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25 May

Viruses are doing mysterious things everywhere – AI can help researchers understand what they’re up to in the oceans and in your gut

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Viruses are a mysterious and poorly understood force in microbial ecosystems. Researchers know they can infect, kill and manipulate human and bacterial cells in nearly every environment, from the oceans to your gut. But scientists don’t yet have a full picture of how viruses affect their surrounding environments in large part because of their extraordinary diversity and ability to rapidly evolve. Communities of microbes are difficult to study in a laboratory setting. Many microbes are challenging to cultivate, and their natural environment has many more features influencing their success or failure than scientists can replicate in a lab. So systems…

25 May

PeerDB raises $3.6M to accelerate PostgreSQL data movement – SiliconANGLE

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Startup PeerDB Inc., which has built a data movement platform specifically for open-source PostgreSQL database management systems, said today it has closed on a seed funding round worth $3.6 million. Leading the investment was 8VC, and it was joined by Y Combinator, Wayfinder Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Flex Capital, Rogue Capital, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective and several angel investors. PeerDB says its data movement platform is designed to improve on the capabilities of existing data pipelines that were never designed for Postgres databases. Existing data movement and extract, transform and load or ETL tools often prioritize the sheer number of connectors…

25 May

Coding With Devin: My New AI Programming Agent

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Sponsored By: Reflect This essay is brought to you by Reflect, an ultra-fast notes app with an AI assistant built in directly. Simplify your note-taking with Reflect's advanced features, like custom prompts, voice transcription, and the ability to chat with your notes effortlessly. Elevate your productivity and organization with Reflect. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox.We onboarded four new engineers at Every this week. The onboarding process was what you'd expect. I gave them access to our GitHub account so they could download our main code repos. I was peppered with the usual…

25 May

AI vs. Humanity: Who Will Come Out on Top?

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The below is a summary of my recent article on superintelligence. Elon Musk predicts that Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) will emerge by 2025, much earlier than his previous estimates. While Musk's track record with predictions is mixed, this one sparks serious contemplation about the future. The moment AI surpasses human cognitive abilities, known as the singularity, will usher in a new era with both unprecedented possibilities and profound perils. As we edge closer to this event horizon, it's essential to ask if we are prepared to navigate the uncertainties and harness the potential of AI responsibly. The journey towards ASI has…

25 May

Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention

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Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. Molecular conformer generation is a fundamental task in computational chemistry. The objective is to predict stable low-energy 3D molecular structures, known as conformers, given the 2D molecule. Accurate molecular conformations are crucial for various applications that depend on precise spatial and geometric qualities, including drug discovery and protein docking. We introduce CoarsenConf, an SE(3)-equivariant hierarchical variational autoencoder (VAE) that pools information from fine-grain atomic coordinates to a coarse-grain subgraph level representation for efficient autoregressive conformer generation. (more…)

25 May

Are open foundation models more risky than closed ones?

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Some of the most pressing questions in artificial intelligence concern the future of open foundation models (FMs). Do these models pose risks so large that we must attempt to stop their proliferation? Or are the risks overstated and the benefits under emphasized? Earlier this week, in collaboration with Stanford HAI, CRFM, and RegLab, we released a policy brief addressing these questions. The brief is based on lessons from a workshop we organized this September and our work since. It outlines the current evidence on the risk of open FMs and some recommendations for policymakers on how to reason about the risks…

25 May

Crypto Astrologers See Price Moves in the Stars

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“Astrology is the measure of time,” says San Francisco-based financial forecaster Marsilio Musing via a Zoom call with the camera off. To him, the art of interpreting planetary movements is similar to making predictions based on the movement of stock and asset performance over a specific period.“I've been at this for a long time, and I have a particular technical analysis system that I've been developing for many years,” Marsilio says. “One of my little taglines is ‘technicals and timing for the win.’”Marsilio says he uses a pseudonym inspired by Italian Renaissance astrologist Marsilio Ficino because financial astrology is the…

25 May

Delta Sharing: Secure End-to-End Data Sharing Solution

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In today's digital landscape, secure data sharing is critical to operational efficiency and innovation. Databricks and the Linux Foundation developed Delta Sharing as the first open source approach to data sharing across data, analytics and AI. Databricks provides secure data exchange, facilitating seamless sharing across platforms, clouds and regions. Enterprises of all sizes trust Delta Sharing, which supports a broad spectrum of applications and diverse data formats. This flexibility makes it a reliable tool for organizations seeking to harness the full potential of their data assets.In this blog, we will review Delta Sharing's security architecture through three different sharing scenarios—…

25 May

Meta and Activision face lawsuit by families of Uvalde school shooting victims

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The families of the shooting victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas have sued Call of Duty publisher Activision and Meta. They alleged that the companies "knowingly exposed the shooter to the weapon [he used], conditioned him to see it as the solution to his problems, and trained him to use it." The plaintiffs also accused the companies of "chewing up alienated teenage boys and spitting out mass shooters."In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs explained that the Uvalde shooter played Call of Duty, which featured an assault-style rifle made by gunmaker Daniel Defense. They also mentioned that he frequently visited…

25 May

RAG architecture with Voyage AI embedding models on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Anthropic Claude 3 models | Amazon Web Services

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This post is a guest post co-written with Tengyu Ma and Wen Phan from Voyage AI. Organizations today have access to vast amounts of data, much of it proprietary, which holds the potential to unlock valuable insights when used effectively in generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful technique designed to tap into this reservoir of information. By dynamically pulling relevant data from these extensive databases during the response generation process, RAG enables AI models to produce more accurate, relevant, and contextually rich outputs. Embedding models are crucial components in the RAG architecture, serving as…