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Top 6 SOTA LLMs for Code, Web search, Research and More

Analytics Vidhya

In Artificial Intelligence, large language models (LLMs) have become essential, tailored for specific tasks, rather than monolithic entities. The AI world today has project-built models that have heavy-duty performance in well-defined domains be it coding assistants who have figured out developer workflows, or research agents navigating content across the vast information hub autonomously.

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How to Secure Docker Containers with Best Practices

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Learn how to protect your Docker containers from vulnerabilities and security threats by following these best practices.

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Statistical Methods for Evaluating LLM Performance

Machine Learning Mastery

In this article, we explore statistical methods for evaluating LLM performance, an essential step to guarantee stability and effectiveness.

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All You Need to Know About Cohere’s Command A

Analytics Vidhya

Cohere has entered the competitive race of releasing LLMs with their latest offering – Command A. Their previous model, Command R+, was launched in August 2024, followed by Command R7B in December 2024. Now, with Command A, Cohere has made a strong comeback, introducing a state-of-the-art generative language model tailored for enterprise use cases.

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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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Only six per cent of architects regularly using artificial intelligence says AIA study

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While many American architects are interested in artificial intelligence only a small minority have implemented it regularly into their practice, says astudy released by the American Institute of Architects. According to the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) periodic Journey to Specification research study , only six per cent of architects in the United States regularly use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in their practice.

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Getting started with computer use in Amazon Bedrock Agents

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Computer use is a breakthrough capability from Anthropic that allows foundation models (FMs) to visually perceive and interpret digital interfaces. This capability enables Anthropics Claude models to identify whats on a screen, understand the context of UI elements, and recognize actions that should be performed such as clicking buttons, typing text, scrolling, and navigating between applications.

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Was Sam Altman Right About the Job Market?

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Tech companies are unleashing AI products that do much more than answer questions. The automated future just lurched a few steps closer.

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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

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Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

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No one knows what the hell an AI agent is

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Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents will join the workforce this year. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that agents will replace certain knowledge work.

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Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs

Hacker News

I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I'm sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.

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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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AI Search Engines Invent Sources for ~60% of Queries, Study Finds

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Even when chatbots are provided direct quotes from real stories and asked for more information, they will often lie.

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Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

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Building bridges without blue bubbles.

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Column | 1 in 4 programming jobs have vanished. What happened?

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A big jump in unemployment for programmers since 2022 may be the first sign that artificial intelligence is taking human jobs. More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen.

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How ProPublica Uses AI in Its Investigations

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When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify woke themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.

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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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AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a ‘vibe coder’ to write his own damn code

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As businesses race to replace humans with AI agents, coding assistant Cursor may have given us a peek at the attitude bots could bring to work, too. Cursor reportedly told a user going by the name janswist that he should write the code himself instead of relying on Cursor to do it for him.

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Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised

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Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-fileshas been compromised with a payload that appears to attempt to dump secrets, impacting thousands of CI pipelines.

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China's Manus AI 'agent' could be our 1st glimpse at artificial general intelligence

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Chinese startup Butterfly Effect has unveiled what it claims is the first general AI agent capable of acting autonomously.

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In S3 simplicity is table stakes

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From simple object storage to sophisticated table management, builders have always shaped S3's evolution. Andy Warfield discusses why making complex systems simple remains our north star at AWS.

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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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OpenAI and Google ask the government to let them train AI on content they don’t own

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OpenAI argues it needs access to avoid forfeiting the lead in AI to China. OpenAI and Google are pushing the US government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted material.

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Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all.

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Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree

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'Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities.

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Pressure grows to hold secret Apple data privacy hearing in public

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Civil liberties campaigners have joined US politicians and the BBC in saying Friday's hearing should not be secret.

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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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People find AI more compassionate than mental health experts, study finds. What could this mean for future counseling?

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People find AI more compassionate and understanding than human mental health experts, a new study shows. Even when participants knew that they were talking to a human or AI, the third-party assessors rated AI responses higher.

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The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh

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Sorry, you can only get drugs when there's a drug shortage.

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Anthropic’s plan to win the AI race

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Why CPO Mike Krieger thinks Anthropic can win without beating ChatGPT. Anthropic is one of the worlds leading AI model providers, especially in areas like coding. But its AI assistant, Claude, is nowhere near as popular as OpenAIs ChatGPT.

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Ogres Are Cool

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The only rule of a tale is that everything gets used, even apparently superfluous details though youre allowed.

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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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How Can You Use AI to Start a Side Hustle? These Are the 10 Best-Paying Ones Right Now.

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With the right tools, it's easier than ever to make extra money outside of your 9-5. More than half (52%) of U.S.

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HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere

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HTTP/3 has been in development since at least 2016, while QUIC (the protocol beneath it) was first introduced by Google way back in 2013. Both are now.

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OpenAI’s strategic gambit: The Agents SDK and why it changes everything for enterprise AI

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OpenAI reshaped the enterprise AI landscape Tuesday with the release of its comprehensive agent-building platform a package combining a revamped Responses API, powerful built-in tools and an open-source Agents SDK.

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High-performance computing, with much less code

Hacker News

The Exo 2 language allows programmers to write schedules that explicitly control how the compiler generates code. This allows performance engineers to transform simple programs into complex programs that do the same thing as the specification, but faster.

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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?