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Mar 2024
AWS Machine Learning Blog
NVIDIA NIM microservices now integrate with Amazon SageMaker, allowing you to deploy industry-leading large language models (LLMs) and optimize model performance and cost. You can deploy state-of-the-art LLMs in minutes instead of days using technologies such as NVIDIA TensorRT, NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on NVIDIA accelerated instances hosted by SageMaker.
NIM, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform listed on AWS marketplace, is a set of inference microservices that bring the power
MIT News - Artificial intelligence
Imagine yourself glancing at a busy street for a few moments, then trying to sketch the scene you saw from memory. Most people could draw the rough positions of the major objects like cars, people, and crosswalks, but almost no one can draw every detail with pixel-perfect accuracy. The same is true for most modern computer vision algorithms: They are fantastic at capturing high-level details of a scene, but they lose fine-grained details as they
Coronavirus | The Guardian
Plaintiffs in Murthy v Missouri argue White House requests to take down coronavirus misinformation violate first amendmentThe supreme court heard oral arguments on Monday in a case that could upend the federal government’s relationship with social media companies and with lies online. Plaintiffs in Murthy v Missouri argue that White House requests to take down coronavirus misinformation on Twitter and Facebook constitute illegal censorship in violation the first amendment.The arguments began with Brian Fletcher, the principal
Coronavirus | The Guardian
Senior detective warns children are accessing extreme material as a result of lockdowns, after a 20-year-old was jailed on MondayA senior counter-terrorism officer has warned that children and young people are increasingly being radicalised online after spending long periods on the internet during the pandemic.Det Supt Andy Meeks said a growing number of vulnerable people were accessing extreme material after spending hours unsupervised online. Continue reading...
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence
Cancer Grand Challenges recently announced five winning teams for 2024, which included five researchers from MIT: Michael Birnbaum, Regina Barzilay, Brandon DeKosky, Seychelle Vos, and Ömer Yilmaz. Each team is made up of interdisciplinary cancer researchers from across the globe and will be awarded $25 million over five years.
Birnbaum, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Engineering, leads Team MATCHMAKERS and is joined by co-investigators Barzilay, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI
AWS Machine Learning Blog
Today, we are excited to announce the capability to fine-tune Code Llama models by Meta using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The Code Llama family of large language models (LLMs) is a collection of pre-trained and fine-tuned code generation models ranging in scale from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. Fine-tuned Code Llama models provide better accuracy and explainability over the base Code Llama models, as evident on its testing against HumanEval and MBPP datasets. You can fine-tune
Everyone's Blog Posts - RecruitingBlogs
Human resource management is among the top industries in the world and effective human resource management ultimately leads to an organization’s increased productivity and efficiency. So, this is the case with artificial intelligence. This newest technology has been transforming industries across the world by automating several tasks and enhancing accuracy, speed, and making the workplace smarter.
With the help of AI and Data Science, HR is evolving from a primarily administrative department to a more strategic
Coronavirus | The Guardian
Figures show many still ‘out of the habit’ of visiting museums, galleries, cathedrals, castles and country housesVisitor numbers to the UK’s museums, galleries, cathedrals, zoos, castles and country houses are increasing but remain stubbornly below pre-pandemic levels, with a significant number of people still “out of the habit” of having a day out.Figures released by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) on Monday show a mixed picture. On the bright side, there was a 19%
The Straits Times Business News
March 18, 2024 9:22 AMNon-electronics decreased while electronics grew.
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The Straits Times Business News
March 18, 2024 4:00 AMAs companies across the board pursue automation, investors can look out for long-term growth opportunities in tech stocks, say AXA Investment Managers.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence
Audio deepfakes have had a recent bout of bad press after an artificial intelligence-generated robocall purporting to be the voice of Joe Biden hit up New Hampshire residents, urging them not to cast ballots. Meanwhile, spear-phishers — phishing campaigns that target a specific person or group, especially using information known to be of interest to the target — go fishing for money, and actors aim to preserve their audio likeness.
What receives less press, however, are
AWS Machine Learning Blog
This post is co-written with Chaoyang He, Al Nevarez and Salman Avestimehr from FedML.
Many organizations are implementing machine learning (ML) to enhance their business decision-making through automation and the use of large distributed datasets. With increased access to data, ML has the potential to provide unparalleled business insights and opportunities. However, the sharing of raw, non-sanitized sensitive information across different locations poses significant security and privacy risks, especially in regulated industries such as healthcare.
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AWS Machine Learning Blog
This is a guest blog post written by Nitin Kumar, a Lead Data Scientist at T and T Consulting Services, Inc.
In this post, we discuss the value and potential impact of federated learning in the healthcare field. This approach can help heart stroke patients, doctors, and researchers with faster diagnosis, enriched decision-making, and more informed, inclusive research work on stroke-related health issues, using a cloud-native approach with AWS services for lightweight lift and straightforward adoption.
