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Exclusive: Metal unveils new AI assistant for financial services and private equity funds

January 31, 2024
Anyone with experience in or around finance would probably attest that a good chunk of the work is tedious, especially when evaluating the performance of companies over time and their future performance outlook. This holds true for professionals in financial services, where meticulous analysis of financial documents, market trends, and other relevant data is often time-consuming but essential for…
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AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’

January 30, 2024
Nightshade, a new, free downloadable tool created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago designed to be used by artists to disrupt AI models scraping and training on their artworks without consent, has received 250,000 downloads in the first five days of its release. “Nightshade hit 250K downloads in 5 days since release,” wrote the leader of the project, Ben Zhao, a…
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How data engineers should prepare for an AI world

January 29, 2024
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about how the AI revolution will diminish the role of data engineers. I don’t believe that’s the case — in fact, data expertise will be more critical than ever. However, data professionals will need to acquire new skills to help…
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After Davos 2024: From AI hype to reality

January 29, 2024
AI was a major theme at Davos 2024. As reported by Fortune, more than two dozen sessions at the event focused directly on AI, covering everything from AI in education to AI regulation. A who’s who of AI was in attendance, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, AI pioneer Andrew Ng, Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and many others. Whereas…
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AWS rival Wasabi acquires Curio AI to add intelligence to its unlimited cloud storage offering

January 24, 2024
Boston-based Wasabi Technologies, a data storage startup taking on the likes of AWS, GCP and other cloud vendors, today announced it has acquired machine learning platform Curio AI from GrayMeta, the known provider of metadata solutions based in California. While the companies did not disclose the exact financial terms of the deal, Wasabi did note in a press release that the deal will help enable…
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