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SodaGPT uses generative AI to ‘shift left’ on data quality testing

Data quality testing platform Soda Data NV today announced the launch of SodaGPT, a data management platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help users define data quality expectations.  SodaGPT uses generative AI’s natural language processing capabilities and SodaCL’s domain-specific language capabilities to translate natural language queries into data quality tests.  “SodaGPT is the first generative ...
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HPE wants to turn supercomputing leadership into generative AI profits

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s recent announcement of an artificial intelligence cloud for large language models highlights a differentiated strategy that the company hopes will lead to sustained momentum in its high-performance computing business. Although we think HPE has some distinct advantages with respect to its supercomputing intellectual property, the public cloud players have a substantial ...
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Rethinking your college major in the age of AI

I recently had a good friend call me with a dilemma and he asked me if I would talk to his son. His son was considering putting his third year in college on hold to pursue his computer animation career in Southern California. I got a call later that evening from my friend’s son and ...
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Uber’s real-time architecture represents the future of data apps: Meet the architects who built it

Uber Technologies Inc. has one of the most amazing business models ever created. The company’s mission is underpinned by technology that helps people go anywhere and get anything — and the results have been stunning. In just over a decade, Uber has become a firm with more than $30 billion in annual revenue, an annual ...
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Databricks’ Data + AI Summit will focus on next-gen data infrastructure for AI and more

Our analysis and end-user discussions continue to demonstrate that a new modern data stack is emerging along with sophisticated data-oriented “personas,” such as data analysts and data scientists. Discussions with data professionals in leading organizations show that Databricks Inc. is heavily influencing these emergent personas. We believe Databricks is embarking on a mission to broaden ...

Trend Micro launches GPT-based cybersecurity assistant for the copiloted security operations center 

Trend Micro Inc. today released Companion, a new generative artificial intelligence assistant based on GPT 3.5, to which security operations center teams can ask threat hunting questions.  Companion integrates with the Trend Vision One XDR or extended detection and response platform. It can explain cross-layer event alerts, decode tracker scripts, create breach mitigation recommendations, email automations ...
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Snowflake Summit will reveal the future of data apps. Here’s our take.

Our research and analysis point to a new modern data stack that is emerging where apps will be built from a coherent set of data elements that can be composed at scale. Demand for these apps will come from organizations that wish to create a digital twin of their business to represent people, places, things ...

Report: Just 42% of US workers see generative AI as a threat 

Most white-collar works aren’t all that worried that adoption of generative artificial intelligence will hurt their job security in the foreseeable future. That’s one takeaway from a survey released today by KPMG LLP that polled 1,035 U.S. white-collar workers on the latest trends affecting the workforce. It found that 43% believe generative AI poses an immediate threat to ...
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Oracle’s ‘Starlink’ cloud strategy gets interesting

A common narrative among cloud database providers is that they are winning lots of migrations from Oracle Corp. By conventional wisdom, Oracle’s market should be shriveling. Yet Oracle continues to show very strong growth numbers, with an organic annual constant dollar growth rate of 8%, including substantial increases from cloud databases. Furthermore, its Autonomous Database ...

Red Sift starts using GPT-4 to pinpoint identities and phishing sites 

Cybersecurity firm Red Sift today launched Relevance Detection, the first GPT-4 powered asset discovery and classification solution for its OnDOMAIN hostname and certification monitoring platform.  Relevance Detection uses OpenAI LP’s GPT-4 large language model to automatically discover and contextualize identities associated with DNS, WHOIS info and SSL certificates. It tells the user what identities are associated with ...