Verse 12: Elon wants cocaine!?
Police in Switzerland were quite surprised to discover that a recent shipment to a Nespresso factory in Switzerland contained not just coffee—but also 500 kilos of cocaine. Coming just a short time after serial Twitter troll Elon Musk joked “Next I'm buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in”, it made us wonder if Nespresso is his next target?
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INTERESTING READS
Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free. The company said it would open up access to its Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT-175B), the first time that such a language model has been made available to any researcher.
Hotpot.ai uses AI to colorize black-and-white photos. The outcome is a sophisticated prediction about the colors of the people and objects in a picture.
Synthetic data can help create less biased data sets—but it’s no silver bullet. A majority of AI training data could be synthetic in two years, Gartner predicts.
COMPANY NEWS
GNS Healthcare and Arvinas Enter into Neuroscience Drug Discovery Collaboration, to better understand the biology of the underlying disease, how it progresses, and how potential drugs might perform at the individual patient level.
Rivery.io raises $16M Series A to expand SaaS DataOps platform. Launched in 2019, the company has grown rapidly and added hundreds of customers like Bayer, American Cancer Society, and WalkMe.
Cyral has raised a total of $41.1M in funding over 4 rounds. Cyral delivers enterprise data security and governance across all data services such as S3, Snowflake, Kafka, and more.
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MOVERS AND SHAKERS
🔼 CENTOGENE’s Chief Data Officer Bettina Goerner named as one of CDO Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40!
🔽 Apple’s Director of Machine Learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned in protest at the company forcing staff back to the office three days a week.
THE FUTURE OF DATA LICENSING
Share and Share Alike: A New Era for Data
We came across this excellent article yesterday and thought I'd share. What struck us most was that the use for external data is skyrocketing because of the combination of massive data growth and the development of technology and platforms to more easily disseminate such data.
Case in point for ALL of us: during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, fiercely competitive global pharmaceutical firms explored ways to share preclinical research data via data-sharing platforms. COVID-19 vaccine administrators, meanwhile, used centralized state-operated platforms to share daily micro-level vaccination and testing data with public health care agencies.
DATA CURATORS
🤔 To make AI fair, here’s what we must learn to do. Developers of artificial intelligence must learn to collaborate with social scientists and the people affected by its applications.
📈 Copyright Clearance Center Brings Ringgold In-House to Grow its Data Pipeline. The scholarly communications market is growing more connected, with machines now participating in the exchange of information.
📡 ConTech.Live announces the launch of the ConTech Scholarly API Series. The aim of the series is to discuss explore and learn about services that extract, combine, compare, and certify critical information.
... and finally, this Science Quiz 🧪 from quizly.co – 🤔How well can you do?