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Understanding RAG Part IX: Fine-Tuning LLMs for RAG

Machine Learning Mastery

Be sure to check out the previous articles in this series:

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The Amount Amazon Is Actually Making on AI Will Make Your Eyebrows Raise Dramatically

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Even as tariffs loom, big tech companies still plan to splash tons of money on AI infrastructure. But the return they're getting on these moonshot investments should give you pause. In numbers, Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon combined will spend more than $270 billion in capital expenditures to build AI data centers in 2025 alone, according to a Citigroup estimate cited by The Wall Street Journal.

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The Laws Of Automation, NTT Research Details ‘Physics Of AI’ Group

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

NTT Research, Inc. is aiming to law down the laws of AI physics, economics, motion and mathematics with its newly formed Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group.

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Writer unveils ‘AI HQ’ platform, betting on agents to transform enterprise work

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Writer unveils AI HQ platform to transform enterprise work with autonomous agents that execute complex workflows across systems, potentially reducing workforce needs while delivering measurable ROI on AI investments.

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Whats New in Apache Airflow 3.0 –– And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

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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Model customization, RAG, or both: A case study with Amazon Nova

AWS Machine Learning Blog

As businesses and developers increasingly seek to optimize their language models for specific tasks, the decision between model customization and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) becomes critical. In this post, we seek to address this growing need by offering clear, actionable guidelines and best practices on when to use each approach, helping you make informed decisions that align with your unique requirements and objectives.

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OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claims his $97.4 billion takeover offer was a sham bid

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OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman have counter-sued its co-founder turned competitor Elon Musk , accusing the billionaire of unfair and fraudulent business practices. Specifically, ChatGPT 's owners claim that Musk's $97.375 billion offer to buy it out in February was a "sham bid" deliberately intended to impede OpenAI's efforts to raise funding. "Through press attacks, malicious campaigns broadcast to Musk's more than 200 million followers on the social media platform he controls [X], a pretextual

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Generate user-personalized communication with Amazon Personalize and Amazon Bedrock

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Today, businesses are using AI and generative models to improve productivity in their teams and provide better experiences to their customers. Personalized outbound communication can be a powerful tool to increase user engagement and conversion. For instance, as a marketing manager for a video-on-demand company, you might want to send personalized email messages tailored to each individual usertaking into account their demographic information, such as gender and age, and their viewing preference

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WTF is a Transformer?

KDnuggets

In this article, well explore what a transformer is, how it originated, why it became so successful that it powered one of the most groundbreaking AI advances, the large language model.

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The 2025 AI Index Report

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Elon Musk's xAI is polluting air in Memphis, using more gas turbines than permitted, advocacy group says

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Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has installed 35 gas turbines to run its Memphis data center, though it only applied for permits to run 15, an advocacy group says.

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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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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

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A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.

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AI 50

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The Forbes Artificial Intelligence 50 List of 2025 spotlights promising AI-driven businesses. See the leaders driving the future of the industry.

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Neutrinos' maximum possible mass shrinks further

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The KATRIN experiment in Germany nearly halved the maximum possible mass for neutrinos, setting it at 0.45 electron volts.

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Cracks are forming in Elon Musk's armor of lies

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As Elon Musk moves to dismiss a lawsuit from Tesla shareholders claiming he failed his fiduciary duties, OpenAI is now suing Musk and exposing lies, which could help Tesla shareholders. It looks like cracks are forming in Elon Musks armor of lies.

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A Guide to Debugging Apache Airflow® DAGs

In Airflow, DAGs (your data pipelines) support nearly every use case. As these workflows grow in complexity and scale, efficiently identifying and resolving issues becomes a critical skill for every data engineer. This is a comprehensive guide with best practices and examples to debugging Airflow DAGs. You’ll learn how to: Create a standardized process for debugging to quickly diagnose errors in your DAGs Identify common issues with DAGs, tasks, and connections Distinguish between Airflow-relate

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How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured

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"You could count the number of skilled electronics engineers on US soil, and there's probably a million in Shenzhen alone.

