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Memgraph Bolsters AI Development with GraphRAG Support

The best GenAI applications combine the freshest, most pertinent customer data with top language models, but getting that data into the model’s context window isn’t easy. That’s where the new GraphRAG capability an Read more…

PuppyGraph Brings Graph Analytics to the Lakehouse

A startup called PuppyGraph is turning heads in the big data world with a novel concept: Marrying the data storage efficiency of the data lakehouse with the analytic capabilities of a graph database. The result is a dist Read more…

The Top 2025 Generative AI Predictions: Part 1

Generative AI is kind of a big deal these days (perhaps you’ve heard about it). Not surprisingly, lots of people have lots of opinions about where GenAI is today and where it’s headed. As a public service for our rea Read more…

The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…

News In Brief

Trump Rescinds Biden’s AI Order, Announces $500B Investment in AI Infrastructure

President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders during his first day in office, including one that rescinded his predecessor’s order addressing AI risk. The new president indicated he viewed the old order as Read more…

DBHawk Flies with Text-to-SQL, SOC 2 Compliance

Customers will be able to interact with their database using natural language thanks to the new text-to-SQL function in DBHawk, a database access tool developed by Datasparc. The company also announced its SOC 2 Type II Read more…

AI Regulation in California Moves Forward

A new bill that has advanced to the California Senate Assembly floor represents both a significant step forward in AI governance as well as a risk to the technology’s innovative growth. Officially called California Se Read more…

Cloudian Partners with Lenovo for EPYC All-Flash ‘HyperStore’

Cloudian and Lenovo today announced they’re teaming up to deliver a new HyperStore cluster designed to run big data, AI, and HPC workloads. Each HyperStore cluster will be composed of six Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 Read more…

Homomorphic Encryption Library Open Sourced by Apple

Apple recently open sourced its homomorphic encryption library for Swift, enabling developers who use the Apple programming language to implement the privacy-preserving technology. Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a rel Read more…

This Just In

EU Launches InvestAI Initiative to Build AI Gigafactories Across Europe

Feb 13, 2025 |

Feb. 13, 2025 — At the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has launched InvestAI, an initiative to mobilize €200 billion for investment in AI, including a new European fund of €20 billion for AI gigafactories. Read more…

European Union: First Rules of the Artificial Intelligence Act Are Now Applicable

Feb 7, 2025 |

Feb. 7, 2025 — As of Sunday, February, 2, 2025, the first rules under the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) started to apply in the European Union (EU). This includes the AI system definition, AI literacy, as well as a very limited number of prohibited AI use cases outlined in the AI Act that pose unacceptable risks in the EU. Read more…

SAS Viya Brings AI and Analytics to US Government with FedRAMP Authorization

Feb 4, 2025 |

CARY, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025 — Data and AI leader SAS has achieved FedRAMP authorization for SAS AI and Analytics for Government on FedRAMP. The company’s FedRAMP authorization enables the SAS software stack to operate at the FedRAMP moderate level in the Microsoft Azure commercial cloud. Read more…

VAST Data Supports Canada’s Sovereign AI Strategy with Hypertec Cloud Collaboration

Jan 30, 2025 |

NEW YORK and MONTRÉAL, Jan. 30, 2025 — VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced a strategic partnership with Hypertec Cloud to increase domestic compute capacity across Canada and North America, enabling organizations with highly scalable, efficient, performant and secure AI cloud infrastructure. Read more…

C3 AI Secures ‘Awardable’ Status on DoD’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace

Jan 29, 2025 |

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 29, 2025 — C3 AI has announced that it has achieved “Awardable” status through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, with the addition of C3 AI Decision Advantage and C3 AI Contested Logistics to the Marketplace. Read more…

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