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AI Agents for Decision Makers: Your Guide to Building Next-Gen Enterprises

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Senior leaders, including CXOs, constantly face the challenge of having to quickly make informed decisions that shape the future of their organizations. This decision-making process can often become overwhelming, owing to the ever-increasing volume of data and the complexity of modern business. Fortunately, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are bringing out innovative solutions and tools […] The post AI Agents for Decision Makers: Your Guide to Building Next-Gen Enterprises appe

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Chatbots Walked So AI Concierges Could Run

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In this contributed article, Dr. Peter Graf, SVP of Strategy at Genesys, imagines a world where an AI-powered concierge can navigate complex customer support requests on your behalf. He believes the chatbots we’re familiar with today are paving the way forward for these concierges to become a reality.

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I Went Birding With the World’s First AI-Powered Binoculars

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Swarovski Optik’s new AX Visio binoculars use image-recognition algorithms and GPS data to discern the species of whatever bird you point them at. And they work anywhere in the world.

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Unisys AI Report: New Leadership Roles and Tech Innovation on the Rise

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Unisys released its latest survey findings, The AI Equation: 2024 AI Business Impact Research, revealing how AI is reshaping industries by creating leadership roles and boosting tech training initiatives.

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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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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What Is Quantum AI? Everything to Know About This Far-Out Twist

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As if AI itself weren't futuristic enough, now there's a whole new leap forward on the horizon. Artificial intelligence has been infiltrating our daily workflows and routine tasks for while now.

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Mitochondria Are Alive

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An opinion essay by Liyam Chitayat The cells within our body are the remnants of an ancient alliance. In a 1967 paper called “ On the Origin of Mitosing Cells ,” American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis proposed an idea that, upon first hearing, seems ludicrous. Her paper, in fact, was rejected by 12 different journals before it was published.

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Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL's 'You've Got Mail ' Alert, Dies at 74

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Early in the internet era, he was also behind AOL’s “Welcome!” “File’s done” and “Goodbye” messages. “They said my voice was heard more than 35 million times a day.

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I Let ChatGPT Train Me for a Month. Here’s What Happened.

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As a personal trainer, I wondered: could a bot be better at my job than me? I'VE NEVER BEEN the type to make internet friends. I have very little interest in conversing back and forth through a screen (if you're waiting on a text back from me, don't).

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Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson's View of Reality Came to Be

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In the late months of 1859, if you had walked down the rue Lamartine in Paris on a chilly autumn evening, you might have overheard Henri Bergson’s father, Michal Bergson, gently playing one of his own compositions to his newborn son—perhaps a mazurka inspired by his old teacher Frédéric Chopin.

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Google Gemini 2 Likely to Dethrone OpenAI o1

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The buzz around the imminent launch of Google Gemini 2 is heating up. According to a recent leak on X, Google is preparing to launch a new model: Gemini-2.0-Pro-Exp-0111.

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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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First image of our Milky Way's black hole may be inaccurate, scientists say

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"We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, rather than the actual astronomical structure.

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An AI Robot Made a Portrait of Alan Turing—Then Sold it for $1M

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Ai-Da, an AI-powered robot artist, made history: it created a painting of the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The painting, “A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing,” sold for an incredible $1.08 million at a Sotheby’s auction.

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Notes on Guyana

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Over the summer, I visited Guyana (pronounced Guy-ana), mostly in and around the capital of Georgetown. I had plans to see far more of the country but they didn’t come to fruition.

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The real battle for generative AI in software

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When it comes to technology, we often credit the companies creating the tech as those driving disruption. But the real power behind big innovations?

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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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Pirating “The Pirate Bay” TV Series is Ironically Difficult

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The inception and early years of The Pirate Bay are an intriguing chapter of the Internet’s history. Founded by the Piratbyrån group, The Pirate Bay and its founders embraced the power of the new BitTorrent technology: to copy culture en masse. By doing so, they altered the public discourse, openly taunting the entertainment industries in the process.

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Behind The Scenes: Nvidia’s Great Rise And The New Data Center Era

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There’s no denying that we’re making great strides in technology right now, not only in large language models, but also in infrastructure. In fact, I’ve seen a lot of pivoting of focus in the community toward the benchmarks that we are looking at with GPU and hardware.

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I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)

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For the past four years, I've worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.

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Painting by AI-powered robot sells for $1.1 million

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The portrait depicts the mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence. Its creator is a robot that resembles a woman with a bob haircut.

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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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Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals

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In 2022, three companies with strange names and no clear business purpose beyond patent litigation filed dozens of lawsuits in Delaware federal court, accusing businesses of all sizes of patent infringement.

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The university trying to bring AI to every industry

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There aren’t enough people with AI skills for the companies looking to hire. Can the “best deal in higher ed” fill the gap?

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Algol-68 seemed like a good idea – until it wasn't

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The 1960s saw rapid growth in programming languages, which was both good and bad. The first (commercial) languages appeared in the late 1950s, in the guise of Fortran, and Cobol, which were very successful. Work on Algol started in 1958, it was to be a scientific programming language, providing features that Fortran just didn't, e.g.

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AI is Eating Fintech

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Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, is redefining the aggressive fintech landscape.

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.

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Functional Programming in Go

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Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go. This article explains how we can use functional programming techniques like Map, Filter, and Reduce, and what kind of problems they might help us to solve.

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Roadmap for Becoming a Data Scientist

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From learning Python to creating analytical reports, learn about ten easy steps to become a data scientist.

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Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal

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Critics worry Anthropic is endangering its “ethical” AI stance due to defense associations.

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What Is Quantum AI? Everything to Know About This Far-Out Twist

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As if AI itself weren't futuristic enough, now there's a whole new leap forward on the horizon. Artificial intelligence has been infiltrating our daily workflows and routine tasks for while now.

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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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The Weeds Are Winning

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As the climate changes, genetic engineering will be essential for growing food. But is it creating a race of superweeds?

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What Is Quantum AI: Everything to Know About This Far-Out Twist

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As if AI itself weren't futuristic enough, now there's a whole new leap forward on the horizon. Artificial intelligence has been infiltrating our daily workflows and routine tasks for while now.

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LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence

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Fine-tuning is a crucial paradigm for adapting pre-trained large language models to downstream tasks. Recently, methods like Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) have been shown to match the performance of fully fine-tuned models on various tasks with an extreme reduction in the number of trainable parameters. Even in settings where both methods learn similarly accurate models, emph{are their learned solutions really equivalent?

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Apple’s AI Upgrade In iOS 18.2 Comes With A Catch; Free Features Are Limited

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At WWDC 2024, Apple made a major announcement, revealing its new partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT into iOS 18. This integration marks a significant upgrade to Siri, making it smarter and more capable by using OpenAI’s language model. However, recent details about the iOS 18.

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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.