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30 May

$10m prize launched for team that can truly talk to the animals

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In the Dr Dolittle books and films, the ability to “talk to the animals” captured the imagination. Now scientists are being offered a $10m prize to create real conversations.The Coller Dolittle Challenge for Interspecies Two-Way Communication has been launched by the Jeremy Coller Foundation and Tel Aviv University. While the use of AI is not obligatory, the team say the technology can boost almost all proposals.“Just as the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secrets of the hieroglyphics, I am convinced that the power of AI can help us to unlock interspecies conversation,” said Jeremy Coller, chair of the foundation.The team say…

30 May

IBM Unveils watsonx BI assistant to Simplify Business Decision-Making

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via Shutterstock As the business world eagerly embraces the potential of GenAI, many companies are discovering that there are still lots of challenges along the way. One of the key challenges is complexity. Companies are struggling to use decision-making tools because they are too complex. This is evident in the lack of growth in the adoption of business intelligence (BI) and data analytics tools. The percentage of employees actively using BI and analytics tools currently stands at only 25% on average. (Laborant/Shutterstock) Despite advances in technology and investment in literacy programs to educate employees on the use of data, the…

30 May

Saas Startup Funding Falls

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Software as a service — long a favored sector among startup investors — has seen cooling interest in recent quarters even as overall U.S. venture funding has rebounded a bit. So far this year, SaaS and enterprise software companies have raised $4.7 billion in seed- through growth-stage financing, per Crunchbase data. That puts 2024 on track to come in far below last year’s $17.4 billion annual tally — which was itself the lowest total in years. For perspective, we charted out funding and deal counts from 2019 through 2024. A tough week for enterprise software stocks Startup funding declines come amid…

30 May

Introducing Salesforce BYOM for Databricks

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Salesforce and Databricks are excited to announce an expanded strategic partnership that delivers a powerful new integration - Salesforce Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) for Databricks. This collaboration enables data scientists and machine learning engineers to seamlessly leverage the best of both worlds: the robust customer data and business capabilities in Salesforce and the advanced analytics and AI capabilities of Databricks. With this integration, you can now build, train, and deploy custom AI models in Databricks and effortlessly integrate them into Salesforce to deliver intelligent and personalized customer experiences. Get ready to unlock the full potential of your data and…

30 May

Anthropic’s Claude AI now autonomously interacts with external data and tools

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Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. Anthropic, a leading AI company, has announced the general availability of Tool Use for its AI assistant, Claude. This powerful new feature allows Claude to autonomously interact with external data sources, APIs, and tools, revolutionizing the way businesses can leverage AI to automate tasks, personalize recommendations, and streamline data analysis. Tool Use is now available across the entire…

30 May

Robotic metamaterial: An endless domino effect

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If it walks like a particle, and talks like a particle… it may still not be a particle. A topological soliton is a special type of wave or dislocation which behaves like a particle: it can move around but cannot spread out and disappear like you would expect from, say, a ripple on the surface of a pond. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from the University of Amsterdam demonstrate the atypical behaviour of topological solitons in a robotic metamaterial, something which in the future may be used to control how robots move, sense their surroundings and communicate.…

30 May

AI Agents Are Coming for Mundane—but Valuable—Office Tasks

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For all the bluster about generative artificial intelligence upending the world, the technology has yet to meaningfully transform white-collar work. Workers are dabbling with chatbots for tasks such as drafting emails, and companies are launching countless experiments, but office work hasn’t undergone a major AI reboot.Perhaps that’s only because we haven’t given chatbots like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT the right tools for the job yet; they’re generally restricted to taking in and spitting out text via a chat interface. Things might get more interesting in business settings as AI companies start deploying so-called “AI agents,” which can take action…

30 May

Injecting Hierarchical Biological Priors into Graph Neural Networks for Flow Cytometry Prediction

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arXiv:2405.18507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the complex landscape of hematologic samples such as peripheral blood or bone marrow derived from flow cytometry (FC) data, cell-level prediction presents profound challenges. This work explores injecting hierarchical prior knowledge into graph neural networks (GNNs) for single-cell multi-class classification of tabular cellular data. By representing the data as graphs and encoding hierarchical relationships between classes, we propose our hierarchical plug-in method to be applied to several GNN models, namely, FCHC-GNN, and effectively designed to capture neighborhood information crucial for single-cell FC domain. Extensive experiments on our cohort of 19 distinct patients, demonstrate that…

30 May

Salesforce plummets as weak forecast sparks concerns of AI competition

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Salesforce shares slumped about 18% on Thursday, after its lowest-ever quarterly revenue growth forecast raised fears that high interest rates and rival AI offerings were hampering demand at the cloud-based software firm.The company could lose more than $48bn in market value if losses hold, as it also reported quarterly revenue that was below expectations for the first time since 2006.“Weak bookings in Q1 further test investor patience as the GenAI [generative AI] innovation cycle has yet to inflect top-line results and now increasingly becomes a point of competitive concern,” Morgan Stanley analysts said.Salesforce’s AI-focused data cloud business contributed to 25%…

30 May

WeWork Survived Bankruptcy. Now It Has to Make Coworking Pay Off

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WeWork is set to become a smaller—and potentially right-sized—company. Following a final hearing on its bankruptcy plan Thursday morning, the coworking pioneer will have fewer locations, a new influx of capital, and $4 billion in debt wiped from its books.In a packed courtroom in Newark, New Jersey, Judge John Sherwood approved WeWork’s restructuring plan. WeWork expects to finally exit bankruptcy in mid-June. The plan also staved off a bid by WeWork’s controversial founder Adam Neumann, who had sought to buy back the company he founded before he was infamously ousted.WeWork’s clean slate will coincide with a new era of working,…