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MARCH 8, 2025

Author(s): Kaitai Dong Originally published on Towards AI. Figure 1: Gaussian mixture model illustration [Image by AI] Introduction In a time where deep learning (DL) and transformers steal the spotlight, its easy to forget about classic algorithms like K-means, DBSCAN, and GMM. But heres a hot take: for anyone tackling real-world clustering and anomaly detection challenges, these statistical workhorses remain indispensable tools with surprising staying power.

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As Japan copes with a labor shortage, the service robot market is expected to triple in the next five years.

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One recent evening in Shenzhen, a group of software engineers gathered in a dimly lit co-working space, furiously typing as they monitored the performance of a new AI system. The air was electric, thick with the hum of servers and the glow of high-resolution monitors.

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The act of putting something aside is an exercise in remembering.

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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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Chinese robotics company Zhongqing Robotics, also known as EngineAI, has officially entered the humanoid robotics scene by releasing a video showcasing what it claims is the world's first humanoid robot front flip.

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Google will have to break up its business and sell Chrome, the Justice Department said in a filing, upholding the previous administration's proposal after a court said it illegally abused it monopoly on search.

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that connects AI models to tools and data sources efficiently.

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A federal judge is allowing an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward, although he dismissed part of the suit. In Kadrey vs.

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MARCH 8, 2025

This note discusses the problem of writing cryptographic implementations in software, free of timing-based side-channels, and many ways in which that endeavour can fail in practice. It is a pessimist view: it highlights why such failures are expected to become more common, and how constant-time coding is, or will soon become, infeasible in all generality.

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Predictions on the dawn of the AI singularity vary wildly but scientists generally say it will come before 2040, according to new analysis, slashing

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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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LLM-based coding-assistance tools have been out for ~2 years now.

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Welcome back to Week in Review. This week were looking at OpenAI potentially charging $20,000 a month for a specialized AI agent, the unexpected return of early-internet darling Digg, a company genetically engineering mice to have mammoth-like fur, and more! Lets do this.

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And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists

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ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Googles Gemini are among the AI models that North Korean hackers are exploiting for fraud, experts warn.

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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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Mozilla sells ads, Google limits blocking them it's time for stricter measures

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There are more immediate questions to ask about artificial intelligence before humans should start worrying about "The Terminator" coming true, a Central Michigan University educator said.

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MARCH 8, 2025

Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it's bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux.

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New York, Seattle and San Jose had the most overall AI job openings this past January, by one estimate.

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ChatGPT has quickly become the most widely used AI tool on the market, with millions of people turning to it daily for writing help, research, and

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Microsoft is reportedly eyeing more of its own AI models into Copilot and reduce dependency on OpenAI. Its also exploring rivals such as DeepSeek and Meta.

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Malcolm Rifkind joins diplomats and analysts urging focus on European cooperation to replace Trident

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The Abilene facility is part of a $500 billion AI-focused project.

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Apple has delayed the new Siri and next-gen Apple Intelligence, but this week I've seen five demos that are finally the type of AI that we deserve. Here's more.

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Generative AI tools can mimic real-life, foreign-language conversations at any time, which might be the key to language learning Last fall, lying on my lumpy living room couch in Brooklyn, I did a quick Google search regarding something I've long been interested in learning: "Croatian teachers near

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Researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology develop a near-infrared fluorescent nanosensor that simultaneously detects and distinguishes Fe(II) and Fe(III) in living plants.

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If you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the pace of technological change, youre not alone. The rapid rise of generative AI has left many leaders grappling with how to keep uplet alone lead with confidence.

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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.