Generative AI front and center at Databricks’ Data + AI summit, following MosaicML acquisition
Databricks turned the spotlight on generative AI at its annual Data + AI summit, as it announced a host of new Lakehouse AI innovations. This focus on generative AI, the company said, “highlights the inflection point reached with the rise in the popularity of large language models (LLMs)”. In April,
Read moreWhy automakers are rushing to adopt Tesla’s NACS plug and what it means to drivers
How did the North American electric vehicle market finally decide on a charging port? Gradually, then suddenly, to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway. The war isn’t over yet, but with Electrify America announcing this week that it would add Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) plugs, it’s close. Electrify America’s decision is
Read moreVoice.ai raises $6M as its real-time voice changer approaches 500k users
Services like Midjourney and ChatGPT have pushed the boundaries of how AI can create images and text out of basic text prompts. Now, audio appears to be the inevitable next frontier. Music generation based on word prompts, AI tutors for language learning, and voice simulators have all seen developments in
Read moreCSE stopped billions of malicious actions against federal IT networks: Report
Canada’s signals intelligence agency protected federal IT networks from an average of 6.3 billion malicious actions a day — such as attempts to deploy malware — in the last fiscal year, as well undertaking three foreign cyber operations against targets outside the country, according to its latest annual report. The
Read moreApple’s market cap hits $3 trillion once again
Apple’s market cap hit $3 trillion on Friday, as the company’s shares rose around 1% to a new high and passed the $190.73 price required in order to reach the milestone. The tech giant first reached this milestone back in January 2022, before closing the session just below that mark.
Read more3 Powerful Cybersecurity Touch points from Global Tech Summit
WiT, Women in Tech, an international non-profit organization whose mission is to close the gender gap, empower women and help them thrive in their tech careers, recently hosted the Global Tech Summit in Paris earlier this month. The objective of the summit was to drive key conversations about gender diversity
Read moreWhy Should you become a Sponsor at Digital Finance Africa 2023?
The financial digital landscape is evolving by the second, in a hyper charged digital economy where developing innovative financial digital solutions is happening faster than the turn of a switch – competition is rife. New problems arise every day that need to be solved. This, coupled with a swift transition
Read moreFloors and roots
I recently stumbled across the identity while reading [1]. Here ⌊x⌋ is the floor of x, the largest integer not larger than x. My first thought was that this was hard to believe. Although the floor function is very simple, its interactions with other functions tends to be complicated. I
Read moreCreating an AI-Powered Cover Letter Generator
Build a simple yet powerful app with Python, OpenAI, and StreamlitPhoto by JESHOOTS.COM on UnsplashA Google search for “Is a cover letter necessary?” suggests that many people are trying to cop out of having to write this document in 2023. However, this same search will come up with hit after hit
Read moreHow To Write Testable Code in Python
Practices for writing highly testable and flexible Python codeContinue reading on Better Programming »
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