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AI Training Gets a Boost with NetApp StorageGRID Update

Keeping AI models fed with data has become a challenge as the size of data and the size of models both get bigger. One company hoping to keep customers on the right side of this colossal curve is NetApp, which yesterday Read more…

The AI Beatings Will Continue Until Data Improves

The struggle for AI success has been making news lately. The latest blow was the MIT Media Lab research that found a 95% failure rate for AI pilot projects. There are a lot of factors at play here, but one of the biggest Read more…

TPC25 Provides Glimpse at Future of AI-Powered Science

How will AI impact science? Nobody knows the full answer to that question, but last week’s Trillion Parameter Consortium conference, dubbed TPC25, provided tantalizing hints at what’s to come. What could one scien Read more…

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…

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

AdaParse: Smart PDF Processing for Scientific AI Training

Sep 11, 2025 |

New system dramatically cuts costs and increases efficiency while maintaining quality for converting scientific papers into AI training data.

Sept. 11, 2025 — Most academic writing is organized in PDF files. Read more…

Dresner Advisory Publishes 2025 AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, and ModelOps Research

Sep 4, 2025 |

NASHUA, N.H., Sept. 4, 2025 — A large majority of survey respondents say artificial intelligence (AI) is taking a direct strategic or supporting role, sometimes driving the business, according to the 2025 AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning Market Study, part of the Dresner Advisory Wisdom of Crowds series of research. Read more…

Butterflies and Conservation: Largest AI Dataset Now Released

Sep 4, 2025 |

Sept. 4, 2025 — A vast treasure trove of 540,000 images of 185 Austrian butterfly and moth species was collected over several years by thousands of volunteers. Using this resource, Innsbruck researcher Friederike Barkmann trained an AI model for biodiversity studies on European supercomputers. Read more…

Leonardo DiCaprio Pens Foreword to Data at the Edge, a Five-Book Series on Finding Trusted GIS Data

Sep 3, 2025 |

Step-by-step methods to find and verify trusted geospatial data—plus DATE AI, an assistant trained on the series—for students, educators, journalists, city planners, emergency managers, and NGOs.

MONTREAL, Sept. Read more…

Argonne Researchers Give Presentations at Data Management Conference

Aug 29, 2025 |

Talks on data management, artificial intelligence and more at the International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM).

Aug. 29, 2025 — Researchers from the U.S. Read more…

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