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AI Brown-Nosing Is Becoming a Huge Problem for Society

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When Sam Altman announced an April 25 update to OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model, he promised it would improve "both intelligence and personality" for the AI model. The update certainly did something to its personality, as users quickly found they could do no wrong in the chatbot's eyes. Everything ChatGPT-4o spat out was filled with an overabundance of glee.

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Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-Play Reasoning with Zero Data

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Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models by learning directly from outcome-based rewards. Recent RLVR works that operate under the zero setting avoid supervision in labeling the reasoning process, but still depend on manually curated collections of questions and answers for training.

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Life beyond the leaderboard

DrivenData Labs

Organizations run AI competitions for a variety of reasons. They want to engage the expertise of a global community. They want to push the limits of available methods for their needs. They want to explore innovative approaches and surface new ideas. They want to benchmark the level of performance that can be achieved with their data. At the end of a competition, these organizations get a few things: Winning solutions, consisting of research code in a Github repository and often shared openly for

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Scientists clear major roadblocks in mission to build powerful AI photonic chips

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Two studies show major progress in the field of photonic microchips. Electronic microchips are at the heart of the modern world.

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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 Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist

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10 Essential Linux File System Commands for Data Management

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In this article, you'll master 10 essential Linux file system commands. This guide provides helpful examples to make working with files easier.

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Databricks + Neon

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Today, we are excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Neon, a developer-first, serverless Postgres company.

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Custom Fine-Tuning for Domain-Specific LLMs

Machine Learning Mastery

Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) is the process of taking a pre-trained model — usually a vast one like GPT or Llama models, with millions to billions of weights — and continuing to train it, exposing it to new data so that the model weights (or typically parts of them) get updated.

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4 Data Analytics Project To Impress Your Next Employer

KDnuggets

Add these 4 data analytic-based projects to your resume to land your next job.

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NVIDIA in Partnership to Build AI Factories in Saudi Arabia

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NVIDIA announced a partnership with HUMAIN, the AI subsidiary of Saudi Arabias Public Investment Fund, to build AI factories in the kingdom. HUMAIN said the partnership will develop a projected capacity of up to 500 megawatts powered by several hundred thousand of.

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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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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Which is Better for Coding Tasks?

Analytics Vidhya

Coding is among the top uses of LLMs as per a Harvard 2025 report. Engineers and developers around the world are now using AI to debug their code, test it, validate it, or write scripts for it. In fact, with the way current LLMs are performing at generating code, soon they will be almost like […] The post Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Which is Better for Coding Tasks?

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Best Practices: Kicking off Databricks Workflows Natively in Azure Data Factory

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Azure Databricks is a first-party Microsoft service, natively integrated with the Azure ecosystem to unify data and AI with high-performance analytics and deep tooling support.

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A Guide to Mastering Serverless Machine Learning

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Discover the what, why, and how of serverless machine learning with the interactive course GitHub repository.

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OpenAI pledges to publish AI safety test results more often

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OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is saying is an effort to increase transparency.

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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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Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic

Hacker News

With the rise of traffic from AI agents, whats considered a bot is no longer clear-cut. There are some clearly malicious bots, like ones that DoS your site or do credential stuffing, and ones that most site owners do want to interact with their site, like the bot that indexes your site for a search engine, or ones that fetch RSS feeds. Historically, Cloudflare has relied on two main signals to verify legitimate web crawlers from other types of automated traffic: user agent headers and IP address

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TensorWave Rides the AI Infrastructure Tidal Wave with $100 Million Funding Injection

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In a market clamoring for more computational muscle to power the insatiable demands of artificial intelligence, a new contender has emerged from the silicon shadows. TensorWave , a company laser-focused on delivering AI infrastructure built around AMD’s cutting-edge silicon, announced a significant milestone today: a $100 million Series A funding round co-led by investment heavyweight Magnetar and AMD’s venture arm.

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Unlocking Next-Gen Customer Experiences with Data Intelligence for Marketing

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Today were announcing the launch of Data Intelligence for Marketing, combining the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with out-of-the-box integrations to an ecosystem of leading marketing

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College Professors Are Turning to ChatGPT to Generate Course Materials. One Student Noticed — and Asked for a Refund.

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AI use in higher education is becoming more popular for students and professors. Ella Stapleton noticed in February that the lecture notes for her organizational behavior class at Northeastern University appeared to have been generated by ChatGPT.

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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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Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode

Hacker News

Here's an early look at Android's Desktop Mode, Google's version of Samsung DeX! This brings a PC-like interface to Pixel and stock Android.

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5 Machine Learning Internships in India (2025)

Analytics Vidhya

If youre a student or early professional eager to apply your Machine Learning skills in the real world, an internship is your best starting point. From GenAI-driven logistics to AI-powered finance and legal tech, companies across India are offering exciting ML roles that go far beyond textbook theory. These internships dont just pay – they […] The post 5 Machine Learning Internships in India (2025) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

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New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators

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Stability AI releases an audio-generating model that can run on smartphones

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AI startup Stability AI has released Stable Audio Open Small, a stereo audio-generating AI model that the company claims is the fastest on the market and efficient enough to run on smartphones.

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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?

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$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder

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In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works wellit passes all the same tests as the dav1d decoder it is based on, which is written in C.

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How to Combine Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn Seamlessly

Machine Learning Mastery

Machine learning workflows require several distinct steps — from loading and preparing data to creating and evaluating models.

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Microsoft’s ADeLe wants to give your AI a cognitive profile

Dataconomy

Modern AI models are advancing at breakneck speed, but the way we evaluate them has barely kept pace. Traditional benchmarks tell us whether a model passed or failed a test but rarely offer insights into why it performed the way it did or how it might fare on unfamiliar challenges. A new research effort from Microsoft and its collaborators proposes a rigorous framework that reimagines how we evaluate AI systems.

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Anthropic’s Upcoming Models Will Think… And Think Some More

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The race to develop reasoning models that think harder is at full force.

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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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Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities designed for commuters

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Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S.

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What are Vision RAG Models?

Analytics Vidhya

As the field of AI is evolving, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a turning point in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Now vision RAG integrates these abilities into the visual space by integrating images, diagrams, and videos. Vision RAG enables models to produce responses that are not just textually correct but visually enriched.

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Windsurf has launched homegrown AI models despite OpenAI deal

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Windsurf, the startup best known for its AI coding assistant tools, has launched a new set of proprietary models aimed at redefining how AI supports software engineering. The newly introduced family includes three models: SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini. Unlike traditional code-generation tools, these models are designed to support the entire software engineering process from end to end.

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DeepMind claims its newest AI tool is a whiz at math and science problems

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Googles AI R&D lab DeepMind says it has developed a new AI system to tackle problems with machine-gradable solutions. In experiments, the system, called AlphaEvolve, could help optimize some of the infrastructure Google uses to train its AI models, DeepMind said.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!