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Alation bags $123M at a $1.7B valuation for its data-cataloging software

TechCrunch

That’s why Satyen Sangani, a former Oracle VP, co-founded Redwood City–based Alation , a startup that helps crawl a company’s databases in order to build data search catalogs. And if a recent poll by Oracle is to be believed, 95% of people say they’re overwhelmed by the amount of data available to them in the workplace.

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Preference learning with automated feedback for cache eviction

Google Research AI blog

The reward model is a lightweight neural network that is continuously trained with ongoing automated feedback on preference comparisons designed to mimic the offline oracle. This is similar to the oracle optimal policy, which, at any given time, evicts an item with the farthest future access from all the items in the cache.

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Cynicism suggests that the TikTok deal will go through

The Verge

Everyone agrees that Oracle and Walmart have bought a combined 20 percent of TikTok. Here are Georgia Wells and Alex Leary in the Wall Street Journal : People involved in the deals have provided differing accounts over the structure of the remaining stake, with a spokesman for ByteDance Ltd., does not seem like a bad bet?”.

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Why TikTok may not survive being sold

The Verge

He wrote in a letter to employees: In recent weeks, as the political environment has sharply changed, I have done significant reflection on what the corporate structural changes will require, and what it means for the global role I signed up for. A deal with Oracle, the enterprise software company, would be more of a data play.

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How a fake “Real Oversight Board” is putting pressure on Facebook

The Verge

Last week I wrote about how Facebook’s vast size and monarchic corporate structure had contributed to a steady stream of controversies all summer. The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart.