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Pesticides are powerful tools on the farm, but they are not without risk. Understanding the essentials of pesticide safety can help prevent unintended exposure for people and the environment. February is National Pesticide Safety Education Month, and this is a great time to review pesticide safety practices on the farm.  “Today, pesticides are used in and around homes, apartments, workplaces, farms, and a myriad of other settings to control weeds, insects, disease-causing organisms, rodents, and other pests,” said Fred Whitford, PhD, director of Purdue Pesticide Programs at Purdue University. “That means everyone benefits when we focus on pesticide safety education.”…

Over the last few months, we have seen a flurry of new AI models and capabilities. For those of us who believe that true innovation requires responsibility, these releases are reminders of the importance of working together so that AI advances positive outcomes for people and society. At PAI, we are fortunate to bring together a remarkable multistakeholder community to explore new questions and develop novel methods to advance understanding, better practice and inform public policy. This year, our three priorities will focus on understanding the evolving AI landscape with agents, supporting vibrant assurance and accountability ecosystems, and reaching out…

Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. Running a small business or side hustle usually means you wear all the hats, but there’s probably one that feels like it weighs 10 gallons: creating content. For those who weren’t born with a paintbrush, writing articles and designing logos means spending a lot of time for sub-par results or hiring expensive freelancers. It might be time to try AI.While you’ve heard of…

ElevenLabs, one of the more popular startups working in the field of AI audio, said Thursday that it has raised a Series C round of $180 million, valuing the company at $3.3 billion post-money. a16z and ICONIQ Growth are co-leading the investment. Rumors of the fundraise were first reported by TechCrunch. The final numbers confirm some but not all of the details we previously reported (specifically, the overall size of the round is smaller than we had heard; the valuation and lead investors are the same). The funding will be used to continue building out ElevenLabs’ audio tools and for…

IBM’s latest mainframe builds on the platform’s traditional attributes of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads, adding AI to support large language models (LLMs), assistants, and agents. The new z17 mainframe system is available from June The z17 family introduces an improved Telum II processor and Spyre AI Accelerator card, both of which were discussed at the Hot Chips conference in Palo Alto last year, for a claimed speed bump of 7.5 times the AI performance of the z16. While the Telum II offers improved AI inferencing for running fraud detection checks against transactions – as was introduced with the…

IBM’s latest mainframe builds on the platform’s traditional attributes of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads, adding AI to support large language models (LLMs), assistants, and agents. The new z17 mainframe system is available from June The z17 family introduces an improved Telum II processor and Spyre AI Accelerator card, both of which were discussed at the Hot Chips conference in Palo Alto last year, for a claimed speed bump of 7.5 times the AI performance of the z16. While the Telum II offers improved AI inferencing for running fraud detection checks against transactions – as was introduced with the…

Corn ethanol has been the standard for biofuels in the United States for nearly 20 years since the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was introduced in 2005.  Carbon pipelines have been positioned as the next step the ethanol industry needs to sequester carbon, receive tax credits, and be poised for growth, including in new areas such as sustainable aviation fuel. In our series on carbon pipelines, we have covered how companies are working to establish pipelines across the Midwest. We also looked at how farmers can navigate eminent domain use when pipeline construction comes closer to reality.  For this story, we…

AI4ALL, a Partnership on AI partner, is a national nonprofit that empowers students to be AI Changemakers. Their mission is to foster collaboration and amplify diverse voices in AI governance and development. AI4ALL does this by supporting students from communities that have been historically excluded in STEM and the AI space. Focused specifically on serving Black, Hispanic and Latinx, Indigenous folks, and women and non-binary folks in the US, AI4ALL is establishing the next generation of AI Changemakers. In our latest Q&A, we sat down with Dr. Sean Peters, the VP of Programs and Operations at AI4All, to discuss the…

In the hallways of schools across the nation, a quiet revolution is taking place. As students tap away on their devices and teachers explore new digital tools, artificial intelligence is silently reshaping how school districts operate. AI is no longer confined to tech companies and research labs; it’s entering the heart of educational administration, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance efficiency, improve decision-making and ultimately better serve students and families.The AI Revolution in EducationArtificial Intelligence has the power to transform operations by vastly speeding up processes, creating efficiencies and making jobs easier for administrators and educators. This technology is not about…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Banks were a proving ground for the value of digital transformation and cloud migration. Now, the sector is helping make a compelling case for generative AI, thanks to its mountains of ingestible data siloed away in cavernous legacy systems. The success of banking rests on its ability to rapidly and reliably process millions of daily transactions at scale — an undertaking that inherently benefits from a combination of cloud and AI.  “At the core of the bank, technology is increasing in importance,…