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After data privacy and GDPR, the EU wants to leave its mark on AI by regulating it with the EU AI Act. Here's what it is, what it means for the world at large, when it's expected to take effect, how it will work in practice, as well as Mozilla's recommendations for improving it, and ways for everyone be involved in the process. Article published on ZDNet

What do you get when you combine two of the most up-and-coming paradigms in data processing - streaming and graphs? A potential game-changer, and this is the bet first DARPA and now CrowdStrike Falcon Fund have taken on thatDot and its open source framework Quine . The CrowdStrike Falcon Fund is an investment vehicle managed by CrowdStrike, in partnership with Accel, that makes cross-stage private...

Amazon just unveiled Serverless Inference , a new option for SageMaker, its fully managed machine learning (ML) service. The goal for Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference is to serve use cases with intermittent or infrequent traffic patterns, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) and making the service easier to use. We connected with Bratin Saha, AWS VP of Machine Learning, to discuss where Ama...

Modern agriculture was broken long before pandemics, wars, supply chain disruptions and fertilizer shortages. Regenerative agriculture can fix that, and data can help. What could a multi-national corporation like Unilever and an environmental leader and activist like Vandana Shiva possibly have in common? Shiva has a history of actively opposing the commodification and appropriation of natural res...

Whether you're genuinely interested in getting insights and solving problems using data, or just attracted by what has been called “the most promising career” by LinkedIn and the “best job in America” by Glassdoor, chances are you're familiar with data science. But what about graph data science? As we've  elaborated previously , graphs are a universal data structure with manifestations that span a...

Processing data in real-time is on the rise. The streaming analytics market (which depending on definitions, may just be one segment of the streaming data market) is projected to grow from $15.4 billion in 2021 to $50.1 billion in 2026, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 26.5% during the forecast period as per Markets and Markets. A multitude of streaming data alternatives, each with its o...

There's no business like powering business. That may seem like a paradox, and most of us don't really think of accounting as a separate line of business. In that sense, it's a secret hiding in plain sight: accounting is big business, in and of itself. The global accounting services market is expected to reach $735.94 billion in 2025, and digital transformation has targeted it for impact. The size...

A pragmatic and direct approach to ethics and trust in artificial intelligence (AI) — who would not want that? This is how Beena Ammanath describes her new book "Trustworthy AI .”  Ammanath is the executive director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute and is well-qualified to write a book on trustworthy AI. She has had stints at GE, HPE and Bank of America in roles such as vice president of data s...

Arguably, two of the most iconic examples of digital transformation are Kodak and Amazon. Kodak failed to keep with the times, leading to the demise of a once dominant commercial empire. Amazon, however, had the foresight to not just “stay in its lane,” but step out and shape the world’s digital infrastructure with AWS. Now, Lexmark, is taking note of Kodak’s failure and Amazon’s success and pilot...

Did you ever feel you've had enough of your current line of work, and wanted to shift gears? If you have, you're definitely not alone. Besides the Great Resignation, however, there are also less radical approaches, like the one Andrew Ng is taking. Ng is among the most prominent figures in AI. Founder of deeplearning.ai, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford Uni...

Run:AI offers a virtualization layer for AI, aiming to facilitate AI infrastructure. It's seeing good traction, and just raised a $75M Series C funding round. Here's how the evolution of the AI landscape has shaped its growth. Article published on ZDNet

What if what you think you know about developer productivity and the value of software is off the mark, and that is hurting the quality of your software, the operation of your organization, as well as your bottomline?  Article published on ZDNet

Cloud-native is the name of the game for application development. The creators of the Fluent Bit and Fluentd popular open-source projects for cloud-native observability are launching an offering aimed at the enterprise. Article published on ZDNet

Maintaining compatibility with the de-facto market standard, while reimplementing and extending it. It's easier said than done, but that's what Redpanda is doing, and it seems to be working. Article published on ZDNet

Is there a line connecting machine learning observability to explainability, leading to responsible AI? Aporia , an observability platform for machine learning, thinks so.

Applications are proliferating, cloud complexity is exploding, and Kubernetes is prevailing as the foundation for application deployment in the cloud. That sounds like an optimization task ripe for machine learning, and StormForge is doing just that. Article published on ZDNet

H2O is an open-source based AI powerhouse with a grand vision. The latest addition to its product line wants to bring the AI capabilities of the web giants to the rest of the world, says CEO and Founder Sri Ambati. Article published on ZDNet

ScyllaDB started out as with the aim of becoming a drop-in replacement for Cassandra. It's growing to become more than that. Article published on ZDNet

Training deep learning models is costly and hard, but not as much as deploying and running them in production. Deci wants to help address that.. Article published on ZDNet

As more organizations are turning to synthetic data to feed their data-hungry machine learning algorithms, Rendered.ai wants to help. Article published on ZDNet

What do we talk about, when we talk about AI Ethics? Just like AI itself, definitions for AI ethics seem to abound. From algorithmic and dataset bias, to the use of AI in asymmetrical / unlawful ways, to privacy and environmental impact. All of that, and more, could potentially fall under the AI Ethics umbrella. We try to navigate this domain, and lay out some concrete definitions and actions that...

A new comprehensive report is out, using data science and analytics to slice and dice the crypto industry. Add to that insights from the report's authors, and you have the state of the crypto industry today. Article published on ZDNet

MinIO took an early bet in the cloud, and in Amazon's S3 becoming the de facto standard for application storage needs. The bet is paying off. Article published on ZDNet

In theory, Web3 is all about decentralization. In practice, it can be very centralized. API3 is a bold effort to achieve decentralization in connecting Web3 applications to the outside world. Article published on ZDNet

Would you trust AI that has been trained on synthetic data, as opposed to real world data? You may not know it, but you are probably already doing it, and it's fine, according to the findings of a newly released survey. Piece published on VentureBeat.