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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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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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3 Ways to Secure Your Data Science Job From Layoffs in 2025

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As tech layoffs increase, data scientists must adapt. Here's how to safeguard your data science job in 2025.

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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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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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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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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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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?

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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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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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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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Federal worker resignations

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According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, about 65,000 federal workers have taken the resignation offer. The New York Times puts that number into context , given the size of the federal workforce. In other words, the federal government is an enormous work force that already experiences sizable turnover every year. In addition to workers who leave the government to retire or simply to quit, about another 50,000 to 60,000 are terminated every year for disciplinary or performance reason

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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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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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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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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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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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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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 Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Meta to Lay Off 5% of Staff Monday

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Facebook owner Meta Platforms plans to carry out its expected company-wide layoffs next week while pushing ahead with the expedited hiring of machine

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Accelerate your Amazon Q implementation: starter kits for SMBs

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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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OpenAI Close to Deal That Values Company at $300 Billion

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The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would invest up to $40 billion in the maker of the chatbot ChatGPT. OpenAI is set to complete a $40 billion fund-raising deal that nearly doubles the high-profile companys valuation from just four months ago.

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Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a city built on scams

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A haven for the super rich, or a city built on scams? The BBC was invited to find out.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.