Glorious Future in Space Promised for Decades Finally Becoming a Reality
Last Friday, NASA awarded a $3.4 billion contract to a team led by Blue Origin for the design and construction of a second Human Landing System to fly astronauts down to the Moon. The announcement capped a furious two-year lobbying campaign by Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos to obtain a coveted piece of NASA's Artemis
Vectara Targets Accurate AI Conversational Search by Eliminating Hallucinations
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Vectara is continuing to grow as an AI powered conversational search platform with new capabilities announced today that aim to improve generative AI for business data. The Santa Clara, Calif.- based startup
Hyro Secures $20M Funding to Expand Plug-and-Play AI Assistants
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Hyro, an adaptive communications company that offers plug-and-play AI assistants for enterprises, today announced it has raised $20 million in a series B funding round. The company said it will use the
First-ever X-ray image of a single atom captured
Atomic-scale imaging emerged in the mid-1950s and has been advancing rapidly ever since—so much so, that back in 2008, physicists successfully used an electron microscope to image a single hydrogen atom. Five years later, scientists were able to peer inside a hydrogen atom using a "quantum microscope," resulting in the first direct observation of electron orbitals.
FTC Imposes $25M Fine on Amazon for Alexa’s Breach of Children’s Privacy
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Some mildly bad news for the Bezos money machine: Amazon is being slapped with a $25 million fine over its practices for handling children’s data through its Alexa voice-activated assistant and Echo
AI Experts Dispute ‘Doomer’ Narrative and Claims of Extinction Risk
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Top AI researchers are pushing back on the current ‘doomer’ narrative focused on existential future risk from runaway artificial general intelligence (AGI). These include yesterday’s Statement on AI Risk, signed by hundreds
CDC Gathering Results in COVID Outbreak, 181 Disease Detectives Infected
The tally of COVID-19 cases linked to a conference of disease detectives hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April has reached at least 181, the agency reported. Further ReadingDisease detectives gathered at CDC event—a COVID outbreak erupted Roughly 1,800 gathered in person for this year's annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference
Microsoft’s Fabric introduces unified pricing for data and analytics platform, challenging Google and Amazon
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Microsoft today made good on its promise to offer simpler, more efficient pricing for its Microsoft Fabric suite, a new end-to-end platform for analytics and data workloads. The pricing is based on
NASA Report Reveals Excessive Spending on SLS Propulsion System
An independent report published Thursday contained troubling findings about the money spent by the agency on propulsion for the Space Launch System rocket. Moreover, the report by NASA Inspector General Paul Martin warns that if these costs are not controlled, it could jeopardize plans to return to the Moon. Bluntly, Martin wrote that if the
Aporia and Databricks Collaborate to Improve Real-Time Monitoring of Machine Learning Models
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Machine learning (ML) observability platform Aporia today announced a strategic partnership with Databricks. According to the companies, the collaboration aims to empower customers who utilize Databricks’ lakehouse platform, AI capabilities and MLflow