Coronavirus | The Guardian
Case to determine if White House violated free speech protections when it asked social networks to remove Covid misinformationThe supreme court will hear oral arguments on Monday in Murthy v Missouri, a case with the potential to radically redefine how the US government interacts with social media companies. The suit is the culmination of years of a Republican-backed legal campaign arguing that efforts by federal agencies and Joe Biden’s White House to reduce misinformation online constitute
Coronavirus | The Guardian
CDC data shows nearly 18m people could be living with long Covid even as health agency relaxes isolation recommendationsSome 6.8% of American adults are currently experiencing long Covid symptoms, according to a new survey from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), revealing an “alarming” increase in recent months even as the health agency relaxes Covid isolation recommendations, experts say.That means an estimated 17.6 million Americans could now be living with long Covid. Continue
The Straits Times Business News
March 15, 2024 2:10 PMHigh interest rates and a rising cost of living have damped sentiment and weighed on activity.
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The Straits Times Business News
March 15, 2024 1:59 PMFrance would need quarterly growth of 0.7% in both Q3 and Q4 to meet the government’s 1% growth forecast for 2024.
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Coronavirus | The Guardian
Researchers compared the symptoms and impairment of Covid and influenza patients a year after they tested positiveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLong Covid may be no different from other post-viral syndromes such as those experienced after flu, according to new research from Queensland Health.The lead author of the study, the state’s chief health officer Dr John Gerrard, said it was “time
The Straits Times Business News
March 15, 2024 9:09 AMThe issue price represents almost a 7 per cent discount to CSE’s volume-weighted average price of 42 cents.
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AWS Machine Learning Blog
This is a guest post co-written with Scott Gutterman from the PGA TOUR.
Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) has enabled new possibilities for building intelligent systems. Recent improvements in Generative AI based large language models (LLMs) have enabled their use in a variety of applications surrounding information retrieval. Given the data sources, LLMs provided tools that would allow us to build a Q&A chatbot in weeks, rather than what may have taken years previously, and likely
AWS Machine Learning Blog
In the world of software development, code review and approval are important processes for ensuring the quality, security, and functionality of the software being developed. However, managers tasked with overseeing these critical processes often face numerous challenges, such as the following:
Lack of technical expertise – Managers may not have an in-depth technical understanding of the programming language used or may not have been involved in software engineering for an extended period. This results
AWS Machine Learning Blog
Generative AI applications driven by foundational models (FMs) are enabling organizations with significant business value in customer experience, productivity, process optimization, and innovations. However, adoption of these FMs involves addressing some key challenges, including quality output, data privacy, security, integration with organization data, cost, and skills to deliver.
In this post, we explore different approaches you can take when building applications that use generative AI. With the rapid advancement of FMs, it’s an exciting time to
The Straits Times Business News
March 14, 2024 1:45 PMNet profits rose 13.1 per cent from 2022 to $26.1 billion in 2023.
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AWS Machine Learning Blog
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Gemma model is now available for customers using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Gemma is a family of language models based on Google’s Gemini models, trained on up to 6 trillion tokens of text. The Gemma family consists of two sizes: a 7 billion parameter model and a 2 billion parameter model. Now, you can use Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B pretrained and instruction-tuned models within SageMaker JumpStart. JumpStart is the machine learning (ML) hub
Coronavirus | The Guardian
Mark Drakeford criticises UK ministers and says there is ‘plausible case’ that Welsh government should have acted soonerThe Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, has launched a scathing attack on the UK government’s handling of the Covid crisis, but admitted his own administration should have taken “more stringent action” sooner as the pandemic swept the world.Appearing at the Welsh leg of the Covid inquiry, Drakeford likened Boris Johnson to an absent football manager at the start of
AWS Machine Learning Blog
Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are revolutionizing the financial industry for use cases such as fraud detection, credit worthiness assessment, and trading strategy optimization. To develop models for such use cases, data scientists need access to various datasets like credit decision engines, customer transactions, risk appetite, and stress testing. Managing appropriate access control for these datasets among the data scientists working on them is crucial to meet stringent compliance and regulatory requirements.
Coronavirus | The Guardian
Human development report finds the pandemic, conflict, globalisation and populism have combined to disproportionately affect lower-income countriesThe gulf between rich and poor countries continues to grow, according to the UN, furthering the reversal of a 20-year trend where the gap steadily shrank until 2020.The latest human development report found that although each of the 38 OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries has recovered from the Covid pandemic, only half of the least-developed countries have
The Straits Times Business News
March 13, 2024 12:00 PMSingapore’s GDP growth for 2024 was projected at 2.4%, up from an earlier prediction of 2.3%.
