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OpenAI’s New Function Calling Guide

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OpenAI has announced the release of its brand-new Function Calling Guide, designed to help developers extend the capabilities of OpenAI models by integrating custom tools and functions. Based on extensive user feedback, the guide has been revamped to be 50% shorter and clearer, featuring new best practices, in-doc function generation, and a fully functional example […] The post OpenAI’s New Function Calling Guide appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Implement RAG while meeting data residency requirements using AWS hybrid and edge services

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With the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Agents , you can rapidly develop generative AI applications to run multi-step tasks across a myriad of enterprise systems and data sources. However, some geographies and regulated industries bound by data protection and privacy regulations have sought to combine generative AI services in the cloud with regulated data on premises.

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How to Build Agentic RAG with SmolAgents?

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Building an Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system with SmolAgents enables the development of AI agents capable of autonomous decision-making and task execution. SmolAgents, a minimalist library by Hugging Face, facilitates the creation of such agents in a concise and efficient manner. In this article, we will go step by step to build the Agentic RAG […] The post How to Build Agentic RAG with SmolAgents?

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Unlocking complex problem-solving with multi-agent collaboration on Amazon Bedrock

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Large language model (LLM) based AI agents that have been specialized for specific tasks have demonstrated great problem-solving capabilities. By combining the reasoning power of multiple intelligent specialized agents, multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a powerful approach to tackle more intricate, multistep workflows. The concept of multi-agent systems isnt entirely newit has its roots in distributed artificial intelligence research dating back to the 1980s.

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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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Sora vs Veo 2: Which One Creates More Realistic Videos?

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In the competitive world of AI video generation, Googles Veo 2 and OpenAIs Sora are two leading contenders. Both tools are designed to generate high-quality, AI-driven videos, but they differ significantly in terms of realism, features, and costs. When choosing the right video generator for your task, it is essential to thoroughly test and evaluate […] The post Sora vs Veo 2: Which One Creates More Realistic Videos?

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The Data Engineering Grease, Guts & Gears Behind AI

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Alonside data management frameworks, a holistic approach to data engineering for AI is needed along with data provenance controls and data preparation tools.

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10 Essential SQL Commands for Data Analysis

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What are essential commands for data analysis in SQL? This article will answer this question by mentioning 10 SQL commands. As a bonus, well add some other SQL commands that are not that common but will certainly add flexibility to your analyses.

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AMD pauses RDNA 4 launch to outsmart Nvidia

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AMD’s delay in unveiling its RDNA 4 GPUs is a tactical move, aimed at assessing NVIDIA’s strategy with the RTX 50 series before making its own announcement. While AMD did not fully showcase RDNA 4 during its CES keynote, it released slides detailing the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070, claiming this was to give the RX 9070 series a standalone showcase.

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Wizerr AI: Revolutionizing Electronics Design and Procurement with Databricks

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Electronic products are evolving at lightning speed, driven by an insatiable demand for new consumer devices, energy, transport, robotics, connectivity, data and beyond.

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Fine-tuning Embeddings for RAG applications

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Author(s): Anuar Sharafudinov Originally published on Towards AI. Credits: GPT4o The rise of the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has revolutionized how we build intelligent applications. At its core, RAG is all about efficiently turning large chunks of text into actionable embeddings and then letting an AI model piece together contextually relevant answers.

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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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Transformer^2: Self-Adaptive LLMs

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Transformer: Self-Adaptive LLMs

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Fine-Tuning a Pre-trained LLM for Sentiment Classification

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Author(s): Dimitris Effrosynidis Originally published on Towards AI. Optimizing results with minimal effort This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Image by author. In a previous tutorial, Traditional vs. Generative AI for Sentiment Classification, we predicted the sentiment of product reviews from the Flipkart Customer Review dataset.

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South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested, local media reports

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This was the second bid to arrest the impeached president, following a failed attempt on Jan. 3.

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Building Multimodal RAG Application #8: Putting it All Together! Building Multimodal RAG Application

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Author(s): Youssef Hosni Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is transforming how AI applications handle complex information by merging retrieval and generation capabilities across diverse data types, such as text, images, and video. Unlike traditional RAG, which typically focuses on text-based retrieval and generation, multimodal RAG systems can pull in relevant content from both tex

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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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Zuckerberg Appeared to Know Meta Trained AI on Pirated Library

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The AI rush has brought with it thorny questions of copyright and ownership of data as tech companies train bots like ChatGPT on existing texts, but

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Nobody cares

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A rant about caring

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ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos

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The AI chatbot can now set reminders and perform recurring actions. OpenAI is launching a new beta feature in ChatGPT called Tasks that lets users schedule future actions and reminders.

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Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain

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Millions of Americans can have their data stolen right now because of a deficiency in Googles Sign in with Google authentication flow. If youve worked for a startup in the past - especially one that has since shut down - you might be vulnerable.

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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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Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI

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In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story Runaround.

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FFmpeg by Example

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Explore the depth of FFmpeg with Examples

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Nvidia backs MetAI, a Taiwanese startup that creates AI-powered digital twins

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Nvidia has been doubling down on the opportunity to build robotics and other industrial AI applications, with the launch of its Omniverse platform, and most recently Mega, an Omniverse Blueprint framework to create digital twins to operate these applications.

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Trapped in dark for 35 hours Red Sea dive-boat survivors tell terrifying escapes

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Eleven survivors describe what happened and raise safety questions about the dive boat Sea Story.

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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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Stanford scientist discovers that AI has developed an uncanny human-like ability

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Recent research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that large language models, such as ChatGPT-4, demonstrate

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Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior

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With connected cars and revenue-hungry apps, insurers are flush with data.

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ChatGPT wants to become your reminder app with new ‘Tasks’ feature

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OpenAI on Tuesday announced a new feature coming to ChatGPT, which will turn the chatbot into a reminder app. Called Tasks, the feature will let users ask ChatGPT to remind them about their tasks and even create periodic alerts for specific situations.

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Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab

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Apple is testing the output of TSMC Arizona and verifying if it has the same quality as chips made in Taiwan.

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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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The UK government wants to unleash AI’s huge potential. While welcome, we need to carefully consider the risks

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The UK governments AI opportunities action plan, published on January 13 2025, outlines a vision for boosting growth and deliver services more

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U.S. Employee Engagement Sinks to 10-Year Low

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Since last year, 3.2 million fewer employees felt enthusiastic about and involved in their work, matching a figure not seen in the U.S. since 2014.

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Amazon must solve hallucination problem before launching AI-enabled Alexa

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Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays.

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Singapore is turning to AI to care for its rapidly aging population

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Singapore is turning to AI, including voice biomarker tools, to detect depression and address eldercare challenges as its aging population grows.

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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?