Artificial intelligence is revolutionising everything from workflows to networking — so how can you bring AI into your research practice?
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Speed And Innovation: How DevOps Is Transforming Business Landscapes
Today’s fast-moving, technology-enabled world of business is measured by speed and innovation. DevOps is the cultural shift combining software development and IT operations that helps improve collaboration, optimize workflow and increase overall operational efficiency.
Adopting DevOps currently enables companies to integrate continuous software updates, decrease errors through automation and easily scale cloud solutions. For businesses looking to maintain or even increase competitiveness and grow technology, this is a necessary transformation.
While DevOps transformation is often presented as a buzzword, it’s now a movement that shapes how teams create and deploy software. DevOps, at its core, is about collaboration at the intersection of development and operations that blurs the lines between these two groups. DevOps teams each integrate faster and more efficient software delivery by integrating these teams.
Collaboration uncovers how gravity influences qubits
A collaboration between Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, hosted by Stockholm University, KTH and Google Quantum AI explores how gravitational fields influence quantum computing hardware, laying the foundation for advances in quantum sensing.
Physicists from Nordita, together with Google Quantum AI, have published a pioneering study that investigates how classical gravitational fields can influence the performance of quantum computing hardware.
The research, led by Professor Alexander Balatsky (Nordita and KTH) and Pedram Roushan (Google’s project leader in quantum computing), highlights a surprising interplay between gravity and quantum systems, breaking new ground in quantum technology. The team also includes Patrick Wong and Joris Schaltegger, researchers at Nordita.
AI agents for e-commerce startup, founded by Google and DeepMind alums, raises $10M seed
Dubai-based Qeen.ai (stylized as qeen.ai) is working to make this a reality in the Middle East and beyond. The startup has raised $10 million to scale its platform, which provides autonomous AI agents for e-commerce businesses.
Prosus Ventures, a major e-commerce investor, led the seed round, which is not only one of the largest in the Middle East’s AI industry but in MENA overall. The VC believes Qeen.ai is well-positioned to bring AI-driven automation to merchants as AI agents reshape online marketplaces.
Founders Morteza Ibrahimi (CEO), Ahmad Khwlieh (CTO), and Dina Alsamhan (CBO) started Qeen after years of working on AI at Google and DeepMind.
Deep Research STUNNING Performance REPLACES Human Labor, Paves Way for Agents
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OpenAI’s Altman Clinches Deal With Kakao, Second Major Asian Alliance This Week
In today’s AI news, OpenAI said on Tuesday it will develop artificial intelligence products for South Korea with chat app operator Kakao. In a whirlwind tour through Asia, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman is also scheduled to visit India on Wednesday where he is seeking to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In other advancements, Tana is emerging from stealth, announcing $25 million in funding from an interesting list of backers to get started. Tana is part automated-list builder and note taker, part application enabler, and part organizer. It can listen to conversations or voice memos directed to Tana itself, transcribing them and turns them into action items.
Then, OpenAI filed a new application to trademark products associated with its brand — “OpenAI” — with the USPTO. Normally, this wouldn’t be newsworthy. Companies file for trademarks all the time. But in the application, OpenAI hints at new product lines both nearer-term and of a more speculative nature.
And, a South Korean startup called Cinamon is ramping up efforts to claim a part of this burgeoning market — it recently raised an $8.5 million Series B round to continue building its animated video generation platform “CINEV,” slated to be launched in beta in the first half of 2025.
In videos, watch World Wide Technology Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh and NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang talk about the evolution and future of AI. During the discussion, Jim and Jensen will also provide practical tips for implementing AI at scale within the enterprise.
Then, billionaire SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son and OpenAI chief Sam Altman took to a Tokyo stage Monday to outline their 50–50 collaboration. The venture, which will operate under SoftBank’s telecoms arm, will hire 1,000 people from SoftBank to market OpenAI products to industries from carmakers to retailers.
And, Jerrod Lew is back with another demonstration of Google’s Veo 2 video generator. In this episode Jerrod demonstrates Veo 2’s awesome ability to create videos of food being cooked and served. I imagine Google’s experience with YouTube makes Veo 2 a really good choice when it comes to video creation.
Scientists Develop Artificial Neurons That Mimic Human Perception
Advancements could enhance perceptual capabilities in robotics. Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain a challenging target for organic electronics experts due to the dependence of human senses on an adaptive network of sensory neurons that communicate by firing in response to environmental stimuli.
The Goodness of the Universe
Outer Space, Inner Space, and the Future of Networks.
Synopsis: Does the History, Dynamics, and Structure of our Universe give any evidence that it is inherently “Good”? Does it appear to be statistically protective of adapted complexity and intelligence? Which aspects of the big history of our universe appear to be random? Which are predictable? What drives universal and societal accelerating change, and why have they both been so stable? What has developed progressively in our universe, as opposed to merely evolving randomly? Will humanity’s future be to venture to the stars (outer space) or will we increasingly escape our physical universe, into physical and virtual inner space (the transcension hypothesis)? In Earth’s big history, what can we say about what has survived and improved? Do we see any progressive improvement in humanity’s thoughts or actions? When is anthropogenic risk existential or developmental (growing pains)? In either case, how can we minimize such risk? What values do well-built networks have? What can we learn about the nature of our most adaptive complex networks, to improve our personal, team, organizational, societal, global, and universal futures? I’ll touch on each of these vital questions, which I’ve been researching and writing about since 1999, and discussing with a community of scholars at Evo-Devo Universe (join us!) since 2008.
For fun background reading, see John’s Goodness of the Universe post on Centauri Dreams, and “Evolutionary Development: A Universal Perspective”, 2019.
John writes about Foresight Development (personal, team, organizational, societal, global, and universal), Accelerating Change, Evolutionary Development (Evo-Devo), Complex Adaptive Systems, Big History, Astrobiology, Outer and Inner Space, Human-Machine Merger, the Future of AI, Neuroscience, Mind Uploading, Cryonics and Brain Preservation, Postbiological Life, and the Values of Well-Built Networks.
He is CEO of Foresight University, founder of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, and co-founder of the Evo-Devo Universe research community, and the Brain Preservation Foundation. He is editor of Evolution, Development, and Complexity (Springer 2019), and Introduction to Foresight: Personal, Team, and Organizational Adaptiveness (Foresight U Press 2022). He is also author of The Transcension Hypothesis (2011), the proposal that universal development guides leading adaptive networks increasingly into physical and virtual inner space.
A talk for the ‘Stepping into the Future‘conference (April 2022).
The Goodness of the Universe: Outer Space, Inner Space, and the Future of Networks /w John Smart
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Is The Singularity And The Transcendence Of Artificial Intelligence A Key Factor For A New Era Of Humanity?
However, despite these advances, human progress is never without risks. Therefore, we must address urgent challenges, including the lack of transparency in algorithms, potential intrinsic biases and the possibility of AI usage for destructive purposes.
Philosophical And Ethical Implications
The singularity and transcendence of AI could imply a radical redefinition of the relationship between humans and technology in our society. A typical key question that may arise in this context is, “If AI surpasses human intelligence, who—or what—should make critical decisions about the planet’s future?” Looking even further, the concretization of transcendent AI could challenge the very concept of the soul, prompting theologians, philosophers and scientists to reconsider the basic foundations of beliefs established for centuries over human history.