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Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave looks at the technology’s past, present and future
Quantum computing could be a disruptive technology. It’s founded on exotic-sounding physics and it bears the promise of solving certain…
AI / Machine Learning
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
From data to knowledge and AI via graphs: Technology to support a knowledge-based economy
In the new knowledge-based digital world, encoding and making use of business and operational knowledge…
Getting there: Structured data, semantics, robotics, and the future of AI
Leveraging structure in data is key to making progress in AI, says AI prodigy Gary…
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…
Innovation
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…
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…
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…
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Graph analytics and knowledge graphs facilitate scientific research for COVID-19
State of the art in analytics and AI can help address some of the most…
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,…