepMind aims to marry deep learning and classic algorithms

Will deep learning really live up to its promise? We don’t actually know. But if…

Sep 10, 2021

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

Other Topics

Observability, Stage 3: Distributed tracing as a service by logz.io

There is a progression in observability, says logz.io, while moving to offer distributed tracing as…

Nov 10, 2020

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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