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C3.ai Expands Generative AI Capabilities: Game Changer or Hype?
C3.ai Expands Generative AI Capabilities: Game Changer or Hype?

Yahoo

time5 days ago

  • Business
  • Yahoo

C3.ai Expands Generative AI Capabilities: Game Changer or Hype?

Inc. AI is doubling down on Generative and agentic AI, and the market is watching fiscal 2025, showcased major momentum in its Generative and agentic-AI efforts. The company reported more than 100% year-over-year growth in Generative-AI revenues, with 66 initial production deployments across 16 industries in a year. Clients include the U.S. Navy, Dow, Chanel and the Shoah Foundation, which is using C3's platform to digitize and tag 30,000 survivor testimonies, saving a decade of manual effort and millions in notable is claim of holding a patent on agentic AI, with more than 100 solutions already deployed. These applications span defense, manufacturing and government. Management believes this vertical alone could be worth more than the company's current valuation. Still, questions remain. Despite the impressive demos and high-profile deployments, many of these deals are early-stage production licenses, not recurring revenues. Investors should also be cautious about lofty projections amid broader market and geopolitical makes pitch different is its pure-play focus on enterprise-AI applications rather than infrastructure or toolkits. That may give the company a lasting advantage if it can scale fast enough through expanding partnerships with Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud. While hype surrounds anything "Generative AI," appears to be walking the talk. Whether it becomes a long-term leader will depend on sustained customer adoption, ecosystem execution and the elusive path to profitability. While is leaning hard into turnkey Generative and agentic AI solutions, competitors like Palantir Technologies Inc. PLTR and Snowflake Inc. SNOW are charting their aggressive paths in the enterprise AI long entrenched in government and defense sectors, is rapidly expanding its Artificial Intelligence Platform to commercial clients. Unlike pre-built applications, Palantir emphasizes custom deployments and integration flexibility, especially for data-rich industries like manufacturing and energy. Its stronghold in defense mirrors PANDA deployment with the U.S. Air Force, suggesting intensifying competition in federal AI meanwhile, is evolving from a cloud data platform into an AI-enabled ecosystem. With the launch of Cortex, its Generative AI service, Snowflake is helping clients build custom LLM-powered apps directly within their data environments. This integration-first approach contrasts with application-first model but appeals to enterprises seeking tighter control over data pipelines. AI shares have gained 41.2% in the past three months compared with the industry's growth of 23.1%. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research Despite the recent gain, AI is priced at a discount relative to its industry. It has a forward 12-month price-to-sales ratio of 7.12, which is well below the industry average. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2026 loss per share has narrowed to 37 cents from a loss of 46 cents in the past 30 days. Moreover, the consensus mark for fiscal 2027 loss per share has narrowed to 16 cents from a loss of 42 cents in the same time Source: Zacks Investment Research The company currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Inc. (AI) : Free Stock Analysis Report Snowflake Inc. (SNOW) : Free Stock Analysis Report Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research

Gyorgy Kun, survivor of Auschwitz twin experiments, dies at 93
Gyorgy Kun, survivor of Auschwitz twin experiments, dies at 93

