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Our Shared AI Future: Industry, Academia, and Government Come Together at TPC25
Many of the advances in AI recently have come from the private sector, specifically the handful of giant tech firms with the resources and expertise to develop massive foundation models. While those advances have generat Read more…
LakeFS Nabs $20M to Build ‘Git for Big Data’
Many organizations would like to get a better handle on their unstructured data in pursuit of an AI initiative. One promising startup pursuing that goal is lakeFS, which develops a version control system for big data, an Read more…
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…
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…
IBM’s New Geospatial AI Model on Hugging Face Harnesses NASA Data for Climate Science
IBM recently announced its watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model for Earth observation is now available on Hugging Face, the popular open source machine learning platform and community. The HLS Geospatial Foundation Read more…
Analyzing the AI Landscape: Stanford’s 2023 AI Index Offers a Comprehensive View
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index which analyzes AI’s impact and progress. The data-driven report is a deep dive into topics rel 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…
This Just In
BOULDER, Colo. and MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 12, 2025 — Arcitecta today announced new enhancements to its Mediaflux data management platform, delivering an AI-ready data fabric that supports all forms of data and AI models and provides a built-in vector database within its high-performance XODB database. Read more…
New AI model integrates petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified data representation that revolutionizes global mapping and monitoring
July 31, 2025 — Every day, satellites capture information-rich images and measurements, providing scientists and experts with a nearly real-time view of the planet. Read more…
REDLANDS, Calif., July 29, 2025 — Esri has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Space42 and Microsoft to support the Map Africa Initiative. Read more…
July 25, 2025 — The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Google teamed up to host a hackathon, bringing together leading researchers from nine U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories to explore and leverage Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model tools to address an array of critical challenges related to energy limitations for U.S. Read more…
LIVINGSTON, N.J. and AUSTIN, Texas, July 7, 2025 — CoreWeave and Core Scientific today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which CoreWeave will acquire Core Scientific in an all-stock transaction. Read more…