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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…
After Misses in 2016 and 2020, Have We Fixed Political Polling in 2024?
Less than a week before the 2024 presidential election, Americans are closely following the polls to see whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump becomes the 48th president of the United States. But can we trust the polls? Read more…
Weighing Your Data Security Options for GenAI
No computer can be made completely secure unless it’s buried under six feet of concrete. However, with enough forethought into developing a layered security architecture, data can be secured enough for Fortune 500 ente Read more…
The Three Laws of Robotics and the Future
Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have captivated imaginations for decades, providing a blueprint for ethical AI long before it became a reality. First introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround" from the "I, R Read more…
News In Brief
DBHawk Flies with Text-to-SQL, SOC 2 Compliance
Customers will be able to interact with their database using natural language thanks to the new text-to-SQL function in DBHawk, a database access tool developed by Datasparc. The company also announced its SOC 2 Type II Read more…
AI Regulation in California Moves Forward
A new bill that has advanced to the California Senate Assembly floor represents both a significant step forward in AI governance as well as a risk to the technology’s innovative growth. Officially called California Se Read more…
Cloudian Partners with Lenovo for EPYC All-Flash ‘HyperStore’
Cloudian and Lenovo today announced they’re teaming up to deliver a new HyperStore cluster designed to run big data, AI, and HPC workloads. Each HyperStore cluster will be composed of six Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 Read more…
Homomorphic Encryption Library Open Sourced by Apple
Apple recently open sourced its homomorphic encryption library for Swift, enabling developers who use the Apple programming language to implement the privacy-preserving technology. Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a rel Read more…
Five Questions as the EU AI Act Goes Into Effect
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act went into effect on August 1, becoming one of the first laws to implement broad regulation of AI applications. While all elements of the law are not yet being enforced, Read more…
This Just In
REDLANDS, Calif., Dec. 19, 2024 — The United States Census Bureau has just released the latest annual update to its American Community Survey (ACS) data, the premier government source for detailed national population information. Read more…
NASHUA, N.H., Dec. 18, 2024 — Dresner Advisory Services published the 2024 Embedded Business Intelligence Market Study, part of its Wisdom of Crowds series of research. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2024 — Wherobots, the Spatial Intelligence Cloud founded by the original creators of Apache Sedona, today announced the general availability of Raster Inference for WherobotsAI. Read more…
CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 17, 2024 — The YYC Data Society is pleased to announce YYC DataCon 2025, set to take place from February 27 to March 1 at Calgary’s BMO Centre. Read more…
OTTAWA, Ontario, Dec. 16, 2024 — The Government of Canada has selected data and AI leader SAS as its primary analytical solution. The contractual arrangement allows 26 participating Government of Canada departments and agencies to use SAS Viya across its entire organization under a single, comprehensive agreement. Read more…