AI chatbots fail to diagnose patients by talking with them
JANUARY 2, 2025
Although popular AI models score highly on medical exams, their accuracy drops significantly when making a diagnosis based on a conversation with a simulated patient
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Inductive biases of neural network modularity in spatial navigation
ML @ CMU
JANUARY 2, 2025
TL;DR: The brain may have evolved a modular architecture for daily tasks, with circuits featuring functionally specialized modules that match the task structure. We hypothesize that this architecture enables better learning and generalization than architectures with less specialized modules. To test this, we trained reinforcement learning agents with various neural architectures on a naturalistic navigation task.
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The Journey of Innovation: 30+ Patents, 2 AI Startup
Analytics Vidhya
JANUARY 2, 2025
In this Leading with Data session, we dive into the journey of Anand Ranganathan, a visionary in AI and machine learning. From his early days at IBM to co-founding innovative startups like Unscramble and 1/0, Anand shares insights into the challenges, transformations, and future of AI. Join us as we explore his entrepreneurial experiences, the […] The post The Journey of Innovation: 30+ Patents, 2 AI Startup appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
How HP is optimizing the 3D Printing supply chain using Delta Sharing
databricks
JANUARY 2, 2025
Javier Lagares is a Principal Data Engineer at HP, where he leads the development of data-driven solutions for the 3D printing business. With.
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.
Andrew Ng’s 2024 AI Roundup: Key Trends and Takeaways
Analytics Vidhya
JANUARY 2, 2025
As we bid farewell to 2024, the AI space reflects a year of transformative advancements reshaping industries, workflows, and human-technology interaction. Andrew Ng, one of the key figures of the AI community, encapsulates the essence of this year with key takeaways and reflections. Let’s have a look at the 2024 AI Roundup by Andrew Ng. […] The post Andrew Ngs 2024 AI Roundup: Key Trends and Takeaways appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
DoubleClickjacking: The two-click hack that could hijack your accounts
Dataconomy
JANUARY 2, 2025
A new cyber threat known as DoubleClickjacking has emerged, exploiting a two-click sequence to bypass existing web security protections and potentially leading to account takeovers across major websites. Discovered by security researcher Paulos Yibelo , this sophisticated attack manipulates the timing between clicks, presenting significant risks to users.
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JANUARY 2, 2025
Transforming Healthcare Billing: Leveraging AI to Support Providers, Patients, Payers, and Prior Authorization Workflows By Cara Mulrooney and AnnaPiskun Introduction The U.S. Healthcare system faces persistent challenges due to its heavy reliance on manual processes and fragmented communication. These inefficiencies affect providers, patients, and payers alike.
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JANUARY 2, 2025
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Advancing Data Fabric with Micro-segment Creation in IBM Knowledge Catalog
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JANUARY 2, 2025
Introduction Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash In todays data-driven world, organizations face the challenge of making sense of vast, complex datasets. While aggregated data offers a high-level view, the real value often lies in uncovering granular insights through microsegment analysis. Recently introduced as part of I BM Knowledge Catalog on Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) , automated microsegment creation enables businesses to analyze specific subsets of data dynamically, unlocking patterns that dr
Can BigBear.ai’s stock balance growth and losses to hit $7?
Dataconomy
JANUARY 2, 2025
BigBear.ai (BBAI -7.48%) stock has experienced significant volatility, marked by a dramatic rise fueled by enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) last March, followed by a sharp decline. However, the stock rebounded with a remarkable 229% increase between the end of September and December 30, 2024. Investment bank analysts are optimistic about BigBear.ai’s prospects.
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.
Convergence to sameness in the algorithm
FlowingData
JANUARY 2, 2025
As my father-in-law’s Facebook feed would suggest, the “algorithm” has a way of converging hard into your interests and everything starts to look familiar. For NYT Opinion, Kirby Ferguson ponders what that means for creativity. In analysis, we often seek patterns in data. Convergence is an indicator that something is happening. However, convergence in our everyday lives might not be the best route.
How AI is making phishing scams unstoppable
Dataconomy
JANUARY 2, 2025
According to a recent Financial Times report, corporate executives are increasingly targeted by sophisticated phishing scams generated by artificial intelligence (AI) bots, as analyzed by major companies like Beazley and eBay. The prevalence of these hyper-personalized attacks raises significant security concerns. Corporate executives face rising AI-driven phishing scams Kirsty Kelly, chief information security officer at Beazley, emphasized the severity of the issue, stating, This is getting wo
Thoughts on the AIpocalypse
Cassie Kozyrkov
JANUARY 2, 2025
Hi everyone! 2024 was something of a vacation from content for medid you miss me? I missed you!so its time to burst back onto the scene with a plan to create more more MORE in2025. If you havent met me yet, hello and welcome! Im Cassie. Ill tell you more about me in a moment, but first the call to action so you dont missit: Sign up to my newsletter at decision.substack.com Happy New Year!
