Wed.Feb 05, 2025

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Low, Medium, or High: Which o3-mini Reasoning Level is the Smartest?

Analytics Vidhya

Ever wish your AI could switch between “fast and furious” and “deep and thoughtful”? OpenAI’s o3-mini offers precisely that with its three distinct reasoning levels: Low, Medium, and High. This article provides a detailed comparison of these modes, highlighting their speed, use cases, benchmarks, and ideal applications to help you choose the perfect level for […] The post Low, Medium, or High: Which o3-mini Reasoning Level is the Smartest?

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Chrome and Firefox users must update ASAP

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Google and Mozilla announced updates for their Chrome and Firefox browsers on Tuesday to address multiple high-severity memory safety vulnerabilities. Chrome 133 includes 12 security fixes, while Firefox 135 also resolves several critical issues. Google and Mozilla release critical updates for Chrome and Firefox Chrome 133 , now available in versions 133.0.6943.53/54 for Windows and macOS, and 133.0.6943.53 for Linux, includes three notable vulnerabilities reported by external researchers.

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Build a Deep Research Agent: $1 Alternative to $200 OpenAI’s Tool

Analytics Vidhya

Agentic AI Systems are all the rage these days! They are simply LLMs in a for-loop connected with certain prompts and tools which can autonomously do tasks for you. However, you can also build reliable step-by-step workflows, guiding the LLM to be more reliable as it solves problems for you. Recently in February 2025, OpenAI […] The post Build a Deep Research Agent: $1 Alternative to $200 OpenAI’s Tool appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Social Links Launches Darkside AI Initiative to Address Cybercrime and Misinformation

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Social Links, an open-source intelligence (OSINT) solutions company, has announced the Darkside AI initiative designed to combat the rising misapplication of artificial intelligence in cybercrime, disinformation, and digital fraud. Social Links is inviting enterprises, researchers, policymakers and individual experts.

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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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Stop Overpaying – Get All LLMs for Just $10 on ChatLLM!

Analytics Vidhya

Which LLM subscriptions do you currently have? ChatGPT Plus, Gemini Advanced, Claude Pro, or maybe something else? We all know that some models excel at content generation, others at image creation, while some are masters of data analysis. And to get the best of all worlds, youve probably been juggling multiple subscriptions. But what if […] The post Stop Overpaying – Get All LLMs for Just $10 on ChatLLM!

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Contel Smart Energy launches Energynie™ for renewable energy optimization

Dataconomy

Contel Smart Energy has launched Energynie, a composable AI-driven platform aimed at transforming renewable energy optimization. This next-generation platform is designed to rapidly adapt, scale, and integrate new technologies, enabling seamless management of various energy assets including PV, wind, storage, and engines across different site configurations such as hybrid technologies, ground-mounted, rooftops, dual-use, and microgrids.

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Databricks Clean Rooms: Now Generally Available on AWS and Azure

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Were thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Databricks Clean Rooms on AWS and Azure, a significant step forward in enabling secure.

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Enhancing LLM Capabilities with NeMo Guardrails on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning Blog

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into customer-facing applications, organizations are exploring ways to leverage their natural language processing capabilities. Many businesses are investigating how AI can enhance customer engagement and service delivery, and facing challenges in making sure LLMs driven engagements are on topic and follow the desired instructions.

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Simplifying Product On-Boarding with Generative AI

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Registering new products can be a complex and time-consuming process for both suppliers and retailers. Retailers often report issues with incomplete, inaccurate, or.

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If you own these Zyxel devices uninstall them now: No fix is coming

Dataconomy

Taiwanese hardware maker Zyxel announced that it will not release a patch for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in multiple legacy DSL customer premises equipment (CPE) products. These vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-40890 and CVE-2024-40891 , allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands, leading to potential system compromise and data exfiltration.

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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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The State of Data Governance

The Data Administration Newsletter

In 2024, our research at Dresner Advisory Services revealed that only 32% of organizations have a formal data governance organization in place. This statistic highlights a critical gap, especially as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly integrated into operations, expanding business reliance on data and analytic content.

