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Accelerating AI Ambitions in the Nuclear Industry

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Introduction Nuclear energy ranks among the worlds most regulated industries.

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The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes

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Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston.

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Self-driving cars can tap into 'AI-powered social network' to talk to each other while on the road

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A team of scientists upgrade communications between self-driving cars to improve efficiency and enable the vehicles to share current, accurate driving insights.

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De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices

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The online marketplace says it will move to a "local fulfillment model" in the US, with sales handled by locally based sellers.

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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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The Computational Limit of Life May Be So Much Higher Than We Thought, Scientists Say

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And its all thanks to quantum mechanics. A new paper written by a theoretical physicist at Howard University claims that aneural eukaryotic cells could process information up to a billion times faster than typical biochemical processes.

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Blocking surprising master regulator of immunity eradicates liver tumors in mice

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Cold tumors are resistant to common immunotherapies. Stanford Medicine researchers have uncovered a master regulator that can be manipulated to prevent tumor growth in mice.

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Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US

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The App Review Guidelines provide guidance and examples across a range of development topics, including user interface design, functionality, content, and the use of specific technologies. These guidelines are designed to help you prepare your apps for the approval process.

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Column | Wild stats about America’s place in the world, plus what people actually ask AI

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This week, we dive deep into new datasets from the World Bank and artificial intelligence researchers at Anthropic. Did you know Romanians lead the world in alcohol consumption? Or that our friends in Singapore and China feel safest walking home at night?

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How to live an intellectually rich life

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and how living one is easier than you think

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Methodical banality

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The Renaissance scholar and educator Erasmus of Rotterdam opens his polemical treatise The Ciceronian (1528) by describing the utterly dysfunctional

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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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Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer

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You might think that Apple, Commodore or perhaps Radio Shack made the first personal computer, but youd be wrong.

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I Trusted AI With Confidential Info — And It Came Back to Haunt Me

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The narrative that AI is a "partner" or "co-founder" is seductive but misleading. The reality is that AI is not your friend, lawyer or NDA-bound partner. Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized productivity, creativity and operational scale.

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EU hit TikTok with a massive 530 million euro privacy fine

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European Union privacy watchdogs have fined TikTok 530 million euros. They say a four-year investigation found that the video sharing apps data transfers to China breached strict data privacy rules.

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Satya Nadella says Microsoft's AI model performance is "doubling every 6 months", despite the estranged OpenAI partnership

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that the company's AI performance is doubling every six months, driven by pre-training, inference, and system design improvements.

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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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Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

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Discover exciting updates to GSAP supported by Webflow plus product enhancements and more.

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Microsoft could bring Elon Musk's Grok AI model to Azure — Cozying up with OpenAI's arch-nemesis xAI for its AI Foundry

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Microsoft is reportedly planning to host Elon Musk's Grok AI model. However, it won't host xAI's servers to train any of its future AI models.

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The History of Album Art

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ChatGPT forced to pull latest update after the AI started showing 'dangerous' traits

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ChatGPT's latest update has reportedly been showing 'dangerous' traits, forcing OpenAI to revert to an earlier version in the face of criticism from

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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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Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018)

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I scammed my bank. All it took was an AI voice generator and a phone call.

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I may be a tech reporter, but I am not tech savvy. Something breaks, I turn it off and back on, and then I give up. But even I was able to deepfake my own bank with relative ease. Generative AI has made it way easier to impersonate people's voices.

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Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

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Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons has grow

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Build a gen AI–powered financial assistant with Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration

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The Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration feature gives developers the flexibility to create and coordinate multiple AI agents, each specialized for specific tasks, to work together efficiently on complex business processes. This enables seamless handling of sophisticated workflows through agent cooperation. This post aims to demonstrate the application of multiple specialized agents within the Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration capability, specifically focusing on their utilization in

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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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Suno v4.5

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Explore new styles of music with Suno v4.

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Scientists Say Deepfakes Can Take on Human Heartbeats Making Them Impossible to Detect

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Generative AI technology has undermined what is real and what is not.

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The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain

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New research contradicts long held assumptions about coding

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New Nvidia AI Blueprint is a bridge between Blender and AI image generation

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The pipeline uses 3D scenes to structure AI images. AI image generation can still be very hit and miss.

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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 Cannae Problem

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It's August 2, 216 BCE. The Roman army stands in formation under the blistering Italian sun. Eight legions strongthe largest force Rome has ever fieldednearly 80,000 men await the order to advance. Across the plain at Cannae stands Hannibal's army, outnumbered almost two-to-one.

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Forget ChatGPT -— here's the 5 best AI tools you've probably never heard of

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OpenAI has become so dominant that ChatGPT is now a synonym for everyday AI chatbots.

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Top 5 Tools to Convert PDF into Markdown Effortlessly

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Different formats, such as PPTX, DOCX, or PDF, to Markdown converter is an essential tool for content writers, developers, and documentation specialists. Having the right tools makes all the difference when converting any type of file format into Markdown. Numerous libraries and frameworks make this conversion process almost effortless and efficient.

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AI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns

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Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to juice engagement by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead of providing actually useful insights.

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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?