Boston Globe

time18-03-2025

  • General
  • Boston Globe

Gyorgy Kun, survivor of Auschwitz twin experiments, dies at 93

Advertisement That unwitting deception saved the lives of her sons. While she was sent to the gas chamber, they went to the barracks that housed twins used by Mengele for medical experiments. Mr. Kun, who died Feb. 5 in Budapest at 93, was among the few remaining survivors of that infamous chapter of the Holocaust. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'My last memory of my mother is that she is holding my hand and we are separated,' Mr. Kun recalled, according to an account of his life written by his daughter, Andrea Szonyi, and published on the website of the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California. 'We were simply torn apart: we, one way and she, the other. I had that picture with me a long time, and I know my brother did, too.' Mr. Kun arrived at Auschwitz, the Nazi killing center in occupied Poland, at the outset of the camp's deadliest period. Between May 15 and July 9, 1944 — a span of eight weeks — German and Hungarian officials deported approximately 420,000 Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz. Seventy-five percent were gassed upon arrival, according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. A total of 6 million Jews, including more than 560,000 Jews from Hungary, were murdered in the Holocaust. Few Nazi officials loom larger in the memory of the Holocaust than Mengele, who died a fugitive in Brazil in 1979. A highly trained researcher with a doctorate in anthropology as well as a medical degree, he had risen to prominence in Nazi Germany and was 32 when he arrived at Auschwitz. Advertisement Like other Nazi physicians and medical researchers, Mengele adhered to pseudoscientific theories of Aryan racial superiority and exploited concentration camp inmates, who represented ethnicities and nationalities from across Europe, in often sadistic medical experiments. At Dachau, the Nazi concentration camp in Germany, inmates were subjected to high-altitude conditions in research designed to benefit German military pilots. In other experiments, prisoners were infected with diseases or forced to submit to surgeries, including sterilization. Many inmates were permanently disfigured by the experiments, if they survived. The bodies of the dead were dissected, and their organs and tissues sent to Germany. Mengele selected hundreds of sets of twins for genetic research at Auschwitz. The precise nature of his work involving twins is not fully established, in part because few victims survived and in part because little documentary evidence of that activity remains, said David Marwell, author of the book 'Mengele: Unmasking the 'Angel of Death'' (2020). Marwell worked on the Mengele case at the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations before the corpse of the Nazi doctor was positively identified in 1985. He said that the Kun brothers probably endured protocols designed to determine if they were identical or fraternal twins, a key distinction in genetic research. According to his daughter, Mr. Kun recalled being subjected to blood tests, injections, X-rays, measurements of his body and analyses of his hair. Mengele's twins — many of whom, like Mr. Kun and his brother, were children — underwent such procedures after being separated from their parents and in an environment of terror. Advertisement Mr. Kun spoke relatively little of his experience at Auschwitz. But he remembered with affection a fellow prisoner named Erno Spiegel, a Hungarian twin in his late 20s who was tasked with overseeing the children in the twins barracks. Like Mr. Kun's mother, Spiegel told a lie that saved his life at Auschwitz. When Mr. Kun and his brother reported for registration after their selection, they were unaware that they had been mistaken for twins and provided their accurate dates of birth. Recognizing that they would be put to death if the Nazi physicians learned they were not twins, Spiegel falsified their birth dates. 'I decided to take a chance, and put down false information,' Spiegel recounted years later in testimony recorded in the book 'Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz' (1991) by Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel. 'I 'made' them twins.' Gyorgy Kuhn — as an adult he dropped the H to Hungarianize his surname — was born on Jan. 23, 1932, in Vallaj, a village in northeastern Hungary. Within his family, he was known as Gyuri. His brother, called Pista, was born Dec. 17, 1932. Their father was an agricultural professional and managed farms, while their mother tended to the home. When Gyuri was young, the family moved west across Hungary to a home outside Szekesfehervar, where his father had found work. The two brothers attended a Jewish school, living with the rabbi to avoid the commute to and from town. In testimony to the Shoah Foundation, Mr. Kun recalled the period as 'the good life.' Advertisement Beginning in the late 1930s, Hungarian Jews suffered increasing persecution under the regime of Admiral Miklos Horthy. Mr. Kun was barred from attending the high school of his choice, and bullying classmates insulted him with antisemitic taunts. Hungary joined the Axis alliance in 1940 but refused Nazi demands for the deportation of the country's Jews — at the time the largest Jewish community still alive in Europe, according to the Holocaust museum. Mass deportations began after Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944. Mr. Kun recalled that he and his family were moved first to a ghetto and then to a brick factory that served as a way station en route to Auschwitz. 'My parents couldn't imagine where we would end up, so my mother kept repeating that we should always stay together,' he said. 'No matter what, the family must not be torn apart.' Upon their arrival at Auschwitz, Mr. Kun's father was separated from the rest of the family and sent to work. He was later transferred to Dachau. Mr. Kun's grandparents and many other members of his extended family perished along with his mother in the Holocaust. Mr. Kun described Spiegel as serving for him and his brother as their 'father in Auschwitz.' It was Spiegel, he said, who helped them make their way home to Hungary after the liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945. Mr. Kun stayed for a period with his brother in a Zionist children's home in Budapest before returning to Szekesfehervar to live with their father, who had remarried. Gyuri began a factory career, working first as a mechanical technician and later in sales. His daughter said he suffered from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as an abiding trepidation before doctors, as a result of his experience in the Holocaust Advertisement 'Very often, I underrate myself,' Mr. Kun said. 'There is a certain repression, almost fear, in me that I believe comes from there.' Mr. Kun's brother studied architecture and moved to the United States following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He settled in Oklahoma City and died of an infection shortly before his 30th birthday, a loss so painful to Mr. Kun that he rarely if ever spoke about it. Besides his daughter, a Holocaust educator in Hungary, Mr. Kun's survivors include his wife of 64 years, the former Agnes Boskovitz, and two grandchildren. Mr. Kun's daughter confirmed his death, at a hospital, and said she did not know the cause. Mr. Kun had no contact after the war with Spiegel, who moved to Israel and died in 1993. He did, however, come to know Spiegel's daughter, Judith Richter, who is at work on a documentary film about her father, and who visited Mr. Kun in Budapest several years ago. It was 'very strange,' she said in an interview, 'to go there to meet someone I didn't know' and to feel 'so welcome.' 'Nothing happens by accident; our lives are interwoven within a mosaic-like, larger context,' Mr. Kun's daughter reflected in an article published by the Shoah Foundation. She continued: 'I owe something to Erno Spiegel. I owe him my father's life, my own life, and the lives of my children.'

