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Sources: Amazon is planning a marketplace where publishers can sell content to companies offering AI products; Microsoft has rolled out a similar service (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-discusses-ai-content-marketpla…

Amazon Discusses AI Content Marketplace With Publishers
Amazon has indicated to publishing industry executives that it is planning to launch a marketplace where publishers can sell their content to firms offering AI products, according to two people who spoke with Amazon about the project. Those discussions come as publishers and AI companies are ...

By combining retinal imaging, genetics, and big data,
physician-researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
have found that they can estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future.
⭐️They found significant associations between the thinning of different retinal layers and increased risk of developing ocular, cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and neuropsy…

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Sources: General Catalyst is in talks with investors to raise about $10B; it raised $8B in capital in 2024 and had more than $40B in AUM as of last summer (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

NS Dutch Railways transfers part of its ICT from a Dutch supplier to an American-owned company, which offered a low price.

NS besteedt ict deels uit aan Amerikaanse leverancier
Strategische autonomie: Ondanks alle discussies over strategische autonomie kiest NS een Amerikaanse beheerder voor cruciale IT-diensten. „Als iedereen zo handelt als NS, bouwen we nooit eigen digitale infrastructuur.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tweakers/116198802637985580
Discussies over het verdienmodel van media komen en gaan. Ik ben het hier wel met TijsZonderH (ook in de comments) eens dat het voor inhoudelijke media zoeken is naar voldoende inkomsten. Zonder voldoende inkomsten immers geen inhoud.

Bizar, terwijl de discussie over afhankelijkheid en digitale soevereiniteit nog volop loopt, cruciale infrastructuur afhankelijk maken.
"Terwijl Europese overheden, bedrijven en organisaties juist streven naar digitale autonomie en minder afhankelijk proberen te worden van Amerikaanse techleveranciers, gunt NS het IT-contract aan een Nederlandse dochter van een Amerikaans bedrijf. "

NS besteedt ict deels uit aan Amerikaanse leverancier
Strategische autonomie: Ondanks alle discussies over strategische autonomie kiest NS een Amerikaanse beheerder voor cruciale IT-diensten. „Als iedereen zo handelt als NS, bouwen we nooit eigen digitale infrastructuur.”

Ein richtig schöner #Tauferinnerungsgottesdienst mit drei Taufen war das heute.
Schaut selbst:
https://youtube.com/live/rgNtXHV9eMk?feature=share

Sources: Amazon and OpenAI are discussing a deal that could require OpenAI to dedicate researchers and engineers to developing customized models for Amazon (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-discusses-getting-special-a…

Amazon Discusses Getting Special Access to OpenAI Tech
As Amazon weighs an equity investment of tens of billions of dollars in OpenAI, the companies are also discussing a commercial agreement that could require OpenAI to dedicate its own researchers and engineers to developing customized models for powering Amazon’s own AI products, according to a ...