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Companies are seeking innovative ways to improve collaboration and productivity as remote and hybrid work become more common. Google Workspace has invested in generative AI tools to reduce user workload, but Almanac.

Google Workspace has invested in generative AI tools to reduce user workload, but Almanac, a platform for structured collaboration, believes that getting humans to work better together can increase productivity.

Following a closed beta that included over 1,000 organizations, including Indeed and Cisco, the company is now releasing early access to its platform. Additionally, it provides insight into how businesses can improve collaboration through “The Modern Work Method,” based on interviews with over 5,000 business leaders.

Gamers have been clamoring for better non-player characters (NPCs) for years, and the arrival of conversational AI may finally provide the computing superpower to make it possible. Several companies are now using natural language processing AI for games and entertainment, customer service, training and education. Mindverse’s MindOS targets enterprise, while Inworld helps game designers create AI powered NPCs (non player characters), which they describe as “Mind as a Service” (MaaS).

I saw Inworld’s extraordinary AI at work while attending the Disney Accelerator demo last fall where Inworld powered a very, very chatty and diplomatic 3CPO robot.

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SF startup Navier hopes to disrupt transportation with futuristic water taxis that would cruise on the bay. A possible alternative to BART, ferries and traffic.

Advancing Nuclear Energy Science And Technology For U.S. Energy, Environmental And Economic Needs — Dr. Katy Huff, Ph.D. — Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy.

Dr. Kathryn Huff, Ph.D. (https://www.energy.gov/ne/person/dr-kathryn-huff) is Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, where she leads their strategic mission to advance nuclear energy science and technology to meet U.S. energy, environmental, and economic needs, both realizing the potential of advanced technology, and leveraging the unique role of the government in spurring innovation.

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Accelerating Breakthroughs in Critical and Emerging Technologies — Dr. Erwin Gianchandani, Ph.D. — Assistant Director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

Dr. Erwin Gianchandani, Ph.D. is Assistant Director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, U.S. National Science Foundation, leading the newly established TIP Directorate (https://new.nsf.gov/tip/leadership).

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Learn more about MinnaLearn’s and the University of Helsinki’s AI course — no programming or complicated math required.

AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, states that Moore’s Law is not dead and that innovations such as chiplets & 3D packaging will help overcome the challenges.

Moore’s Law Is Not Dead, Says AMD’s CEO: Working On 3nm, 2nm & Beyond With Latest Innovations

In an interview with Barron’s, AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, points out that Moore’s Law is not dead but has slowed down and things need to be done differently to overcome the performance, efficiency, and cost challenges. AMD has been the pioneer of advancing 3D packaging and chiplet technology with its first HBM designs back in 2015, chiplet processors in 2017, and also the first 3D packaging on a chip with its 3D V-Cache design in 2022.

In an effort to understand the origin of our galaxies, astronomers have spotted an insane, galactic showdown for the ages: four giant black holes in dwarf galaxies destined to collide, though not all in the same place. But boy, did they score a grand slam of astronomy firsts.

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the astronomers kept a close eye on two separate pairs of merging dwarf galaxies. One is in a cluster 760 million light-years away, the other, over 3.2 billion. Unfortunately, us humans are relegated to the nosebleeds for this one.

Still, we don’t need to be close up to understand the significance of the findings, which were published as a study in The Astrophysical Journals. According to the researchers, it’s the first evidence of large black holes in merging dwarf galaxies at all.

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin announced May 4 it is consolidating several businesses focused on space into three sectors: Commercial civil space, national security space, and strategic and missile defense.

“With an eye toward the future and building on our current business momentum, these changes position us to deliver end-to-end solutions for today’s mission demands and well into the future,” said Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space.