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Graph database startup TigerGraph Inc. today announced a major update to its flagship cloud platform with the Savanna release, bringing with it six times faster network deployments and dozens of other new features. The well-funded startup is one of the pioneers of graph databases alongside companies such as Aerospike Inc. and Neo4J Inc. Graph databases are designed to perform certain kinds of tasks more efficiently than traditional relational and not-so-traditional NoSQL database systems are capable of. For instance, there are many situations where databases need to store not only business records, but also contextual data about how those records are linked…
The Bavaria State Painting Collections, an organization that stewards famed paintings shown at many of Munich’s top museums, is currently the subject of further controversy in Germany following a change in its leadership and reports of an internal investigation resulting from claims of “organizational failure.” Earlier this year, the German publication Süddeutsche Zeitung released a bombshell report stating that there were far more Nazi-looted artworks owned by the Bavaria State Painting Collections than it had previously made public. Related Articles The organization, which shows works at institutions such as the Alte Pinakothek and the Museum Brandhorst, categorically denied the article’s…
With the latest stable release dated January 28, 2025, Qwen2.5-Max is classified as a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Alibaba. Like other language models, Qwen2.5-Max is capable of generating text, understanding different languages, and performing advanced logic. According to recent benchmarks, it is also more secure than DeepSeek-V3-0324. Using Recon to scan for vulnerabilities A team of analysts with Protect AI, the company behind a red teaming and security vulnerability scanning tool known as Recon, recently used their platform to compare the security of Qwen2.5-Max against that of DeepSeek-V3. The team’s assessment reads, in part: “We observed that DeepSeek-V3-0324…
Image: seventyfourimages/Envato Elements The EU is pouring €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) over the next two years to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. The funding will support the development and testing of “immersive environments” to apply in healthcare for purposes like training and virtual patient assessments. The investment will also support the implementation of the AI Act, which ensures all AI systems developed and used in the EU are done so safely and responsibly. Additionally, it will help build energy-efficient digital public digital infrastructure, including electric vehicle charging ports. Many of the generative AI models powering these initiatives will…
A pump jack operates near a gas turbine power plant in the Permian Basin oil field outside of Odessa, Texas, U.S. February 18, 2025. Eli Hartman | ReutersU.S. oil prices have dropped to their lowest level since 2021 this week, sparked in part by concerns that the massive tariffs announced by the United States will hurt economic growth.Futures for U.S. West Texas intermediate crude fell more than 6% on Friday, bringing the price per barrel to $62.72. At one point, it fell below the $61 level. The latest slide comes after a 6.6% decline on Thursday.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconWest Texas…
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. The big news in the world of venture and artificial intelligence obviously has been OpenAI‘s massive $40 billion investment led by SoftBank. That big-money deal has folks talking, but a deeper look at the funding numbers for AI in Q1 seem to show a slight pullback from investors, in both the private and public markets, as more questions arise concerning how much large enterprises will continue (or start in some cases) throwing at AI tools. Private market As our first-quarter 2025 global…
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We expanded access to AI Overviews and introduced AI Mode. AI Overviews are one of our most popular Search features and are now used by more than a billion people. Starting in the U.S., we launched Gemini 2.0 for AI Overviews to help with harder questions, beginning with coding, advanced math and multimodal queries to provide faster and higher quality responses. We also announced the new AI Mode experiment in Google Search to help people get AI-powered responses and dig deeper with follow-up questions and links to helpful web content.We launched personalization in Gemini to make its responses more relevant…