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AWS Teases 65 Exaflop ‘Ultra-Cluster’ with Nvidia, Launches New Chips
AWS yesterday unveiled new EC2 instances geared toward tackling some of the fastest growing workloads, including AI training and big data analytics. During his re:Invent keynote, CEO Adam Selipsky also welcomed Nvidia fo Read more…
Oxford Researchers Use AI To Detect Antibiotic Resistance Faster Than Gold-Standard Testing
There is a lot of excitement about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. One of the most pressing health concerns around the globe is the rise in antibiotic resistance. Antibiotics are losing their e Read more…
When GenAI Hype Exceeds GenAI Reality
The huge amount of hype around generative AI since ChatGPT launched 11 months ago has been unlike any piece of technology people have seen in a generation. But despite the massive investment of awareness, time, and budge Read more…
TileDB Wants to Flip the Script on Multi-Modal Databases
Being just one type of database is too limiting these days, so many databases have gone multi-modal. Why be just a key-value store when you can be KV plus graph? Document databases are great, but adding a time-series dat Read more…
Getting the Upper Hand on the Unstructured Data Problem
Unstructured data accounts for the vast majority of data stored in the world today, and it’s growing at a geometric rate. Organizations today may have petabytes of the stuff spread around various object stores and file Read more…
News In Brief
Saving Sea Turtles with SAS’s ConserVision App
In case you missed it, Tuesday was World Turtle Day, as designated by the non-profit organization American Tortoise Rescue. Even if turtle conservation wasn’t on your to-do list this week, the folks at SAS have a way f Read more…
Analyzing the AI Landscape: Stanford’s 2023 AI Index Offers a Comprehensive View
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index which analyzes AI’s impact and progress. The data-driven report is a deep dive into topics rel Read more…
Accenture Report Highlights Tech Trends Merging the Digital and Physical
Accenture’s latest Technology Vision 2023 report contains insights into how key technologies are converging to merge the digital and physical worlds. Though the digital world has grown by leaps and bounds, it has yet t Read more…
Bill Gates Says the Age of AI Has Begun, Bringing Opportunity and Responsibility
The latter half of March has been a whirlwind moment for artificial intelligence. OpenAI released GPT-4 last week, and this week, Nvidia announced a new cloud services platform for generative AI while Google initiated th Read more…
Research Platform Iris.ai Awarded $15M by European Innovation Council
Iris.ai, the provider of a generative AI engine for scientific text understanding, announced it has been selected by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to receive grants and funding in a highly competitive selection p Read more…
This Just In
SAN MATEO, Calif. – June 12, 2024 – Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced the addition of the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 2024 — Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise AI platform trusted by the largest AI-driven companies, today announced the launch of a new Statistical Computing Environment (SCE) Coalition to overcome clinical research silos and accelerate approval of new lifesaving therapies, and introduced new platform capabilities for life sciences customers. Read more…
LAWRENCE, Kan., May 28, 2024 — A new $11.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will establish a multidisciplinary biomedical center at the University of Kansas (KU) to research big data’s potential to improve women’s health. Read more…
BOSTON and SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2024 — TetraScience and Databricks today announced a strategic partnership dedicated to helping life sciences organizations harness Scientific AI to bring more effective and safer therapies to market faster and less expensively. Read more…
April 23, 2024 — Earth Observation (EO) and particle physics research have more in common than you might think. In both environments, whether capturing fleeting particle collisions or detecting transient traces of ocean plastics, rapid and accurate data analysis is paramount. Read more…