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Surprising Things You Can Do with Python’s csv Module

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Think it's just for reading simple tables? See what else you can do with this Python standard library module.

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What is the Difference Between AI Agents and Agentic AI?

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When were you first introduced to the terms AI Agents and Agentic AI? Most likely, it was last year. The two terms might seem interchangeable, but they’re quite different. AI Agents are good for handling specific tasks. They follow rules, use tools, and apply reasoning to get things done. On the other hand, Agentic AI […] The post What is the Difference Between AI Agents and Agentic AI?

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A new AI-based weather tool surpasses current forecasts

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The AI tool used machine learning to outperform current weather simulations, offering faster, cheaper, more accurate forecasts.

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Author Faster, Smarter AI/BI Dashboards with Dynamic Calculations

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For over a year, Databricks AI/BI has been democratizing business intelligence and analytics across your organization with highly visual and interactive low-code AI/BI Dashboards.

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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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What AI Thinks It Knows About You

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What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them? Large language models such as GPT, Llama, Claude, and DeepSeek can be so fluent that people feel it as a you, and it answers encouragingly as an I.

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Introducing next-level identity security at Databricks

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The future of identity security is passwordless, context-aware, and frictionlessand were continuing to build toward that future at Databricks.

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Announcing the General Availability of cross-cloud data governance

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Were excited to announce that the ability to access AWS S3 data on Azure Databricks through Unity Catalog to enable cross-cloud data governance is now

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Mistral AI launches Devstral, powerful new open source SWE agent model that runs on laptops

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Well-funded French AI model maker Mistral has consistently punched above its weight since its debut of its own powerful open source foundation model in fall 2023 but it took some criticism among developers on X recently for its last release of a proprietary large language model (LLM) called

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What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours

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Cats Dont Talk We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for example, that compositional language of the kind we humans use is possible. At the 100 million or so neurons of a cat, it doesnt seem to be.

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By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible

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Its annual I/O showcase demonstrates that the frontier is no longer about AI models capabilities. Its about turning them into slick products.

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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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Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel

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Allium Engineering, founded by MIT alumni Sam McAlpine and Steven Jepeal, developed a process for improving steel rebar to triple the lifetime of bridges and other infrastructure.

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Conversational agent can create executable quantum chemistry workflows

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Artificial intelligence (AI) agents and large-language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning OpenAI's conversational platform ChatGPT, are

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How we made our optical character recognition (OCR) code more accurate

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Discover how Pieces enhanced its optical character recognition (OCR) engine to improve accuracy, speed, and real-world application for software developers.

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10 Python One-Liners for Feature Selection Like a Pro

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In many data analysis processes, including machine learning , data preprocessing is an important stage before further analysis or model training and evaluation.

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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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Google Shows Off Android XR Smart Glasses with In-Lens Display

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Google today showed off a set of lightweight smart glasses that have deep Gemini integration and an optional in-lens display that can offer up.

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Choosing the Right Machine Learning Algorithm: A Decision Tree Approach

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Amid so many different machine learning algorithms to choose from. This guide has been designed to help you navigate towards the right one for you, depending on your data and the problem to address.

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What is Gemma 3n and How to Access it?

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After showing impressive efficiency with Gemma 3, running powerful AI on a single GPU, Google has pushed the boundaries even further with Gemma 3n. This new release brings state-of-the-art AI to mobile and edge devices, using minimal memory while delivering fast, multimodal performance. In this article, well explore what makes Gemma 3n so powerful, how […] The post What is Gemma 3n and How to Access it?

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From Pilot to Proof: AI’s Growing Impact on Learning

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Is AI redefining how we teach and learn?

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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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I spent a year figuring out the weirdest mistake in recent Hollywood history

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The story behind cinemas most mysterious bird.

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Turns out asking AI chatbots for answers in a specific way can be like leaving them with the key to Trippy McHigh's magic mushroom farm

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Chatbot, are you high right now?

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Can Google’s tiny Gemma 3n AI really run smoothly on any device?

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Google unveiled Gemma 3n, the latest addition to its open AI model family, at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday. This model is designed to run smoothly on resource-constrained devices such as phones, laptops, and tablets, even those with less than 2GB of RAM, starting in preview from Tuesday. Gemma 3n’s efficiency allows it to operate offline without cloud computing, reducing costs and preserving privacy by eliminating the need to transfer data to remote servers.

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Use PyTorch to Easily Access Your GPU

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Lets say youare lucky enough to have access to a system with an Nvidia Graphical Processing Unit (Gpu).

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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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One of the Most Popular Games on the Planet

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Grow a Garden at one point had over 5 million active Roblox users playing it

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AI Still Doesn’t Understand the Word ‘No,’ MIT Study Finds

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MIT researchers have detailed AIs failure to grasp negation, a basic yet critical human language function that could prove dangerous.

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Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field

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ChatGPT is shockingly bad at poker

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ChatGPTs response to request to draw a poker board of Q Q 4 4 5.

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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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Nvidia Pushes Further into Cloud with GPU Marketplace

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A Federal Judge Ordered OpenAI to Stop Deleting Data. Here’s How That Could Impact Users’ Privacy

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The New York Times is suing OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement.

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Secure distributed logging in scalable multi-account deployments using Amazon Bedrock and LangChain

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Data privacy is a critical issue for software companies that provide services in the data management space. If they want customers to trust them with their data, software companies need to show and prove that their customers data will remain confidential and within controlled environments. Some companies go to great lengths to maintain confidentiality, sometimes adopting multi-account architectures, where each customer has their data in a separate AWS account.

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Gemini Diffusion was the sleeper hit of Google I/O and some say its blazing speed could reshape the AI model wars

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Googles Gemini Diffusion demo didnt get much airtime at I/O, but its blazing speedand potential for codinghas AI insiders speculating about a shift in the model wars.

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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?