Across Databricks, thousands of customers build production workloads that map freeform text to normalized taxonomies of 100k+ labels. A few common use cases include: Biomedical entity linking. Clinical notes and research papers mention diseases, drugs, and procedures that must be matched to a concept in the Unified Medical Language System, a vocabulary with thousands of…
Dive Brief: Tempus AI said Monday it has agreed to buy Personalis for $1.5 billion. Fremont, California-based Personalis makes a molecular residual disease test for cancer. Tempus expects the acquisition will allow it to better support patients around cancer diagnostics, treatment selection, recurrence and monitoring. The planned purchase follows recent interest in blood-based cancer tests…
New York became the first state in the U.S. to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers today after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing state environmental permits for large facilities for up to a year. Executive Order No. 62 took effect on signing and covers hyperscale data centers that draw 50…
To install OpenCV 5 on Linux reliably, first decide whether the project needs only Python, native C++ libraries, custom backends, or CUDA. On Ubuntu 24.04, for example, apt install python3-opencv still selects OpenCV 4.6.0. A command can therefore succeed while installing the wrong release for an OpenCV 5 tutorial. The 60-second selector below sends each…
Google is building a new server chip internally called “Frozen v2” that embeds the Gemini AI model’s architecture directly into silicon. The chip could be 6 to 10 times more efficient at serving AI responses than Google’s current TPU chips, according to sources cited by The Information. Google plans to deploy it starting in 2028 and…
Developers building 3D, design, simulation, robotics, and industrial digital twin applications need ways to bring physical AI capabilities into the tools and services they already use. Many of these workflows already depend on OpenUSD scenes, simulation-ready (SimReady) assets, Blender-based workflows, CAD pipelines, or domain-specific app stacks. The challenge is how to provide applications and AI…
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite, despite inaccurate test results that the government briefly publicized over the weekend. Food and Drug Administration officials on Monday said a laboratory test incorrectly identified a positive result for cyclospora on a…
For the past couple of years, the AI conversation has often centered on US companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. But a new model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI is challenging the assumption that America will remain comfortably ahead in the global AI race. Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 on July 17….
do not look bad until the answer comes out (classic OCR is the textbook case: EasyOCR recovers the words and quietly drops the table structure around them, and the answer reads fine until you check it against the page). A deterministic check catches the obvious failures for free, but a table that parsed into plausible-looking…
Today, Together AI and Y Combinator (YC) are announcing a partnership to deliver the first dedicated YC GPU cluster, giving YC’s portfolio of AI-native startups easier access to the compute they need to build and scale. Compute has become the biggest bottleneck Breakthroughs in AI have led to a new generation of companies building AI…