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15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024

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Generative AI investment skyrockets While corporate investment was down overall last year, investment in generative AI went through the roof. Another chart in the report shows that most of that private investment in generative AI is happening in the United States. Google released the most in 2023.

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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And a hundred years after that event, it serves as an important reminder that the world of computing and IT that IBM played a pivotal role in building has a longer history than we are likely to think. So let’s take a moment to contemplate the origins of an iconic corporation. to build the business. But at least three survived.

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Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

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history: into the violent overtaking of the Capitol building on 6 January 2021. But in order for investigators to identify suspects amidst a mob of thousands, it had to cast a very wide net and sought the cooperation of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Snap and carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile.

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DOE releases three reports showing strong growth in US fuel cell and hydrogen technologies market

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According to these reports, the United States continues to be one of the world’s largest and fastest growing markets for fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. Building on this progress, earlier this month the Energy Department announced more than $35 million to advance hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Earlier post.).

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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“The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. The SAGE system analyzed radar data, looking for Soviet bombers heading toward the United States. in Santa Monica, Calif.,

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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No more is said about Bush, even though he also opposed the first H-bomb test, on the grounds that the test, held on 1 November 1952, would help the Soviet Union build its own superweapon and accelerate a nuclear arms race. Bush was spared sanction and continued to serve in government, while Oppenheimer became a pariah.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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OTT was established in 2015 to advance the economic, energy, and national security interests of the United States by expanding the commercial impact of the Department of Energy’s research and development portfolio. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Louis , Mo.