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What Are Large Language Models? A Beginner’s Guide for 2025

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Curious about what LLMs are and want to know about them? Explore the Full Guide Right Here, Right Now!

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What Companies Succeeding with AI Do Differently

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In 2021, researchers at MIT and McKinsey teamed up to ask more than 100 companies how they were using AI in their operations and to learn what separated the highest-performing companies from the rest. They conducted a similar survey in 2023 to see what had changed. They found that the gap between leading companies and the rest had widened; that the payback-period for AI investments was much shorter; and that leading companies were better at identifying and implementing use cases that delivered p

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Total Chaos at Meta: Employees Protest Zuckerberg's Anti LGBTQ Changes

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Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

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VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

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VideoLAN shows off the creation and translation of subtitles in more than 100 languages, all offline. The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time.

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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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Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles

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Mike Johns was on his way to the airport when the Waymo robotaxi began circling a parking lot non-stop

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ChatGPT’s newest feature lets user assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’

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Update: Some users report that the new options have disappeared. Its possible they went live prematurely. OpenAI is introducing a new way for users to customize their interactions with ChatGPT, the companys AI-powered chatbot.

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Scientists trained AI to predict gene activity, a potentially powerful tool

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Researchers hope the AI tool will aid in the development of cell-specific gene therapies to treat diseases such as cancer.

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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

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A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps areknowingly or notbeing used to collect your information behind the scenes.

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Cohere co-founder sees big AI opportunity in enterprise, happy to stay out of ChatGPT's way

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Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst is surrounded by chatter of artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

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WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI

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This is a cross-post from DEVCORE. The research was first published at Black Hat Europe 2024.

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to 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!

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OpenAI Shuts Down Developer Who Made AI-Powered Gun Turret

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The DIY robot used ChatGPT's Realtime API to respond to commands to aim and fire a rifle.

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Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS

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SteamOS is spreading beyond Valve's hardware. That could threaten Microsoft's hold on PC gaming.or even Windows' hold on the PC market.

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41% of global firms plan layoffs by 2030 due to AI

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According to a World Economic Forum survey, 41% of global firms plan to implement workforce reductions by 2030 as a result of advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). The survey indicates a trend toward significant workforce changes as companies look to integrate AI into their strategies between 2025 and 2030. The World Economic Forums Future of Jobs Report reveals that 77% of the surveyed companies intend to retrain and upskill their existing workforce to work alongside AI systems.

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Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics

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Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) “The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics” (2022) “Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics” (2014) The Simplest Axiom for Logic Theorem (Wolfram with Mathematica, 2000) : The single axiom (( a b ) c )( a (( a c ) a ))  c is a complete axiom system for Boolean algebra (and is the simplest possible

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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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China’s DeepSeek Shows Why Trump’s Trade War Will Be Hard to Win

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A promising new model shows that innovations in artificial intelligence dont necessarily depend on the latest chips. Breakthroughs in AI are so common these days it is hard to separate the truly important from the merely incidental.

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The sad beige aesthetic: why has the world suddenly turned taupe?

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Whether it’s oat, bone, sand or fawn, this colour palette has a strong anaesthetising effect – and it has become the leading fashion and interiors style of our era

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How to Access Falcon 3?

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Falcon 3 is the newest breakthrough in the Falcon series of large language models, celebrated for its cutting-edge design and open accessibility. Developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), its built to meet the growing demands of AI-driven applications, whether its generating creative content or data analysis. What truly sets Falcon 3 apart is its […] The post How to Access Falcon 3?

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How Britain got its first internet connection (2018)

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Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.

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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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Meet Alibaba’s AI coder: an automated system that can build an app ‘in minutes’

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AI coder forms part of Alibaba Clouds artificial intelligence programming tool called Tongyi Lingma.

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Flux Handwriting Model: AI Mimicing Human Handwriting

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I never pictured AI writing human-like text, no Im not talking about the text generation but rather image generation with human handwriting. The Flux models made it easy to infer, generate and edit images. Today, in this article, well be looking at one such model used for generating images with hand-written text. No thats not […] The post Flux Handwriting Model: AI Mimicing Human Handwriting appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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4 in 10 companies planning job cuts due to AI: Survey

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Companies across the globe, at least four in 10, are likely to cut jobs as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, new research shows.

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World's largest pumped storage power plant fully operational in China

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The plant features 12 reversible pump-turbine units, each with a capacity of 300 MW, including two variable-speed units, bringing the total installed capacity to 3.6 GW.

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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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AI Could Replace 200,000 Jobs on Wall Street, According to a New Report. These Are the Jobs Most at Risk.

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A new report shows that company executives plan to cut 3% of their workforce in the next three to five years because of AI. Bankers take note: AI could be your next coworker.

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Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120?

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GM is using AI to find ideal spots for EV charging stations

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Data scientists at General Motors (GM) are using AI and machine learning to pinpoint ideal EV charging station locations acrossthe US.

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"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – a 40-year book-quest and its remarkable ending

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The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from ones youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching.

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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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Sam Altman: The superintelligent robots are coming

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Superintelligent robots, AGI and all the things that come beyond that are coming. According to Sam Altman, its just a matter of time.

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Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep

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There's a Fascinating Reason OpenAI Is Afraid to Launch Its AI-Powered "Agents"

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One wonders why other AI companies aren't being as cautious.

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VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

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VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered VLC media player, the open-source video software developed by nonprofit VideoLan, has topped 6 billion downloads.

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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.