New house builds slowing down in Sedgwick County
There's a housing shortage in Wichita and Sedgwick county. Despite the shortfall, the number of new homes being built shrunk in 2023 compared to the year before.
There's a housing shortage in Wichita and Sedgwick county. Despite the shortfall, the number of new homes being built shrunk in 2023 compared to the year before.
In a 2022 survey by Great Expectations, an open source data benchmarking platform, 77% of organizations said they were concerned about their data quality. On Wednesday, Weka, a platform for building data pipelines that handle a range of data sources, types, and sizes, announced that it raised $140 million in a two-part ($100 million and $40 million) Series E round led by Valor Equity Partners, with participation from Nvidia, Norwest Venture Partners, Micron Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Hitachi Ventures and others. The oversubscribed round values Weka at $1.6 billion post-money, double the company's previous valuation.
Google has open-sourced more code for Project Gameface, allowing developers to build Android applications that can use the hands-free "mouse" technology.
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Director Sam Taylor-Johnson explains the "careful way" she portrayed Amy Winehouse in new biopic as critics take issue with how difficult subject matter is handled.
April's update on retail sales comes as economists are closely watching for any signs of weakening consumer demand amid sticky inflation and higher interest rates.
The U.S. restaurant industry is expected to pass $1 trillion in sales for the first time this year, despite wider economic pressures on consumers. Now Restaurant365, a startup building tech to manage those businesses, has raised a hot $175 million to capitalize on that growth. The funding is being led by ICONIQ Growth, with KKR and L Catterton also participating, all existing backers of the company.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing business, has confirmed further details of its European "sovereign cloud," which is designed to enable greater data residency across the region. The company said that the first AWS sovereign cloud region will be set up in the German state of Brandenburg, and will go live by the end of 2025. AWS added that it plans to invest €7.8 billion ($8.5 billion) in the facility through 2040.
Last year, Ilya Sutskever admitted that he regretted the role he played in the sudden dismissal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman.
Clark set the Indiana Fever’s franchise record for turnovers (10), shot 5-of-15 from the floor and struggled with the Connecticut Sun’s physical defense.
Meta's newest social network, Threads, is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network for a few months. Instagram head Adam Mosseri noted that the company "recently" rolled out the ability for fact-checkers to rate and mark false content on Threads. It is also not clear which organizations are Meta's fact-checking partners for Threads.
Ronel Blanco, who threw a no-hitter earlier this year, is now likely facing a 10-game suspension.
At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it is building Gemini Nano, the smallest of its AI models, directly into the Chrome desktop client, starting with Chrome 126. Google itself plans to use this new capability to power features like the existing "help me write" tool from Workspace Lab in Gmail, for example. The company says it's the recent work on WebGPU and WASM support in Chrome that enables these models to run at a reasonable speed on a wide set of hardware.
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's longtime chief scientist and one of its co-founders, has left the company. "This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend," Altman said. Replacing Sutskever is Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's director of research.
At Google I/O 2024, Google gave us a glimpse at what next-gen AI could do, but after trying it out, it's clear it won't arrive anytime soon.