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Meet OpenAI Codex: Cloud-based Software Engineering Agent

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Software engineering is changing, and by the end of 2025 its going to look fundamentally different. Greg Brockmans opening line at OpenAIs launch event set the tone for what followed. OpenAI released Codex, a cloudnative software agent designed to work alongside developers. Codex is not a single product but a family of agents powered by codex1, OpenAIs […] The post Meet OpenAI Codex: Cloud-based Software Engineering Agent appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Don’t fall for Sam Altman’s biometric booby trap

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Sam Altman is best known as the founder of OpenAI.

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Register now and save 50% on training at Data + AI Summit

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This year, Databricks Training and Certification returns to the Data + AI Summit in San Francisco from June 912, with an expanded program featuring even

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A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I.

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Students are resorting to extreme measures to fend off accusations of cheating, including hourslong screen recordings of their homework sessions. A few weeks into her sophomore year of college, Leigh Burrell got a notification that made her stomach drop.

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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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How to Use Pandas and SQL Together for Data Analysis

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For all the tasks related to data science and machine learning, the most important thing that defines how a model will perform depends on how good our data is. Python Pandas and SQL are among the powerful tools that can help in extracting and manipulating data efficiently. By combining these two together, data analysts can […] The post How to Use Pandas and SQL Together for Data Analysis appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms

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Language models construct reality by refractingrather than reflectingour words.

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Has AI exceeded human levels of intelligence? The answer is more complicated than you might think

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Its no wonder that many of us find the idea of artificial general intelligence (AGI) mildly terrifying.

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Dezyne Programming Language

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AI Chatbots Mirror a Human Brain Disorder

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Researchers have found a surprising similarity between the way large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT process information and how the brains of people with Wernickes aphasia function.

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Every programming language has its 'killer' domain

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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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AI models can't tell time or read a calendar, study reveals

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Challenges in visual and spatial processing and a deficit in training data have revealed a surprising lack of timekeeping ability in AI systems New

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From 1T Tokens to Total Cognition: The Numbers Behind the New AI Brain…

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Last Updated on May 18, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. The greatest advancements in AI will not come from models that specialize in single modalities, but from those that can seamlessly integrate our multi-sensory world. Andrej Karpathy Since the introduction of the Transformer architecture in 2017, artificial intelligence has evolved beyond recognition.

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Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees

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Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didnt yield an AI worth hiring. But its now placed three new ads on YCs job board for AI agents only and has set aside a $1 million budget total to make it happen.

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Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's (2016)

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This is part two of a series of stories by Robert Gaskins who helped invent PowerPoint at Forethought Inc. in 1984 (read part one here). It was the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft.

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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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Adopting agentic AI? Build AI fluency, redesign workflows, don’t neglect supervision

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How can organizations decide how to use human-in-the-loop mechanisms and collaborative frameworks with AI agents?

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The man who visited every country in the world – without boarding a plane (2023)

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At 34, Torbjørn Pedersen embarked on a seemingly impossible journey that would take 10 years – and involve cerebral malaria and being held up at gunpoint.

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AI is getting more powerful, but its hallucinations are getting worse

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A new wave of reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies dont know why. Last month, an.

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My AI Journey: The Tools That Opened Each Door

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Author(s): Sophia Banton Originally published on Towards AI. Steve Jobs once said, Technology is nothing. Whats important is that you have a faith in people, that theyre basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, theyll do wonderful things with them. These were the tools that were given to me so that I could fly, by the giants on whose shoulders I stand.

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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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Nvidia CEO: If I were a student today, here's how I'd use AI to do my job better—it ‘doesn’t matter’ the profession

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If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were a student again, he'd take advantage of generative AI to have a successful career.

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Withnail and I (2001)

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Students Are Humanizing Their Writing—By Putting It Through AI

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Its a battle of the bots: Teachers use AI detection to spot cheating while students use it to maintain innocence Students dont want to be accused of cheating, so theyre using artificial intelligence to make sure their school essays sound human.

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Google is quietly giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales

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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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No Cubicle Required, AI Coding Agents Start Work

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The rise of AI-powered coding agents is here, the conversation must now focus on what areas of software application development these new automations should work at.

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Claude’s Full System Prompt Leaked: 24,000 Tokens of Hidden Instructions Exposed

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Last Updated on May 17, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): MKWriteshere Originally published on Towards AI. Why does my Claude chat hit the limit so quickly? This question echoes across forums as users struggle with the AI assistants seemingly arbitrary constraint Claude is the best for creative writing, and it has the worst free tier. Now, a GitHub leak may explain why: Claudes system prompt is reportedly a staggering 24,000 tokens long, an invisible data colossus that devours your message allow

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Walmart prepares for a future where AI agents do the shopping

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Walmart is gearing up for a dramatic shift in retail, as artificial intelligence agents begin to change not just how people shop, but who or rather, what is actually doing the shopping.

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Ask HN: Do people actually pay for small web tools?

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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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Google is readying its AI Mode search tool for primetime, whether you like it or not

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Plus, the new Pope's views on artificial intelligence, OpenAI's plans for global domination, and ChatGPT learns to code. It sure looks like Google is prepping its controversial AI mode for primetime.

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Patience too cheap to meter

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, famously said that his goal was to make intelligence too cheap to meter.

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AI Goes To School

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly heading to K-12 classrooms nationwide. Expect tech companies to cash in on the fast-emerging trend.

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Ugly infrastructure: Why can't we have nice things?

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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?