Rose Girone, oldest known Holocaust survivor, dead at 113
Rose Girone, oldest known Holocaust survivor, dead at 113

Yahoo

time28-02-2025

  • General
  • Yahoo

Rose Girone, oldest known Holocaust survivor, dead at 113

Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor and someone who suffered at the hands of Germany and Japan during World War II, has died at the age 113, her daughter, Reha Bennicasa, confirmed Thursday. Bennicasa said her mother died on February 24th at a nursing home in New York state. Claims Conference, based in New York and which oversees compensation from Germany to victims of the Nazis, confirmed Girone was the oldest survivor. Girone was born Rosa Raubvogel in 1912 in Poland, which at the time was part of Russia. She moved to Hamburg, Germany, during her childhood during which her family ran a theatrical costume shop. Girone married a German Jew in 1937 and, while on the verge of giving birth, her husband was taken from their home by police and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. She later said while telling her story to the USC Shoah Foundation that the officers wanted to arrest her, too, but that her husband, Julius Mannheim, talked them out of it because she was pregnant with Bennicasa, who was born shortly thereafter. "I could not name her what I wanted -- Hitler had a list of names prepared for Jewish children and this was the only one I liked so I named her that," Gireon said in her oral history to the Shoah Foundation. She said she told her husband about Bennicasa's birth with a postcard while he was at Buchenwald. She said she had a family member in London who was able to get her and her husband exit visas to China, she told the Shoah Foundation. "He knew someone who knew someone who gave out Chinese visas," she said in the interview with the Shoah Foundation, according to CNN. "I don't know what would have happened to us" if that had not happened, she continued. Girone moved with her husband and daughter to the U.S. in 1947 where she opened a pair of knitting shops in Queens and continued to knit until she was 102, according to local media reports. The marriage ended in divorce. She later married Jack Girone. She would later say that she learned important life lessons from her experience as a Holocaust survivor. "Nothing is so bad that something good shouldn't come out of it," she said. She said the experience made her unafraid. "I could do anything and everything." Girone credited her long life to having children and eating dark chocolate, she told a New York TV station.

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