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Meet David Flynn, a 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch

“The future is already here,” science fiction writer William Gibson once said. “It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” One person who’s looking to bring data storage into the future and make it widely distrib Read more…

Ambari Hadoop Cluster Manager is Back on the Elephant

The term "Hadoop Cluster" can have many meanings. In the most simple sense, it can refer to the core components: HDFS (Hadoop Distributed FileSystem), YARN (Resource scheduler), Tez, and batch MapReduce (MapReduce proces Read more…

AI Today and Tomorrow Series #2: Artificial General Intelligence

In response to readers’ questions about AI, BigDATAwire asked me to write a series of columns on AI, a topic that is generating excitement and concern in the worldwide HPC community and beyond. The introductory column Read more…

Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still u Read more…

Watch for New BigDATAwire Column: AI Today and Tomorrow

In response to our readers’ many questions about AI, showing a mix of excitement and concern, we will soon debut a series of monthly articles on the status of AI in the global HPC community and the path toward AGI, art Read more…

News In Brief

WEKA Launches NeuralMesh to Serve Needs of Emerging AI Workloads

WEKA today pulled the cover off its latest product, NeuralMesh, which is a re-imagining of its distributed file system that’s designed to handle the expanding storage and serving needs--as well as the tighter latency a Read more…

AI Agents To Drive Scientific Discovery Within a Year, Altman Predicts

At the current pace of AI development, AI agents will be able to drive scientific discovery and solve tough technical and engineering problems within a year, OpenAI CEO and Founder Sam Altman said at the Snowflake Summit Read more…

AI Jobs Jump Amid IT Job Slump

If you’re looking for a job in IT, chances are good that it’s an AI-related job, according to data from the University of Maryland and LinkUp, which found that the number of AI jobs has increased dramatically since t Read more…

Reltio Gooses Entity Resolution with AI

With the latest update to its data unification and management software, Reltio is employing one-shot learning techniques using large language models (LLMs) to resolve identities of objects in organizations' data, which w Read more…

Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage

Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…

This Just In

Esri Collaborates with Microsoft to Bring ArcGIS Users New AI Enhancements

Jul 14, 2025 |

REDLANDS, Calif., July 14, 2025 — Esri is integrating Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service into ArcGIS. This powerful collaboration equips users with all new AI assistants to simplify work with geospatial data, maps, and analytics. Read more…

Emory University: Exploring the Frontiers of Data Science, Across Space and Time

Jul 11, 2025 |

July 11, 2025 — Growing up in Wuhan, China, Xiao Huang dreamed of becoming an astronaut. “I watched a lot of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’ movies,” recalls Huang, an assistant professor in Emory’s Department of Environmental Sciences. Read more…

Gloo Releases Flourishing AI Benchmark to Evaluate LLM Impact on Human Well-Being

Jul 10, 2025 |

BOULDER, Colo., July 10, 2025 — Gloo, a technology platform serving the faith ecosystem, today released the Flourishing AI (FAI) Benchmark, a new research-based framework designed to evaluate how well today’s leading Large Language Models (LLMs) support human flourishing. Read more…

Esri Launches New E-Commerce Experience for Demographic Data

Jul 8, 2025 |

Organizations Can Purchase Updated, Authoritative Datasets Ranging from Census to Retail Demand

REDLANDS, Calif., July 8, 2025 — To further provide individuals and organizations with the authoritative demographic data they need, Esri, a global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, has launched a new e-commerce experience for data in the Esri Store.

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Katalyze AI Launches Digityze AI on Snowflake AI Data Cloud, Enabling Intelligence for Biomanufacturing

Jul 8, 2025 |

TORONTO, July 8, 2025 — Katalyze AI, an advanced AI company revolutionizing the biomanufacturing process, today announced the launch of Digityze AI, an AI-powered document intelligence platform built natively on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Read more…

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