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The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…
ARPA-H Taps Duality’s Homomorphic Encryption for Rare Disease Research
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in September awarded Duality Technologies a contract worth up to $6 million to develop a framework for enabling healthcare organizations to share highly sensitive Read more…
After Misses in 2016 and 2020, Have We Fixed Political Polling in 2024?
Less than a week before the 2024 presidential election, Americans are closely following the polls to see whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump becomes the 48th president of the United States. But can we trust the polls? Read more…
Weighing Your Data Security Options for GenAI
No computer can be made completely secure unless it’s buried under six feet of concrete. However, with enough forethought into developing a layered security architecture, data can be secured enough for Fortune 500 ente Read more…
The Three Laws of Robotics and the Future
Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have captivated imaginations for decades, providing a blueprint for ethical AI long before it became a reality. First introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround" from the "I, R Read more…
News In Brief
Five Questions as the EU AI Act Goes Into Effect
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act went into effect on August 1, becoming one of the first laws to implement broad regulation of AI applications. While all elements of the law are not yet being enforced, Read more…
Big Data Career Notes July 2024
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
Are Tech Giants ‘Piling’ On Small Content Creators to Train Their AI?
Some of the biggest AI companies in the world are using material taken from thousands of content creators on YouTube to their AI models without compensating the creators of those videos, ProofNews reported today. Acco Read more…
GenAI Shaking Up the Job Market, BCG Says
The rise of generative AI is making workers concerned about their job security, Boston Consulting Group says in the latest installment on a long-running research project to track the job market. BCG started its Decodi Read more…
NIST Q&A: Getting Ready for the Post Quantum Cryptography Threat? You Should Be
With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set to publish the first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards in a few weeks, attention is shifting to how to put the new quantum-resistant algorithms i Read more…
This Just In
Feb. 28, 2025 — Anthropic is participating in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) first-ever 1,000 Scientist AI Jam, an event bringing together researchers from multiple National Laboratories to evaluate frontier AI models for scientific research and national security applications. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, 2025 — Amid the growing momentum of its Public Sector business, Databricks announced today that it has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization from the FedRAMP Program Management Office (PMO) for its Data Intelligence Platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud. Read more…
NEW YORK and REDLANDS, Calif., Feb. 25, 2025 — Dataminr, one of the world’s leading AI companies, and Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, today announced an expanded strategic partnership aimed at driving innovation, enhancing customer value, and accelerating growth across key markets. Read more…
REDLANDS, Calif., Feb. 24, 2025 — Esri is launching Content Store for ArcGIS, a new web app that simplifies the process of purchasing and integrating commercial satellite imagery. Read more…
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 21, 2025 — E Source and Alabama Power have won the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Digitizing Utilities Prize for the development of a custom Enterprise Graph Database, a predictive power mapping data system. Read more…