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The Straits Times Business News
March 13, 2024 9:25 AMThe euro zone’s second-biggest economy is set to grow 0.8 per cent in 2024
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BBC News
It comes after Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch broke ranks to say Frank Hester's reported words were racist.
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US Top News and Analysis
United is pausing pilot hiring, Southwest is trimming its schedule and Alaska said its growth plans are in flux because of Boeing's delivery delays.
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Apple Machine Learning Research
This paper was accepted at The 5th AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence.
Personalized recommendations form an important part of today's internet ecosystem, helping artists and creators to reach interested users, and helping users to discover new and engaging content. However, many users today are skeptical of platforms that personalize recommendations, in part due to historically careless treatment of personal data and data privacy. Now, businesses that rely on personalized recommendations are entering a new paradigm, where
AWS Machine Learning Blog
This post is co-written with Justin Miles, Liv d’Aliberti, and Joe Kovba from Leidos.
Leidos is a Fortune 500 science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. In this post, we discuss how Leidos worked with AWS to develop an approach to privacy-preserving large language model (LLM) inference using AWS Nitro Enclaves.
LLMs are designed to understand and generate human-like language,
US Top News and Analysis
Consumers still contended with price growth in February, new government data shows. Here's which goods and services went up the most.
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The Straits Times Business News
March 12, 2024 4:10 PMRegular wage growth dropped to 6.1% in the three months to end-January from 6.2% in Q4 2023.
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The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most talented and innovative minds in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our Ph.D. graduates have each expanded the frontiers of AI research and are now ready to embark on new adventures in academia, industry, and beyond.
These fantastic individuals bring with them a wealth of knowledge, fresh ideas, and a drive to continue contributing to the advancement of AI. Their work at
US Top News and Analysis
Charli D'Amelio, the second-most followed creator on TikTok, is looking to diversify her business as political tension builds.
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The Straits Times Business News
March 11, 2024 2:35 PMData from the SCCB showed that the Business Optimism Index rose for the third consecutive quarter in Q2
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The Straits Times Business News
March 11, 2024 5:00 AMThese global music events are a boon for Singapore’s travel-related services.
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US Top News and Analysis
The pharmaceutical giant has been trying to shore up investor sentiment after its shares fell more than 40% in 2023.
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Job growth rose by 275,000 in February, a concurrent uptick in the unemployment rate indicated potential signs of cooling.
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Everyone's Blog Posts - RecruitingBlogs
Recruitment automation software has revolutionized the hiring process, empowering recruiters and hirers to streamline and optimize candidate sourcing and management. These powerful tools leverage artificial intelligence to identify qualified candidates, verify profiles, and simplify the entire recruitment journey. In this article, we present a list of the top ten recruitment automation software solutions that recruiters and hirers should consider integrating into their hiring processes.
The Evolution of Recruitment Automation Software
The transition from traditional recruitment practices to the utilization
US Top News and Analysis
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 198,000 in February, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence
Peripheral vision enables humans to see shapes that aren’t directly in our line of sight, albeit with less detail. This ability expands our field of vision and can be helpful in many situations, such as detecting a vehicle approaching our car from the side.
Unlike humans, AI does not have peripheral vision. Equipping computer vision models with this ability could help them detect approaching hazards more effectively or predict whether a human driver would notice an
Coronavirus | The Guardian
US government has been mailing free at-home Covid tests on and off since January 2022 to curb spread of virusThe US government will stop accepting orders for free at-home Covid-19 tests on Friday, 8 March.Each household can still place an order until Friday for rapid coronavirus tests via the US Postal Service (USPS), according to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Continue reading...
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Sales at Gap's largest banner Old Navy have been down for more than a year but that trend reversed on Thursday when the retailer reported a 6% jump in revenue.
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AWS Machine Learning Blog
Many customers, including those in creative advertising, media and entertainment, ecommerce, and fashion, often need to change the background in a large number of images. Typically, this involves manually editing each image with photo software. This can take a lot of effort, especially for large batches of images. However, Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions make it straightforward to automate this process at scale.
Amazon Bedrock offers the generative AI foundation model Amazon Titan Image Generator
US Top News and Analysis
Private sector job growth improved during February as the U.S. labor market showed strength across a variety of sectors.
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Coronavirus | The Guardian
The 62-year-old, from Germany said he had the large number of vaccines for ‘private reasons’, researchers saidA “hypervaccinated” German man who reportedly received 217 Covid jabs in 29 months showed “no signs” of ever being infected with the virus that causes Covid-19 and had not reported any vaccine-related side-effects, according to a study published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.The 62-year-old, from Magdeburg, Germany said that he had the large number of vaccines for “private reasons”,
MIT News - Artificial intelligence
Generative AI is getting plenty of attention for its ability to create text and images. But those media represent only a fraction of the data that proliferate in our society today. Data are generated every time a patient goes through a medical system, a storm impacts a flight, or a person interacts with a software application.
