Open-source vector database provider Qdrant has launched BM42, a vector-based hybrid search algorithm intended to provide more accurate and efficient retrieval for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. BM42 combines the best of traditional text-based search and vector-based search to lower the costs for RAG and AI applications, Qdrant said.

Qdrant’s BM42 was announced July 2. Traditional keyword search engines, using algorithms such as BM25, have been around for more than 50 years and are not optimized for the precise retrieval needed in modern applications, according to Qdrant. As a result they struggle with specific RAG demands, particularly with short segments requiring further context to inform successful search and retrieval. Moving away from a keyword-based search to a fully vectorized based offers a new industry standard, Qdrant said.

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AI research is hurtling forward, but our ability to assess its capabilities and potential risks appears to be lagging behind. To bridge this critical gap, and recognize the current limitations in third-party evaluation ecosystems, Anthropic has started an initiative to invest in the development of robust, safety-relevant benchmarks to assess advanced AI capabilities and risks.

“A robust, third-party evaluation ecosystem is essential for assessing AI capabilities and risks, but the current evaluations landscape is limited,” Anthropic said in a blog post . “Developing high-quality, safety-relevant evaluations remains challenging, and the demand is outpacing the supply. To address this, today we're introducing a new initiative to fund evaluations developed by third-party organizations that can effectively measure advanced capabilities in AI models.”

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It is becoming increasingly evident that serverless technology is losing relevance and will soon fade away in the cloud technology space. Why did this happen? What can we learn from this evolution of technology?

When serverless computing first hit the streets over a decade ago as a cloud computing paradigm, it saved us from needing to handle detailed compute and storage configurations. Everything was done automatically at the time of execution. This seemed more evolution than revolution because PaaS systems were already doing an aspect of this type of computing.

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While their business and tech colleagues are busy experimenting and developing new applications, cybersecurity leaders are looking for ways to anticipate and counter new, AI-driven threats.

It’s always been clear that AI impacts cybersecurity, but it’s a two-way street. Where AI is increasingly being used to predict and mitigate attacks, these applications are themselves vulnerable. The same automation, scale, and speed everyone’s excited about are also available to cybercriminals and threat actors. Although far from mainstream yet, malicious use of AI has been growing. From generative adversarial networks to massive botnets and automated DDoS attacks, the potential is there for a new breed of cyberattack that can adapt and learn to evade detection and mitigation.

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The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of the Eclipse Theia IDE. Based on the Theia cloud and desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript , the Theia IDE is avialable for Windows, Linux, and macOS and can be tried online .

With development led by EclipseSource CEO Jonas Helming, the Theia IDE was announced on June 27 . The Theia IDE serves as an addition to the Eclipse Cloud DevTools ecosystem and provides an extensible coding experience across both desktop and browser environments. Developers can customize and control coding environments, offering greater productivity and creativity, the Eclipse Foundation said.

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When leaders say they want to be a data-driven organization, a key objective is empowering business people to use data, predictive models, generative AI capabilities, and data visualizations to improve decision-making.

Leaders seek smarter decisions that yield positive business benefits, faster decision-making to respond to opportunities, safer decisions that minimize risks, and change management disciplines to grow the number of employees using analytics tools across the organization. They also seek scalable solutions using the latest machine learning models, AI capabilities, and new data assets, ensuring that data is compliant, protected, and secure.

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Your genAI project is almost certainly going to fail. But take heart: You probably shouldn’t have been using AI to solve your business problem, anyway. This seems to be an accepted fact among the data science crowd, but that wisdom has been slow to reach enterprise executives. For example, data scientist Noah Lorang once suggested , “There is a very small subset of business problems that are best solved by machine learning; most of them just need good data and an understanding of what it means,” yet 87% of those surveyed by Bain & Company said they’re developing genAI applications.

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The 2024 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards will recognize the best and most innovative products across 26 categories in software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and AI and machine learning. Nominations for the 2024 awards are & now open .

Products in the following categories are eligible to win:

• AI and machine learning: Applications
• AI and machine learning: Development
• AI and machine learning: Models
• API management
• API security
• Application management
• Application networking
• Application security
• Business intelligence and analytics
• Cloud backup and disaster recovery
• Cloud compliance and governance
• Cloud cost management
• Cloud security
• Data management: Databases
• Data management: Governance
• Data management: Integration
• Data management: Pipelines
• Data management: Streaming
• DevOps: CI/CD
• DevOps: Observability
• DevOps: Productivity
• DevOps: Security
• DevOps: Testing
• Software development: Platforms
• Software development: Services
• Software development: Tools

Winners will be selected by a panel of judges based on technology impact, business impact, and innovation.

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Oracle has updated its managed low-code application development platform, Application Express, or APEX, with a programming assistent driven by generative AI . The APEX AI Assistant debuts in Oracle APEX 24.1.

Oracle APEX can be used via any of Oracle’s database services across the company’s on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

The APEX AI Assistant can generate SQL code from natural language prompts, explain existing code, and suggest bug fixes to the code that can be integrated into the application, Oracle said.

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