Mon.May 19, 2025

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NVIDIA Announces DGX Cloud Lepton for GPU Access across Multi-Cloud Platforms

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NVIDIA today announced at the Computex confence in Taiwan NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton an AI platform with a compute marketplace that connects developers building agentic and physical AI applications with GPUs from a network of cloud providers, including CoreWeave, Crusoe, Firmus, Foxconn.

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Have I Been Pwned 2.0 is Now Live!

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This has been a very long time coming, but finally, after a marathon effort, the brand new Have I Been Pwned website is now live ! Feb last year is when I made the first commit to the public repo for the rebranded service, and we soft-launched the new brand in March of this year. Over the course of this time, we've completely rebuilt the website, changed the functionality of pretty much every web page, added a heap of new features, and today, we're even launching a merch store 😎

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WTF is Language Model Quantization?!?

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Unveiling the origins, "ins and outs," and implications of quantization in language models: all in simple terms.

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AI Can Beat You in a Debate When It Knows Who You Are, Study Finds

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A new study shows LLMs like Chat GPT win more debates than humans when it gets a little personal.

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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 IKEA of Data: How to Bring Modular Thinking to Your Data Architecture (and Why It Works)

IBM Data Science in Practice

Phew! Those dreaded (rather liked) 3-letter acronymsIOT A few years ago, I found myself thinking about how messy IoT data could getfast. I ended up comparing it to a supermarket: different aisles, different types of data, all needing their own shelf space and labelingsystem. Looking back now, that idea still holdsbut its bigger than just IoT. Todays data ecosystems are even more complex.

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Rewiring Memory: A New Model That Learns Like a Human Brain

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A new memory model called Input-Driven Plasticity (IDP) offers a more human-like explanation for how external stimuli help us retrieve memories, building on the foundations of the classic Hopfield network.

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7 Best FREE Platforms to Host Machine Learning Models

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Built an ML model? Here are 7 free platforms to share it with the world.

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Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent

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Jules is an asynchronous agent that gets out of your way. It lets you focus on the coding you want to do, meawnwhile picking up all the other random tasks that you rather not do.

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BharatGen Launches Param-1 India’s Foundational LLM Built from Scratch

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Alongside the LLM, the team, led by Ganesh Ramakrishnan, also launched 20 new speech models (across 19 Indian language variations)targeting voice-first interfaces and speech-based innovation for Indian users on AIKosha.

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Taiwan to Ramp Up Gas Imports After Shuttering Last Nuclear Plant

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Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports of natural gas.

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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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Announcing the Azure Databricks native connector in Azure AI Foundry

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As enterprises continue to explore AI agents for their business, the key challenge continues to be delivering agents that are high-quality and ready for production

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Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) Plots

Analytics Vidhya

Understanding the distribution of data is one of the most important aspects of performing data analysis. Visualizing the distribution helps us understand the patterns, trends, and anomalies that might be hidden in raw numbers. While histograms are often used for this purpose, they sometimes can be too blocky to show some subtle details. Kernel Density […] The post Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) Plots appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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AI is more persuasive than a human in a debate, study finds

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When provided basic demographic information on their opponents, AI chatbots adapted their arguments and became more persuasive than humans in online debates.

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Self-Hosting Moose with Docker Compose, Redis, Temporal, Redpanda and ClickHouse

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Documentation for Moose and Aurora by 514 Labs

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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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Airbnb rolls out anti-party features ahead of Memorial Day weekend

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Airbnb uses machine learning for summer holidays to ensure their "no-party" rule is followed. In Atlanta, it helped prevent 900 bookings just last year.

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10 Ways to Clean Data in an Excel Sheet

Analytics Vidhya

Every data analyst has had that sinking feeling when opening a new spreadsheet, seeing unformatted numbers, inconsistent entries, random blank cells, and duplicates everywhere! Cleaning up this data is essential to start working on it. Whether youre putting together a quarterly report, consumer behaviour analysis, or trend forecasting, the quality of your interpretation depends on […] The post 10 Ways to Clean Data in an Excel Sheet appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Inside the story that enraged OpenAI

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In 2019, Karen Hao, a senior reporter with MIT Technology Review, pitched writing a story about a then little-known company, OpenAI. This is what happened next.

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Build a Search Engine: Semantic Search System Using OpenSearch

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Home Table of Contents Build a Search Engine: Semantic Search System Using OpenSearch Introduction Why Semantic Search? (Beyond Keyword Matching) How Semantic Search Works What Are Embeddings? Sentence Embeddings in Action Nearest Neighbors and Semantic Search How OpenSearch Performs Semantic Search How OpenSearch Uses Neural Search and k-NN Indexing Understanding the Workflow Why Does This Matter for Movie Search?

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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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ChatGPT shown to be more persuasive than people in online debates

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Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, are found to be more persuasive than humans 64% of the time in online debates when adapting their

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Denny’s top session picks for Data + AI Summit 2025

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Data + AI Summit 2025 is just a few weeks away!

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Is your AI app p **g off users or going off-script? Raindrop emerges with AI-native observability platform to monitor performance

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As enterprises increasingly look to build and deploy generative AI-powered applications and services for internal or external use (employees or customers), one of the toughest questions they face is understanding exactly how well these AI tools are performing out in the wild.

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CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe

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There's a lot of matter around, which ensures that any antimatter produced experiences a very short lifespan. Studying antimatter, therefore, has been extremely difficult. But that's changed a bit in recent years, as CERN has set up a facility that produces and traps antimatter, allowing for extensive studies of its properties , including entire anti-atoms.

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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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Can crowdsourced fact-checking curb misinformation on social media?

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Meta shut down their professional factchecker program and replaced it with Community Notes. What does this mean for the future of content moderation?

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge—as long as they end DEI programs

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It's shaping up to be a big year for telecom mergers, and it appears the Federal Communications Commission is eager to approve the dealsas long as companies involved drop any DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies criticized by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Verizon just got a big merger approved, and cable giant Charter is seeking permission to buy Cox.

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Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future?

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The C.E.O. of OpenAI helped usher artificial intelligence into public life. Now, as fears and fortunes mount, his own transformation is just beginning.

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Christopher Hill's History from Below

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The radical life and work of the historian.

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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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Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 1: Inter-Agent Communication on MCP

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At AWS, open standards run deep in our DNA, driving all that we do. Thats why we decided to build Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) as a protocol-agnostic cloud computing service and Amazon SageMaker as a framework-agnostic deep learning service.

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A Scientist Fighting Nuclear Armageddon Hid a 50-Year Secret

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‘This is a crisis’: New Apple report claims we’ll get no Siri upgrades at WWDC 2025 due to AI turmoil

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If you were excited about seeing Apple's AI-powered Siri at WWDC in June, think again.

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Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine

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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?