Using generative AI to create realistic synthetic data around those scenarios can help organizations more effectively treat patients, reroute planes,
AWS Machine Learning Blog
This post is co-written with Sherwin Chu from Alida.
Alida helps the world’s biggest brands create highly engaged research communities to gather feedback that fuels better customer experiences and product innovation.
Alida’s customers receive tens of thousands of engaged responses for a single survey, therefore the Alida team opted to leverage machine learning (ML) to serve their customers at scale. However, when employing the use of traditional natural language processing (NLP) models, they found that these
The Straits Times Business News
March 04, 2024 4:50 PMAnalysts expect resale prices to continue rising, demand to pick up in coming months.
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Coronavirus | The Guardian
People bereaved by Covid want government recognition and protection for South Bank place of remembranceVolunteers at the Covid memorial wall are urging ministers to make the monument permanent as Britain marks its first national day of reflection after the pandemic.The wall runs between Westminster Bridge and Lambeth Bridge on South Bank in London and is looked after by a group of volunteers, who rely on public donations to maintain it. Continue reading...
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Coronavirus | The Guardian
Despite its trials saving thousands during the pandemic, funding is being stopped for the groundbreaking UK Recovery programmeIt changed the treatment of Covid-19 patients across the globe, saved thousands of lives by pinpointing cheap, effective drugs during the pandemic, and earned Britain widespread praise from international groups of scientists.But now government support for the UK Recovery programme is to end. In a few weeks’ time, central financing for the programme will halt. The scheme will only
AWS Machine Learning Blog
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has created opportunities to improve the customer experience in the contact center space. Machine learning (ML) technologies continually improve and power the contact center customer experience by providing solutions for capabilities like self-service bots, live call analytics, and post-call analytics. Self-service bots integrated with your call center can help you achieve decreased wait times, intelligent routing, decreased time to resolution through self-service functions or data collection, and improved net promoter
MIT News - Artificial intelligence
Our ability to cram ever-smaller transistors onto a chip has enabled today’s age of ubiquitous computing. But that approach is finally running into limits, with some experts declaring an end to Moore’s Law and a related principle, known as Dennard’s Scaling.
Those developments couldn’t be coming at a worse time. Demand for computing power has skyrocketed in recent years thanks in large part to the rise of artificial intelligence, and it shows no signs of slowing
MIT News - Artificial intelligence
Tamara Broderick first set foot on MIT’s campus when she was a high school student, as a participant in the inaugural Women’s Technology Program. The monthlong summer academic experience gives young women a hands-on introduction to engineering and computer science.
What is the probability that she would return to MIT years later, this time as a faculty member?
That’s a question Broderick could probably answer quantitatively using Bayesian inference, a statistical approach to probability that tries to
MIT News - Artificial intelligence
Benjamin Warf, a renowned neurosurgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital, stands in the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. More than 3,000 miles away, his virtual avatar stands next to Matheus Vasconcelos in Brazil as the resident practices delicate surgery on a doll-like model of a baby’s brain.
With a pair of virtual-reality goggles, Vasconcelos is able to watch Warf’s avatar demonstrate a brain surgery procedure before replicating the technique himself and while asking questions of Warf’s digital twin.
“It’s an
Feb 2024
AWS Machine Learning Blog
This guest post is written by Vihan Lakshman, Tharun Medini, and Anshumali Shrivastava from ThirdAI.
Large-scale deep learning has recently produced revolutionary advances in a vast array of fields. Although this stunning progress in artificial intelligence remains remarkable, the financial costs and energy consumption required to train these models has emerged as a critical bottleneck due to the need for specialized hardware like GPUs. Traditionally, even modestly sized neural models have required costly hardware accelerators
US Top News and Analysis
Salesforce said revenue growth will slow to 8.6% in the new fiscal year, but revenue guidance exceeds Wall Street's estimates.
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The Straits Times Business News
February 29, 2024 3:46 PMThe revenue boost was due to strong growth in Dyson’s beauty products.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence
The MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, co-directed by MIT professors Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, celebrated its official launch on Jan. 22. The new initiative’s mission is to analyze the forces that are eroding job quality and labor market opportunities for non-college workers and identify innovative ways to move the economy onto a more equitable trajectory. Here, Acemoglu, Autor, and Johnson speak about the origins, goals, and plans for their new
Coronavirus | The Guardian
Researchers found that deficits equivalent to six IQ points were detectable a year or more after infectionPeople experiencing long Covid have measurable memory and cognitive deficits equivalent to a difference of about six IQ points, a study suggests.The study, which assessed more than 140,000 people in summer 2022, revealed that Covid-19 may have an impact on cognitive and memory abilities that lasts a year or more after infection. People with unresolved symptoms that had persisted for
The Straits Times Business News
February 29, 2024 4:00 AMWorldFirst CEO Clara Shi believes that every SME has the potential to transcend borders in today’s digital economy.
