SAN FRANCISCO, January 29, 2024 — In January 2024, VentureBeat launched the AI Impact Tour, a series of intimate events in cities across the U.S., each focusing on distinct aspects of the current and upcoming AI revolution. VB Lab just announced a partnership with Microsoft to sponsor three of these events, kicking off in New York in February.
Each invitation-only salon is an evening of…
Atropos Health partners with Google Cloud to rapidly generate insights from healthcare data using AI
January 31, 2024
Atropos Health, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based healthcare startup, announced a new partnership with Google Cloud today. The collaboration allows Atropos to optimize its Generative Evidence Acceleration Operating System (GENEVA OS) to work with Google Cloud’s healthcare data…
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…
There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be applied to robotics systems, which are still lagging in generalizing their abilities.
A new paper by researchers at Meta AI and New York University introduces an open-knowledge-based framework that brings…
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…
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…
Exclusive: Voltron Data acquires Claypot to unlock real-time AI with modular data systems
January 25, 2024
In a Nutshell
San Francisco-based data analytics startup Voltron Data has confirmed its acquisition of real-time AI platform Claypot. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. With this acquisition, Voltron Data will expand its offering to include real-time analytics, giving enterprises the ability to unlock value from fresh data for use cases such as fraud detection and personalization. The…
As more and more enterprises continue to double down on the power of generative AI, organizations are racing to build more competent offerings for them. Case in point: Lumiere, a space-time diffusion model proposed by researchers from Google, Weizmann Institute of Science…
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…
Discover how edYOU uses AI to empower students with disabilities through specialized tutoring programs
January 24, 2024
Starting in the 1970s, the United States began a journey of progressive change in the way students with disabilities are treated and the levels of help provided for them. Over the next fifty years, the country adopted one law after another to ensure students with disabilities get the support they need to thrive in life.
Thanks to laws such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of…
