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Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI

On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might suggest the former President “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lawful speech” in AI products. The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick […]

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For $20 a month, you can host meetings in Mozilla’s mini metaverse

November 29, 2022

Mozilla’s Hubs offering has been kicking around for several years now. Lucas described a 2018 preview of the service thusly, “It’s not Second Life, or even Facebook Spaces; it’s pretty low-key. You’re just a humble robot hanging with other robots who are hopefully your friends.” The service has expanded features since then (including the arrival […]

For $20 a month, you can host meetings in Mozilla’s mini metaverse by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon introduces AWS Supply Chain to help bring order to supply chain chaos

November 29, 2022

Over the last several years, we’ve seen supply chain disruptions the likes of which we haven’t seen previously. The pandemic led to a series of issues that spiraled into a full-blown supply chain crisis. Amazon wants to put AWS technology to work on the problem, and today the company announced a new supply chain solution […]

Amazon introduces AWS Supply Chain to help bring order to supply chain chaos by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

AWS gets data clean rooms for analytics data

November 29, 2022

AWS today launched a new service that will help users inside an advertising or marketing organization share data with other employees inside their company or with outside partners, all without running the risk of inadvertently sharing personal data. This new service is part of Amazon’s new AWS for Advertising & Marketing initiative, which aims to […]

AWS gets data clean rooms for analytics data by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

AWS SimSpace Weaver can run city-sized simulations in the Cloud

November 29, 2022

At this morning’s Re:Invent keynote in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled AWS SimSpace Weaver, a computing service that allows developers to run city-sized simulations at scale in the cloud. The service is designed to free simulation developers from the constraints of their own hardware. Amazon’s proposed applications here are city managers simulating a natural disaster to […]

AWS SimSpace Weaver can run city-sized simulations in the Cloud by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

AWS now supports natural language forecasting queries in QuickSight Q

November 29, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced some notable new natural language querying capabilities that enable non-analysts to forecast future business outcomes. By way of a quick recap, AWS first introduced its QuickSight business intelligence service back in 2015, allowing customers to visualize their data through dashboards and reports without requiring the technical prowess of a […]

AWS now supports natural language forecasting queries in QuickSight Q by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon announces preview of new Inf2 instances designed for larger models

November 29, 2022

As companies build more complex machine learning models, the cost of training and running these models becomes a real issue. AWS has created a series of custom instances to help bring down the cost, and today it introduced a preview of an all-new Inf2 instance for EC2 designed to process data from larger workloads more […]

Amazon announces preview of new Inf2 instances designed for larger models by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data

November 29, 2022

AWS today announced Amazon Security Lake, a new purpose-built data lake for security-related data. It can aggregate data from cloud and on-premises infrastructure, firewalls and endpoint security solutions. It helps enterprises centralize all of their security data in a single data lake, using a standards-based format, and manage the lifecycle of this data. Security Lake […]

Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon takes a step towards a zero ETL future with two announcements at re:Invent

November 29, 2022

Amazon made a couple of announcements today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas that helps move data management towards a future without the need for ETL. ETL, extract transform load, is the bane of every data scientist and team as they try to get data into shape to put it to work. As AWS CEO […]

Amazon takes a step towards a zero ETL future with two announcements at re:Invent by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter says it’s no longer enforcing COVID-19 misleading information policy

November 29, 2022

Twitter is no longer enforcing its policy against misleading information about COVID-19, per an update posted to an official company blog page. Reuters spotted the change earlier — which said the change was effective as of last Wednesday. “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” the social media […]

Twitter says it’s no longer enforcing COVID-19 misleading information policy by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch