Want AI agents to work better? Improve the way they retrieve information, Databricks says

The idea of the Instructed Retriever architecture is that it turns these implied conditions into explicit search parameters.
Wall Street Journal

Databricks Is Raising Funds at $134 Billion Valuation

Databricks is raising over $4 billion in Series L funding that would value the data-analytics and artificial-intelligence software company at $134 billion, an increase of 34% from its last funding ...
Live Science

New 'DNA cassette tape' can store up to 1.5 million times more data than a smartphone — and the data can last 20,000 years if frozen

Running out of space on your phone? Don't upgrade your cloud-storage subscription just yet. Scientists in China have discovered that images, text files and other digital data can be stored in strands ...
American Banker

How OceanFirst uses AI to investigate crime, analyze bonds

"This has been what seems like a lifelong pursuit of AI," says Brian Schaeffer, chief information officer at OceanFirst Bank. AI is "inherent in everything we do." At OceanFirst Bank, ...
AOL

Why your holiday shopping data needs a cleanup now

If the ads you see in December feel a little too accurate, you are not imagining it. The holiday shopping season is the busiest time of the year for retailers and for data brokers. These companies ...
San Antonio Express-News

You can claim up to $7,500 in AT&T data breach settlement. Here's how.

After two separate data breaches that led to the theft of highly sensitive customer information last year, Dallas-based AT&T agreed to settle a class action lawsuit by paying those affected a total of ...
ConsumerAffairs

What is a ‘data center’ and how much electricity does it use?

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...
GitHub

Glary Utilities – Modular System Refinement and Intelligent Cleanup Architecture

Glary Utilities is an optimization environment designed to manage system cleanup, performance refinement, and controlled maintenance tasks. It supports workflows involving glary utilities, glaries ...
WRIC

CleanArc Data Centers breaks ground on $3 billion data center campus in Caroline

CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — CleanArc Data Centers officially broke ground on the $3 billion data center campus in Caroline County on Thursday — the first of three data centers set to generate 50 new ...
Virginia Business

Data center developer to build $3B campus in Caroline

CleanArc Data Centers is building a $3 billion data center campus in Caroline County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. Located in Ruther Glen, the data center campus is expected to create 50 ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...