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Data Leaders Share Thoughts on World Backup Day

As far as holidays go, World Backup Day does not generate the excitement of Christmas or Halloween. There is no mascot, such as a “Backup Bunny” (sorry, Easter), nor any imbibing of adult beverages, as on St. Patrick 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…

Has GPT-4 Ignited the Fuse of Artificial General Intelligence?

Following the release of GPT-4, Microsoft AI researchers have published a paper suggesting that the OpenAI language model demonstrates “sparks” of artificial general intelligence (AGI). GPT-4 is OpenAI’s latest Read more…

Partners Line Up for Google Cloud Ready for AlloyDB Designation

Google Cloud’s Data Cloud & AI Summit took place today, and the company announced new enhancements and partnerships surrounding its Postgres-compatible database, AlloyDB. AlloyDB is a fully managed PostgreSQL-co Read more…

Open Letter Urges Pause on AI Research

The Future of Life Institute has issued an open letter calling for a six-month pause on some forms of AI research. Citing “profound risks to society and humanity,” the group is asking AI labs to pause research on AI Read more…

DBHawk Partners with Microsoft Azure, Lands Patent for Sensitive Data

DBHawk developer Datasparc has entered into a new partnership with Microsoft that will increase its customers’ ability to work with data in the Azure cloud. The San Diego-based company has also secured a new patent for 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…

New Enterprise Search Report Shows How Data and AI Can Increase Relevant Results

Delivering relevant search results can be a major challenge for enterprises. Relevant search results, or how closely a platform’s generated search results relate to user intent, are crucial for a successful user experi Read more…

Apache Flink 1.17 Update Drives Streaming Data Warehouses

The folks at the Apache Flink project have announced a 1.17.0 release of the popular open source distributed framework for streaming data use cases. “Apache Flink is the leading stream processing standard, and the c Read more…

Milvus 2.3 Launches with Support for Nvidia GPUs

Zilliz has beta launched Milvus 2.3, the latest version of its open source vector database. Milvus 2.3 supports Nvidia GPUs which Zilliz says affords greater flexibility and improved real-time workload performance. Zilli Read more…

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