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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Trillion Parameter Consortium and TPC25 But Were Afraid to Ask
Since its inception, many questions about the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) have been asked. Rapid changes in AI technology and the emergence of large language models (LLM) have created many opportunities for intel Read more…
Meet 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Rajesh Gupta
The University of California, San Diego, has long been at the forefront of high performance computing (HPC), thanks to the San Diego Supercomputer Center. With the creation of a new school dubbed the School of Computing, Read more…
AI Today and Tomorrow Series #4: Frontier Apps and Bizops
Welcome to the fourth entry in this series on AI. The first one introduced the series, the second discussed artificial general intelligence, and the third reported HPC users’ expectations and concerns about the HPC-AI Read more…
AI Today and Tomorrow Series #3: HPC and AI—When Worlds Converge/Collide
Welcome to the third entry in this series on AI. The first one was an introduction and series overview and the next discussed the aspirational goal of artificial general intelligence, AGI. Now it’s time to zero in on a Read more…
News In Brief
AI Is Making Us Dumber, MIT Researchers Find
It’s been theorized that using AI tools like ChatGPT to help with writing tasks will lead to lower brain activity. Now researchers at the MIT Media Lab have discovered strong evidence of that in a newly published study Read more…
Neo4j Promises ‘No More ETL’ with Aura Graph Analytics
Neo4j this week launched Aura Graph Analytics, a new offering designed to lower the barrier to using powerful graph algorithms. Neo4j says Aura Graph Analytics is a serverless service that brings 65 graph algorithms to b Read more…
Meet 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Chisoo Lyons
Women make up 15% to 22% of data science professionals, research from the Boston Consulting Group shows. One of the women who is hoping to increase that number is Chisoo Lyons, the executive director of Women in Data Sci Read more…
Solix Hosting Data and AI Conference at UCSD
We’re just a day away from SolixEmpower 2024, a conference that will bring hundreds of Solix cusotmers, leading academic researchers, and business leaders together to discuss the latest developments in cloud data manag Read more…
ADSA to Keep Humans in the Loop at Annual Meeting
Some of the predictions around AI are pretty gloomy these days, particularly when it comes to unleashing biased AI models upon the world to make poor decisions that hurt people, not to mention replacing human workers on Read more…
This Just In
July 3, 2025 — Several researchers have taken a broad view of scientific progress over the last 50 years and come to the same troubling conclusion: Scientific productivity is declining. Read more…
July 3, 2025 — The final 2025-2030 Strategic Plan for Data Science was released June 2025, charting the course for how biomedical data will transform health research over the next five years in the United States. Read more…
July 3, 2025 — After graduating from the University of Chicago’s MS in Applied Data Science program in December 2024, Hank Snowdon packed his bags and headed west, joining the Seattle Mariners as a data scientist. Read more…
GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 2, 2025 — In the global AI race between small and major competitors, established companies versus new players, and ubiquitous versus niche uses, the next giant leap isn’t about faster chips or improved algorithms. Read more…
VANCOUVER, BC, June 27, 2025 — EarthDaily Analytics today announced the successful launch and initial contact with the first satellite of its EarthDaily Constellation, marking a major milestone in the deployment of its next generation Earth Observation system. Read more…