insideBIGDATA
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced additions to its Granite portfolio of large language models intended to deliver small, efficient enterprise AI. The new Granite 3.
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
AI-powered coding assistants are becoming more advanced by the day. One of the most promising models for software development, is Anthropics latest, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. With significant improvements in reasoning, tool usage, and problem-solving, it has demonstrated remarkable accuracy on benchmarks that assess real-world coding challenges and AI agent capabilities.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2025
What hasn't been said about artificial intelligence? It's a disruptor, a game changer, the next technological revolution. Soon we'll all be chilling with our feet up while our AI assistants do all the heavy lifting right? One economist isn't so sure. A new study by Caleb Maresca at New York University predicts that just the looming possibility of transformative AI has the potential to completely upend the economy in a bad way, decimating wages and sending interest rates skyward.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Mira Murati’s new startup, Thinking Machine Labs, is reportedly aiming to raise a $1 billion funding round at a valuation of approximately $9 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Business Insider. The funding round is currently underway, and details could evolve. Mira Murati’s Thinking Machine Labs seeks $1 billion funding A $9 billion valuation is unusually high for a startup that has been in operation for less than a year; however, investor interest i
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.
KDnuggets
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Tired of the job portal grind? Dont just applymake them come to you! Check out 7 powerful strategies to land top-paying tech jobs in 2025.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
DeepSeek is set to accelerate the launch of its new AI model, R2, following the success of its previous model, R1, which recently prompted a $1 trillion sell-off in global equities markets due to its competitive performance against Western counterparts. DeepSeek accelerates launch of R2 AI model after R1 success The Hangzhou-based startup originally aimed to release R2 in early May but is now pushing for an expedited rollout, according to three sources familiar with the company.
Data Science Current brings together the best content for data science professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Google has introduced a streamlined feature allowing users to remove personal information, such as phone numbers, addresses, or emails, directly from its search results, marking a significant step toward user privacy control. Initially launched in 2022 and refined over the past year, this toolhighlighted in a recent Google blog postempowers individuals to reduce their digital footprint with a straightforward process, responding to growing concerns over online exposure.
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
OpenAI has rolled out the Deep Research feature to all ChatGPT Plus subscribers; previously, it was available only to $200 Pro subscribers. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has made Grok 3, including its DeepSearch feature, free for all X users. This raises the question: is it worth investing $20 in a ChatGPT subscription, or can Grok 3 […] The post OpenAI vs Grok 3: Which is Better for Deep Research?
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Alexa Plus boasts a range of advanced capabilities, including enhanced conversational abilities. It can now detect tone and mood, understand context, and maintain longer, more natural dialogues. During the live demonstration, Alexa Plus accurately responded to nuanced requests, even recognizing and commenting on the audience’s mood when the Echo Show’s camera was turned towards them.
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Nvidia forecast first-quarter revenue above market estimates on Wednesday, expecting robust demand for its leading AI chips to persist as businesses spend heavily to expand generative artificial intelligence infrastructure. Its shares rose about 1% in choppy extended trading, after closing up 3.7% in regular trading. Nvidia is the biggest beneficiary of a rally in AI-linked stocks, with its shares up more than 400% over the last two years.
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.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Major U.S. stock indexes experienced another decline on February 25, 2025, as shares of Tesla and other large technology companies decreased sharply. Concerns regarding the economic outlook intensified, alongside a significant drop in bitcoin and falling Treasury yields. S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit hard The S&P 500 fell by 0.5% while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.4%.
AWS Machine Learning Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
This is a guest post authored by the team at ByteDance. ByteDance is a technology company that operates a range of content platforms to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people across languages, cultures, and geographies. Users trust and enjoy our content platforms because of the rich, intuitive, and safe experiences they provide. These experiences are made possible by our machine learning (ML) backend engine, with ML models built for video understanding, search, recommendation, advertisin
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Amazon has provided insights into the technical advancements that power the new generative AI capabilities of Alexa Plus , which was introduced today at their yearly Devices and Services event. The development of Alexa Plus involved overcoming several challenges to create a more conversational, smarter, and personalized AI assistant. The company’s new and improved AI assistant utilizes a “model agnostic” system, leveraging a variety of AI models to deliver the best possible exp
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Boosting image search capabilities has become a critical focus in the realm of digital asset management, e-commerce, and social media platforms. With the ever-increasing volume of visual content generated daily, the need for efficient and accurate image retrieval systems is more pressing than ever. Enter SigLIP 2 (Sigmoid Loss for Language-Image Pre-Training), a state-of-the-art multilingual […] The post Boosting Image Search Capabilities Using SigLIP 2 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
A significant outage hit the popular workplace communication platform Slack this morning, disrupting workflows for millions of users worldwide. The service, essential for real-time communication in businesses and organizations, began experiencing problems around 7:00 AM PST, with reports of connectivity issues, messaging failures, and login errors flooding in from various regions, including the US, UK, and Europe.
