AI & Robotics

Hyperscale data warehouse vendor Ocient announced today that it has raised $42.1 million as the second extension of its series B funding to accelerate the development and delivery of energy-efficient solutions for costly and unwieldy operational data and AI workloads. The funding infusion doesn’t just add to the Chicago startup’s already hefty war chest; it sharpens a mission to make…

The distant horizon is always murky, the minute details obscured by sheer distance and atmospheric haze. This is why forecasting the future is so imprecise: We cannot clearly see the outlines of the shapes and events ahead of us. Instead, we take educated guesses.  The newly published AI 2027 scenario, developed by a team of AI researchers and forecasters with experience at institutions like…