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Shaping Africa’s Future With Microelectronics
Timothy Ayelagbe dreams of using technology to advance health care and make other improvements across Africa. Ayelagbe calls microelectronics his “joy and passion” and says he wants to use the expertise he’s gaining in the field to help others. “My ultimate goal,” he says, “is to uplift my fellow Africans.” Timothy Ayelagbe Volunteer Roles: IEEE…
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Pentaho President Maggie Laird Discusses Company’s Return to Data Management Roots
The AI boom is forcing companies to come to grips with an uncomfortable reality: Their data is not well managed. That’s good news for data intelligence companies like Pentaho, which is refocusing its efforts on data management and governance under Maggie Laird, who was promoted to president of the Hitachi-Vantara subsidiary in April. Laird recently…
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Pleias Introduces Common Corpus: The Largest Multilingual Dataset for Pretraining Language Models
In recent years, the development of large language models has significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP). These models, trained on extensive datasets, can generate, understand, and analyze human language with remarkable proficiency. However, building such models requires substantial amounts of data, and access to high-quality multilingual datasets remains a considerable challenge. The scarcity of openly…
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Cloudera Enhances Data Catalog and Metadata Management with Octopai Acquisition
Cloudera, an enterprise data cloud solutions provider, has agreed to acquire Octopai’s data lineage and catalog platform. The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of this month. This move significantly enhances Cloudera’s data catalog and metadata management capabilities. The struggle to achieve comprehensive data intelligence is a fundamental challenge faced by enterprises…
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Nomad Black Friday Sale 2024: Deals on Chargers, iPhone Cases
You can snag discounted MagSafe wireless chargers, USB-C cables, and iPhone 16 cases from now through December 3.
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Fireworks AI Releases f1: A Compound AI Model Specialized in Complex Reasoning that Beats GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet Across Hard Coding, Chat and Math Benchmarks
The field of artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, yet significant challenges remain in developing and applying AI systems, particularly in complex reasoning. Many current AI solutions, including advanced models like GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, still struggle with intricate coding tasks, deep conversations, and mathematical reasoning. The limitations of individual models—no matter how sophisticated—lead to…
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Beyond the checkbox: Building confidence in your DR strategy
Disaster recovery (DR) is often no more than a checkbox item for IT, because the team spends so much time fighting fires and working to advance new, mission-critical implementations. To that point, DR didn’t make CIOs’ top five priorities in the Foundry State of the CIO 2024 survey. So, given the lack of focused attention…
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Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor
Le Chat now includes image generation capabilities powered by the Flux Pro model, enabling users to produce high-quality visuals.Read More
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How Trump’s appointment of Brendan Carr as FCC chairman will affect enterprises
President-elect Donald Trump has announced Brendan Carr as the next head of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the organization responsible for setting the regulations governing telecoms, broadband, satellite communications and broadcasting in the US. Unlike some of the executive appointments made by Trump in recent days, Carr is an experienced hand at the FCC,…
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Nvidia accelerates Google quantum AI design with quantum physics simulation
Nvidia it is working with Google Quantum AI to accelerate the design of its next-generation quantum computing devices using simulations powered by Nvidia.Read More