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Flite Material Sciences uses lasers, not chemical coatings, to keep ice and rust off surfaces

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And it would prompt Cohen to found his own startup, Flite Material Sciences , which debuted virtually at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield. It also went through several accelerator programs, including TechStars and Centech in Montreal. “And so theories started to emerge about why water can’t stay on these sharp spiky surfaces.”

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Profet AI helps manufacturers build prediction models and industrial AI software

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The company’s flagship products are its AutoML Virtual Data Scientist Platform and Ready To Go Applications. They are intended for use by clients in the semiconductor, electronics, chemicals and textile manufacturing industries.

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Microsoft offers Dynamics users fresh incentives to move to the cloud

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Microsoft unveiled a new incentive program on Tuesday to help enterprises still running its Dynamics ERP and CRM software on premises to move to the cloud. The program was unveiled at the company’s Inspire virtual event for partners and resellers. Microsoft has already tested the new program with some enterprise customers.

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

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They now use what they learn about a program to help build unit tests. But it’s a perfect job for LLMs that collect information as you write your program.” An additional use of new proteins is to detect chemicals in the body very quickly. “If The second is the tools go beyond coding assistance.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

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Part of that comes from the need to closely examine every relevant molecule, studying its chemical composition and interactions as well as its physical structure at the atomic level. San Diego-based startup Nanome uses virtual reality to solve that problem. San Diego-based startup Nanome uses virtual reality to solve that problem.

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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. Many IT leaders experimented with copilots and virtual assistants that helped users access existing systems. The whole LEO satellite connectivity is very important for us.

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

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For example, OpenAI in 2019 explored how how hordes of AI-controlled agents set loose in a virtual environment could learn increasingly sophisticated ways to hide from and seek each other. “Generally Intelligent’s goal is to develop general-purpose AI agents with human-like intelligence in order to solve problems in the real world.”

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