HPE’s $14 Billion Juniper Deal Wins UK Antitrust Approval

HPE’s $14 Billion Juniper Deal Wins UK Antitrust Approval

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s $14 billion deal to buy Juniper Networks Inc. was cleared by the UK’s antitrust watchdog, paving the way for the firm to expand its presence in networking.The Competition and Markets Authority said Wednesday it had cleared the tie-up after investigating whether it would cause a substantial lessening of competition in the UK. The EU similarly wavedBloomberg Terminal through the deal last week, saying it did not raise competition concerns in the markets examined. Source link lol
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Segmentation Style Discovery: Application to Skin Lesion Images

Segmentation Style Discovery: Application to Skin Lesion Images

arXiv:2408.02787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variability in medical image segmentation, arising from annotator preferences, expertise, and their choice of tools, has been well documented. While the majority of multi-annotator segmentation approaches focus on modeling annotator-specific preferences, they require annotator-segmentation correspondence. In this work, we introduce the problem of segmentation style discovery, and propose StyleSeg, a segmentation method that learns plausible, diverse, and semantically consistent segmentation styles from a corpus of image-mask pairs without any knowledge of annotator correspondence. StyleSeg consistently outperforms competing methods on four publicly available skin lesion segmentation (SLS) datasets. We also curate ISIC-MultiAnnot, the largest multi-annotator SLS…
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Accuracy and Consistency of LLMs in the Registered Dietitian Exam: The Impact of Prompt Engineering and Knowledge Retrieval

Accuracy and Consistency of LLMs in the Registered Dietitian Exam: The Impact of Prompt Engineering and Knowledge Retrieval

arXiv:2408.02964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally transforming human-facing applications in the health and well-being domains: boosting patient engagement, accelerating clinical decision-making, and facilitating medical education. Although state-of-the-art LLMs have shown superior performance in several conversational applications, evaluations within nutrition and diet applications are still insufficient. In this paper, we propose to employ the Registered Dietitian (RD) exam to conduct a standard and comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art LLMs, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro, assessing both accuracy and consistency in nutrition queries. Our evaluation includes 1050 RD exam questions encompassing several nutrition topics and…
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AI revolution in fintech: Driving transformative change

AI revolution in fintech: Driving transformative change

The fusion of artificial intelligence (AI) and financial technology (fintech) is igniting a seismic shift that promises to redefine the future of finance. As AI rapidly evolves, its disruptive potential in the fintech realm is becoming increasingly palpable, catalyzing a wave of innovation that will reshape customer experiences, operational efficiencies, and the very fabric of financial services.At the heart of this revolution lies the convergence of cutting-edge AI technologies, including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and computer vision. These powerful tools are enabling fintech companies to harness the vast ocean of data at their disposal, extracting valuable…
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Blockchain could solve the monopolised AI ecosystem | AI News

The AI industry has always been the “futuristic view” for humans, whether in movies, cartoons, or real life. Computers work, think and act on behalf of futuristic humans – well, except in the Dune movies. In the past half-decade, artificial intelligence has become the hottest topic in the world, second only to the Covid 19 pandemic, with most people fascinated by the industry’s massive growth and the extent they can use it. This growth is expected to continue at a rapid pace into the last years of the decade, with Statista predicting the $184 billion industry will grow to nearly…
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Disney figured it out: You can make money in streaming if you charge more.

Disney figured it out: You can make money in streaming if you charge more.

Streaming used to be a money pit for Disney. Not anymore.When Disney first made plans for its own streaming business back in 2017, burning billions wasn't considered a problem — it was the playbook. Netflix was losing money building up its own business, and Wall Street was consistently rewarding it for that. So would-be Netflixes like Disney figured they would do the same thing.But in 2022, as interest rates started climbing and Netflix announced it had suddenly lost a million subscribers, Wall Street made new demands: Growth alone wouldn't cut it — streamers now needed to show they could turn…
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Stranger Things will make its Broadway debut in March 2025

Stranger Things will make its Broadway debut in March 2025

Starting next year, Stranger Things fans will be able to watch its stage play spin-off on Broadway. The prequel to the popular sci-fi/horror series, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, won two Olivier Awards and several other accolades since it premiered on West End in December 2023. Its West End production will run until sometime in 2025, thanks to an extended run, but performances on Broadway will also begin on March 28, 2025. That said, the play will officially open at Marquis Theatre in New York on April 22, 2025.The First Shadow is set in 1959, before the events in the…
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Micron Resumes Buybacks That Had Been Suspended Amid Downturn

Micron Resumes Buybacks That Had Been Suspended Amid Downturn

Micron Technology Inc. is resuming a stock buyback program that it had suspended nearly two years ago during an industry downturn. Shares gained on the news. The largest US maker of computer memory chips sells a vital component of artificial intelligence hardware — high-bandwidth memory — that works with processors from Nvidia Corp. to crunch data. While its earnings forecast last month failed to impress investors, the company has been hailed as one of the biggest potential beneficiaries of the generative AI boom. Source link lol
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Little Place Labs and Loft Orbital to test analytics in orbit

Little Place Labs and Loft Orbital to test analytics in orbit

LOGAN, Utah – Houston startup Little Place Labs announced a contract to deploy software to Loft Orbital’s YAM-6 satellite. “We’ll pair Loft’s low-latency operations, using its space infrastructure, with our cutting-edge analytics to enhance maritime domain awareness,” Little Place Labs said in an Aug. 7 blog post. Funding for the mission comes from Little Place Lab’s $1.8 million Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 2 award from AFWERX. Little Place Labs, founded in 2020, aims to “push the boundaries of real-time data processing and insight delivery” for terrestrial and space applications, according to the post. To make that possible, Little Place…
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