Google Executive Claims ML Infrastructure is Key to Company’s AI Success
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Two years ago, Google spun out a new group focused on machine learning infrastructure, led by a VP of engineering from its artificial intelligence research division — part of a push to
Accenture Unveils $3 Billion Investment in Artificial Intelligence
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More The generative AI announcements are coming fast and furious these days, but among the biggest in terms of sheer dollar commitments just landed: Accenture, the global professional services and consulting giant, today
Revolutionary Smartphone Attachment Allows for Affordable Blood Pressure Monitoring at Home
Given that 47 percent of adults in the US alone have hypertension, keeping on top of your blood pressure readings is a smart thing to do. And doing so could become much more convenient, requiring nothing more than your phone and an $0.80 piece of plastic, thanks to new research from the University of California
Comet Collaborates with Snowflake to Improve Machine Learning Dataset Reproducibility
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More MLOps platform Comet today announced a strategic partnership with Snowflake aimed at empowering data scientists to build superior machine learning (ML) models at an accelerated pace. Comet said that the collaboration will enable integration of
Rocket Report: China Tackles Falling Debris from Rockets, Vulcan Launch Delayed
Welcome to Edition 5.42 of the Rocket Report! Sorry for missing last week, but I had to attend a family reunion. On a completely unrelated note, be sure to check back right here next week for an exciting announcement about the future of space coverage at Ars Technica. No, I'm not going anywhere—rather we're going
JustCall Unveils AI-Powered Platform for Enhancing Call Center Operations through Sentiment Analysis
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More JustCall by SaaSLabs, a contact center software provider backed by Sequoia Capital, today unveiled JustCall iQ, an AI-driven conversational intelligence platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The solution is designed to enhance
IBM Compensates for Errors and Achieves Usable Results with Quantum Processor
Today's quantum processors are error-prone. While the probabilities are small—less than 1 percent in many cases—each operation we perform on each qubit, including basic things like reading its state, has a significant error rate. If we try an operation that needs a lot of qubits, or a lot of operations on a smaller number of
Dremio Invests in Generative AI and Introduces New Tools to Speed Up Data Workflows
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Dremio, the open data lakehouse vendor that combines the capabilities of a data lake and warehouse on a unified layer, is going all-in on generative AI. The company today announced two new
15th Century Manuscript Describes Killer Rabbit Similar to Monty Python’s Infamous Character
One of many standout scenes in the 1975 classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail features King Arthur and his knights facing down the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, a seemingly innocuous bunny who soon proves to be a devastating adversary, forcing the knights to retreat ("Run away! Run away!"). Killer rabbits are a kind of mainstay
Meta Launches I-JEPA, a Machine Learning Model for High-Level Image Abstractions
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More For several years, Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has been talking about deep learning systems that can learn world models with little or no help from humans. Now, that vision is