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AWS Machine Learning Blog
Structured Query Language (SQL) is a complex language that requires an understanding of databases and metadata. Today, generative AI can enable people without SQL knowledge. This generative AI task is called text-to-SQL, which generates SQL queries from natural language processing (NLP) and converts text into semantically correct SQL. The solution in this post aims to bring enterprise analytics operations to the next level by shortening the path to your data using natural language.
With the emergence
The Straits Times Business News
February 28, 2024 9:50 PMIt posted a net profit of $34.1 million for the second half of the year
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence
MIT senior Sadhana Lolla has won the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which offers students an opportunity to pursue graduate study in the field of their choice at Cambridge University in the U.K.
Established in 2000, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship offers full-cost post-graduate scholarships to outstanding applicants from countries outside of the U.K. The mission of the scholarship is to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.
Lolla, a senior from
AWS Machine Learning Blog
This is a guest post written by Axfood AB.
In this post, we share how Axfood, a large Swedish food retailer, improved operations and scalability of their existing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) operations by prototyping in close collaboration with AWS experts and using Amazon SageMaker.
Axfood is Sweden’s second largest food retailer, with over 13,000 employees and more than 300 stores. Axfood has a structure with multiple decentralized data science teams with different
Coronavirus | The Guardian
Threat not discussed until weeks after chief medical officer warned of ‘significant risk’ it would reach WalesThe Welsh government’s cabinet did not discuss the threat posed by Covid as the virus spread across the world until a month after its chief medical officer had warned there was a “significant risk” it would reach Wales, the inquiry into the pandemic has heard.At the start of three weeks of hearings in Cardiff, the inquiry was told this was
The Straits Times Business News
February 27, 2024 2:45 PMThe Republic provides "a unique advantage to capture the growth potential" that the firm sees in the region.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence
Hundreds of robots zip back and forth across the floor of a colossal robotic warehouse, grabbing items and delivering them to human workers for packing and shipping. Such warehouses are increasingly becoming part of the supply chain in many industries, from e-commerce to automotive production.
However, getting 800 robots to and from their destinations efficiently while keeping them from crashing into each other is no easy task. It is such a complex problem that even the
Coronavirus | The Guardian
Police and ambulance workers given unlawful directions to get vaccinated or face potential disciplinary action, supreme court findsCovid-19 vaccine mandates for Queensland police and ambulance workers were made unlawfully, the state’s supreme court has found.The court on Tuesday delivered its judgments in three lawsuits brought by 86 parties against Queensland’s police ambulance services for their directions to workers issued in 2021 and 2022. Continue reading...
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The Straits Times Business News
February 27, 2024 12:24 PMIMF and other forecasters had projected a slowdown in the global economy in 2023 that did not happen.
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The Straits Times Business News
February 27, 2024 9:12 AMExpedia is contending with the apparent end of post-pandemic pent-up travel demand.
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US Top News and Analysis
Zoom's growth has moderated dramatically since the Covid pandemic, and the company is projecting a revenue increase of less than 2% for the current fiscal year.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence
In the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, Jospin Hassan didn’t have access to the education opportunities he sought. So, he decided to create his own.
Hassan knew the booming fields of data science and artificial intelligence could bring job opportunities to his community and help solve local challenges. After earning a spot in the 2020-21 cohort of the Certificate Program in Computer and Data Science from MIT Refugee Action Hub (ReACT), Hassan started sharing MIT knowledge
MIT News - Artificial intelligence
MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) has been awarded $1,365,000 in funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to support its involvement with an innovative project, “Forming the Smart Grid Deployment Consortium (SGDC) and Expanding the HILLTOP+ Platform.”
The grant was made available through ARC's Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies, which fosters regional economic transformation through multi-state collaboration.
Led by Kalyan Veeramachaneni, research scientist and principal investigator at LIDS' Data to AI Group, the
AWS Machine Learning Blog
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP), improving tasks such as language translation, text summarization, and sentiment analysis. However, as these models continue to grow in size and complexity, monitoring their performance and behavior has become increasingly challenging.
Monitoring the performance and behavior of LLMs is a critical task for ensuring their safety and effectiveness. Our proposed architecture provides a scalable and customizable solution for online LLM monitoring, enabling teams
MIT News - Artificial intelligence
As Media Lab students in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 teamed up for a class project to build a tool that would help content moderation teams at companies like Twitter (now X) and YouTube. The project generated a huge amount of excitement, and the researchers were invited to give a demonstration at a cyberbullying summit at the White House — they just had to get the thing working.
The
The Straits Times Business News
February 26, 2024 6:00 PMUOB is a leading patron of art in Asia, championing Southeast Asian art and artists across the region over the past four decades. What is the connection between art and banking? How has this shared history shaped UOB’s business today?
