Introducing Apache Spark 4.0
databricks
MAY 28, 2025
Apache Spark 4.0 marks a major milestone in the evolution of the Spark analytics engine.
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Groq Named Inference Provider for Bell Canada’s Sovereign AI Network
insideBIGDATA
MAY 28, 2025
Groq announced a partnership with Bell Canada to power Bell AI Fabric, the countrys largest sovereign AI infrastructure project to establish a national AI network at six sites, targeting 500MW of hydro-powered.
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The Art of Writing Readable Python Functions
KDnuggets
MAY 28, 2025
If your functions need comments to be understood, its probably time for a rewrite. Learn the key habits that make Python functions readable by design.
Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill
Hacker News
MAY 27, 2025
Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.
Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration
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.
Latest OpenAI models ‘sabotaged a shutdown mechanism’ despite commands to the contrary
MAY 26, 2025
Researchers observe the latest OpenAI models sabotaging shutdown attempts, despite explicit commands to allow such interruptions.
The Rise Of The Field CTO
Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes
MAY 28, 2025
Because vendors now have to be more engaged, they have to be out in the field more. This has led to the evolution and rise of the field chief technology officer.
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Tokenizers in Language Models
Machine Learning Mastery
MAY 28, 2025
This post is divided into five parts; they are: Naive Tokenization Stemming and Lemmatization Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) WordPiece SentencePiece and Unigram The simplest form of tokenization splits text into tokens based on whitespace.
I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
Hacker News
MAY 24, 2025
In this post I'll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI's o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API - no scaffolding, no agentic frameworks, no tool use. Recently I've been auditing ksmbd for vulnerabilities.
Less is more: Meta study shows shorter reasoning improves AI accuracy by 34%
MAY 28, 2025
Researchers from Metas FAIR team and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that forcing large language models to think less actually improves their performance on complex reasoning tasks.
World-Consistent Video Diffusion With Explicit 3D Modeling
Machine Learning Research at Apple
MAY 29, 2025
As diffusion models dominating visual content generation, efforts have been made to adapt these models for multi-view image generation to create 3D content. Traditionally, these methods implicitly learn 3D consistency by generating only RGB frames, which can lead to artifacts and inefficiencies in training. In contrast, we propose generating Normalized Coordinate Space (NCS) frames alongside RGB frames.
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.
TSMC to Add Chip Design Center in Germany for AI, Other Sectors
insideBIGDATA
MAY 27, 2025
TSMC announced today it will open a new chip design center in Munich by the third quarter of this year, something viewed as European Union victory as it pursues self-reliance in chip production. According to an article on the MarketScreener (with Reuters).
5 Reasons Why Azure Databricks is the Best Data + AI Platform on Azure
databricks
MAY 28, 2025
As data and AI workloads scale, organizations need a platform that does more than just connect servicesit must unify them.
The Blowtorch Theory: A New Model for Structure Formation in the Universe
Hacker News
MAY 28, 2025
How early, sustained, supermassive black hole jets carved out cosmic voids, shaped filaments, and generated magnetic fields
How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Rewrites the Rules of Search | Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 28, 2025
Its the end of search as we know it, and marketers feel fine. Sort of. For over two decades, SEO was the default playbook for visibility online.
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
CLIP-UP: A Simple and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts CLIP Training Recipe with Sparse Upcycling
Machine Learning Research at Apple
MAY 26, 2025
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are crucial for scaling model capacity while controlling inference costs. While integrating MoE into multimodal models like CLIP improves performance, training these models is notoriously challenging and expensive. We propose CLIP-Upcycling (CLIP-UP), an efficient alternative training strategy that converts a pre-trained dense CLIP model into a sparse MoE architecture.
Understanding Base64
Analytics Vidhya
MAY 28, 2025
Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding methodology that helps represent binary data in ASCII string format. Its often used to encode data for transmission over media that are mostly text, like emails, JSON-based APIs, etc., so that binary data like images and files don’t get corrupted. The term Base64 comes from the fact that it uses […] The post Understanding Base64 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
Secure Partner Integrations Made Easy: OAuth Comes to Databricks Partner Connect
databricks
MAY 28, 2025
Databricks Partner Connect makes it easy to discover, try, and integrate partner solutions by automating setup and resource provisioning processes.
Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps
Hacker News
MAY 28, 2025
A dream come true for IT admins
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.
Rillet raises $25M from Sequoia to automate general ledger systems using AI
MAY 28, 2025
For accounting departments, no software is more important than the general ledger system. Its the central hub that summarizes all financial transactions, providing the essential data needed to create accurate financial statements.
Schools with the most international students
FlowingData
MAY 28, 2025
As the administration tries to block international students from attending Harvard University, NYT’s the Upshot charted the schools with the highest percentage of international students. I don’t know anything about Illinois Tech, but whoa, over half of undergraduates and graduate students are from outside the U.S.
Meet Augment: The AI Dev Tool That Codes Like You Think
Analytics Vidhya
MAY 28, 2025
Widespread adoption of AI agents is occurring everywhere, including in software development. Today, we have Augment Code, an AI agent that can index your codebase, and the agents under the hood. Now, powered by the latest Claude Sonnet 4, making it very practical for building applications and adding features to your applications. Augment is used […] The post Meet Augment: The AI Dev Tool That Codes Like You Think appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
Implementing a Dimensional Data Warehouse with Databricks SQL, Part 3
databricks
MAY 27, 2025
Dimensional modeling is a time-tested approach to building analytics-ready data warehouses.
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?
Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%
Hacker News
MAY 27, 2025
A new study is out which quantifies just how much EVs help not just in cutting harmful exhaust emissions, but also cutting other types of pollution that come from personal vehicles. But of course, public transport, biking and walking are even better.
How to Build an AI-Driven Company Culture — Without Overwhelming Employees
MAY 28, 2025
A practical guide for business leaders on how to build a company culture that embraces AI through curiosity, experimentation and hands-on learning. In the early 1900s, as the automotive revolution reshaped industries, blacksmiths and carriage-makers struggled to adapt.
Debit card holds in the age of instant payments: A data systems breakdown
Dataconomy
MAY 27, 2025
Debit cards were designed to offer fast, seamless access to money. But despite the rise of instant payment technologies , many transactions still encounter holds temporary authorization requirements that freeze funds before final settlement. These holds often confuse users, especially when transactions appear pending long after the purchase. Understanding the underlying structure of debit holds helps consumers better navigate delays and potential overdraft risks.
AI First Puts Humans First
O'Reilly Media
MAY 28, 2025
While I prefer AI native to describe the product development approach centered on AI that were trying to encourage at OReilly, Ive sometimes used the term AI first in my communications with OReilly staff. And so I was alarmed and dismayed to learn that in the press, that term has now come to mean using AI to replace people. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity.
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!
Part 3: Building an AI-powered assistant for investment research with multi-agent collaboration in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock Data Automation
AWS Machine Learning Blog
MAY 28, 2025
In the financial services industry, analysts need to switch between structured data (such as time-series pricing information), unstructured text (such as SEC filings and analyst reports), and audio/visual content (earnings calls and presentations). Each format requires different analytical approaches and specialized tools, creating workflow inefficiencies.
Behavioral responses of domestic cats to human odor
Hacker News
MAY 30, 2025
People all around the world live with cats and cats engage in many social behaviors toward their owners. Olfaction is one of the most important sensory abilities in cats, yet its role in recognizing humans remains unclear. In this study, we assessed the role and characteristics of olfaction in the discrimination of known or unknown humans by cats using ethological methods.
Shortcuts creators debut Sky, a new Mac app for AI assistance
MAY 28, 2025
Eight years ago, Apple acquired popular automation app Workflow, which later became baked into iOS as Shortcuts. Now, two years removed from their time at Apple, two creators behind Workflow and Shortcuts have a new app coming to macOS: Sky, which brings AI assistance to the Mac.
How good are large language models at playing games?
Dataconomy
MAY 28, 2025
Video games, with their demands on perception, memory, and strategic planning, seem like a natural arena for testing the capabilities of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). However, researchers have found that simply “dropping” LLMs into popular games often fails to provide an effective evaluation. A new benchmark, LMGAME-BENCH, developed by a team from UC San Diego, MBZUAI, and UC Berkeley, aims to change that by creating a more reliable and insightful way to assess how well LLMs c
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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