Creators can now earn more on Spotify: Here’s how it works
Dataconomy
JANUARY 2, 2025
Starting today, Spotify has launched its Partner Program in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia, allowing creators to earn based on engagement from paid subscribers, similar to models used by YouTube. Since its announcement last month, nearly 60 percent of eligible shows and networks have enrolled in the program. Spotify launches Partner Program for creators in key markets With over 640 million users and more than 250 million subscribers, Spotify aims to continuously build new offerings for cr
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
Why Canada Should Join the EU
Hacker News
JANUARY 2, 2025
Europe needs space and resources, Canada needs people.
25 experts predict how AI will change business and life in 2025
JANUARY 2, 2025
Expect to see the rise of AI agents and multimodal models, along with an end to AI theater. The so-called AI boom has been going on for more than two years now, and 2024 saw a real acceleration in both the development and the application of the technology.
UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed
Hacker News
JANUARY 2, 2025
About 200 footprints made by dinosaurs 166 million years ago have been unearthed in a quarry in Oxfordshire.
Predicting what 2025 will mean for AI
JANUARY 2, 2025
We spoke with dozens of experts about what to expect in the year ahead. Heres what they said. Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Companys weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.
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.
Palestinian Authority Suspends Al Jazeera TV in West Bank, Citing Incitement
Hacker News
JANUARY 2, 2025
The Foreign Press Association has said the move "raises serious questions about press freedom"
Is OpenAI’s promised copyright protection stalled for good?
Dataconomy
JANUARY 2, 2025
According to an exclusive TechCrunch article, OpenAI has not delivered the promised ‘Media Manager’ opt-out tool, which was teased in May 2024 to enable creators and content owners to prevent their works from being used in AI training. As 2025 begins, insiders indicate that this feature is not a priority for the company. OpenAI delays media manager tool for copyright protection The ‘Media Manager’ tool was designed to help identify copyrighted content, including text, ima
Reversible Computing Escapes the Lab in 2025
Hacker News
JANUARY 2, 2025
Michael Frank has spent his career as an academic researcher working over three decades in a very peculiar niche of computer engineering. According to Frank, that peculiar niches time has finally come. I decided earlier this year that it was the right time to try to commercialize this stuff, Frank says. In July 2024, he left his position as a senior engineering scientist at Sandia National Laboratories to join a startup, U.S. and U.K.
Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in fiscal 2025
JANUARY 2, 2025
Reuters Microsoft is planning to invest about $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on developing data centers to train artificial intelligence models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications, the company said in a blog post on Friday.
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
Rules for Writing Software Tutorials
Hacker News
JANUARY 2, 2025
It's easier than you think to write an exceptional software tutorial. You can stand out in a sea of mediocre guides by following a few simple rules.
Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
JANUARY 2, 2025
New York CNN Meta promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails and even lie in chats with humans.
Nanoimprint Lithography Aims to Take on EUV
Hacker News
JANUARY 2, 2025
Canon's new nanoimprint lithography technology promises to revolutionize chipmaking by producing 14-nm circuit features at a fraction of the cost of EUV systems. NIL tech could challenge the dominance of current advanced lithography methods.
The artist creating mind-bending images of an alternate Hong Kong through AI
JANUARY 2, 2025
CNN Bianca Tse is among a growing number of artists embracing AI. Its shortened the path between my ideas and my visions, said the 43-year-old, sitting in front of Breathing Room, a photo recently showcased at the Blue Lotus Gallery in Hong Kong.
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.
How Saffron, a precious import, became an American cash crop
Hacker News
JANUARY 2, 2025
Its hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or simply pleasure.
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JANUARY 2, 2025
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U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down FCC's Net Neutrality Rules
Hacker News
JANUARY 2, 2025
6th Circuit finds regulator did not act within its legal authority
Meta, desperate for relevance, plans to unveil yet another tone-deaf product
JANUARY 2, 2025
If you thought Shrimp Jesus signaled the slow, inevitable decay of Facebook, the social media platform is probably about to get much, much worse, recent reports suggest. According to a Dec.
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?
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