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Building a RAG System for Smart Decision-Making in Organizations

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In todays fast-paced business environment, organizations are inundated with data that drives decisions, optimizes operations, and maintains competitiveness. However, extracting actionable insights from this data remains a significant hurdle. A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, when integrated with Agentic AI, tackles this challenge by not only retrieving relevant information but also processing and delivering context-aware insights […] The post Building a RAG System for Smart De

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CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research

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Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost?

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Thanks to the advent of cloud computing and distributed digital infrastructure, the one-person micro-enterprise is far from a novel concept.

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Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations

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Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

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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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It’s ‘Never Going To Happen,’ But A Distracted Musk Should Hand Over CEO Reins At Tesla

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Earnings were weaker than expected, the near-term outlook is murky, EV sales are down, and Elon Musk is more distracted than ever before. But with a phalanx of loyal shareholders and a cowed board hes not going anywhere.

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Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows

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Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the FAA and the controllers' union.

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CDC Data Are Disappearing

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The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

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How Helpful Is Operator, OpenAI’s New A.I. Agent?

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In the past week, OpenAIs Operator has done the following things for me: Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon. Bought me a new domain name and configured its settings. Booked a Valentines Day date for me and my wife. Scheduled a haircut.

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Delaware faces exodus of tech companies

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Meta and Dropbox are said following Elon Musk by moving its incorporation out the state.

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Opinion | DeepSeek isn't Sputnik: an AI race with China is crazy

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When OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, the U.S. clearly led the world in artificial intelligence.

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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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Island residents are still dealing with the fallout of exploded Starship

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Following the explosive failure of the Starship megarockets January 16 test flight, residents of the British territory were left with debris-strewn roads and beaches.

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DeepSeek Failed Every Single Security Test, Researchers Found

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Researchers found that DeepSeek's R1 AI "failed to block a single harmful prompt" after being tested against 50 jailbreaking prompts.

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USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Escorted from Office by Security

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Phyllis Fong was heading up an investigation into Elon Musk's Neuralink.

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AI Can Predict Incredible Solar Storms Before They Strike

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To the casual observer, the Sun seems to be the one constant and never changing.

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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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Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge

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That email chain could have been a 30-second chit-chat, says IT giant

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When Does AI Show Up In the Economy?

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DeepSeek adds urgency to the job-loss debate, why the China bubble never quite popped and a democratic case against Fed independence Welcome to the

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I Use Cline for AI Engineering

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Panic Over DeepSeek Exposes AI's Weak Foundation On Hype

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The story about DeepSeek has disrupted the prevailing AI narrative, impacted the markets and spurred a media storm: A large language model from China competes with the leading LLMs from the U.S. and it does so without requiring nearly the costly computational investment. Maybe the U.S.

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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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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

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Apple’s iPhone SE Could Be The Best iPhone Yet

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With Apple expected to launch the iPhone SE in the next few months, why could this iPhone be one of the best smartphones to buy in 2025? iPhone SE And Apple Intelligence First of all is Apples implementation of artificial intelligence.

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Researchers just discovered a new class of life living inside humans

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Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

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DeepSeek: Separating fact from hype

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DeepSeek is making waves in the AI world, grabbing headlines and taking over the app stores, even beating out OpenAIs ChatGPT. But whats really happening behind the hype?

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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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Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space

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One-Two AI Punch: DeepSeek's Image Generator Follows Its Earthshaking Model Release

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The Chinese startup that shook the world last week has added an image generator to its AI arsenal.

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I'm Ready for You: On Balzac

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Balzacs work gives us, for the first time in fiction, a detailed analysis of the relationship between the individual.

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OpenAI Staff Turn Guns on Each Other After DeepSeek Humiliation

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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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Macrodata Refinement

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MIT names 10 breakthrough technologies to watch in 2025

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The year has just begun, but there have already been some incredible technological advancements.

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The Strike Is Coming

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The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.

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One-Two AI Punch: DeepSeek's Image Generator Follows Its Earthshaking Model Release

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The Chinese startup that shook the world last week has added an image generator to its AI arsenal.

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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?