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13 Jun

Music publishers accuse Spotify of ‘bait-and-switch subscription scheme’

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Spotify has once again drawn the ire of the music industry. The National Music Publishers' Association has called on the Federal Trade Commission to examine the streaming service's addition of audiobook content into all of its paid subscription plans. According to the group's FTC , Spotify's recent actions are part of "a scheme to increase profits by deceiving consumers and cheating the music royalty system."This requires some backstory. In November 2023, Spotify announced that it would include as part of all its Premium subscription plans. A few months later, the company unveiled , offering the same number of listening hours…

13 Jun

My journey to event-driven programming and cleaner code | Deephaven

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Hi, I'm Jake, a software developer at Deephaven Data Labs on their developer relations team. Throughout my career, I've focused heavily on empowering other developers, ranging from being a TA in college to working on the developer experience of using REST APIs, and now working with Deephaven's query engine. This has exposed me to various approaches on how to develop software. Today I'm going to be talking about how recent experiences led me to the mindset of event-driven programming.Event-driven programming is a very straightforward concept. Software is developed that executes after certain events happen. These events can be anything ranging…

13 Jun

Let’s Build Small AI Buzz, Offer ‘Claim Processing’ to Mid/Big Companies

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Discover How AI Can Transform Businesses, Every Details Spelled Out. Full Article Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping business landscapes, promising unprecedented efficiency and accuracy across industries. In this article, we delve into how Aniket Insurance Inc. (Imaginary) leverages AI to revolutionize its claim processing operations, offering insights into the transformative power of AI in modern business environments. ➡️ What’s This Article About? The article explores how Aniket Insurance Inc. uses AI to transform its claim processing. It details the three main workflows: User claim submission, Admin + AI claim processing, and Executive + AI claim analysis. ➡️ Why Read…

12 Jun

Key Takeaways from SAP Sapphire Orlando 2024

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Forrester Analyst Key Takeaways from SAP Sapphire Orlando 2024 At the 2024 SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando, SAP unveiled several generative AI innovations and partnerships that showcase how the company is taking enterprise businesses to the next level in the era of AI. We heard from CEO and Executive Board Member, Christian Klein, and several other Executive Board Members, Julia White, Juergen Mueller, Scott Russell and Thomas Saueressig. It was refreshing to hear from SAP’s new Executive Board Member of SAP Product Engineering, Muhammad Alam bringing in fresh perspective to the next-gen evolution of their core products. Chief AI Officer,…

12 Jun

OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly booming

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We don’t know if OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is actually making any money so far. But thanks to a Wednesday report in The Information, what we do know is that the company doubled its annualized revenue — a measure of the previous month’s revenue multiplied by 12, as the publication helpfully explained — in the last six months.OpenAI’s annualized revenue was $3.4 billion, CEO Sam Altman reportedly told staff. That’s up from $1.6 billion around the end of last year, and $1 billion a year ago. Most of this revenue came from a subscription version of ChatGPT, which offers…

12 Jun

Updating data needs a stack, too | Deephaven

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For the internal combustion engine to take over horse drawn carriages, more than the car itself was needed. Paved roads and gas stations had to come into the picture to reap the benefits of the new technology.We believe a query engine based on an update model will be at the center of the paradigm shift towards streaming data. But to unlock the value in this new incremental way to evaluate query results, we need some radical changes in tooling, since today's gear is heavily oriented towards static data.For over 10 years Deephaven users have influenced the evolution of a framework…

12 Jun

Understanding Terraform: A Guide to Effective IaC Practices

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What is Terraform? Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that allows you to build, change, and version cloud and on-premises resources safely and efficiently. With Terraform, you define your infrastructure using human-readable configuration files, which can be versioned, reused, and shared. It works with a wide range of platforms and services through their APIs, enabling you to manage both low-level components (such as compute instances, storage, and networking) in a consistent manner. The 3 Stage Workflow: The Coding Stage: Define resources across one or multiple cloud providers and services in your configuration files, depending on your requirements. Here…

12 Jun

Towards Structured Data: LLMs from Prototype to Production

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have enormous potential, but also challenge existing workflows in industry that require modularity, transparency, data privacy and structured data. In this talk, I'll present pragmatic and practical approaches for how to use LLMs beyond just chat bots, how to ship more successful NLP projects from prototype to production and how to use the latest state-of-the-art models in real-world applications and distilling their knowledge into smaller and faster components that can be run and maintained in-house. Source link lol

12 Jun

Alamo Drafthouse is being bought by Sony Pictures

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Sony Pictures Entertainment today that it has acquired Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a beloved independent theater business. Alamo Drafthouse won scores of loyal fans over the years for its well-enforced policy of no talking and no texting during showings, as well as its dine-in experience with food and beverage menus.At least for now, the Alamo experience for viewers may not feel different under the new management. Alamo Drafthouse will continue to operate its 35 cinemas and run its Fantastic Fest film festival. And current CEO Michael Kustermann will remain at the helm and report to the head of a new Sony…

12 Jun

A design comparison between Materialize and Deephaven | Deephaven

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Deephaven's and Materialize's query engines both rely heavily on an incremental-update model to empower use cases. Despite this, some of their design fundamentals are quite distinct from one another. Perhaps this can be explained by disparate sets of use cases driving development.MaterializeDeephavenUpdate CycleUpdate cycle based on logical clock (typically transactions from a database source determine clock ticks)Fixed time (wall clock) step update cycleConsistency ModelFully ordered, total consistency model similar to relational (transactional OLTP) database modelConsistency model based on partial ordering (stream partition, similar to Kafka)BI Exploration & DashboardingDepends on third party softwareTight integration with own UI for streaming tables and…