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The Straits Times Business News
February 25, 2024 11:59 AM30 years ago, the US entered an era of productivity gains that enabled healthy growth.
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The Straits Times Business News
February 24, 2024 5:00 AMIt will help MAS “anchor” capabilities across banking, capital markets, asset management and insurance.
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The Straits Times Business News
February 24, 2024 5:00 AMThe SkillsFuture Level-Up scheme aims to normalise upskilling and job switching, said experts.
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US Top News and Analysis
There was particularly strong growth in Block's payment platform, Cash App, and its point-of-sale suite, Square.
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The Straits Times Business News
February 23, 2024 12:00 PMMaybank wants overseas businesses to contribute to a bigger percentage of group activity
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Coronavirus | The Guardian
Results confirm how uncommon known complications are as researchers confirm benefits from vaccines still ‘vastly outweigh the risks’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTwo new but exceptionally rare Covid-19 vaccine side effects – a neurological disorder and inflammation of the spinal cord – have been detected by researchers in the largest vaccine safety study to date.The study of more than 99 million people from Australia, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,
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If barrier controlling substances entering and exiting brain is off balance, it can drive changes in neural functionFrom forgetfulness to difficulties concentrating, many people who have long Covid experience “brain fog”. Now researchers say the symptom could be down to the blood-brain barrier becoming leaky.The barrier controls which substances or materials enter and exit the brain. “It’s all about regulating a balance of material in blood compared to brain,” said Prof Matthew Campbell, co-author of the
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February 22, 2024 6:50 PMThe HCOB Flash Euro zone PMI recorded a figure of 48.9 in February from 47.9 in January.
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February 22, 2024 1:35 PMShein's rapid growth is putting pressure on retailers like Inditex to respond to its budget prices.
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Nvidia's total revenue rose 265% from a year ago, based on strong sales for AI chips for servers.
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February 22, 2024 5:00 AMThe enhancements announced in Budget 2024 can also bolster Singapore’s sustainability goals.
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Researchers think undercounting goes beyond overloaded health systems to a lack of awareness of Covid and low levels of testingThe Covid death toll in the US is likely at least 16% higher than the official tally, according to a new study, and researchers believe the cause of the undercounting goes beyond overloaded health systems to a lack of awareness of Covid and low levels of testing.The second year of the pandemic also had nearly as many
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February 21, 2024 10:10 AMExports rose 11.9% in January from a year earlier, beating economists’ forecast of a 9.5% gain.
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Walmart touted the ability to grow its ad business through a Vizio TV platform that allows users to watch free ad-supported content.
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Even if Nvidia shows incredible growth, it could still come up short of elevated expectations given the stock's fivefold increase since the end of 2022.
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Any drug that is taken orally must pass through the lining of the digestive tract. Transporter proteins found on cells that line the GI tract help with this process, but for many drugs, it’s unknown which of those transporters they use to exit the digestive tract.
Identifying the transporters used by specific drugs could help to improve patient treatment because if two drugs rely on the same transporter, they can interfere with each other and should
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The business secretary and ex-Post Office chair have clashed over comments about compensation.
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February 20, 2024 9:04 AMA final dividend of eight cents per share was proposed, bringing total dividend for the year to 13 cents.
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Modern chatbots can serve as digital agents, providing a new avenue for delivering 24/7 customer service and support across many industries. Their popularity stems from the ability to respond to customer inquiries in real time and handle multiple queries simultaneously in different languages. Chatbots also offer valuable data-driven insights into customer behavior while scaling effortlessly as the user base grows; therefore, they present a cost-effective solution for engaging customers. Chatbots use the advanced natural language capabilities
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Failure to tackle post-pandemic needs was ‘massive missed opportunity’, say council directorsChildren’s services leaders have called for a national “plan for childhood” to transform the health, emotional wellbeing and life chances of a generation of youngsters scarred by austerity and the pandemic.In a withering assessment of the government’s record over the past few years, they said ministers had presided over deepening child poverty, crumbling schools and an exploding health and wellbeing crisis in young people, with
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February 19, 2024 6:30 PMPart of the investment will be used to ensure that Singapore can secure access to advanced chips.
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A few years ago, MIT researchers invented a cryptographic ID tag that is several times smaller and significantly cheaper than the traditional radio frequency tags (RFIDs) that are often affixed to products to verify their authenticity.
