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What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained.

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The AI industry has a new buzzword: "PhD-level AI." According to a report from The Information, OpenAI may be planning to launch several specialized AI "agent" products including a $20,000 monthly tier focused on supporting "PhD-level research." Other reportedly planned agents include a "high-income knowledge worker" assistant at $2,000 monthly and a software developer agent at $10,000 monthly.

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What Data Scientists Need to Know About AI Agents and Autonomous Systems

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Explore how AI agents are transforming industries, from chatbots to autonomous vehicles, and learn what data scientists need to know to implement them effectively.

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Accelerating insurance policy reviews with generative AI: Verisk’s Mozart companion

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This post is co-authored with Sundeep Sardana, Malolan Raman, Joseph Lam, Maitri Shah and Vaibhav Singh from Verisk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, empowering clients to strengthen operating efficiency, improve underwriting and claims outcomes, combat fraud, and make informed decisions about global risks.

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Top 15 LLM Evaluation Metrics to Explore in 2025

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Understanding LLM Evaluation Metrics is crucial for maximizing the potential of large language models. LLM evaluation Metrics help measure a models accuracy, relevance, and overall effectiveness using various benchmarks and criteria. By systematically evaluating these models, developers can identify strengths, address weaknesses, and refine them for real-world applications.

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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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Leave It to Manus

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Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.

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When to Use GRUs Over LSTMs?

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To this day, I remember coming across recurrent neural networks in our course work. Sequence data excite you initially, but then confusion sets in when differentiating between the multiple architectures. I asked my advisor, “Should I use an LSTM or a GRU for this NLP project?” His untimely, “It depends,” did nothing to assuage my […] The post When to Use GRUs Over LSTMs?

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DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

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Elon Musks DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce.

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Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds

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To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.

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Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

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Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsofts Copilot bot.

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Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools

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An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscows disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

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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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Mayo Clinic’s secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action

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Even as large language models (LLMs) become ever more sophisticated and capable, they continue to suffer from hallucinations: offering up inaccurate information, or, to put it more harshly, lying.

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WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely

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Some affected discs aren’t manufactured anymore and can’t be replaced.

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AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

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Jim Sanborns inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say theyve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.

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Tesco trials giant trolley scales in Gateshead

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Trolleys are weighed before checkout to identify any items customers might have missed or scanned twice.

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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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Delivering Generative Marketing Content to Customers

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Marketers have long dreamed of one-on-one customer engagement, but crafting the volume of messages required for personalized engagement at that level has been a major.

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Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?

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How a new atomic clock might be the way to tackle attacks on plane GPS systems

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A robot taught these birds a long-lost birdsong

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The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their eldersuntil scientists stepped in. The song of the male chingolo, or rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis), is one of the most distinctive sounds in South America.

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How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars

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For years, a towing company cut the lines at the DMV in exchange for deep discounts on towed cars, according to an internal DMV report, showing the agencys oversight failures.

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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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How to Use Mistral OCR for Your Next RAG Model

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have revolutionized how we access and utilize vast amounts of data, enabling AI to deliver more informed and context-aware responses. However, their capabilities have largely been confined to digital text, overlooking valuable information in multimodal formats like scanned documents, images, and handwritten notes.

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The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome

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In its final proposed remedy filing in the Google antitrust case, the Department of Justice reiterated that Google should stop paying partners for search placementand divest its dominant Chrome browser.

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Announcing general availability of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases GraphRAG with Amazon Neptune Analytics

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Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases GraphRAG (GraphRAG), a capability in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases that enhances Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with graph data in Amazon Neptune Analytics. This capability enhances responses from generative AI applications by automatically creating embeddings for semantic search and generating a graph of the entities and relationships extracted from ingested documents.

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AMD YOLO

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AMD is sending us the two MI300X boxes we asked for. They are in the mail.

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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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AI Tool Diagnoses Multiple Diseases From One Blood Sample

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A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can simultaneously assess blood samples for infections, autoimmune diseases, and vaccine responses, according

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Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says

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On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s. If labels' proposed second amended complaint is accepted by the court, damages sought in the casewhich some already feared could financially ruin IA and shut it down for goo

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Medical AI tools are growing, but are they being tested properly?

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AI medical benchmark tests fall short because they dont test efficiency on real tasks such as writing medical notes, experts say.

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AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement

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Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers. Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers.

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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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Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding

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Reflection AI Inc., a new startup led by former Google DeepMind researchers, launched today with $130 million in early-stage funding.The company raised the capital over two rounds.

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Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when fired

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IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail?

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How AI Is Leveling the Playing Field For Small Businesses to Compete With Industry Giants

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In 2025, entrepreneurs can use technology to overcome any resource gap they have compared to the competition. The public perception of artificial intelligence often hinges on reducing workforces and replacing workers.

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Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022.

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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?