Sat.Jan 25, 2025

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DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

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We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a preliminary step, demonstrates remarkable reasoning capabilities. Through RL, DeepSeek-R1-Zero naturally emerges with numerous powerful and intriguing reasoning behaviors.

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Scale AI’s 28-Year-Old Billionaire CEO Warns About This Scarily Good Chinese Startup

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The A.I. race between the two countries "is one of the most important issues of today," according to Wang. For around a decade, the U.S.

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To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world's grids

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Less than 3% of the worlds power is internationally tradeda huge wasted opportunity

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All About DeepSeek - The Chinese AI Startup Challenging The US Big Tech

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DeepSeek, a relatively unknown Chinese AI startup, has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley with its recent release of cutting-edge AI models.

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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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Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

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Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks

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A.I. Will Empower Humanity

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I recently learned of a new way people are using artificial intelligence. Based on everything you know about me, they ask ChatGPT, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like. Like any capable carnival mind reader, ChatGPT appears to mix safe bets with more specific details.

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How To Gain Vital Skills In Conversational Icebreakers Via Nimble Use Of Generative AI

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In todays column, I explore the use of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) for those who need some upbeat insights about starting conversations. The use of icebreakers is a common social mechanism that can be used with people that youve newly met.

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Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer Job Posting

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A fantastic opportunity to use your AI / deep learning expertise to keep our club at the forefront of football analytics research, championing a data-driven approach to help deliver on-pitch success.

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Scientists propose making AI suffer to see if it's sentient

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A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare.

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Men lose half their emotional support networks between 30 and 90

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Mens emotional support networks shrink by 50% from ages 30 to 90, with early parental warmth predicting larger networks. Marriage consolidates support to spouses, while retirement has no effect, highlighting aging's impact on socioemotional connections.

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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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ChatGPT Operator: The 'iPhone' Of Agentic AI, If Done Right

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ChatGPT Operator is here, and its a significant development in making AI-driven task automation accessible to the general public. This tool offers consumers and businesses new ways to enhance efficiency and productivity.

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Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States

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States need to have and use data privacy laws to bring privacy violations to light and hold companies accountable for them. So, we were glad to see that the Texas Attorney Generals Office has filed its first lawsuit under Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) to take the Allstate Corporation.

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Why Indian IT is Not Keen on Building AI Foundational Models

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While Indian startups and founders are catching up to the AI wave, prompted by the announcement of the $500 billion Stargate Project from the US and

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Explainer: What's R1 and Everything Else?

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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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Perforce Compliance Lead: Don’t You Forget About Non-Production Data

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When that data moves from production to non-production, there are architectural implications for compliance that we should have been thinking about in pre-production.

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Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns

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Samsung's AI phones, Databricks' $10 billion, and Palona's sales agent: This week's AI launches

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Each week, Quartz rounds up product launches, updates, and funding news from artificial intelligence-focused startups and companies. Heres whats going on this week in the ever-evolving AI industry.

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Searching for DeepSeek's glitch tokens

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A first attempt at identifying and cataloging DeepSeek's glitched tokens

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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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AI develops life-saving snake venom treatment – helping two million people per year

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Each year, over two million people fall victim to snakebites, resulting in more than 100,000 fatalities and 300,000 severe disabilities, according to

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The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family

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As his country crumbled, a South Vietnamese pilot attempting a high-risk landing on the Midway depended on the ships quick-thinking crew to save his family from disaster

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'An extension of a scientist's brain': Researchers explore AI to augment inspiration and imagination to revolutionize science

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AI is already a big part of our lives, shaping healthcare, transportation, education, customer service, retail, and creative industries, to give just

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Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home's front walkway

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Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking their front walkway where Velaidum had been standing moments before.

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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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Could your job be at risk due to AI? Do this before it's too late

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I have 78 million reasons why your career depends on what you do today. Here is everything you need to know.

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Schrödinger: The Nvidia biotech partner Jensen Huang told to "think bigger"

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Is it a turning point?

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I asked ChatGPT for financial advice. Here's how it went.

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ChatGPT has taken the world by storm since OpenAI released it to the public in November 2022. Today, people use it for literally everything from planning their trips around the globe and debugging code to creating dinner recipes, scripting social media posts and customizing cover letters.

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Sicko game developers keep reinventing Tetris

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L-block, I trusted you!

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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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OnePlus 13 lands useful AI tricks and a fix for camera snags

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The latest OxygenOS update adds AI-assisted translation tools that makes it easier to hold two-way conversations in split-screen mode, and even with headphones.

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The Graphics Codex

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An essential reference for 3D computer graphics.

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As California AI data centers grow, so does dirty energy

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Companies are using a shortcut to build ever larger centers that use diesel generators as an emergency power source.

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Using AI to develop a fuller model of the human brain

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A digital twin of a human mind? It isnt science fiction.

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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?