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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

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With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

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Some even implemented their own virtual personal assistants (VPAs), which included at least natural language processing—and sometimes more intelligence than that. Procter & Gamble launched an internal LLM-based chatbot to boost productivity and innovation, calling it chatPG.

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How the new AI executive order stacks up: B-

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The White House’s new executive order, “ Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence ,” is poised to usher in a new era of national AI regulation, focusing on safety and responsibility across the sector. Naturally, such guidelines are only effective in encouraging innovation if they are consistently applied.

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400G: Building Bandwidth for the Next Lap

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Innovation and improvements in phase modulation and coherent reception increased spectral efficiency by about 20% yearly, effectively reducing costs by enhancing single-fibre capacity. Huawei’s second innovation is ultra-high component integration. The third innovation is the ultra-broadband optical amplifier.

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AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund

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AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. ” A sorter machine from AMP Robotics.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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The victors may not be the greatest innovators, but they’ll be the best at protecting their innovations. A lot of this was incremental innovation around the user interface of coding assistants that developers have been using for 25 years,” says Sonnenblick. The second is the tools go beyond coding assistance. “You

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Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform

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While a traditional microprocessor processes binary code, Seagate’s chip has tiny reservoirs that process small amounts of synthetic DNA in liquid form; liquid from one reservoir on the chip can be processed with liquid from another reservoir to produce a chemical reaction.

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