Digital forestry team combines AI with satellite data to monitor urban trees

A Purdue University digital forestry team has created a computational tool to obtain and analyze urban tree inventories on ...
InfoQ

How Dropbox Built a Scalable Context Engine for Enterprise Knowledge Search

Dropbox engineers have detailed how the company built the context engine behind Dropbox Dash, revealing a shift toward ...

SurrealDB 3.0 wants to replace your five-database RAG stack with one

SurrealDB 3.0 launches with $23M in new funding and a pitch to replace multi-database RAG stacks with a single engine that handles vectors, graphs, and agent memory transactionally.

AI tool suggests tree species and placement to cool urban streets by 3.5 C

Urban landscapes could be cooled by up to 3.5 degrees using a QUT-developed AI-based tool that optimizes where trees and which species are planted to make cities cooler, greener and more resilient in ...
IEEE

Generate Text-to-SQL Queries Based on Sketch Filling

Abstract: The Text-to-SQL task has significant application prospects in automating relational database query interfaces. It can reduce user learning costs and improve data query efficiency. However, ...
TechCrunch

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

Adobe has been aggressively adding AI features to all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of ...
InfoWorld

Google tests BigQuery feature to generate SQL queries from English

The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say. Google is previewing a new AI-driven feature in its BigQuery data warehouse that ...
Reuters

Zara turns to AI to generate fashion imagery using real-life models

LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Zara has become the latest fast-fashion retailer to use AI to help create new images of real models in different outfits, speeding up the production process as part of an ...
Futurism

Disney+ Will Allow Users to Generate Their Own “Frozen 3” Using AI

Disney is planning to flood its streaming service, Disney+, with user-generated AI slop. During the company’s recent earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the streaming service is “in the midst ...
Search Engine Land

Google Search Console adds Query groups

This is available in Search Console Insights and gives you a quick way to see the main topics your website is about. Google added Query groups to the Search Console Insights report. Query groups ...
Futurism

Trump Supporters Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Generate AI Videos of Soldiers Assaulting Protesters

To take president Donald Trump’s word for it, America’s cities are in ruins, forcing him to deploy federal troops to Portland, Washington DC, and Memphis. There’s just one wrinkle — no one seems to be ...