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🏆 We are honored to receive the 2024 BigDATAwire Editors' Choice Award in the “Top 3 Big Data and AI Open Source Projects to Watch” category.

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December 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM
thedeadline.bsky.social
Bit of news: I have stepped back from Managing Editor of HPCwire, still a contributor and still busy with a bunch of other things. New ME is Alex Woody

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Tabor Communications Appoints New Editorial Director, Promotes Staff
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 2, 2025 — Tabor Communications Inc. (TCI), publishers of HPCwire, BigDATAwire, AIwire, and QCwire, has promoted long-time BigDATAwire Managing Editor Alex Woodie to the position of TCI...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
alexwoodie.bsky.social
My first Bluesky post is about my latest #BigDATAwire story, which is about Basecamp Research's massive #Neo4j graph database used for drug discovery www.bigdatawire.com/2025/02/18/g...
Graphing Biodiversity to Improve Drug Discovery
Most pharmaceuticals are naturally occurring, either directly or indirectly. Yet when it comes to cataloging all of proteins and enzymes that have evolved
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February 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
This biotech company is using thousands of #AI agents to do their research: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
37,000 AI Agents Are Running a Virtual Biotech at Stanford - BigDATAwire
A new biotech startup has spun out of a Stanford Medicine lab. It has 37,000 employees, and none of them are human. Of course, that means no office, no payroll and no business lunches. But there’s not...
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September 21, 2026 at 1:35 AM
diane52a.bsky.social
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Small Reactors, Big Shift: The New Nuclear Startup Moment - BigDATAwire
Nuclear power was considered inhospitable territory for startups. That was the case, at least historically. Regulatory complexity and long development cycles left little room for new entrants. Faster-...
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January 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
basecamp-research.bsky.social
💊 BigDataWire explores how Basecamp Research is pushing the boundaries of discovery—traveling to the most remote corners of the planet to gather novel biological data that’s transforming AI drug development.

Read the story here: bigdatawire.com/2025/02/18/g...

#AI #drugdiscovery #biodiversity
February 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
Modern #AI are research assistants, not researchers: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
Why AI Still Hasn't Had Its Einstein Moment - BigDATAwire
AI is having a remarkable run in science. It’s helping researchers predict protein structures, improve weather forecasts, discover new materials, and speed up drug discovery.  Researchers are getting ...
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August 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
Why the majority of #AI projects actually fail: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
Why Most Agentic AI Projects Fail in Production - BigDATAwire
The enterprise AI pitch cycle follows a familiar arc. A vendor or internal team wheels in a demo. The agent performs: it retrieves records from three separate systems, synthesizes a […]
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June 21, 2026 at 11:04 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
#AI agents cannot yet fully replicate published experiments: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
Can AI Agents Replicate Science? Argonne's Rick Stevens Puts Them to the Test - BigDATAwire
Have we reached a point where AI agents can reliably function as scientific collaborators? Can they go one step further and work as autonomous scientists? Stevens is an Associate Laboratory […]
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June 16, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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Thanks to BigDATAwire & Alex Woodie for having Hammerspace CEO David Flynn on the Big Data Debrief. They discuss how Hammerspace is answering the call of the AI boom, the limits of traditional distributed file systems, & the future of data virtualization.
Check out the video here: lnkd.in/gm_T3hEZ
December 19, 2024 at 4:09 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
Improving efficiency with #AI requires effective leadership: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
The AI Productivity Opportunity: Bridging the Technology Divide, Starting with Your Leadership - BigDATAwire
The greatest untapped AI isn’t a new model or a faster chip; it’s the executive team already sitting in your boardroom. For the past year, corporate America has been energized […]
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April 17, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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AWS: Dataset of Protein-Ligand Complexes Now Available in the Registry of Open Data on AWS
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AWS: Dataset of Protein-Ligand Complexes Now Available in the Registry of Open Data on AWS
Oct. 16, 2025 -- AWS today announced the public release of a large-scale molecular dynamics dataset encompassing trajectories for more than 16,000
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October 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
#AI needs well-structured data, and logical data management can help with that: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
To Unlock AI and Cloud Agility, Start with Logical Data Management - BigDATAwire
Now that AI has broken out of the research lab and entered the mainstream, companies naturally expect to be able to deploy it in the cloud, where it can scale […]
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December 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
Can-or should-we trust #AI agents that act for us in the workplace? www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
AI-Native Assistants Have Arrived—But Earning Trust Is the True Innovation - BigDATAwire
Artificial intelligence has dazzled us with conversation. The real revolution is underway, one where AI doesn’t just talk, but acts. Across large organizations, a new class of AI-native assistants is ...
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March 25, 2026 at 3:05 AM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
Science uses #AI more and more, but that means that those who can't afford to access the AI get shut out: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
The Compute Divide in AI-Driven Science - BigDATAwire
Scientific breakthroughs are now increasingly dependent on AI and HPC infrastructure. A large‑scale 2025 study by European and Canadian researchers found that research papers that jointly use AI and H...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
Users of #AI need to understand the data behind the insights AI provide, before those insights can be trusted: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
The AI Trust Gap: Why AI Performance Requires Control - BigDATAwire
For the past few years, the corporate world has been locked in an AI race. Every company is trying to move faster, invest more and keep up with the pace […]
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April 7, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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My latest at BigDATAwire: Top 10 #bigdata technologies to watch in 2H25 www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/21/t... #bigdata #tech #watching
Top 10 Big Data Technologies to Watch in the Second Half of 2025
With the tech industry currently in the midst of its mid-summer lull, now it’s the perfect time to take stock of where we’ve come this year and
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July 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
#AI needs well-structured data, and logical data management can help with that: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
To Unlock AI and Cloud Agility, Start with Logical Data Management - BigDATAwire
Now that AI has broken out of the research lab and entered the mainstream, companies naturally expect to be able to deploy it in the cloud, where it can scale […]
www.hpcwire.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
Spending on #AI data centres is projected to hit $7T. Does anyone honestly think that that is sustainable? www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
AI Is Running Into a $7 Trillion Wall - BigDATAwire
The rise of AI over the past two years or so has often been framed as a high stakes race. Bigger models, unbelievable company valuations, more compute and bigger datacenters. […]
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April 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
#AI data centres are being built faster than the workforce to run them is being trained: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
Data Centers Are Scaling Fast. The Workforce Isn't. AI Has to Close the Gap - BigDATAwire
The data center and grid buildout is outpacing the workforce that has to install, commission, and service it. The only realistic way to close the gap is to put AI […]
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June 8, 2026 at 5:48 AM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
More land and more energy is needed for #AI data centres. Nuclear power is part of the solution: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
As AI Scales for Science, the DOE Turns to Nuclear and Federal Land - BigDATAwire
Data centers running advanced AI systems now require steady and high-density energy at a scale that traditional grid expansion struggles to support. This especially the case for long-running research ...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
drmikewatts.bsky.social
While #AI continues to guzzle energy, Alphabet is at least investing in clean electricity generation to power its data centres: www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/... #ArtificialIntelligence
Google’s Power Play: What the $4.75B Intersect Acquisition Means for the Future of AI - BigDATAwire
Alphabet just bought its way into the power grid. In a $4.75B acquisition, Google’s parent company is taking over Intersect Power, a leading clean energy developer increasingly focused on data […]
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January 5, 2026 at 12:18 AM