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Why 300 Companies Use This Startup’s AI To Slash Costs

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Businesses have poured millions into AI hoping for big returns in the future. This startup is saving them millions in labor costs today. Itwas 2016, and May Habib was in the most important meeting of her life.

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Default styles for h1 elements are changing

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Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. This post describes the incoming changes, how to identify if it's an issue on your websites, and hints for conformant and better-structured pages.

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AI 50 2025: AI Agents Move Beyond Chat

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The 2025 edition of the AI 50 list shows how companies are using agents and reasoning models to start replacing work previously done by people at scale. Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase in 2025.

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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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Google’s new Gemini 2.5 Flash is proof AI doesn’t have to be slow

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Google is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Flash, a speedier, more efficient AI model announced at the Google Cloud Next conference, expanding the reach of its latest AI architecture beyond its initial experimental phase. After Gemini 2.5 Pro turned heads last month, Google is now deploying improved AI across its ecosystem, clarifying its model lineup. Flash joins Pro, starting life on the developer-focused Vertex AI platform rather than the consumer Gemini app.

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Here are 10 countries with the highest concentration of AI talent globally, according to new LinkedIn data

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Singapore tops LinkedIn's 2025 AI Talent Index, as the country's supply for AI talent is 2.45 the global average.

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PEP 750 – Template Strings (t-strings) have been accepted

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This PEP introduces template strings for custom string processing.

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Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

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Metas Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musks Grok.

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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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Whistleblower: Meta sold ads when teens felt “worthless”

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Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams told U.S. senators Wednesday the company intentionally targeted advertisements at teenagers based on their emotional state. The former Facebook policy director testified that Meta identified feelings like depression to serve ads when teens felt vulnerable. Wynn-Williams , author of the book Careless People , documented this claim based on her time at the company.

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OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chats

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OpenAI announced on Thursday that its starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their previous conversations.

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A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

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A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9 - bbenchoff/MacSSL

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Canva is now in the coding and spreadsheet business

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Visual Suite 2.0 is Canvas one-stop shop for AI, design, and workspace tools. Canva is launching its latest smorgasbord of generative AI-powered workspace tools in its attempt to cram everything that Microsoft, Google, and Adobe can do into a single platform.

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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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Gemini can now read your Google Docs like a podcast

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Google is integrating more Gemini AI features into its Workspace apps, introducing audio summaries in Docs, writing suggestions, and a new analysis tool for Sheets, rolling out over the coming months. Gemini will soon generate audio overviews within Google Docs, essentially creating AI-hosted podcasts summarizing key points. This feature, inspired by a similar function in Google’s NotebookLM research tool and already present in the Gemini app for file uploads, is set to arrive for Workspac

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ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats

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OpenAI today announced a significant expansion of ChatGPT's customization and memory capabilities. For some users, it will now be able to remember information from the full breadth of their prior conversations with it and adjust its responses based on that information. This means ChatGPT will learn more about the user over time to personalize its responses, above and beyond just a handful of key facts.

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Usability Improvements in GCC 15

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I work at Red Hat on GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. I spent most of the past year working on how GCC emits diagnostics (errors and warnings) in the hope of making it easier to use.

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What the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ can teach us about AI

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TL;DR: 2,000 years later, human choices still matter most. One recent rainy afternoon, I found myself in an unexpected rolephilosophy teacher to a machine.

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The Ultimate Guide to Apache Airflow DAGS

With Airflow being the open-source standard for workflow orchestration, knowing how to write Airflow DAGs has become an essential skill for every data engineer. This eBook provides a comprehensive overview of DAG writing features with plenty of example code. You’ll learn how to: Understand the building blocks DAGs, combine them in complex pipelines, and schedule your DAG to run exactly when you want it to Write DAGs that adapt to your data at runtime and set up alerts and notifications Scale you