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7 Best Strategies (Besides Job Portals) to Land Top-Paying Jobs in 2025

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Tired of the job portal grind? Dont just applymake them come to you! Check out 7 powerful strategies to land top-paying tech jobs in 2025.

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AI Is advancing but can chatbots understand human feelings?

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world around us, from self-driving cars to medical diagnoses. One of the most visible faces of this revolution is the chatbot computer programs designed to simulate conversation with human users. These increasingly sophisticated entities are handling customer service inquiries, providing technical support, and even offering companionship.

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How AI Improves Nondestructive Testing

ODSC - Open Data Science

Artificial intelligence (AI) is necessary in every sector now, as it analyzes large amounts of data, offers query-based determinations, and helps businesses innovate. Tech experts combine its potential with nondestructive testing (NDT) to rewrite how corporations execute evaluations. What does this look like, and how does AIhelp? What Is Nondestructive Testing?

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Words Matter: Are Language Barriers Driving Quiet Failures in AI

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Author(s): Kris Naleszkiewicz Originally published on Towards AI. The AI revolution is upon us, transforming how we work, live, and interact with the world. Yup. We know. Weve all heard. The media loves to cover spectacular successes and failures. But what about the quiet failures? The stalled projects. The initiatives that never quite get off the ground.

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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 significance of LMS in regulatory compliance

Dataconomy

For more than a decade, learning management systems (LMS) have helped organizations streamline their training and education processes. Whether you need to train a team of 20 people or an entire organization of 800+ employees, these tools can scale as per your requirements and deliver personalized learning materials for individuals in different job roles.

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IBM Adds Granite 3.2 LLMs for Multi-Modal AI and Reasoning

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced additions to its Granite portfolio of large language models intended to deliver small, efficient enterprise AI. The new Granite 3.

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 3: Which LLM is Better at Coding?

Analytics Vidhya

Since last June, Anthropic has ruled over the coding benchmarks with its Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Today with its latest Claude 3.7 Sonnet LLM, it’s here to shake the world of generative AI even more. Claude 3.7 Sonnet much like Grok 3, released a week ago – comes with advanced reasoning, mathematical, and coding abilities. Both […] The post Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 3: Which LLM is Better at Coding?

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Starbucks lays off over 1,000 jobs and slashes 30% of its menu

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Starbucks announced on Monday that it will lay off over 1,000 corporate workers and simplify its menu in a bid to turn around lagging sales. The restructuring aims to streamline operations as the coffee chain continues to face challenges. Starbucks to lay off over 1,000 workers and cut menu by 30% The company plans to cut about 30% of its menu, including several Frappuccino blended drinks, the Royal English Breakfast Latte, and White Hot Chocolate.

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AI Hype Will Plunge America Into Financial Ruin, Economist Warns

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What hasn't been said about artificial intelligence? It's a disruptor, a game changer, the next technological revolution. Soon we'll all be chilling with our feet up while our AI assistants do all the heavy lifting right? One economist isn't so sure. A new study by Caleb Maresca at New York University predicts that just the looming possibility of transformative AI has the potential to completely upend the economy in a bad way, decimating wages and sending interest rates skyward.

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Imandra Inc. Updates Neurosymbolic AI Reasoning Engine

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AUSTIN, TX February 25, 2025 Imandra Inc., a neurosymbolic reasoning AI startup, today announced ImandraX, the latest release of its Imandra automated reasoning engine. The company said ImandraX marks an advancement in AI-driven logical reasoning, introducing powerful reasoning algorithms and architectural features for integration with AI agents.

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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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Microsoft Phi-4 Multimodal: Hands-on Guide

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Microsoft has officially expanded its Phi-4 series with the introduction of Phi-4-mini-instruct (3.8B) and Phi-4-multimodal (5.6B), complementing the previously released Phi-4 (14B) model known for its advanced reasoning capabilities. These additions significantly enhance multilingual support, reasoning, and mathematical skills, and introduce multimodal capabilities.

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Microsoft expands Phi line with new multimodal models

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Microsoft Corp. has expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with the introduction of two new algorithms designed for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency: Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal. Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal features Phi-4-mini is a text-only model that incorporates 3.8 billion parameters, enabling it to run efficiently on mobile devices.

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You.com unveils AI research agent that processes 400+ sources at once

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You.com launches ARI, a cutting-edge AI research agent that processes over 400 sources in minutesrevolutionizing market research and empowering faster, more accurate business decision-making.

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Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC

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The original Framework Laptops sales pitch was that it wanted to bring some of the modularity and repairability of the desktop PC ecosystem to a functional, thin-and-light laptop. For nearly half a decade, the company has made good on that promise with multiple motherboard upgrades and other tweaks for the original 13-inch Framework Laptop; with the Framework Laptop 16 and Laptop 12, the company has tried to bring the same ethos to gaming/workstation laptops and budget PCs for students.

