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AI art is the next chapter in human creativity

When photography was first introduced, many traditional artists scoffed. They said it wasn’t art. It didn’t require talent. You just clicked a button and captured what was already there. Sound familiar? Today, we're watching history repeat itself—only this time, the "click" isn't from a shutter but from a prompt. AI-generated art is provoking the same visceral reactions, the same skepticism, the same debate about what counts as "real" art. And just like with photography, we’re at the beginning of a creative revolution we barely understand yet. *The Blur Between Talent and Tool * In the past, it was easy to

On over population

I keep seeing the opinion that over population is a concern should we lift the entire world up to 1st world standards or somehow prevent aging. Research indicates the opposite. There is a very good/ well-researched book on many of the social subjects discussed in Futurology- Common Wealth by Jeffrey Sachs. However, I will summarize. The prosperity of a society is inversely related to birth rate. The societies with the highest education, strongest social safety nets and lowest non-age-related mortality rates have the lowest birth rates. The single largest factor in birth is average education level for women. This can

Everyone should revisit <Dune> in 2025 – Frank Herbert predicted our AI future

Are we living through the early stages of the Butlerian Jihad? Every time I scroll through my feed of Ghiblified pics and OpenAI updates, I can't help but hear the Dune warning echoing: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." Herbert wrote this in 1965, yet somehow perfectly captured our current struggle with AI dependency. We're rapidly creating a world where critical thinking becomes optional – we ask AI for answers rather than developing our own insights. Look at how tech naming has evolved: LOTR gave us Palantir and Anduril in the 2000s-2010s. Now

Fernando Murias, Chairman and CEO of Digital Global Systems (DGS) – Interview Series

Fernando joined Digital Global Systems (DGS) in 2013 from PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he held several leadership positions in both the United States and Latin America. Fernando has been at the forefront of innovative investment models for leading-edge technology enterprise pursuits; novel partnership deals using CAPEX-light structures; and strategic vision of business value leveraging new technologies and operating constructs. In his roles, Fernando has build significant enterprise business value using unique intellectual property portfolios and emerging innovations in data, analytics and artificial intelligence. DGS is a next-gen software platform for wireless deployments that characterizes the Radio Frequency environment across multiple dimensions. With visibility at

Self-organizing ‘infomorphic neurons’ can learn independently

Living neurons receive signals from different sources, process them and pass an output signal on to other neurons (left). In the artificial neuron model, this information processing can be described and improved by a learning objective (right). Similar to their biological models, this independent learning allows novel artificial neurons to solve tasks in a self-organized way. Credit: Andreas Schneider, MPI-DS Researchers have developed “infomorphic neurons” that learn independently, mimicking their biological counterparts more accurately than previous artificial neurons. A team of researchers from the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) at the University of Göttingen and the

Karun Thankachan’s Blueprint for Data Science Success

Karun Thankachan is a Senior Data Scientist who specializes in Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval. Over the years, he has worked across multiple industries such as e-commerce, fintech, PXT, and edtech. Currently, he is part of the Walmart e-Commerce team, where he helps improve item selection and availability using machine learning. Outside of work, Karun is active in the data science community – as a mentor, speaker, and content creator. In this exclusive interview, Karun shares insights from his journey, how he broke into data science, lessons from scaling systems at top companies, and his advice for those navigating the

HCLTech Joins Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem as Design Solution Partner

HCLTech has been selected as a Design Solution Partner (DSP) under the Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE™) program. This strategic collaboration aims to accelerate semiconductor innovation by using HCLTech’s extensive expertise in engineering and R&D services and Samsung’s cutting-edge process technologies. Under the SAFE™-DSP program, HCLTech will offer comprehensive application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design services to semiconductor customers looking to utilise Samsung’s advanced manufacturing processes. The partnership is expected to enhance the efficiency of chip design and development, ultimately reducing the time-to-market for new silicon technologies. Samsung will provide HCLTech employees with specialised training in advanced semiconductor technologies and offer

Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From ‘Authoritarian Governments’

The creator of an open source genetic database is shutting it down and deleting all of its data because he has come to believe that its existence is dangerous with “a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments” in the United States and elsewhere. “The largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical research or research in big pharma,” Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, the founder of OpenSNP, wrote in a blog post. “Instead, the transformative impact of the data came to fruition among law enforcement agencies, who have put the genealogical properties of genetic data to use.” OpenSNP has