Ema raises $36M to build universal AI employees for enterprises

Ema raises $36M to build universal AI employees for enterprises

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More San Francisco-based Ema, the AI agent startup founded by former Google and Okta employees, today announced it is raising an additional $36 million as part of a Series A fundraising round. The investment takes the company’s total raise to $61 million and was led by Accel and Section 32. The company says it’ll use the cash to further develop its proprietary tech allowing enterprises to configure and deploy no-code AI agents — what Ema calls “universal AI employees” — capable of…
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Unlocking the Potential: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Water Engineering and Research

Unlocking the Potential: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Water Engineering and Research

arXiv:2407.21045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked interest in their potential applications across various fields. This paper embarked on a pivotal inquiry: Can existing LLMs effectively serve as "water expert models" for water engineering and research tasks? This study was the first to evaluate LLMs' contributions across various water engineering and research tasks by establishing a domain-specific benchmark suite, namely, WaterER. Herein, we prepared 983 tasks related to water engineering and research, categorized into "wastewater treatment", "environmental restoration", "drinking water treatment and distribution", "sanitation", "anaerobic digestion" and "contaminants assessment". We evaluated the performance…
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‘A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’ lead Emma Myers said it was ‘scary’ she had two weeks to prepare for the role, including nailing her British accent

‘A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’ lead Emma Myers said it was ‘scary’ she had two weeks to prepare for the role, including nailing her British accent

"A Good Girl's Guide To Murder" lead actor Emma Myers told Business Insider that she had two weeks to practice her British accent for the role before shooting started.In the teen drama, which premieres on Netflix on Thursday, Florida-born Myers — who made her name in "Wednesday" — plays Pip Fitz-Amobi. For a school project, Pip tries to solve a murder that happened five years earlier in the small English village where she lives.The 2019 novel that the series is based on, "A Good Girl's Guide To Murder" by Holly Jackson, was a New York Times bestseller and became popular…
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Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights

Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights.The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use “machine-learning algorithms to analyse historical crime data to predict future crimes”. It is also expected to deploy facial recognition software to identify “wanted persons”, patrol social media, and analyse real-time security camera footage to detect suspicious activities.While the ministry of security has said the new unit will help to “detect potential threats, identify movements of…
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The best iPhone accessories for 2024

The best iPhone accessories for 2024

Peak Design’s iPhone tripod is a solid, well-designed aluminum frame that folds into a credit card-sized shape. You’re paying a premium for the build design and quality, with a tiny hex key even built into the tripod legs for tightening them, if needed. With a solid micro-ball head, you can adjust the angle of your iPhone while it’s in tripod mode. Better still, it can firmly attach, magnetically, to the phone in both vertical and horizontal orientations. This makes it an excellent stand for your phone even when you’re not trying to shoot video or photos. You also don’t need…
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Zero Shot Health Trajectory Prediction Using Transformer

Zero Shot Health Trajectory Prediction Using Transformer

arXiv:2407.21124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrating modern machine learning and clinical decision-making has great promise for mitigating healthcare's increasing cost and complexity. We introduce the Enhanced Transformer for Health Outcome Simulation (ETHOS), a novel application of the transformer deep-learning architecture for analyzing high-dimensional, heterogeneous, and episodic health data. ETHOS is trained using Patient Health Timelines (PHTs)-detailed, tokenized records of health events-to predict future health trajectories, leveraging a zero-shot learning approach. ETHOS represents a significant advancement in foundation model development for healthcare analytics, eliminating the need for labeled data and model fine-tuning. Its ability to simulate various treatment pathways and consider…
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Oracle challenges cloud giants with new Nvidia AI hardware offerings

Oracle challenges cloud giants with new Nvidia AI hardware offerings

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Oracle announced today an expansion of its partnership with Nvidia, introducing new GPU options and AI infrastructure services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This move signals a maturing artificial intelligence market and aims to provide more flexibility for businesses of all sizes looking to leverage AI capabilities. The announcement centers on the addition of Nvidia L40S GPUs to OCI’s compute offerings and new virtual machine options for Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs. “This is a great milestone in our partnership with…
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Self-supervised Multi-future Occupancy Forecasting for Autonomous Driving

Self-supervised Multi-future Occupancy Forecasting for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2407.21126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environment prediction frameworks are critical for the safe navigation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in dynamic settings. LiDAR-generated occupancy grid maps (L-OGMs) offer a robust bird's-eye view for the scene representation, enabling self-supervised joint scene predictions while exhibiting resilience to partial observability and perception detection failures. Prior approaches have focused on deterministic L-OGM prediction architectures within the grid cell space. While these methods have seen some success, they frequently produce unrealistic predictions and fail to capture the stochastic nature of the environment. Additionally, they do not effectively integrate additional sensor modalities present in AVs. Our proposed…
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