Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...

Beyond the lakehouse: Fundamental's NEXUS bypasses manual ETL with a native foundation model for tabular data

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a simple sequence of words, but as a complex web of non-linear relationships.

Fundamental emerges from stealth with first major foundation model trained for tabular data

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a ...
PC Magazine

Even Starlink Wants Your Data for AI Model Training. How to Opt Out

SpaceX uses your data to train its machine learning and AI models and might share that with partners who 'help us develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.' From the laptops on ...
GitHub

Data Modeling Guide: ClickHouse ETL with NOAA Weather Data Example

We use S3 source with ClickHouse as engine, and Rill for visualization. This example demonstrates advanced data modeling strategies for real-time analytics using ClickHouse and Rill. We showcase how ...
MIT Technology Review

Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.

In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of ...
CNBC

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up

Washington-based Starcloud launched a satellite with an Nvidia H100 graphics processing unit in early November, sending a chip into outer space that's 100 times more powerful than any GPU compute that ...
CNBC

How families could get stuck with higher electric bills if the AI data center boom goes bust

Data center demand forecasts have led to skyrocketing prices to secure future power supplies on PJM Interconnection, the largest electric grid in the U.S. Consumers served by PJM will pay $16.6 ...
The Motley Fool

What Is the Black Box Model?

AI black box models lack transparency, making investment decisions unclear. White box models are slower but clarify their decision-making processes. Investors should verify AI outputs to align with ...
GitHub

spatial query of raster data changes chunk size

When doing a spatial query on raster data, the result is automatically rechunked using .chunk('auto'). Due to this, the result of the query can have a different chunk size than the original array. See ...
The Economist

A new AI model can forecast a person’s risk of diseases across their life

MUCH OF THE art of medicine involves working out, through detailed questioning and physical examination, which disease a given patient has contracted. Far harder, but no less desirable, would be ...
NBC Washington

Justice Department to investigate whether DC police manipulated crime data

The Justice Department is investigating whether D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department manipulated crime data to make crime rates appear lower, two senior law enforcement officials tell NBC News. About ...