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InsideAI News on the Move: Join Us at the Premier AI Industry Events!

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At InsideAI News, we believe that the best way to stay at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence is by engaging directly with the innovators, thinkers, and leaders driving the industry forward.

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The Only Prompting Framework for Every Use

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This prompt engineering framework significantly enhances your interactions with AI systems.

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Beyond the Leaderboard: Unpacking Function Calling Evaluation

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1. Introduction The research and engineering community at large have been continuously iterating upon Large Language Models (LLMs) in order to make them.

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Tools Every AI Engineer Should Know: A Practical Guide

KDnuggets

Explore essential tools and skills for AI engineers: Python, R, big data frameworks, and cloud services essential for building and optimizing AI systems.

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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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Transforming Financial Reporting with AI and NLG

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Introduction In business, financial analysis and reporting are critical for strategic decision-making and operational oversight. These processes provide senior management and stakeholders with key insights into a company’s performance, financial health, and future prospects. Traditionally, financial reporting and analysis have been time-consuming, requiring expertise to interpret complex data and generate actionable business intelligence.

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Building a robust data stewardship tool in life sciences

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This blog was written in collaboration with Gordon Strodel, Director, Data Strategy & Analytics Capability, in addition to Abhinav Batra, Associate Principal, Enterprise.

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Generative AI for Data Analytics: Top 7 Tools, Use-cases, and More

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In today’s world, data is exploding at an unprecedented rate, and the challenge is making sense of it all. Generative AI (GenAI) is stepping in to change the game by making data analytics accessible to everyone. Imagine asking a question in plain English and instantly getting a detailed report or a visual representation of your data—this is what GenAI can do.

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How to Become Robotics Engineer?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Robotics is rapidly emerging as one of the fastest-growing scientific domains, unlocking new technologies across various industries and daily life. From manufacturing automation to self-driving cars and medical robots, the applications of robotics are vast, making it one of the most significant technological breakthroughs of the modern century.

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Hasura Introduces Metadata-Driven Federated Data Access Layer for Streamlined Governance

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Data API and GraphQL leader Hasura announced significant innovations that enable unified access to distributed data, governed by a central semantic and authorization framework. This solves one of the hardest problems facing businesses building AI features and products: connecting their LLM models to enterprise data, composed from multiple domains, while complying with governance and security policies.

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Psychology of a Gen Z Relationship: Loneliness, Fantasies, and the Role of Technology

Dataconomy

Why do young people maintain a one-sided relationship with bloggers, performers, and webcam models? What is a delusionship and how do public figures encourage fans to have parasocial relationships with them (and no, that doesn’t mean dating while skydiving)? In this article, we discuss these issues with professional psychologist Tatiana Persico and Stan Kos, founder at YouMatch.

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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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America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race

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Its build-up could start as early as 2026

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One million screenshots of the web’s homepages in a single layout

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One Million Screenshots , by Urlbox, is a collection of 1,048,576 homepage screenshots in a browsable grid layout. Search for a website or browse to random ones. Sites are chosen based on rank in the Common Craw web graph , and new screenshots are taken on the first of each month. More popular sites are closer the middle of the grid, and they seem to be loosely organized by dominant color.

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Banks Are Now Accused of Cheating Customers Billions

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Massive banks are now accused of cheating customers billions of dollars in interest payments according to financial reports.

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AI generated anime: Turning your ideas into animated reality

Dataconomy

Do you want to make AI generated anime but don’t know how to do it? Here’s where you’ll first learn whether or not to tackle it. If you are confident, you will also learn how to do it. Before you start AI generated anime, you should know the following. Making anime is a very challenging process, especially in terms of achieving visual and auditory integrity.

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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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the US government has to start paying for things again

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The US government has to start paying for things again.

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Meet the Faculty: Sidharth Sah

NYU Center for Data Science

This entry is a part of our Meet the Faculty blog series, which introduces and highlights faculty who have recently joined CDS. Meet CDS Clinical Faculty Sidharth Sah , who will join CDS this fall as Clinical Assistant Professor. Sah recently completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Chicago, where his research focused on the economics of education.

