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Cutting Through the GenAI Noise

The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 ignited an explosion of interest in generative AI technology, as well as a hefty dose of hype and uncertainty. For businesses starting to plot their GenAI strategies, cutting through th Read more…

The Demand for AI/ML Skills Is Growing

The digital skills gap persists, with a growing number of workers unprepared for the continuing digital transformations of companies around the globe and across business sectors. And right now, the shortage is particular Read more…

Databricks’ $1.3B MosaicML Buyout: A Strategic Bet on Generative AI

Databricks is the latest company to place a large bet – to the tune of $1.3 billion – on generative AI. On the first day of its sold-out Data + AI Summit, the company announced a definitive agreement for the acquisit Read more…

Making Better Data-Informed Decisions to Navigate Disruptions

Unprecedented levels of disruption have significantly complicated business leaders’ efforts to make critical data-driven decisions to guide their organizations successfully into the future. To keep their analytic capab Read more…

AI for App Dev: What’s Working, What’s Not

One of the jobs predicted to be impacted the most by AI is application developer. AI models like ChatGPT are expert manipulators of language, after all, so it makes sense that a profession based on languages--computer la Read more…

Europe Moves Forward with AI Regulation

European lawmakers today voted overwhelmingly in favor of the landmark AI regulation known as the EU AI Act. While the act does not yet have the force of law, the lopsided vote indicates it soon will in the European Unio Read more…

Cohere Nabs $270M Series C to Empower Businesses with AI

Cohere, the provider of an AI development platform, announced it has raised $270 million in a Series C round. “AI will be the heart that powers the next decade of business success,” said Aidan Gomez, CEO and co-fo Read more…

Weights & Biases Embraces the LLM Boom with Two New AI Development Tools

Weights & Biases unveiled two new products at its inaugural in-person conference in San Francisco. The company is known for its AI and machine learning development tools, and it previously released a new suite of Read more…

Altair Survey Unpacks the Friction Surrounding AI and Data Projects

Altair has released results from an international survey revealing high rates of adoption and implementation of data and AI strategies. The survey also found that projects stall due to three types of friction: organizati Read more…

AI Researchers Issue Warning: Treat AI Risks as Global Priority

Does artificial intelligence represent an existential threat to humanity along the lines of nuclear war and pandemics? A new statement signed by AI scientists and other notable figures says it should be treated as such. Read more…

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…

UC Berkeley Envisions a Data-driven Future with New College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

The University of California at Berkeley has announced it will establish a new college on its campus for the first time in over 50 years. UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society will meet the univ Read more…

Reggie Townsend Unpacks the SAS Approach to Responsible AI

Since the mainstream release of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence and its promises and pitfalls are on the minds of more people than ever before. Instead of retreating from the risks and uncertainties that AI brings, SAS Read more…

Hugging Face and Databricks Streamline Dataset Creation with Spark

Databricks and Hugging Face have unveiled a new integration that will allow users to create a Hugging Face dataset from an Apache Spark dataframe. Databricks has written and committed these Spark changes to the Huggin Read more…

Cognaize Expands IDP Platform with Knowledge Graph to Fuse AI and Human Expertise

Intelligent document processing company Cognaize has announced a significant expansion to its technology platform. These new capabilities extend the accuracy of the company’s Financial Insights Engine through a proprie Read more…

Sam Altman Debunks GPT-5 Rumors, Shifts Focus to Improving Existing Models

Those anticipating an eventual GPT-5 release may have a long time to wait. The current trend of developing ever-larger AI models like GPT-4 may soon come to an end, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “I think we’ Read more…

A New Era of Natural Language Search Emerges for the Enterprise

Large language models and their applications are suddenly a hot topic due to the popular release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the subsequent search engine wars between Google and Microsoft. ChatGPT and similar systems are r Read more…

Snowflake Introduces Manufacturing Data Cloud to Empower Industries with Data and AI

Data and AI technology for manufacturing is having a moment. As AI has expanded its lengthy reach into manufacturing, there have been several purpose-built releases lately from companies like Nvidia and Databricks that a Read more…

AI Experts Aim to Combat Tax Loopholes Costing Billions

A collaborative team of AI and law experts from Johns Hopkins University is working to develop an artificial intelligence system capable of identifying tax loopholes more effectively than tax accountants. The aim is to r Read more…

Mozilla.ai Launches with $30M to Build Trustworthy AI

Mozilla has announced it is launching an AI startup, Mozilla.ai. The new startup will be aimed at building a trustworthy and independent open-source AI ecosystem and is backed by an initial $30 million seed investment fr Read more…

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