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10 Essential Linux File System Commands for Data Management

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In this article, you'll master 10 essential Linux file system commands. This guide provides helpful examples to make working with files easier.

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Openlayer Raises $14.5 Million Series A

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San Francisco May 14, 2025 Today, Openlayer, a platform for evaluation and governance of AI systems at the enterprise level, announced a $14.5 million Series A round led by Race Capital with participation from NXTP, KPN Ventures, Mindset, Y Combinator, Quiet Capital, and Telefonica.

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Databricks + Neon

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Today, we are excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Neon, a developer-first, serverless Postgres company.

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Custom Fine-Tuning for Domain-Specific LLMs

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Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) is the process of taking a pre-trained model — usually a vast one like GPT or Llama models, with millions to billions of weights — and continuing to train it, exposing it to new data so that the model weights (or typically parts of them) get updated.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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4 Data Analytics Project To Impress Your Next Employer

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Add these 4 data analytic-based projects to your resume to land your next job.

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$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder

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In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works wellit passes all the same tests as the dav1d decoder it is based on, which is written in C.

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What Is HDR, Anyway?

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It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.

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Stability AI releases an audio-generating model that can run on smartphones

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AI startup Stability AI has released Stable Audio Open Small, a stereo audio-generating AI model that the company claims is the fastest on the market and efficient enough to run on smartphones.

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The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist

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Anthropic’s Upcoming Models Will Think… And Think Some More

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The race to develop reasoning models that think harder is at full force.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip

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How To Build A Smartwatch: Picking A Chip

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Meet AlphaEvolve, the Google AI that writes its own code—and just saved millions in computing costs

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Google DeepMind today pulled the curtain back on AlphaEvolve, an artificial-intelligence agent that can invent brand-new computer algorithms then put them straight to work inside the companys vast computing empire.

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Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities designed for commuters

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Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S.

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Klarna CEO says AI helped company shrink workforce by 40%

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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said the company has managed to shrink its headcount by about 40%, in part due to investments in artificial

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Unlocking Next-Gen Customer Experiences with Data Intelligence for Marketing

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Today were announcing the launch of Data Intelligence for Marketing, combining the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with out-of-the-box integrations to an ecosystem of leading marketing

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DeepMind claims its newest AI tool is a whiz at math and science problems

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Googles AI R&D lab DeepMind says it has developed a new AI system to tackle problems with machine-gradable solutions. In experiments, the system, called AlphaEvolve, could help optimize some of the infrastructure Google uses to train its AI models, DeepMind said.

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TensorWave Rides the AI Infrastructure Tidal Wave with $100 Million Funding Injection

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In a market clamoring for more computational muscle to power the insatiable demands of artificial intelligence, a new contender has emerged from the silicon shadows. TensorWave , a company laser-focused on delivering AI infrastructure built around AMD’s cutting-edge silicon, announced a significant milestone today: a $100 million Series A funding round co-led by investment heavyweight Magnetar and AMD’s venture arm.

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OpenAI pledges to publish AI safety test results more often

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OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is saying is an effort to increase transparency.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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The Cryptography Behind Passkeys

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This post will examine the cryptography behind passkeys, the guarantees they do or do not give, and interesting cryptographic things you can do with them, such as generating cryptographic keys and storing certificates.

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This health startup is harnessing AI for quick, free diagnoses — with shocking accuracy

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When clinics are overbooked and appointments take weeks, healthcare can become a waiting-game, a guessing-game, a Google-game.

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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

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New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators

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AI is coming soon to speed up sluggish permitting for fire rebuilds, officials say.

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When survivors from Januarys wildfires in Los Angeles County apply to rebuild their homes, their first interaction might be with a robot.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Microsoft’s ADeLe wants to give your AI a cognitive profile

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Modern AI models are advancing at breakneck speed, but the way we evaluate them has barely kept pace. Traditional benchmarks tell us whether a model passed or failed a test but rarely offer insights into why it performed the way it did or how it might fare on unfamiliar challenges. A new research effort from Microsoft and its collaborators proposes a rigorous framework that reimagines how we evaluate AI systems.

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Google’s Gemini chatbot can now more easily analyze GitHub projects

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Gemini, Googles AI-powered chatbot, can now connect to GitHub for users subscribed to the $20-per-month Gemini Advanced plan, that is.

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Our Narrative Prison

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Meta releases new data set, AI model aimed at speeding up scientific research

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Meta released a massive trove of chemistry data Wednesday that it hopes will supercharge scientific research, and is also crucial for the development

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Code Anything from Anywhere with GitHub Codespaces

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The pace at which apps are being built today demands speed, collaboration, and flexibility in software development. GitHub Codespaces enables this by solving an age-old problem of setting up your environment. Instead of spending hours searching for tools and dependencies, you can directly launch a full dev setup in the cloud in just a few […] The post Code Anything from Anywhere with GitHub Codespaces appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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New AI Model Advances the “Kissing Problem” And More

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Theres a mathematical concept called the kissing number. Somewhat disappointingly, its got nothing to do with actual kissing; It enumerates how many spheres can touch (or kiss) a single sphere of equal size without crossing it. In one dimension, the kissing number is two. In two dimensions its 6 (think the New York Times spelling bee puzzle configuration).

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Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents

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A cache for AI agents to learn and replay complex behaviors.

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OpenAI brings ChatGPT Deep Research to Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, restricted by region and membership

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OpenAI recently announced that users can now connect SharePoint or Microsoft OneDrive to ChatGPT's Deep Research feature with a valid subscription if

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?