AI & RoboticsNews

AI-driven drug discovery is poised to boom in 2024

January 10, 2024
AI-driven drug discovery is about to boom in 2024, if the fast and furious pace of announcements timed to coincide to this week’s 42nd annual JP Morgan Healthcare conference are any clue. One of the biggest headlines came yesterday from Isomorphic Labs, a unit of Google’s parent company Alphabet company which is led by Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis. Isomorphic collaboration with Lilly…
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Samsung forges ahead with AI for all message

January 10, 2024
Samsung put much of the marketing punch of its CES 2024 event behind the idea of making AI for all, using the transformational force of AI in the cause of democratizing technology. It was a familiar theme of the day at the press day for the big tech trade show in Las Vegas…
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Why Writer’s Palmyra LLM is the little AI model that could for enterprises

January 10, 2024
Writer, a three-year-old San Francisco-based startup which raised $100 million in September 2023 to bring its proprietary, enterprise-focused large language models to more companies, doesn’t hit the headlines as often as OpenAI, Anthropic or Meta — or even as much as hot LLM startups like France-based Mistral AI. But Writer’s family of in-house LLMs, called Palmyra, may well be the little…
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DefenseNews

US Army carves out its role in space

January 10, 2024
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s mission when it comes to operating in space and using space capabilities is shifting to adapt to the arrival of the U.S. Space Force. Before the Space Force’s establishment in 2019, the Army’s space-related mission areas included…
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Germany’s Hensoldt hires Thales executive to lead company

January 10, 2024
PARIS — Defense electronics specialist Hensoldt has hired a competitor’s executive as its new leader, the German company announced Monday. Oliver Dörre will become CEO at Hensoldt and replace outgoing boss Thomas Müller on April 1. Dörre joins Hensoldt from the French firm Thales, where he led the company’s German arm. Dörre has already started work on Hensoldt’s management board, the…
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Here’s what the Navy is doing to boost SWO retention

January 10, 2024
Retention among surface warfare officers going into department head school is slightly down from last year, but numbers overall remain up as the service has launched several initiatives to keep SWOs in the service longer, according to officials. SWOs have historically…
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Navy chief to prioritize getting more ships ready for action

January 10, 2024
ARLINGTON, Va. — The chief of naval operations said Tuesday the service must “get more players on the field” as international crises demand more of the naval force, in her first major address since taking the helm of the Navy two months ago. Adm. Lisa Franchetti said…
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Seeking 75 ships ready for combat, Navy turns to new readiness orgs

January 10, 2024
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet, still short of its readiness goal of 75 combat-credible surface ships at any given time, is pursuing new ways to boost its readiness. Then-Commander of Naval Surface Forces Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, who retired in August, announced in January 2023 the fleet would aim to have 75 mission-capable ships. The ships would be well maintained and the crews…
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