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Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math

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Many children from low-income backgrounds worldwide fail to master school mathematics1; however, some children extensively use mental arithmetic outside school2,3. Here we surveyed children in Kolkata and Delhi, India, who work in markets (n = 1,436), to investigate whether maths skills acquired in real-world settings transfer to the classroom and vice versa.

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AI’s Multilingual Failure: NewsGuard Audit Finds Highest Failure Rates in Russian and Chinese

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NEW YORK and PARIS, Feb. 7, 2025 Leading AI chatbots spread misinformation more readily in non-English languages: A recent NewsGuard auditacross seven languages found that the top 10 artificial intelligence models are significantly more likely to generate false claims in Russian and Chinesethan in other languages.

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Google Gemini 2.0 Pro vs DeepSeek-R1: Who Does Coding Better?

Analytics Vidhya

Google has been making waves with all its new Gemini 2.0 experimental models. Be it handling complex tasks, logical reasoning, or coding, Google has a new model specially designed for it! The most efficient of them all is the Google Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental model. While it may be the most capable in the Gemini […] The post Google Gemini 2.0 Pro vs DeepSeek-R1: Who Does Coding Better?

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STAT+: Class action suit over UnitedHealth’s AI care denials nears key moment

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A federal judge will soon decide whether a class action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group and its algorithm-based care denials can move forward, which would potentially open the door for attorneys to sift through the company’s internal communications. The lawsuit, in U.S. District Court in Minnesota, alleges that UnitedHealth and its subsidiary NaviHealth relied on flawed algorithms to cut off essential rehabilitative care to sick and injured Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.

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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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5 o3-mini Prompts to Try Out Today

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OpenAIs o3- mini is not even a week old and its already a favorite amongst ChatGPT users. This new model is said to be better, faster, and smarter compared to its predecessor, the o1-mini. As our LLMs continue to improve, we need to up our prompting game to get their best outputs. In this blog, […] The post 5 o3-mini Prompts to Try Out Today appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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DeepSeek Revelation Is Scarier to Investors Than It Is to Tech CEOs

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloombergs journalists around the world. Today, Ian King writes that investors seem more concerned about the effects of DeepSeeks AI breakthrough than the leaders of the US tech companies that might be upended by changes.

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Can OpenAI’s o3-mini Beat Claude Sonnet 3.5 in Coding?

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New LLMs are being released all the time, and its exciting to see how they challenge the established players. This year, the focus has been on automating coding tasks, with models like o1, o1-mini, Qwen 2.5, DeepSeek R1, and others working to make coding easier and more efficient. One model thats made a big name […] The post Can OpenAI’s o3-mini Beat Claude Sonnet 3.5 in Coding?

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7 Tools I Cannot Live Without as a Data Scientist

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Tools I use for coding, writing, grammar improvement, research, machine learning experiments, and organizing projects.

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How physics-inspired AI is making our roads safer

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According to a study conducted by Michael Walters (Gaia Lab, Nuremberg, Germany), Rafael Kaufmann (Primordia Co., Cascais, Portugal), Justice Sefas (University of British Columbia, B.C., Canada), and Thomas Kopinski (Gaia Lab, Fachhochschule Sudwestfalen, Meschede, Germany), a new physics-inspired approach to AI safety could make multi-agent systemssuch as autonomous vehiclessignificantly safer.

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Andrew Ng’s VisionAgent: Streamlining Vision AI Solutions

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Today, computer vision applications are playing a transformative role in industries like healthcare, manufacturing, security, and retail. However, developing and deploying vision-based solutions has often been complex and time-consuming. VisionAgent, developed by the LandingAI team / Andrew Ng, is a generative Visual AI application builder designed to streamline the creation, iteration, and deployment of computer […] The post Andrew Ngs VisionAgent: Streamlining Vision AI Solutions appeare

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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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Banks are turning to AI—Pavel Baltabayev shows them how

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Artificial intelligence is already generating significant revenue for banks, and its future advancements promise even greater benefits. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, in a Bloomberg interview, emphasized that AI-driven solutions will reshape financial institutions by addressing critical operational challenges. One of the most pressing issues in banking today is the lack of time and resources to respond efficiently to customer inquiries.

