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How GenAI Will Impact Jobs In the Real World
There’s been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about the potential for generative AI to take people’s jobs. The capability of large language models (LLMs) to answer questions and handle digital tasks when p Read more…
Confluent Adds Flink, Iceberg to Hosted Kafka Service
Confluent today made a pair of big announcements at its Kafka Summit London event, including the general availability of Apache Flink and the addition of Apache Iceberg support in its Kafka-based cloud offering. The new Read more…
What Will 2024 Bring to Advance Analytics?
As the amount of data continues to grow, so does the potential for advanced analytics to make sense of it all. In 2024, tremendous progress will be made in analytics, according to our merry band of prognosticators. It Read more…
Demand Builds for Third-Party GenAI Development Services
The emergence of generative AI is easily the biggest tech story of 2023, as products like ChatGPT have captured the imaginations of consumers and business leaders alike. We’re currently in the experimentation phase of Read more…
Why Samsara Picked Ray to Train AI Dashcams
When the engineers at Samsara began building their first smart dashcam several years ago, they found themselves using a series of different frameworks to collect data from the IoT devices, train the machine learning mode Read more…
News In Brief
Navigating the AI Skills Revolution in the Age of GenAI: LinkedIn Report
The launch of ChatGPT and similar generative AI technologies is reshaping the skills required in the workplace, according to a new report from LinkedIn. “The Future of Work Report: AI at Work” found the pace at wh Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: July 2023 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
Kafka Disruptor Redpanda Raises $100M Series C
Streaming data platform Redpanda has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round for a total of $165 million in funding. Redpanda is a Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that the company says is high perform Read more…
Databricks’ $1.3B MosaicML Buyout: A Strategic Bet on Generative AI
Databricks is the latest company to place a large bet – to the tune of $1.3 billion – on generative AI. On the first day of its sold-out Data + AI Summit, the company announced a definitive agreement for the acquisit Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: June 2023 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
This Just In
SYDNEY, July 30, 2024 — At least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs or unclear business value, according to Gartner, Inc. Read more…
GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 22, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced an open competition for a new Manufacturing USA institute focused on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to increase the resilience of U.S. Read more…
NEW YORK, July 16, 2024 — SQream, the scalable GPU data analytics platform, today announced its groundbreaking results from the TPC-DS benchmark tests, showcasing the unmatched linear scalability of its GPU-accelerated SQL engine. Read more…
REDLANDS, Calif., July 15, 2024 — At its 44th annual User Conference, Esri announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to integrate spatial analytics technology with Fabric, Microsoft’s unified analytics SaaS platform. Read more…
Lucidworks: Manufacturers Slow to Deploy Planned GenAI Initiatives as Concerns Around Accuracy Spike
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11, 2024 — Lucidworks, a leader in search and total AI solutions, released new manufacturing findings from its second annual Generative AI Global Benchmark Study. Read more…