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FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new "Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees."The rule, set to take The U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a FAQ document clarifying its rule hidden fees for live events, hotels, and short-term rentals.

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Python Data Structures Every Programmer Should Know

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Write better Python by mastering the built-in and standard library data structures for clean, efficient, and elegant code.

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iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules

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A welcome upgrade.

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How to Deploy Your LLM to Hugging Face Spaces

KDnuggets

Showcase your LLM project with Streamlit and Hugging Face Spaces using Free CPU Instances.

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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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FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12

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Staff of the Federal Trade Commission published Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) designed to pro

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Automate Dataset Labeling with Active Learning

Machine Learning Mastery

A few years ago, training AI models required massive amounts of labeled data.

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Will Supercapacitors Come to AI's Rescue?

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In the U.K., electricity provider National Grid faces a problem every time there is a soccer match on (or any other widely viewed televised event for that matter): During half-time, or a commercial break, an inordinate number of viewers go to turn on their tea kettles. This highly British coordinated activity strains the energy grid, causing spikes in demand of sometimes thousands of megawatts.

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Building an Emergency Operator Voice Chatbot

Analytics Vidhya

Language models have been rapidly evolving in the world. Now, with Multimodal LLMs taking up the forefront of this Language Models race, it is important to understand how we can leverage the capabilities of these Multimodal models. From traditional text-based AI-powered chatbots, we are transitioning over to voice based chatbots. These act as our personal […] The post Building an Emergency Operator Voice Chatbot appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

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Contribute to asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Critical Langflow RCE flaw exploited to hack AI app servers

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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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Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Learning with Reasoning LLMs

Machine Learning Mastery

As large language models have already become essential components of so many real-world applications, understanding how they reason and learn from prompts is critical.

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Elon Musk may be headed for major legal trouble

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A feud between two tech-sector leaders might be taking a shocking turn.

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Use custom metrics to evaluate your generative AI application with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

With Amazon Bedrock Evaluations , you can evaluate foundation models (FMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, whether hosted on Amazon Bedrock or another model or RAG system hosted elsewhere, including Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases or multi-cloud and on-premises deployments. We recently announced the general availability of the large language model (LLM)-as-a-judge technique in model evaluation and the new RAG evaluation tool, also powered by an LLM-as-a-judge behind the scenes.

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OpenAI says non-profit entity will control company

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OpenAI decided its non-profit division would keep control over its for-profit organisation, after previously announcing a plan to convert to a

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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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AI finally solves biology’s hardest puzzle

Dataconomy

For years, the Eterna100 benchmark stood as a formidable challenge in computational biology, a set of 100 complex RNA design puzzles. Now, a new algorithm named Montparnasse, developed by Tristan Cazenave, has achieved what many thought highly improbable: it has solved the entire benchmark, heralding a new era for synthetic biology, medicine, and nanotechnology.

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'AI is already eating its own': Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct

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Three years into the boom, it looks like AI is reshaping existing jobs more than creating new ones. Just two years ago, prompt engineering was hailed as a hot new job in tech. Now, it has all but disappeared.

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Beginner’s Guide to Git

Analytics Vidhya

In software development, managing code across multiple contributors can get messy fast. Imagine several people editing the same document at the same time, each adding new ideas, fixing bugs, or tweaking features. Without a structured system in place, it’s incredibly difficult to track who changed what, when, and why? Mistakes can be hard to undo, […] The post Beginner’s Guide to Git appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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OpenAI is buying Windsurf for $3 billion. What does that mean for ChatGPT?

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OpenAI is buying AI startup Windsurf for the tidy sum of $3 billion. This is according to a Bloomberg report Tuesday , which claims that the two companies have reached an agreement but that the deal "has not yet closed," with Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter. If accurate, this would be OpenAI's largest acquisition to date. Windsurf is an artificial intelligence app that focuses on coding.

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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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Lego built full-size F1 cars for the Miami GP drivers' parade

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Each of the 10 teams has a full-scale F1 car that has been faithfully reconstructed with over 400,000 Lego bricks

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Lightricks just made AI video generation 30x faster — and you won’t need a $10,000 GPU

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Lightricks unveils groundbreaking LTXV-13B AI video model that runs 30X faster than competitors on consumer hardware through innovative "multiscale rendering" technology.

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Suno 4.5 update is music to prompt-engineers’ ears

Dataconomy

Suno has released version 4.5 of its AI music creation tool, bringing significant improvements across various areas, including expanded genre options, enhanced vocals, and a new prompt-enhancement helper. The update was published on May 6, 2025, according to an article by Graham Barlow. The new version allows for more cohesive results when combining genres, enabling users to explore unique sounds such as midwest emo with neosoul or reggae.

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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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 CL1: the first code deployable biological computer

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The world's first code deployable biological computer. Test how lab-grown neurons process information and learn.

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Red Dragon Highly-Autonomous One-Way Attack Drone Unveiled

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AeroVironment's Red Dragon, which is said to already be combat proven, can find its own targets and doesn't need GPS for precision navigation.

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Meet the new Start menu of Windows 11

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Microsoft is revamping the Windows 11 Start menu and introducing several new AI features this month, initially available to Windows Insiders running Snapdragon X Copilot Plus PCs, including the newly announced Surface devices. The updated Start menu is roomier, offering easier scrollable access to the all apps view with category organization. The new Start menu will also include a phone companion panel, providing quick access to recent contacts, messages, calls, battery level, and other informat

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Hugging Face releases a free Operator-like agentic AI tool

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A team at Hugging Face has released a freely available, cloud-hosted computer-using AI agent. But be forewarned: Its quite sluggish and occasionally makes mistakes.

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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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Eagle Hunters of Kyrgyzstan

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In the mountains of Central Asia, a Small group of outdoorsmen are keeping an ancient tradition alive.

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Google’s Dr. Karen says farewell

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Y ou’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences.  Sign up to get it  delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Google’s chief health officer Karen DeSalvo announced she will retire this summer. DeSalvo, who likes to introduce herself as Dr.

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Samsung turns NFC into a money sender

Dataconomy

Samsung is introducing a contactless Tap to Transfer feature in its Wallet app in the US later this month, allowing users to send money directly to others’ bank accounts or debit cards using NFC technology. The feature enables users to transfer funds from Visa or Mastercard debit cards stored in Samsung Wallet to another person’s digital wallet or physical debit card, provided the card’s chip supports tap-to-pay.

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Apple Intelligence 2.0: Here’s what’s coming to your iPhone next

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Apple Intelligence launched last year as Apples first take on AI for the rest of us. But its a new year, and in just a few weeks were expecting another wave of AI features for iPhone and more. Heres whats coming next with Apple Intelligence 2.0.

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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?