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Building Multilingual Applications with Hugging Face Transformers: A Beginner’s Guide

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Check out this practical guide to building multilingual applications with Hugging Face.

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How Untold Studios empowers artists with an AI assistant built on Amazon Bedrock

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Untold Studios is a tech-driven, leading creative studio specializing in high-end visual effects and animation. Our commitment to innovation led us to a pivotal challenge: how to harness the power of machine learning (ML) to further enhance our competitive edge while balancing this technological advancement with strict data security requirements and the need to streamline access to our existing internal resources.

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Building Your First Multi-Agent System: A Beginner’s Guide

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The surge of AI in general — and large language models (LLMs) in particular — is thanks to numerous research groups and companies racing to develop their most advanced models and demonstrate their potential use cases across broad domains.

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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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Stelia becomes gold sponsor at NVIDIA GTC 2025

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AI acceleration company Stelia has announced its Gold Sponsorship for NVIDIA GTC 2025 , where it will introduce Hyperband, a platform designed to improve AI scalability and data mobility. Hyperband is built to address challenges in AI deployment by enabling efficient global distribution of AI workloads. The platform allows organizations to scale AI models across regions, optimize inference at the edge, and streamline AI operations without traditional cloud infrastructure constraints.

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Accelerate your Amazon Q implementation: starter kits for SMBs

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Whether youre a small or medium-sized business (SMB) or a managed service provider at the beginning of your cloud journey, you might be wondering how to get started. Questions like Am I following best practices?, Am I optimizing my cloud costs?, and How difficult is the learning curve? are quite common. AWS is here to provide a concept called starter kits.

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LG AI research develops AI for predicting protein structures in drug discovery

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LG AI Research has partnered with Seoul National University to develop an artificial intelligence model for predicting multistate protein structures, aiming to enhance drug discovery and disease research. The collaboration, signed on February 5 at LG Science Park in Seoul, involves Prof. Min-Kyung Baek, a specialist in protein structure prediction. Baek previously co-developed “RoseTTAFold” with Prof.

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Contextual Retrieval for Multimodal RAG on Slide Decks with LlamaIndex

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Imagine a world where finding information in a document is as easy as asking a questionand getting a response that combines both text and images seamlessly. In this guide, we dive into building a Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline that can do just that. Youll learn how to parse text and images from a PDF slide […] The post Contextual Retrieval for Multimodal RAG on Slide Decks with LlamaIndex appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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Is iPhone SE 4 release date February after all?

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Apple’s next iPhone SE might be announced as early as next week, with sales expected to begin later in February, according to Bloomberg. The new model’s leaked images and dwindling inventory of the current iPhone SE suggest an imminent launch. New features and design of the iPhone SE 4 The upcoming iPhone SE is expected to resemble the iPhone 14, featuring a larger screen and replacing Touch ID with Face ID.

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Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics

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Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics.

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Multiple security flaws found in DeepSeek iOS app, including sending unencrypted data

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Multiple security flaws have been found in the DeepSeek iOS app, which is still one of the most popular downloads in the App Store after topping the charts when it first launched.

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Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor

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The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports The.

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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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Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'

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I wouldn't put that sort of thing in writing but I'm built different.

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Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

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Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.

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Decentralized AI Opportunity Is 'Bigger than Bitcoin,' Says DCG's Barry Silbert

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Crypto investment magnate Barry Silbert is betting big on decentralized AI, calling it "the next big era of crypto" that could be bigger than even

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Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service

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Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.

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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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Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge

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Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Googles recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons.

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Boeing reports Starliner losses of more than half a billion dollars in 2024

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Boeing took more than a half-billion dollars in charges on its CST-100 Starliner program in 2024, bringing its cumulative losses on the vehicle to just over $2 billion.

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Ultra-efficient AI won’t solve data centers’ climate problem. This might.

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Despite DeepSeeks AI efficiency gains, data centers are still expected to gobble up huge amounts of U.S. electricity.

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Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds

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Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

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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?