Sun.Dec 08, 2024

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Google CEO: AI development is finally slowing down—'the low-hanging fruit is gone’

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI development may feel slower in 2025 and tech companies will "need deeper breakthroughs" than today's chatbots to get ahead.

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Empowering Students with Skills for Data-Driven Careers

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More careers are going to be affected by big data, which means that employees need the right skills.

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Sal Khan wants an AI tutor for every student: here's how it's working at an Indiana high school

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Anderson Cooper headed back to school with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, and creator of the AI tutor Khanmigo. The tool is helping students and teachers alike, and evaluating Cooper's middle school essay.

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Data Analytics is Crucial for Scaling SEO

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Data analytics can be very helpful for companies trying to improve their SEO.

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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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How Alex Karp helped turn Palantir into the West's AI arms dealer

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The way Palantirs CEO sees it, the AI race is about no less than the future of liberal democracy. Alex Karp, the chief executive of Palantir, knows his products can be dangerous.

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What We Got Right And Wrong In Our 2024 AI Predictions

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At this time last year, we published a list of 10 predictions about what would happen in the world of artificial intelligence in 2024. To keep ourselves honest, with 2024 now coming to a close, lets revisit these predictions to see how things actually played out.

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Will AI Transform Standardized Testing?

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Heres a multiple-choice question: Which of the following have educators said is a problem with current state standardized tests? a.

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Art and A.I.: Parallel Worlds, Bound Together

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This personal reflection is part of a series called Turning Points, in which writers explore what critical moments from this year might mean for the year ahead. You can read more by visiting the Turning Points series page.

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At AWS re:Invent 2024, AI innovations fall across markets - SiliconANGLE

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Attending AWS re:Invent 2024 was like watching a forest grow and decay at 10,000-times time-lapse speed. With each major breakthrough release falling, Amazon Web Services Inc.

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The Impact of Data Governance on AI-Driven Business Decisions

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This article explores the critical role of data governance in ensuring the accuracy, compliance, and integrity of data throughout AI model development and deployment.

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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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Cutting-edge AI digs through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells

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The United States is home to a staggering number of abandoned oil and gas wells, remnants of nearly two centuries of hydrocarbon extraction.

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The Transformative Potential of AI: 6 Big Questions for Schools

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Stuart Briers for Education Week AI has the potential to help usher in a new, deeper breed of state standardized tests, but there are plenty of

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Can You Practically Learn to Code With ChatGPT?

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Want to learn coding without endless tutorials or costly courses? You might be tempted to skip the grind by using ChatGPT as your tutor.

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TikTok-Parent ByteDance, Now Nvidia's Largest Asian Chip Customer, Races Ahead Of Alibaba And Baidu To Dominate China's Generative AI Market: Report

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TikTok-parent ByteDance has reportedly become the largest buyer of Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) chips in Asia, outpacing rivals like Alibaba Group

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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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Understanding the science behind Hinton and Hopfield's Nobel Prize in physics

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British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield are set to receive the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.

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NVIDIA’s NVILA Beats GPT-4o Mini and Llama 3.2, Redefines Open Standards in Vision AI

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Recently, NVIDIA released a new family of open visual language models called NVILA, which focuses on optimised accuracy and efficiency.

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How Is Using Generative AI Not Considered Theft?

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Over the course of 2024, I put everything Ive ever written behind a paywall. Its not something I wanted to do, its something I had to do to protect the value of what I write. I have nightmares about some joker in a basement somewhere using my vibe to sell crypto scams to old folks.

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The cognitive cost of AI

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Artificial intelligence can help with many types of work, but learning how to mitigate the mind tax is important. I exist at the intersection of two worlds, management and artificial intelligence (AI), which are evolving at different paces.

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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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Biggest tech trends to expect in 2025: AI, agents, and AR, oh my!

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The longer youve been working in tech media, the easier it is to see whats coming.

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Prediction: This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Company Will Be Acquired in 2025

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One of my big forecasts for 2025 is that acquisitions will make a comeback.

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1 Stock-Split AI Stock to Buy Before It Soars 450%, According to a Wall Street Expert

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Philip Panaro is a founder and former CEO of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Platinion, a division of BCG that offers technology consulting services.

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Podcast: Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably Training AI

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We talk about the big datasets of Bluesky posts being offered to AI; how people are breaking into Redbox systems; and how the U.S. government is clamping down on data brokers.

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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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DIY AI Part 5: How to set up a central scheduler for your AI project

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If you have been following along with our DIY AI program, you now have your file system set up and are ready to start coding.

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An interpretable RNA foundation model for exploring functional RNA motifs in plants

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The complex ‘language’ of plant RNA encodes a vast array of biological regulatory elements that orchestrate crucial aspects of plant growth, development and adaptation to environmental stresses. Recent advancements in foundation models (FMs) have demonstrated their unprecedented potential to decipher complex ‘language’ in biology.

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Sam Altman Reveals This Prior Flaw In OpenAI Advanced AI o1 During ChatGPT Pro Announcement But Nobody Seemed To Widely Notice

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In todays column, I examine a hidden flaw in OpenAIs advanced o1 AI model that Sam Altman revealed during the recent 12 Days Of OpenAI video-streamed ChatGPT Pro announcement.

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Has UnitedHealth's AI Already Achieved Superintelligence?

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A troubling pattern has emerged in American healthcare: UnitedHealth Group's AI system isn't just making decisionsit's reshaping the entire healthcare landscape while operating behind a corporate veil of algorithmic opacity.

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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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Morgan Stanley upgrades Reddit, forecasts strong revenue growth

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Investing.com -- Shares of Reddit Inc.

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What is a token in AI and why is it so important?

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In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), you may have come across the term token more times than you can count.

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Morgan Stanley upgrades Reddit, forecasts strong revenue growth

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Investing.com -- Shares of Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) Inc.

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Former OpenAI researcher raises $40 million to build more empathetic audio AI

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - - A former OpenAI researcher has raised $40 million for a startup that will build artificial-intelligence models that

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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?