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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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Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Universal Connector for AI and Data

Analytics Vidhya

Weve all experienced the use of AI in our daily coding tasks. Many of us may have used Repl.it, an online code editor with built-in AI capabilities that help generate code and offer guidance. Likewise, tools like GitHub Copilot for VS Code enhance our coding workflow through simple extensions. And if youve ever tried Black […] The post Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Universal Connector for AI and Data appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Mira Murati’s $9B AI lab could change the AI forever

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Mira Murati’s new startup, Thinking Machine Labs, is reportedly aiming to raise a $1 billion funding round at a valuation of approximately $9 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Business Insider. The funding round is currently underway, and details could evolve. Mira Murati’s Thinking Machine Labs seeks $1 billion funding A $9 billion valuation is unusually high for a startup that has been in operation for less than a year; however, investor interest i

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Enhancing RAG: Beyond Vanilla Approaches

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful technique that enhances language models by incorporating external information retrieval mechanisms. While standard RAG implementations improve response relevance, they often struggle in complex retrieval scenarios. This article explores the limitations of a vanilla RAG setup and introduces advanced techniques to enhance its accuracy and efficiency.

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BentoML: MLOps for Beginners

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Learn how to build, test, deploy, and monitor machine learning models in the cloud with the BentoML ecosystem.

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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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How to Use MetaCLIP?

Analytics Vidhya

Artificial intelligence is always evolving, and Open AIs CLIP has always been a standout technology due to its performance and architecture. This model also possesses multimodal capabilities that allow it to advance other models like OWL-ViT and DALL-E. Facebook researchers created MetaCLIP using the CLIP data curation concept. This model upgrades MetaAI and incorporates various […] The post How to Use MetaCLIP?

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DeepSeek R2 is coming fast: Can the West keep up?

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DeepSeek is set to accelerate the launch of its new AI model, R2, following the success of its previous model, R1, which recently prompted a $1 trillion sell-off in global equities markets due to its competitive performance against Western counterparts. DeepSeek accelerates launch of R2 AI model after R1 success The Hangzhou-based startup originally aimed to release R2 in early May but is now pushing for an expedited rollout, according to three sources familiar with the company.

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Front uses AI to translate sketches into "brilliantly bad" objects

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Front 's Anna Lindgren and Sofia Lagerkvist have unveiled three 3D-printed vases that were designed by artificial intelligence based on their two-dimensional drawings. The Swedish designer duo has trained a generative artificial intelligence (AI) program to translate their sketches into three-dimensional objects without using text prompts. They presented the latest results in the exhibition AI: Brilliantly Bad!

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Introducing transformWithState in Apache Spark™ Structured Streaming

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Introduction Stateful stream processing refers to processing a continuous stream of events in real-time while maintaining state based on the events seen so far. This.

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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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DeepSeek #OpenSourceWeek Day 2: Release of DeepEP

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DeepSeek is here with its Day 2 of #OpenSourceWeek and today they introduced DeepEP – An open Source EP communication library for MOE model training and inference. Till now, I have been completely impressed by DeepSeek and their answer to the billion-dollar models of OpenAI, Meta and more. Now, they are open-sourcing the building blocks […] The post DeepSeek #OpenSourceWeek Day 2: Release of DeepEP appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Distributed Systems Programming Has Stalled

Hacker News

Over the last decade, weve seen great advancements in distributed systems, but the way we program them has seen few fundamental improvements. While we can sometimes abstract away distribution (Spark, Redis, etc.), developers still struggle with challenges like concurrency, fault tolerance, and versioning. There are lots of people (and startups) working on this.

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OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems

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OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI modelsstill are no match for human coders even though CEO Sam Altman insists they will be able to beat " low-level " software engineers by the end of this year. In a new paper , the company's researchers found that even frontier models, or the most advanced and boundary-pushing AI systems, "are still unable to solve the majority" of coding tasks.

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Generative AI for Data Scientists in 2025: Beyond Text Generation

KDnuggets

Directions to become "upgraded" data scientists prepared to fully leverage generative AI technologies in the year ahead.

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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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Claude 3.7 Sonnet: The Best Coding Model Yet?

Analytics Vidhya

AI-powered coding assistants are becoming more advanced by the day. One of the most promising models for software development, is Anthropics latest, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. With significant improvements in reasoning, tool usage, and problem-solving, it has demonstrated remarkable accuracy on benchmarks that assess real-world coding challenges and AI agent capabilities.

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AI companions: A new era of relationships or just a tech fad?

Dataconomy

Have you ever thought about trying to get an AI romantic partner ? Many people have already done so. But some people question whether they will be around forever or are just a temporary tech fad. Some people and organizations believe AI companions will permanently change relationships AI has had a tremendous impact on our daily lives. One survey from 2023 found that 56% of people use AI technology at least once a week.

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Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving "Blank Stares" When Asked How Programs Actually Work

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For years, the conventional wisdom for wide-eyed youngsters about to enter the job market was "learn to code." Now, it seems like some of the programmers themselves could use the same advice. That's according to Namanyay Goel, an experienced developer who's not too impressed by the new generation of keyboard-clackers' dependence on newfangled AI models.

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MIA-Bench: Towards Better Instruction Following Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs

Machine Learning Research at Apple

We introduce MIA-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on their ability to strictly adhere to complex instructions. Our benchmark comprises a diverse set of 400 image-prompt pairs, each crafted to challenge the models' compliance with layered instructions in generating accurate responses that satisfy specific requested patterns.

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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!