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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…
Polars Gets GPU Support as Cloud Version Nears Launch
A new speedy DataFrame library called Polars is starting to turn heads in the data science community thanks to its performance and adoption rate. The open source project, which provides a multithreaded, vectorized query Read more…
Can Cerabyte Crack the $1-Per-Petabyte Barrier with Ceramic Storage?
A German startup named Cerabyte is hoping to solve the burgeoning market for secondary and archival data storage with a novel approach that uses lasers to etch bits onto glass with a ceramic coating. The “grey ceramic� Read more…
DataOps.Live: The Data Product Assembly Line for Snowflake
When it comes to building great data products, all the key ingredients are available in the cloud--big data, massive compute, and sophisticated analytics and AI tools. What’s missing is an easy way to turn all those in Read more…
News In Brief
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…
Nvidia Introduces New Blackwell GPU for Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Nvidia’s latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company’s AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 Read more…
HPE Cranks the Density on GreenLake NAS
Hewlett Packard Enterprise today unveiled an update of its GreenLake for File Storage offering that features a 4x increase in total capacity and up to 2x boost in system performance per rack unit. Depending on their situ Read more…
Neo4j Finds the Vector for Graph-LLM Integration
The intersection of large language models and graph databases is one that’s rich with possibilities. The folks at property graph database maker Neo4j today took a first step in realizing those possibilities for its cus Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: August 2023 Edition
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…
This Just In
Feb 25, 2025 |
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…
Feb 24, 2025 |
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…
Feb 5, 2025 |
MANCHESTER, England, Feb. 5, 2025 — PEAK:AIO, a pioneering software company known for redefining data infrastructure for modern AI and GPU applications, today announced its role in the University of Strathclyde‘s MediForge Hub, a new initiative set to enhance pharmaceutical manufacturing by reducing raw material usage and waste by 60%. Read more…
Jan 23, 2025 |
Jan. 23, 2025 — In the wake of the Covid pandemic, the U.S. healthcare industry is straining under the weight of rising costs and complexity, worker shortages, and high demand for treatment of chronic conditions, undermining its ability to deliver better and more accessible care. Read more…
Dec 18, 2024 |
MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 18, 2024 — Menlo Ventures, a leading venture capital firm investing at the forefront of AI, announced its first cohort of 18 companies backed by the $100 million Anthology Fund today. Read more…
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