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02 Jul

SingleStore adds Iceberg support and speedier vector search – SiliconANGLE

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SingleStore Inc., developer of a real-time database platform that performs both transactional and analytical operations in the same engine, today announced native integration with the Apache Iceberg open-source table format and advanced search and scaling capabilities. Apache Iceberg is rapidly emerging as one of the most popular formats for storing diverse datasets. It provides transactional consistency between multiple applications, schema evolution, the ability to query historical data and the ability to roll back to prior versions, among other features. SingleStore said it’s addressing the often complex task of moving data into Iceberg-based data lakes, a process known as extract/transform/load. It…

02 Jul

Automotive lifecycle data startup Solera files for IPO, seeking to raise $1.5B – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIAutomotive lifecycle data startup Solera files for IPO, Mike Wheatley, seeking to raise $1.5B, SiliconANGLE

Automotive data software startup Solera Corp. filed paperwork for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and and Exchange Commission on Friday, confirming an earlier report from Bloomberg that first revealed its IPO plans. The filing is another sign of investors’ slowly growing enthusiasm for first-time share offerings, following a spate of successful public launches from tech companies such as Rubrik Inc., Raspberry Pi Holdings plc and Reddit Inc. earlier in the year. Reuters, which first reported the news, says that the paperwork didn’t detail the price range or number of shares to be issued in Solera’s IPO. Those…

30 Jun

Light-controlled artificial maple seeds could monitor the environment even in hard-to-reach locations

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIOptics; Robotics Research; Engineering; Environmental Policy; Environmental Science; Environmental Awareness; Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Neural Interfaces

Researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and the University of Pittsburgh, USA, have developed a tiny robot replicating the aerial dance of falling maple seeds. In the future, this robot could be used for real-time environmental monitoring or delivery of small samples even in inaccessible terrain such as deserts, mountains or cliffs, or the open sea. This technology could be a game changer for fields such as search-and-rescue, endangered species studies, or infrastructure monitoring. At Tampere University, Professor Hao Zeng and Doctoral Researcher Jianfeng Yang workat the interface between physics, soft mechanics, and material engineering in their Light Robots research group.…

28 Jun

Fiverr Report: 83% of U.K. Businesses Increasing Wages for AI Skills

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The majority of U.K. businesses are willing to offer higher wages to candidates with skills in AI, a new report has found. Hiring managers will pay 45% more on average for those with demonstrable expertise in areas like natural language processing, AI content creation and chatbot development. However, the necessary AI skills are hard to come by, with more than 40% of business leaders saying they cannot find the right skills they need in full-time employees. The results, published in Fiverr’s 2024 U.K. Workforce Index, come from a survey of 2,200 U.K. business decision-makers, knowledge workers and freelancers. “The high…

28 Jun

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand

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Poe, an AI chatbot platform owned by the question-and-answer site Quora and backed by a $75 million Andreessen Horowitz investment, is providing users with downloadable HTML files of articles published by paywalled journalistic outlets.Prompting the service’s Assistant bot with the URL of this WIRED story about the AI-powered search service Perplexity plagiarizing one of our stories, for example, yields a detailed, 235-word summary and a 1-MB file containing an HTML capture of the entire article, which users can download from Poe’s servers directly from the chatbot.WIRED was similarly able to retrieve articles from paywalled sites including The New York Times,…

28 Jun

Nextiva vs RingCentral (2024): Which One is Best for Your Business?

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Nextiva and RingCentral are two of the best VoIP phone systems on the market. Both VoIP solutions are reputable, reliable and provide similar business communications solutions, which makes it tough to choose between these options. I typically recommend Nextiva just ahead of RingCentral for most businesses because it’s a better value and easier to use for smaller teams; however, RingCentral is still an excellent pick, especially for larger companies with advanced needs. Read on to see if Nextiva or RingCentral is right for you in this head-to-head comparison. Nextiva vs. RingCentral: Comparison table NextivaRingCentral Best forMost businesses, especially smaller companies…

28 Jun

This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It’s Human

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In late April a video ad for a new AI company went viral on X. A person stands before a billboard in San Francisco, smartphone extended, calls the phone number on display, and has a short call with an incredibly human-sounding bot. The text on the billboard reads: “Still hiring humans?” Also visible is the name of the firm behind the ad, Bland AI.The reaction to Bland AI’s ad, which has been viewed 3.7 million times on Twitter, is partly due to how uncanny the technology is: Bland AI voice bots, designed to automate support and sales calls for enterprise…

28 Jun

French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election

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“Then on the other extreme, [the left-wing New Popular Front] have been so vocal about all the taxation measures they want to bring back that it looks like we're just going back to pre-Macron period,” Varza says. She points to France’s 2012 “les pigeons” (or “suckers”) movement, a campaign by angry internet entrepreneurs that opposed Socialist president François Hollande’s plan to dramatically raise taxes for founders.Maya Noël, CEO of France Digitale, an industry group for startups, is worried not only about France’s ability to attract overseas talent, but also about how appealing the next government will be to foreign investors.…

27 Jun

Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

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Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so, WIRED has learned.An AWS spokesperson, who spoke to WIRED on the condition that they would not be named, confirmed the company’s investigation of Perplexity. WIRED had previously found that the startup—which has backing from the Jeff Bezos family fund, Nvidia, and was recently valued at $3 billion—appears to rely on content from scraped websites that had forbidden access through the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a common…

27 Jun

Top 5 Prompt Engineering Certifications Worth Taking

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Course spotlight: Coursera’s Google AI EssentialsOur assessment: Best for beginnersCoursera’s Google AI Essentials stands out as a flexible, beginner-friendly course that shows how to use generative AI to speed up everyday work tasks such as writing emails, summarizing meetings or solving math problems.Learn prompt engineering techniques such as few-shot prompting.Identify generative AI’s potential biases and see how to reduce harm.Determine whether generative AI is right for the tasks you need to do.Plan ahead on how to keep up with the rapidly developing field of generative AI. Earlier this year, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang predicted that generative AI is “closing the…