Amadeus Capital Partners has been investing in technology-enabled products and services for nearly three decades. Founded by Anne Glover and Hermann Hauser in 1997, Amadeus has backed more than 190 companies and raised over $1 billion for investment to date. When we had…
Transcript Wang: My name is Stephanie Wang. Welcome to my talk about enabling remote query execution through DuckDB extensions. As the name implies, we will be talking a lot about DuckDB extensions, and a little bit about query executions, the…
Positioning. It happens in the market and inside board rooms. Elon Musk posted on X that Grok will become open-source. This was largely welcomed, even by Jeff Bezos, who referenced his own earlier X post lamenting that Grok was proprietary,…
Jamie Dimon once again endorsed the potential of AI, saying the technology has “unbelievable” potential for the banking industry. With AI being used across functions like risk, fraud, marketing, and customer relations, it has grown in importance internally within the…
Space-related applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning are often confined to the ground because moving AI onboard satellites, while promising, is significantly more difficult. “Running AI in space is like running a marathon on the moon — impressive if…
Webull Financial is now offering futures and commodities trading as investors look for more ways to hedge price moves without owning an underlying asset. The online brokerage application, which is preparing to go public, is offering the service just to…
This week’s Java roundup for March 4th, 2024 features news highlighting: Version 3.0 releases of Micronaut and Quarkus Blueprints for JHipster, introducing the Jox Channel library, first release candidate of Infinispan 15.0, point releases of Quarkus, Micronaut, Testcontainers for Java…
A small Japanese plastic recycling company is gearing up to go public in the US through a SPAC merger this month, even as many IPO hopefuls are delaying or scrapping such plans. Kawasaki-based Jeplan Inc. plans to merge with special…
Generative AI introduces new security threats because it alters both the digital attack surface and the type of systems within it. The attack surface is expanded due to new endpoints in the form of large language models (LLM), new application…
Google recently announced that BigQuery now supports vector search. The new functionality enables vector similarity search required by data and AI use cases such as semantic search, similarity detection, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with a large language model (LLM). In…
The planned launch of what would have been Japan’s first private spacecraft to take off from a commercial launchpad was called off Saturday due to a ship that entered a hazard area downrange. Space One Co., a startup backed by…
Elon Musk’s X plans to launch a television app for Amazon and Samsung smart televisions next week, Fortune reported, citing an unidentified person working at the social media company. Musk aims to encourage users to watch long videos on a…