insideBIGDATA
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
For enterprise data teams, GenAI expectations are sky-high, and a new survey finds that management often leads the charge. A quarter of executives (25 percent) say their leaders will greenlight any project with AI as a core component, while the largest group (44 percent) are a bit more.
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
If you’re working with AI/ML workloads(like me) and trying to figure out which data format to choose, this post is for you. Whether you’re a student, analyst, or engineer, knowing the differences between Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi can save you a ton of headaches when it comes to performance, scalability, and real-time […] The post Apache Iceberg vs Delta Lake vs Hudi: Best Open Table Format for AI/ML Workloads appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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insideBIGDATA
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, 2025 — AI acceleration cloud complany Together AIannounced a $305 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7.
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
After 14 years of trying and failing to gain a smartphone foothold, Amazon has announced it will discontinue its app store. Anyone who has content in Amazon's store will be able to access it for now, but all bets are off beginning on August 20, 2025. As part of the pull-back, the company is also discontinuing the Amazon Coins digital currency. The Amazon Appstore made waves when it launched in 2011 , offering an alternative to what at the time was known as the Android Market.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
insideBIGDATA
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
20th February 2025, London — Twin Path Ventures, a UK pre-seed investor in AI-first startups, has received support from British Business Investments for its strategy to invest in UK-based tech founders building and launching AI-powered solutions.
databricks
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Finetuning Embedding Models for Better Retrieval and RAG TL;DR: Finetuning an embedding model on in-domain data can significantly improve vector search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
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Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Figure AI has just released the documentation and demos for its latest humanoid robot, Helix. Helix is built on a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework, designed to enable humanoid robots to reason and operate with human-like capabilities. This approach aims to tackle the challenge of scaling robotics from controlled industrial environments to the unpredictable, varied settings of […] The post Figure’s Helix: AI that Brings Human-Like Robots to your Home appeared first on Analytics
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Waterdrop has announced a strategic partnership with DeepSeek, marking a significant expansion of its AI-driven insurance ecosystem. The collaboration aims to transform traditional insurance services by integrating large-scale AI models, enhancing service precision, and improving efficiency across the insurance value chain. AI-powered insurance services Waterdrop is shifting from conventional insurance agents to expert consultants, enhancing customer support, risk management, and product innovat
AWS Machine Learning Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
This post is co-written with Sajin Jacob, Jerry Chen, Siddarth Mohanram, Luis Barbier, Kristen Chenowith, and Michelle Stahl from Verisk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading data analytics and technology partner for the global insurance industry. Through advanced analytics, software, research, and industry expertise across more than 20 countries, Verisk helps build resilience for individuals, communities, and businesses.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
You might have an iPhone 13, iPhone 14, or even the classic thirdgeneration iPhone SE thats been with you through thick and thin. These models have proven their worth over time with a familiar design, reliable build, and a user experience that feels like home. Then theres the fresh face on the blockthe iPhone 16e. It promises cuttingedge performance, modern features, and a price that challenges what youd expect from a new Apple device.
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
KDnuggets
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
This is a comprehensive cheat sheet on algorithmic complexity for coding interviews.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Nvidia is reviving its Verified Priority Access program to sell the GeForce RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics cards directly to select U.S. consumers amidst concerns about scalpers and limited supply. This initiative aims to make these sought-after models more accessible to genuine PC gamers and creators. Nvidia revives priority access for RTX 5080 and 5090 cards The program will allow a limited number of verified users who have registered through Nvidias GeForce Experience and Nvidia apps the opportun
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The AI CUDA Engineer: Agentic CUDA Kernel Discovery, Optimization and Composition
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Momenta, a venture capital firm specializing in industrial technology, has led an investment in Stuttgart-based NODE Robotics , a company focused on AI-powered fleet management for Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs). The funding will accelerate NODEs global expansion and enhance its AI-driven automation capabilities for industrial operations.
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
While America is battling exhaustion and political polarization at home, it is now facing something its never faced abroad: it is locked into a security competition against multiple opponents who, when taken together, are in fact vastly superior to America in terms of industrial capacity. This on its own would be an incredibly tough row to hoe, even at the best of times.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
AI models have, within hours, created more efficient wireless chips through deep learning, but it is unclear how their 'randomly shaped' designs were
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Figure was founded with the ambition to change the world.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
OpenAI appears to be growing quickly despite increasing competition.
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Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The lead researcher has told the BBC he was so astounded he assumed his computer had been hacked.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Microsoft engineers are currently readying server capacity for OpenAIs upcoming GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 models, according to a source familiar with the companys plans. While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged recently that GPT-4.
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The restrictions are already in place at the General Services Administration along with several other agencies. Soon they'll roll out to most of the federal government, sources say.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Editors summary The repertoire of immune receptors expressed by B and T cells provides an overview of the history of an individuals infections and
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FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Britta Spth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. Shes finally succeeded, alongside her partner, Marc Cabanes.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Now artificial intelligence tools are making workers more productive and spurring tales of tiny team success.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2025
NASA's Curiosity rover photographed two sets of wave ripples in Martian rock, indicating the existence of an ice-free, shallow lake on Mars. Here's why that matters.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
This article is part of VentureBeats special issue, The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats. Read more from this special issue here. Generative AI poses interesting security questions, and as enterprises move into the agentic world, those safety issues increase.
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Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technologys potential to disrupt the work force.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Startup Together AI, which provides users access to artificial intelligence computing, has raised $305 million from investors in deal led by General
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
What should you do with your unclosed browser tabs? I ran pong in mine.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Does the way you write a prompt really make a difference when youre interacting with an AI tool, like ChatGPT? The short answer is, yes.
Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com
Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.
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