This tiny tag, which offers improved security over RFIDs, utilizes terahertz waves, which are smaller and travel much faster than radio waves. But this terahertz tag shared a major security vulnerability with traditional RFIDs: A counterfeiter could peel the tag
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Today, we are excited to announce that Code Llama foundation models, developed by Meta, are available for customers through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to deploy with one click for running inference. Code Llama is a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) capable of generating code and natural language about code from both code and natural language prompts. You can try out this model with SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that provides access to algorithms, models, and
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Research finds greater proportion of people diagnosed with more advanced melanoma since Covid restrictionsDelays in diagnosis and treatment of a dangerous type of skin cancer because of Covid lockdowns resulted in more than 100,000 years of life lost across Europe and cost the economy more than £6bn, research has suggested.While lockdowns saved lives from Covid, ramifications of the restrictions are apparent in many areas of healthcare, from lengthy waiting lists for surgery to delays in cancer
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FDA doctor Peter Marks apologizes to viewers after far-right Republican claims children should not be given Covid vaccinesResponding to an expert’s statement that “about 3.2 million” American lives have been saved by vaccines against Covid, with “over 14 million lives” saved globally, the far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said: “I’m not a doctor, but I have a PhD in recognising bullshit when I hear it.”On Capitol Hill on Thursday, Greene attended a hearing staged by the
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Ford Pro is made up of the automaker's traditional fleet and commercial businesses as well as emerging telematics, logistics and other connective operations.
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Victims’ relatives hail creation of commission but ex-ministers say it will be used as political attackItaly will carry out an inquiry into its handling of the coronavirus pandemic in a move hailed as “a great victory” by the relatives of people killed by the virus but criticised by those who were in power at the time.Italy was the first western country to report an outbreak and has the second highest Covid-related death toll to date in
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February 15, 2024 5:28 PMMTI said the growth in pay per worker is likely to soften in 2024 amid easing labour market tightness.
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Pose estimation is a computer vision technique that detects a set of points on objects (such as people or vehicles) within images or videos. Pose estimation has real-world applications in sports, robotics, security, augmented reality, media and entertainment, medical applications, and more. Pose estimation models are trained on images or videos that are annotated with a consistent set of points (coordinates) defined by a rig. To train accurate pose estimation models, you first need to acquire
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Every time you smoothly drive from point A to point B, you're not just enjoying the convenience of your car, but also the sophisticated engineering that makes it safe and reliable. Beyond its comfort and protective features lies a lesser-known yet crucial aspect: the expertly optimized mechanical performance of microstructured materials. These materials, integral yet often unacknowledged, are what fortify your vehicle, ensuring durability and strength on every journey.
Luckily, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
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With the advent of generative AI solutions, organizations are finding different ways to apply these technologies to gain edge over their competitors. Intelligent applications, powered by advanced foundation models (FMs) trained on huge datasets, can now understand natural language, interpret meaning and intent, and generate contextually relevant and human-like responses. This is fueling innovation across industries, with generative AI demonstrating immense potential to enhance countless business processes, including the following:
Accelerate research and development
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Years of wrangling have ended in stalemate as campaigners question fairness of system for low and middle-income countriesThe World Trade Organization has failed to reach an agreement to waive intellectual property rights on Covid-19 tests and treatments for poorer countries.Members of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) council said it could not reach consensus after years of discussion, despite the “considerable efforts” of members. Continue reading...
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February 14, 2024 6:00 PMGenerative AI, blockchain technology. How will tech help keep your business ahead of the competition? HSBC Singapore shares findings from their Digital Horizons report.
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February 14, 2024 3:22 PMOperating profit at the games business fell 26 per cent.
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February 14, 2024 3:00 PMSINGAPORE - Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG) will have a new person at the helm from March 1.
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Researchers say policy created more psychological duress to ethnic group than Covid lockdown effects on UK populationThe UK’s hostile environment policies had a worse effect on the mental health of black Caribbean people than the coronavirus lockdown had on the wider population, researchers have found.The study, by academics at University College London and funded by the Wellcome collection, used longitudinal data from 58,087 people, with over 2,000 of these participants being from a black Caribbean background.
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Airbnb reported 17% revenue growth for the fourth quarter and provided an optimistic forecast for the current period.
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February 14, 2024 8:55 AMRevenue rose across all business segments led by hotels.
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February 14, 2024 8:24 AMThe layoffs represent about 7 per cent of its workforce.
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People who are fever-free for one day could reportedly return to regular routines, in change that White House has not signed off onThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reportedly planning to eliminate its recommendation that people testing positive for Covid-19 should isolate for five days – the first time its guidelines on Covid-19 have changed since December 2021.People with mild symptoms would be able to return to school or work if they are
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Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, share, and manage features for machine learning (ML) models. Features are inputs to ML models used during training and inference. For example, in an application that recommends a music playlist, features could include song ratings, listening duration, and listener demographics. Features are used repeatedly by multiple teams, and feature quality is critical to ensure a highly accurate model. Also, when features used to train
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When a human-AI conversation involves many rounds of continuous dialogue, the powerful large language machine-learning models that drive chatbots like ChatGPT sometimes start to collapse, causing the bots’ performance to rapidly deteriorate.
