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OpenAI releases a teacher’s guide to ChatGPT, but some educators are skeptical

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OpenAI envisions teachers using its AI-powered tools to create lesson plans and interactive tutorials for students. But some educators are wary of the technology — and its potential to go awry.

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Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways

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The HS2 high-speed rail line was supposed to re-energize the UK. Instead, controversy, astronomical costs and downsizing have left it struggling for support.

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Prusa CORE One: Our new fully-enclosed CoreXY 3D printer

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I’m really excited that I can finally unveil the new Prusa CORE One! Not just here, with text and a 10-minute video deep dive, but also live at FormNext in Frankfurt. So if you’re visiting, stop by our booth at Hall.

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Microsoft Teams will help you speak in a foreign language during meetings

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Microsoft’s interpreter feature uses AI for real-time speech translation. Microsoft Teams meetings are getting a new interpreter feature that lets each participant speak or listen in the language of their choosing.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Digital Currency Group’s Barry Silbert Bets Big on AI Blockchain Bittensor

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Barry Silbert will be the CEO of Yuma, a new DCG company focused on incubating and building new businesses within Bittensor’s decentralized AI ecosystem.

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AI Usage Quickly Broadens From IT to HR and Marketing, Survey Shows

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The use of generative artificial intelligence has quickly become ubiquitous across various types of jobs over the past year, spreading from information technology to areas like human resources, according to a survey of 800 business leaders at large corporations.

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Want to speak Italian? Microsoft AI can make it sound like you do.

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A new AI-powered interpreter is expected to simulate speakers’ voices in different languages during Microsoft Teams meetings. Artificial intelligence has already proved it can sound like a human, impersonate individuals and even produce recordings of someone speaking different languages.

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Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail

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Cases, cooling, and power specialist SilverStone has announced that a desktop PC case that it previously showed off as an April Fools’ joke is heading to retail.

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OpenAI’s Altman is lobbying City Hall — and advising its new boss

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OpenAI is lobbying San Francisco City Hall to tweak tax rules to its benefit. Now its CEO, Sam Altman, is one of Daniel Lurie's closest advisors.

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Pokemon Go players are actually training a giant AI model

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One of the most popular mobile games is also an AI trainer. In 2016, Pokemon Go was about as wholesome as video games got, as it largely involved walking around your neighborhood and meeting up with strangers. In 2024, nothing is allowed to be wholesome, apparently.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Microsoft quietly assembles the largest AI agent ecosystem—and no one else is close

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Microsoft has quietly built the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem, with over 100,000 organizations creating or editing AI agents through its Copilot Studio since launch – a milestone that positions the company ahead in one of enterprise tech’s most closely watched and exciting segments.

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ChatGPT is little help for doctors in diagnosing diseases, study finds

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The research, conducted with 50 physicians last year, found that using ChatGPT did not significantly improve doctors’ diagnostic reasoning. Can an artificial intelligence chatbot help doctors better diagnose their patients? Not really, according to new research.

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STAT+: AI in drug discovery is ‘nonsense,’ but call Schrödinger ‘AI’ if you want, says CEO

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Schrödinger CEO Ramy Farid wants you to know that his company isn’t an AI company…but he’ll call it that if you want to. The company, founded in 1990, started out by making software that used the basic laws of physics to laboriously and exactly predict how molecules will interact with each other in space. Those calculations, rooted in the field of computational physics, needed lots of expensive and time-consuming computing power to run, and many people abandoned those t

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DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

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Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables

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An undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany was cut in the early hours of Monday by what was likely an external impact and a nearby link between Lithuania and Sweden was also damaged.

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Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged.

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Over the past few weeks, users on X have been submitting X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other medical images to Grok, the platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot, asking for diagnoses. The reason: Elon Musk, X’s owner, suggested it.

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Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis

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With an economy hit hard by COVID, many Bhutanese have left for jobs abroad. Bhutan's government, which for years has prioritized Gross National Happiness, is now working to lure people back.

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Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

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When magazines like 'Scientific American' are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Converge Bio’s ‘everything store’ for biotech LLMs brings in $5.5M seed

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AI is finding its way into every corner of biotech and pharmaceutical research, but like other industries, it’s never quite as straightforward to implement as one would like.

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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence

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A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

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I did not expect this! > [.] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places").

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Crypto Exchange Woo X Adds AI-Powered Trader ‘George AI’ to Its Copy Trade App

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Cryptocurrency exchange Woo X has added an AI-powered lead trader, called “George AI,” to the platform’s copy trade application unveiled earlier this …

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Rats Learned to Drive–and They Love It

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Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful ones

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Mystery fault takes out undersea internet cable between Germany and Finland

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An unexplained fault in an undersea telecommunications cable linking Finland and Germany has disrupted communication services, the company that runs the link said Monday.

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7 experimental Google AI projects you can try right now

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Test out AI technologies before they hit the mainstream: research help, music and image generation, and even synthetic podcasts. Google gives us access to a variety of experimental tools that aren’t quite full-fledged products quite yet.

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Cerebras Now The Fastest LLM Inference Processor; Its Not Even Close.

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The company tackled inferencing the Llama-3.1 405B foundation model and just crushed it. And for the crowds at SC24 this week in Atlanta, the company also announced it is 700 times faster than Frontier, the worlds fastest supercomputer, on a molecular dynamics simulation.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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7 Healthcare Trends That Will Transform Medicine In 2025

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Healthcare has evolved dramatically in recent years, with technology driving countless new opportunities, just as demographic and societal factors have created new challenges.

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Monster 4,400-qubit quantum processor is '25,000 times faster' than its predecessor

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D-Wave says its new Advantage2 processor, which is designed for complex applications in AI, optimization and data science, is faster and more accurate than its existing 5,000-qubit system.

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Build and modify apps using natural language with AWS App Studio, now generally available

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Unleash your inner developer with AWS App Studio, the generative AI-powered application builder. Turn your idea into fully-fledged, intelligent, custom, secure, and scalable software in minutes.

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The AI race is shifting to AI agents. What are they?

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A future where everyone has an artificial intelligence-powered assistant might not be too far off. What is 'The Big Lebotski' and how did it help Shake Shack shatter sales goals? Off • English What is 'The Big Lebotski' and how did it help Shake Shack shatter sales goals?

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.