Sat.Dec 28, 2024

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AI Ethics in Data Preparation: A Responsibility We Can’t Ignore!

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Data is the lifeblood of modern decision-making, and AI systems rely heavily on it. However, the quality and ethical implications of this data are paramount. The Importance of Ethical Data Preparation Ethical data preparation is fundamental to the success of AI systems. It’s like ensuring the bricks and mortar used in building a house are sound.

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Blaize Received Approval to List its Common Stock and Warrants on Nasdaq

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WASHINGTON & EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., Jan 13, 2024 Blaize, Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-enabled edge computing solutions, and acquisition company BurTech today announced that they expect to complete their previously announced business combination on January 12, 2025. The combined company will be named Blaize Holdings, Inc.

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Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

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"We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do.

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38C3: Illegal Instructions

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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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The 19th-Century Technology That Threatens A.I.

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Whatever you hear about the United States as a fading power, it is ahead in the race to gain dominance in artificial intelligence over China, its major rival. Thats a product of Silicon Valleys unique ability to bring together scientists, entrepreneurs and risk capital.

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After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly

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Also on Friday, the company obtained a launch license for New Glenn launch attempts.

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EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force

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Electronics manufactures must from Saturday fit all devices sold in the EU with USB-C charger ports in a bid by the 27-nation bloc to reduce waste and cut costs for consumers, who will no longer have

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Doctors Say AI Is Introducing Slop Into Patient Care

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Early testing demonstrates results that could be disastrous for patients.

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Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

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'Godfather of AI' Demands Strict Regulations to Stop Technology From Wiping Out Humanity

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Geoffrey Hinton warns of AI development outpacing regulations, raising risk of human extinction. Calls for strict oversight to ensure safety.

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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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Shortest times between train stations in Europe

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Visualize where you can travel by train in Europe on this interactive map.

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Using AI to talk to animals

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Researchers are building an AI system that they hope will, one day, allow humans to understand the many languages that animals use to communicate

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I Automated My Job Application Process

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A developer automated job applications, sending 250 in 20 minutes using Python scripts and GPT

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Growing AI Power Demands Distort Electricity Flow

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The growth of artificial intelligence data centers nationwide is adding stress to fragile power grids and may be distorting the flow of electricity

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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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Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack?

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Several weeks ago we received a bug report from a customer that said their game was crashing when using IL2CPP scripting backend. QA verified the bug and assigned it to me for fixing. The project was quite big (although far from the largest ones); it took 40 minutes to build on my machine. The instructions on the bug report said: Play the game for 5-10 minutes until it crashes.

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AI-Generated Art Gets Its Own Sleek Print Magazine

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Art made with artificial intelligence is ubiquitous online, appearing on platforms from Instagram and Reddit to websites hosting generative AI tools themselves. Now, artists have a new and somewhat ironic outlet for showcasing their digital, algorithm-assisted creations: paper.

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WebGL Fluid Simulation

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A WebGL fluid simulation that works in mobile browsers.

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Building Life With Generative AI

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It seems ridiculous to think that you could reduce something like amino acid interactions and resulting proteins to the level of something like Minecraft. In fact, I wouldnt think most of us have even considered how generative AI could be applied to life science.

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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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Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway

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How Generative AI And LLMs Are Reinventing Our Vocabulary Such That We Might Lose Our Grasp On Human Languages

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In todays column, I examine an impassioned concern that the expanding use of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) will ultimately cause human-devised vocabulary to fall by the wayside. Say what? The sobering matter seems quite peculiar.

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Netflix tells writers to have characters "announce what they're doing"

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Netflix execs have been telling their screenwriters to have characters announce what theyre doing so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along without having to miss plot strands. Theres barely been any pushback, until now.

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12 Tech Predictions For 2025 That Will Shape Our Future

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The year ahead looks set to become one of tremendous change. As a consequence of progress in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, and space exploration, economies will see constant transformation. These innovations will create significant opportunities and threats.

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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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Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible

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I've often found myself uneasy when LLMs (Large Language Models) are asked to quote the Bible. While they can provide insightful discussions about faith, their tendency to hallucinate responses raises concerns when dealing with scripture, which we regard as the inspired Word of God.

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Analyst says big shift in AI coming in 2025 is huge tailwind for two stocks

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Heres what could be next for artificial intelligence stocks in 2025. If you missed the big surge on Nvidia this year, dont get too upset yet.

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Spotify Shuts Down 'Unwrapped' Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats

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Multi-billionaire Daniel Ek has shut down the Spotify Unwrapped calculator that showcased how little the DSP pays to artists.

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Crypto and AI Hardware That Turned Heads in 2024

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From AI wearables to gaming handhelds, smartphones, and humanoid robots, these crypto and AI devices grabbed our attention in 2024.

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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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What Happens to Relicensed Open Source Projects and Their Forks?

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Contributor impact varies after projects adopt more restrictive licenses, finds CHAOSS research on Elasticsearch, Redis, Terraform and their forks.

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AI-powered study reveals brain patterns behind small animal phobia

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A recent study used machine learning to identify key brain regions and networks, like the amygdala and default mode network, that differentiate people with small animal phobia, advancing understanding of its neurological basis.

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Lies. Damned Lies. P-value thresholds

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In the era of Big Data, weve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong.

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The Year in A.I.: How the Tool Took Us From Amusement to Outrage in 2024

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Just what kind of year did A.I. have? Ah, artificial intelligencethe tech everyone loves to hate. Indeed, while A.I.

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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?