Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Monday, June 29, 2026
NeoML Released as TensorFlow Alternative
A new open source library for training machine learning models is billed as rivaling the performance of AI models trained with established libraries like TensorFlow, especially models running on a mobile device. NeoML, described as a “cross-platform machine learning framework” supporting deep learning and ML algorithms, was launched this week on GitHub by ABBYY. The ... Full article
Dell EMC Looks to Scale File, Object Storage
Infrastructure vendors are increasingly turning their attention to hyper-storage systems enterprise customers require to organize and leverage mountains of unstructured data. Comes now the latest offering from Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) that meshes hardware and software-defined storage designed to help manage file and object data stored either on-premises, in public clouds or the network edge. ... Full article
AWS Graviton2 Arm-Based EC2 Instances Now Available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of sixth-generation Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. The new instances are available starting today in a variety of sizes across four regions alongside the general-purpose M6g, which became available last month. The 7nm Graviton2 processors, which utilize 64-bit Arm ... Full article
Crypto-Jackers Target Exposed Kubernetes Workloads
As the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator moves deeper into enterprise infrastructure, cyber criminals continue to probe for weaknesses, frequently targeting application container image repositories. The latest onslaught involves misconfigured Kubeflow machine learning clusters running in the Microsoft Azure cloud. The company said crypto-currency miners succeeded in deploying a malicious Kubeflow image via an exposed Kubernetes dashboard. ... Full article
Breaking Down Dark Data Barriers in Asset-Intensive Industries
The phrase “Dark Data” – referring to data that is unknown or untapped – has been bantered around technology conferences for years. Many industries are well on their way to becoming data-driven, but asset-intensive industries, like utilities, oil & gas, mining, rail, and others that earn revenue off self-constructed, long lived, complex assets, are still ... Full article
Chip Architect Jim Keller Resigns from Intel
Prominent chip exec Jim Keller is parting ways with Intel, where he led the Silicon Engineering Group for two years. Keller resigned effective today (June 11) for “personal reasons,” and will stay on as a consultant for six months, according to Intel. Keller has more than two decades experience spearheading advanced x86 and ARM-based microarchitectures ... Full article
AI Comes to Factory Quality Control
Among the challenges of “re-shoring” manufacturing from China are the vagaries of consumer demand. For example, demand during the pandemic for personal protection gear and toilet paper has far outstripped supplies. Previously, North American manufactures would spend heavily to ramp up production only to find demand disappearing after several months. The long-term solution for manufacturers, ... Full article
IBM Halts Facial Recognition Sales
In a nod to the national discussion on racial equality and law enforcement, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna this week said the company will no longer sell facial recognition technology. He also called for greater transparency in use of body cameras worn by police and warned about the dangers of bias in AI systems used by ... Full article
AI Trust Remains an Issue in the Life Sciences
The rise of AI – machine and deep learning – in life sciences has stirred the same excitement and skepticism as in other fields of scientific research. AI is mostly used in two areas of life sciences. The first is embedded in instruments such as cryo-electron microscopes, where AI tools assists in feature recognition. Those ... Full article
DataRobot Partners With Boston Consulting on AI Deployments
DataRobot, the automated machine learning software vendor, continued its string of acquisitions this week with a deal to buy Boston Consulting Group’s AI technology platform. The companies also announced a strategic partnership that would combine consulting services with DataRobot’s intellectual property. The AI acquisition and partnership seek to address the growing number of unsuccessful enterprise ... Full article
DARPA Stress Tests its Hardware-Centric Security Approach
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a cyber security effort several years back designed to replace commonly used security patches for software applications with the ability to spot hardware vulnerabilities at their source. Researchers working under the initiative, System Security Integration Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH), have developed secure architectures and tools to protect ... Full article
Qeexo Takes ‘TinyML’ to AWS Cloud
Qeexo, the Carnegie Mellon University spinoff, is expanding public cloud access to its automated machine learning platform as it pushes its no-code “TinyML” approach to the network edge. The company this week announced general availability of its AutoML platform as a web application hosted on Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN). Expanded cloud access is designed ... Full article
AI Career Notes: June 2020 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades: Luiz André Barrosso Luiz André Barrosso, vice president of Engineering at Google, is the recipient of the 2020 Eckert-Mauchly Award for the design of warehouse-scale computing. The basis of ... Full article
Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled – Here’s How Explainable AI Can Help
Many deep neural networks (DNNs) make their predictions from behind an incomprehensible “black box,” which leads domain experts to question the internal reasoning behind why the model made certain decisions. What features were considered with what weightage, and how do these factors affect the final prediction? This is exactly the problem Explainable AI (XAI) tries ... Full article
Anaconda, IBM Expand Open AI Collaboration
IBM will integrate Anaconda’s Python-based data science platform into its Watson Studio and Cloud Pak data offerings as a way to advance open source AI development. Watson Studio, IBM’s data prep and model building platform, will in turn be offered on Anaconda’s repository. Among the goals of the partnership announced on Thursday (June 4) is ... Full article
Breaking Down COVID-19 Models – Limitations and the Promise of Machine Learning
Every major news outlet offers updates on infections, deaths, testing, and other metrics related to COVID-19. They also link to various models, such as those on HealthData.org, from The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent global health research center at the University of Washington. Politicians, corporate executives, and other leaders rely on ... Full article
COVID Hurts Overall IT Spending, Cloud Benefits
The pandemic was expected to slow global IT spending. The only questions being by how much and for how long. Hard numbers for the beginning of this year are coming in, with declines from a year ago approaching double digits along with tempering of cloud and colocation investments. Among the most closely watched results are ... Full article
Dell Integrates Bitfusion for vHPC, GPU ‘Pools’
Dell Technologies advanced its hardware virtualization strategy to AI workloads this week with the introduction of capabilities aimed at expanding access to GPU and HPC services via its EMC, VMware and recently acquired Bitfusion units. The result would be an “AI anywhere” capability in which machine learning and other workloads could scale on hybrid cloud ... Full article
New Chip Approaches Seek to Keep Up with AI
Exploding data sets and complex software have made it harder for single-purpose platforms like ASICs to keep up with the growing demands of enterprise datacenters. Heavy investments in chip design and development therefore run the risk of obsolescence by the time they are deployed. In response, an ecosystem is emerging around greater programmability that promises ... Full article
10nm, 7nm, 5nm…. Should the Chip Nanometer Metric Be Replaced?
The biggest cool factor in server chips is the nanometer. AMD beating Intel to a CPU built on a 7nm process node* – with 5nm and 3nm on the way – has been instrumental to AMD’s data center market resurgence. Nanometer cachet is incalculable: on it, companies, careers and fortunes are made and lost. But ... Full article