Today, we’re excited to deepen our partnership with @llama_index through a strategic investment by #DatabricksVentures! Together, Databricks and LlamaIndex make it easier for every organization to build robust agent workflows and unlock insights from unstructured data at scale.
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Manual Data Collection Errors Require Modern Database Solutions
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Data engineers know that most #data in every industry is collected manually, often introducing errors. With data, digging deeper, modernising #databases, and making data functional are essential. https://
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Diverse Patient Populations Essential for Medical Research
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When conducting research, it’s essential to consider multiple patient populations, since disease may manifest or progress differently depending on patients’ characteristics. Elsevier’s Lancet … https://
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SAP Databricks Now GA: Unlocking Data Intelligence and AI
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It’s official: @SAP Databricks is now GA!
SAP customers can now unlock data intelligence across their SAP data and external sources—enabling improved governance, advanced analytics, and AI use cases. Learn more: https://
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TRINDs: LLM Dataset for Tropical Infectious Disease
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Today we announce TRINDs, a dataset and benchmarking pipeline that uses synthetic personas to train and optimize performance of LLMs for tropical and infectious diseases, which are out-of-distribution for most models. Learn more →https://t.co/R1PFhQ0c8R pic.twitter.com/DwYrrf7yIo
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) 30 avril 2025Today we announce TRINDs, a dataset and benchmarking pipeline that uses synthetic personas to train and optimize performance of LLMs for tropical and infectious diseases, which are out-of-distribution for most models. Learn more →
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UK DWP Uses Data Analytics to Improve Citizen Outcomes
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Hear from the UK's Department for Work and Pensions Digital head of platforms on how they use data analytics to improve decisions and outcomes for citizens. They support millions as a critical pillar of the UK's social and economic infrastructure: https://t.co/s2SGku4q4t… pic.twitter.com/yraYCTVgdF
— SAS Software (@SASsoftware) 30 avril 2025Hear from the UK's Department for Work and Pensions Digital head of platforms on how they use data analytics to improve decisions and outcomes for citizens. They support millions as a critical pillar of the UK's social and economic infrastructure: http://
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Stripping EXIF data from screenshots and accessing from different locations
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Yes; screenshotted to strip EXIF data and accessing from an IP in Chicago re: photos in Florida and Tokyo. (It did not articulate usage of knowledge I’m associated with my Tokyo neighborhood to inform guess, but that fact is abundantly publicly available.)
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Photo Geolocation Technology Reveals Privacy Intelligence Implications
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I’ve independently verified this, twice, and have to spoil the thread to say “Any photo outdoors can be trivially location matched in a fashion you’d assume would imply capabilities of an intelligence agency. If that is news to you, feel free to incorporate it into decisions.”
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Large Sensor Model Improves Wearable Exercise Activity Recognition
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We trained our Large Sensor Model (LSM) on over 40 million hours of de-identified multimodal sensor data from 165K users to demonstrate how it could improve performance in wearable tasks like exercise and activity recognition. Here’s what we found → https://t.co/zD3Tx7ShpO pic.twitter.com/5A2auMYgpd
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) 29 avril 2025We trained our Large Sensor Model (LSM) on over 40 million hours of de-identified multimodal sensor data from 165K users to demonstrate how it could improve performance in wearable tasks like exercise and activity recognition. Here’s what we found → https://
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Fine-tuning LLMs for Enterprise Data Intelligence and Software Development
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LLMs have revolutionized software development, but they’re not perfect. One key challenge: enterprises need to perform data intelligence – use organization-specific coding concepts, knowledge and preferences – while keeping latency and costs low.
— Databricks (@databricks) 29 avril 2025
See how you can fine-tune a… pic.twitter.com/o1waja6Gv1LLMs have revolutionized software development, but they’re not perfect. One key challenge: enterprises need to perform data intelligence – use organization-specific coding concepts, knowledge and preferences – while keeping latency and costs low. See how you can fine-tune a
