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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

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British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. From a sustainability perspective, utilizing a cloud platform unlocks the company’s data and its value chain’s data end-to-end,” Burion says. “We

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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In this conversation with Foundry, Kopal dives deep into her career progression, the challenges of marrying manufacturing with digitization and WABTEC’s commitment to sustainability. India’s Vande Bharat trains are powered by WABTEC’s technology. We’re using generative AI use cases to train the drivers to fix problems.

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Katakem’s ‘robot chef’ speeds up drug development with reliable chemistry

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With Katakem, Oliverio aims to develop what he calls a “robot chef” for chemists — a device that makes chemical reactions more consistently reproducible while accelerating the experimental process. “The production of a chemical product is strictly regulated and standardized. Image Credits: Katakem. million ($1.27

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Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

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. “Prosperity7 inspired us to look into sustainable chemistry,” said Zhavoronkov. The same technology can also be applied to find novel and useful molecules for sustainable chemistry, an emerging area to which Aramco has devoted much effort, the founder explained.

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

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Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. We wanted to make the shrimp business more sustainable and more efficient without destroying the environment,” Russek said. “We million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

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From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. With just over a 1.5%

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IBM Launches Watsonx: A New Platform for Foundation Models and Generative AI

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They can be adapted and fine-tuned for specific use cases with less data and computational resources than training a model from scratch. Use a data store to gather and cleanse training and tuning data from various sources and formats. Train and deploy custom AI capabilities across their entire business with speed and confidence.