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by Nick Passero, Director AI Data & Analytics, Databricks Practice Lead Each year, the Databricks Data + AI Summit sets the agenda for enterprise data and AI. With more than 30,000 attendees at Moscone Center, this year felt different. Not because of any single announcement, but because of what the
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A new survey by KFF, an independent health policy research firm, suggests that people who rely on social media and AI chatbots for health advice are more likely to believe false claims about vaccines. The poll asked 2,480 US adults about their use of social media apps and AI
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Claude Code finally has a Linux desktop app. * The app works swimmingly if you play by the rules. * Trying to make it work locally was an exercise in futility. As a hard-core Linux user, I&
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* Electricity demand is now growing faster than energy suppliers can keep up with * Volatile AI workloads cause unpredictable peaks and troughs in demand * AI could actually help predict, despite also being the cause With three in four (77%) electricity execs now believing that data center energy demand will grow faster
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The automotive industry is at a pivotal crossroads as it hits the gas on adopting new technology. The era of the traditional connected vehicle has shifted into the age of the software-defined vehicle (SDV), notable for rapid innovation with many new capabilities delivered over the air. By integrating AI and
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There's an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they're building the second. Velocity without discipline and strategic direction is a liability, not an asset. The hardest
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I’ve long argued that Hollywood has simultaneously set and ruined our expectations for smart glasses. But after binge-watching two seasons of Netflix’s A Man on the Inside, this is perhaps the first time I’ve seen Hollywood, perhaps inadvertently, illustrate the biggest cultural problem with smart glasses as
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* Portugal vs Spain Kick-Off time: Monday, July 6 | 8pm BST / 3pm ET / 5am AEST (Tue) * Watch free on BBC (UK) / SBS (AUS) / CazéTV's YouTube (Brazil) * Unlock your free streams with Norton VPN (60-day money back guarantee) Watch Portugal vs Spain in the last 16 of the FIFA World
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AMD Ryzen AI Halo AI Workstation: MSRP $3,999 AMD has its own small, quiet AI workstation loaded with fast memory and storage, but unlike the competition this one runs Windows or Linux to reach additional users and markets. * Huge 128 GB memory pool * Windows 11 and Linux options available
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CoinsDo, a Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) provider for crypto businesses, will exhibit at WebX 2026, held at The Prince Park Tower Tokyo on 13-14 July. The company will meet exchange, payment, and fintech teams at booth S5 and demonstrate the wallet infrastructure that runs underneath digital-asset operations: deposit collection, automated withdrawals, transaction
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There is a comfortable assumption in the local LLM world: if a model only activates a few billion parameters per token, it will run fast on modest hardware. Sparse mixture-of-experts models are sold on exactly that promise. GLM-4.7-Flash is 30 billion parameters on paper and lights up roughly 3