FlowingData
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
To show a catalog of almost 100 million books in one view, phiresky mapped them based on International Standard Book Numbers, or ISBNs, with an interactive visualization. Large blocks of 10k to 100 million ISBNs are assigned by the International ISBN Agency to international organizations. Then, each country has their own method of subdividing their blocks into publishers.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Smart home technology is changing forever, and one of its most impactful applications is Human Activity Recognition (HAR). HAR enables smart systems to monitor daily activities such as cooking, sleeping, or exercising, providing essential support in domains like healthcare and assisted living. However, while deep learning models have significantly improved HAR accuracy, they often operate as “black boxes,” offering little transparency into their decision-making process.
databricks
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Building an end-to-end AI or ML platform often requires multiple technological layers for storage, analytics, business intelligence (BI) tools, and ML models in order to.
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.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Cognitive computing represents a cutting-edge approach that combines various technologies to enable machines to simulate human thought processes. As these systems evolve, they’re increasingly capable of understanding and interacting with complex data in a way that feels intuitive. This technology is reshaping industries, driving innovations, and enhancing our everyday experience by pushing the boundaries of what machines can do.
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
NEW YORKAfter teasing it in September 2023 and reportedly suffering delays , Amazon today announced that its more capable and conversational version of Alexa will start rolling out to US Prime members for free in the next few weeks. Those who aren't Prime subscribers will be able to get Alexa+ for $20 a month. Amazon didn't provide a specific release date but said availability would start with the Echo Show 8, 10, 15, and 21 smart displays.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
YouTube has solidified its reign over the podcasting world, announcing today that it now boasts over 1 billion monthly active viewers for podcast content globally. The platform, long a video juggernaut, is reshaping how we consume podcasts, with 400 million hours watched monthly on living room devices in 2024 alone. In the U.S., YouTube commands 31% of weekly podcast listeners, outpacing Spotifys 27% and Apple Podcasts 15%, according to recent listener surveys.
Towards AI
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Author(s): Mirko Peters Originally published on Towards AI. This blog post explores Principal Component Analysis (PCA), its importance in data science, and how it transforms complex, high-dimensional data into meaningful insights. Through real-world examples and practical steps, readers will learn how to effectively apply PCA and enhance their data analysis skills.
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
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Adobe has announced new Photoshop apps for the web and for iPhone, with plans to bring the app to Android soon. [link] Video: Adobe Adobe expands Photoshop with new iPhone app and web version Traditionally, Photoshop has been primarily available on desktop platforms. This announcement marks an expansion to mobile, beginning with an iPhone app and a web-based version, following an initial debut on the iPad in 2019.
Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Application Delivery Controller platform company F5 has evolved its technology offering to align for the age of software vulnerabilities that permeate the world of AI.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Digital Process Automation (DPA) is transforming how businesses streamline their operations by minimizing human intervention in workflows. This evolution not only enhances efficiency but also plays a critical role in an organizations digital transformation strategy. Understanding DPA is essential for any enterprise looking to remain competitive in an increasingly automated world.
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Alibaba on Wednesday said that it has made its video generation artificial intelligence models free to use, further ramping up competition with
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.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
TNL Mediagenes subsidiary Ad2iction is set to debut Ad2 AI Agent in March 2025, an AI-powered advertising assistant designed to enhance audience targeting, creative optimization, and campaign automation. The launch marks a significant step in integrating generative AI and autonomous decision-making into digital advertising strategies. AI-powered advertising optimization Ad2 AI Agent combines AI Audience (Smart Audience) and AI Creative (Smart Creative) to refine how brands identify target demogr
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Predictions across the field range from a few months to a few decades, but experts agreechange is coming. The world is awash in predictions of when the singularity will occur or when artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Amazon today announced Alexa Plus, a significant upgrade to its voice assistant powered by advanced AI. While Alexa Plus boasts impressive new features like booking concert tickets, ordering rides, and more natural conversations, these enhancements come at a cost: $19.99 per month. However, Amazon Prime members will get access to Alexa Plus for free.
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Amazon is finally launching the long-awaited generative AI version of Alexa Alexa Plus that, if all goes well, will take away much of the friction that comes with talking to a speaker to control your smart home or getting info on the fly.
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?
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