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Sopra Steria Next: Generative AI market set for $100 billion by 2028

Dataconomy

Sopra Steria Next has published its study titled “Generative AI: From Exploration to Impact,” focusing on the global generative AI market. This second edition explores market dynamics, challenges, and opportunities to enhance the value of generative AI. The study indicates that 2024 was a pivotal year for technological acceleration in generative AI, marked by unprecedented investment levels and the emergence of diverse solutions.

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Download CDC data through Internet Archive

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The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was taken down last Friday. For now, it seems data.cdc.gov is up in a modified form, but just in case, the Internet Archive has all the data that was available prior January 28, 2025. The compressed data file is only 95 gigabytes, so maybe just download it now.

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OfferUp improved local results by 54% and relevance recall by 27% with multimodal search on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Machine Learning Blog

This post is co-written with Andrs Vlez Echeveri and Sean Azlin from OfferUp. OfferUp is an online, mobile-first marketplace designed to facilitate local transactions and discovery. Known for its user-friendly app and trust-building features, including user ratings and in-app chat, OfferUp enables users to buy and sell items and explore a broad range of jobs and local services.

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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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Python Oddities That Might Surprise You

KDnuggets

Let's explore some of Python's quirks with helpful code examples.

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LLaMA Architecture: A Deep Dive into Efficiency and Mathematics

Towards AI

Last Updated on February 5, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): Anay Dongre Originally published on Towards AI. LLaMA Architecture: A Deep Dive into Efficiency and Mathematics In recent years, transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP). Meta AIs LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) stands out as one of the most efficient and accessible models in this domain.

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Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50

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AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI reasoning model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a new research paper released last Friday.

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Easy Late-Chunking With Chonkie

Towards AI

Last Updated on February 5, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): Michael Ryaboy Originally published on Towards AI. Image Source [link] Late Chunking has just been released in Chonkie, a lean chunking library that already boasts over 2,000 stars on GitHub. This is a welcome update for anyone looking to integrate late chunking into their retrieval pipelines, since implementing it from the ground up can be conceptually tricky and prone to mistakes.

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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 2.0 is now available to everyone

Hacker News

Were announcing new updates to Gemini 2.0 Flash, plus introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.

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The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA

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By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hies ChatGPT for genomes could pick up patterns that humans cant see, accelerating biological design.

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Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany

Hacker News

Teslas sales have dropped nearly 60% in January in Germany compared to the same period last year. The same thing is happening throughout Europe.

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Hugging Face clones OpenAI’s Deep Research in 24 hours

Flipboard

Open source "Deep Research" project proves that agent frameworks boost AI model capability.

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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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The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange

Hacker News

The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors

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Machine-learning pioneer Yann LeCun on why “a new revolution in AI” is coming

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Our podcast on science and technology.

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First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years

Hacker News

The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.

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Google scraps promise not to develop AI weapons

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Google updated its artificial intelligence principles on Tuesday to remove commitments around not using the technology in ways that cause or are likely to cause overall harm.

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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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Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era

Hacker News

NYC subway crime has dropped significantly so far this year even as ridership increased in the congestion pricing era, according to the newest NYPD data released on Tuesday. In the first month of 2025, there were 147 reported crimes on the subway down from 231 last yearresulting in 36% fewer crimes committed on the rails.

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Scientists shocked to find AI’s social desirability bias “exceeds typical human standards”

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A new study published in PNAS Nexus reveals that large language models, which are advanced artificial intelligence systems, demonstrate a tendency to

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25 Years Ago, Joan Didion Kept a Diary. It's About to Become Public

Hacker News

The notes, taken after meetings with her psychiatrist, will be published in April as a book, Notes to John. They provide a raw account of her life, her work and her complex relationship with her daughter.

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Build a multi-interface AI assistant using Amazon Q and Slack with Amazon CloudFront clickable references from an Amazon S3 bucket

AWS Machine Learning Blog

There is consistent customer feedback that AI assistants are the most useful when users can interface with them within the productivity tools they already use on a daily basis, to avoid switching applications and context. Web applications like Amazon Q Business and Slack have become essential environments for modern AI assistant deployment. This post explores how diverse interfaces enhance user interaction, improve accessibility, and cater to varying preferences.

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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?