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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 frameworks in the world. Here…
AI / Machine Learning
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…
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…
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…
The EU AI Act: What you need to know
After data privacy and GDPR, the EU wants to leave its mark on AI by…
Data / Analytics / Data Science
Working from home means working different hours, but not necessarily more
The National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed the side effects of remote work using data…
Taking the world by simulation: The rise of synthetic data in AI
Would you trust AI that has been trained on synthetic data, as opposed to real-world…
Speedb is a drop-in replacement for RocksDB that wants to take the embedded key-value store world by storm
RocksDB is the secret sauce underlying many data management systems. Speedb is a drop-in replacement…
Another cloud native SQL database unicorn: Yugabyte raises $188M Series C funding at $1.3B valuation
A number of successive funding rounds have given Yugabyte unicorn status while positioning the company…
IOTA is bringing smart contracts with zero fees, Ethereum interoperability, and compatibility for next-gen distributed apps
IOTA is unveiling its smart contracts, with a clear onboarding path and many interesting features…
Apollo GraphQL announces $130 Million Series D Funding, wants to define its own category
GraphQL is a specification that came at just the right time to address an age-old…
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…
Rebooting AI: Deep learning, meet knowledge graphs
Gary Marcus, a prominent figure in AI, is on a mission to instill a breath…
Fluree, the graph database with blockchain inside, goes open source
A hitherto under the radar graph database that uses blockchain to support data lineage and…
The state of AI in 2020: Biology and healthcare’s AI moment, ethics, predictions, and graph neural networks
Research and industry breakthroughs, ethics, and predictions. This is what AI looks like today, and…
Towards a Knowledge Graph economy. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 21, Summer 2020
These past few months have not been kind to any of us. The ripples caused…
Data.world secures $26 million funding, exemplifies the use of semantics and knowledge graphs for metadata management
Data.world wants to eliminate data silos to answer business questions. Their bet to do this…
Innovation
Open source AI stack is ready for its moment
Open source stacks enabled software to eat the world. Now several innovative companies are working…
Chainlink 2.0 brings off-chain compute to blockchain oracles, promotes adoption of hybrid smart contracts
A new whitepaper just released by leading blockchain oracle service Chainlink lays the foundation for…
Weaviate is an open-source search engine powered by ML, vectors, graphs, and GraphQL
Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not.…
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…
IOTA still wants to build a better blockchain and get it right this time
In 2014, IOTA set out to offer an alternative to the key issues with blockchain:…
OctoML scores $28M to go to market with open source Apache TVM, a de facto standard for MLOps
The open source Apache TVM project is becoming a de facto standard in MLOps, and…
Other Topics
Make Apache Cassandra great again: DataStax going cloud, Kubernetes, open source, and multi-model
Actions and words, code and advocacy. DataStax is changing strategy, re-engaging with the Apache Cassandra…
Data science vs social media disinformation: the case of climate change and the Australian bushfires
While a newly released World Weather Attribution study ties the Australian bushfires to anthropogenic climate…
Universal Code Search gets a boost: Sourcegraph secures $23 million Series B Round funding
Sourcegraph wants to be the Google of code, even though code search is harder than…
Knowledge graph evolution: Platforms that speak your language
Knowledge graphs are among the most important technologies for the 2020s. Here is how they…
Semantics and virtualization, data integration and data governance on the way to the cloud
It’s official – data analytics is swiftly moving to the cloud. AtScale is facilitating this,…
DevOps and observability in the 2020s
What do the data tell us on the direction modern software development is going? Cloud,…