A team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has pinpointed a surprising cause of this problem and developed a simple solution that enables a chatbot to maintain a nonstop conversation without crashing or slowing down.
Their method involves a tweak to the key-value cache (which
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February 13, 2024 7:56 AMThe chip designer is benefiting from a push beyond smartphone technology, helping fuel growth and profitability.
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This post is co-written with Kostia Kofman and Jenny Tokar from Booking.com.
As a global leader in the online travel industry, Booking.com is always seeking innovative ways to enhance its services and provide customers with tailored and seamless experiences. The Ranking team at Booking.com plays a pivotal role in ensuring that the search and recommendation algorithms are optimized to deliver the best results for their users.
Sharing in-house resources with other internal teams, the
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Arm's strong growth forecast has led investors to declare it an artificial intelligence darling.
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Microsoft's cloud is growing significantly faster than Amazon Web Services of late, thanks in part to its cozy OpenAI relationship.
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February 12, 2024 10:00 AMA congressional investigation found that US funding helped fuel the growth of a sector now viewed by Washington as a security threat
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Annual Hilda survey of 17,000 Australians shows ‘clear trend of younger people becoming lonelier and feeling more isolated as time goes on’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralians are experiencing a large up-tick of psychological distress, with loneliness rising sharply among young people during the pandemic, a new study has revealed.The annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (Hilda) report examines data gathered between 2001 and 2021, by tracking
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Airbnb's sprawling marketplace enabled an arbitrage business to illicitly operate and attract investors in the process.
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In late 2019, after years of studying aviation and aerospace engineering, Hector (Haofeng) Xu decided to learn to fly helicopters. At the time, he was pursuing his PhD in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, so he was familiar with the risks associated with flying small aircraft. But something about being in the cockpit gave Xu a greater appreciation of those risks. After a couple of nerve-wracking experiences, he was inspired to make helicopter flight
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While analysts like Arm's backlog and royalties business, it's the company's role in AI that's pushing up its market multiple.
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Generative AI agents are a versatile and powerful tool for large enterprises. They can enhance operational efficiency, customer service, and decision-making while reducing costs and enabling innovation. These agents excel at automating a wide range of routine and repetitive tasks, such as data entry, customer support inquiries, and content generation. Moreover, they can orchestrate complex, multi-step workflows by breaking down tasks into smaller, manageable steps, coordinating various actions, and ensuring the efficient execution of processes within
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February 08, 2024 12:05 PMInCorp said Hillhouse’s acquisition is a strategic move that will enable it to further accelerate growth.
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Uber reported fourth-quarter results Wednesday that beat analysts' estimates for revenue and profit.
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February 07, 2024 5:15 PMThe deal sets the foundation for the firm's recovery and growth, says its CEO.
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February 07, 2024 2:07 PMIt plans to develop the 250-year leasehold site into a 17-storey apartment block.
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February 07, 2024 12:43 PMThe lowest 10 per cent in terms of household income saw the slowest average nominal income growth.
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As fourth-quarter earnings reports made clear, Snap is having a much tougher time than Meta when it comes to getting its ad business back on track.
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The MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced six fellows for the spring 2024 semester. With support from the program, the graduate students, who are in their final year of a master’s or PhD program, will conduct research in the areas of AI, machine learning, and data science with the aim of commercializing their innovations.
Launched by MIT’s School of Engineering and Pillar VC in 2022, the MIT-Pillar AI Collective supports faculty, postdocs, and students conducting research on
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This post is co-written with Ilan Geller, Shuyu Yang and Richa Gupta from Accenture.
Bringing innovative new pharmaceuticals drugs to market is a long and stringent process. Companies face complex regulations and extensive approval requirements from governing bodies like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A key part of the submission process is authoring regulatory documents like the Common Technical Document (CTD), a comprehensive standard formatted document for submitting applications, amendments, supplements, and reports to
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February 07, 2024 5:00 AMIt is hoped the IPO will allow the firm to achieve long-term growth and bring in cutting edge healthcare technologies.
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In 2021, the pharmaceutical industry generated $550 billion in US revenue. Pharmaceutical companies sell a variety of different, often novel, drugs on the market, where sometimes unintended but serious adverse events can occur.
These events can be reported anywhere, from hospitals or at home, and must be responsibly and efficiently monitored. Traditional manual processing of adverse events is made challenging by the increasing amount of health data and costs. Overall, $384 billion is projected as
Gainsharing
A client needed more knowledge about some different financial-based forms of remuneration we talked about: Gainsharing.
It might be good to have a definition here: Employees are financially rewarded based on the collective performance of the organisation or a specific department through gainsharing, a workplace incentive program. Unlike traditional profit-sharing, which distributes a portion of overall profits to employees, gain-sharing typically focuses on improvements in productivity, efficiency, cost reduction, or other performance metrics. When employees meet or exceed certain predetermined goals
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