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Can AI help reduce traffic jams? NoTraffic raises $50M to outfit roads with smart sensors

June 27, 2023
NoTraffic, an Israeli traffic management startup, today announced its $50 million series B funding round. The company is on a quest to live up to the promise of its name by outfitting intersections and complex roadways with wireless smart sensors commanded by an AI-driven software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. The latest funding round was led by UK-based M&G Investments. NoTraffic plans to…
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Enterprises need to control their own generative AI, say data scientists

June 27, 2023
New poll data from enterprise MLOps platform Domino Data Lab found that data scientists believe generative AI will significantly impact enterprises over the next few years, but its capabilities cannot be outsourced — that is, enterprises need to fine-tune or control their own gen AI models. The data, from data and analytics professionals who attended Domino Data Lab’s recent Rev conference in…
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Braze unveils Sage AI, a GPT-powered tool for marketers

June 27, 2023
Customer engagement software company Braze, a publicly traded firm that specializes in offering marketing tools for mobile apps, today announced its new generative AI solution: Sage AI by Braze, which it says enhances automation, personalization, and predictive capabilities…
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MLPerf 3.0 benchmark adds LLMs and shows dramatic rise in AI training performance

June 27, 2023
As the hype and momentum behind generative AI continue to grow, so too does the performance of the underlying systems that enable machine learning (ML) training. MLCommons today announced the latest set of results for its MLPerf training 3.0 benchmark. This aims to provide an industry standard set of measurements for ML model training performance. MLCommons is an open engineering consortium…
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NASA to Provide Coverage for Launch of ESA ‘Dark Universe’ Mission

June 27, 2023
The ESA (European Space Agency) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m. EDT (8:11 a.m. PDT) Saturday, July 1, to launch the Euclid spacecraft. Euclid is an ESA mission with contributions from NASA that will shed light on the nature of dark matter and dark energy, two of the biggest modern mysteries about the universe. Liftoff will be from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida…
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