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MIT engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots

Hacker News

A zinc-air microbattery designed by MIT engineers could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as locating leaks in gas pipelines.

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Build with AssemblyAI's Speaker Diarization Model + Latest Tutorials

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Hey 👋, this weekly update contains the latest info on our new product features, tutorials, and our community. Join Us On Discord Feature Spotlight: Speaker Diarization In June 2024, we updated our  Speaker Diarization  model to be 13% more accurate and added support for five additional languages. These  improvements  help you to  accurately identify who is speaking in audio recordings, making it easier to analyze conversations in more languages.

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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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Burners eat big losses in desperate race to sell unwanted Burning Man tickets

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Burning Man tickets usually sell out and become a hot commodity in the weeks leading up to the annual desert bacchanal. This year, people hawking tickets face huge losses as supply outstrips demand.

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What is the Query Acceleration Service in Snowflake?

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Managing extremely large datasets, complex queries, and varying workloads in a data warehouse can be both challenging and costly. With the Snowflake AI Data Cloud , you can adjust compute resource levels on a virtual warehouse. However, setting up a warehouse to handle your most complex queries means it will use the same compute level for simpler queries, potentially wasting resources and money.

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Seven basic rules for causal inference

Hacker News

In this blog post I will describe seven basic rules that govern the relationship between causal mechanisms in the real world and associations/correlations we can observe in data. To make each rule as easy as possible to understand, I will describe each rule both in words and in causal graph and logic terms, and I will offer some very simple simulation R code for each rule to demonstrate how it works in practice.

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Podcast: On Learning-Aware Mechanism Design with Michael I. Jordan

ODSC - Open Data Science

Learn about cutting-edge developments in AI and data science from the experts who know them best on ODSC’s Ai X Podcast. Each week, we release an interview with a leading expert, core contributor, experienced practitioner, or acclaimed instructor who is helping to shape the future of the AI industry through their work or research. This episode is a previously recorded interview from early 2023 with one of computer science’s most influential pioneers, Michael I.

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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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TMobile fined $60M for unauthorized access to data: the largest fine of its type

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T-Mobile has been fined $60M for failing to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data, and for further failing to report.

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Understanding the Basics of the Central Limit Theorem

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Summary: The Central Limit Theorem (CLT) asserts that sample means to approach a normal distribution as sample sizes increase, regardless of the original population’s distribution. This principle is vital for accurate hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation. Introduction Probability and statistics are fundamental in analysing data and making informed decisions.

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Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers

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One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file.

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Statistical Tools for Data-Driven Research

Pickl AI

Summary : This blog provides a comprehensive overview of statistical tools for data-driven research. It covers fundamental concepts, core techniques, software options, best practices, case studies, and future trends. Researchers across disciplines will find valuable insights to enhance their Data Analysis skills and produce credible, impactful findings.

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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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The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life

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Data harvesters are reaching into virtually every part of your digital life through the little-known surveillance hardware industry.

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RAG: The Future of Reliable and Accurate Generative AI

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides, with models like GPT-4 demonstrating human-like language generation capabilities. Conventional generative models often need help delivering precise and current information. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) addresses these limitations by incorporating real-time data retrieval into the generative process.

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What Is a Knowledge Graph?

Hacker News

What is a knowledge graph? Learn about nodes, relationships, organizing principles, and ontologies, which comprise a knowledge graph.

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Enterprise Data World 2024 Takeaways: Key Trends in Applying AI to Data Management

Dataversity

I was privileged to deliver a workshop at Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2024. Publishing this review is a way to express my gratitude to the fantastic team at DATAVERSITY and Tony Shaw personally for organizing this prestigious live event. Part 1 of this article considered the key takeaways in data governance, discussed at Enterprise Data World 2024. […] The post Enterprise Data World 2024 Takeaways: Key Trends in Applying AI to Data Management appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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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?