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Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts

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Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs a decision faculty members say will force them to rescind offers from newly-accepted students.

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Did xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks?

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Debates over AI benchmarks and how theyre reported by AI labs are spilling out into public view. This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musks AI company, xAI, of publishing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model, Grok 3.

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DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

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The figures from Elon Musks team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.

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Microsoft’s New Quantum Computer, Summed Up In 3 Words

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Topic: TechnologyBlog Brand: TechlandRegion: AmericasTags: AI, Computers, Microsoft, Quantum, Quantum Computing, and TechnologyMicrosofts New

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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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NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds

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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies. (Image credit: J.

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How AI is affecting the way kids learn to read and write

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For Lisa Parry, a 12th grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT which serves up fresh ideas.

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The fallout from HP’s Humane acquisition

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Welcome back to Week in Review. This week were looking at the internal chaos surrounding HPs $116 million acquisition of AI Pin maker Humane; Mira Muratis new AI venture coming out of stealth; Duolingo killing its iconic owl mascot with a Cybertruck; and more! Lets get into it.

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Utah Bill Aims to Make Officers Disclose AI-Written Police Reports

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A bill headed to the Senate floor in Utah would require officers to disclose if a police report was written by generative AI. The bill, S.B. 180, requires a department to have a policy governing the use of AI. This policy would mandate that police reports created in whole or in part by generative.

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American AI Is High on Its Own Supply

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Why hasnt the messianic urge for efficiency hit the tech industry?

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The $1.5B Bybit Hack: The Era of Operational Security Failures Has Arrived

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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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The rise of browser-use agents: Why Convergence’s Proxy is beating OpenAI’s Operator

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A new wave of AI-powered browser-use agents is emerging, promising to transform how enterprises interact with the web.

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'Amateur and dangerous': Historians weigh in on viral AI history videos

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Can AI resurrect the past, or are these videos a polished, modernised version of history designed for engagement?

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AI And The End Of Traditional Work: Are We Entering A Post-Work Era?

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For the first time in history, we may be approaching a world where an entire generation will never have to work in the traditional sense. Pause and think about that for a moment. Imagine a reality where labor, as weve known it for centuries, is no longer essential for survival.

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Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024, a new study shows

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Gig workers for Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and other ride-hailing and delivery services earned less and worked more hours in 2024.

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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!

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What Does Commercially Safe Generative AI Even Mean? Here’s How Adobe’s Answer

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By now, weve all heard the gospel of AI and how it will change everything as we know it. And yet, for every CEO who has found efficiency gains, there are two others who have been burned by a misaligned deployment or an AI vendor failing to deliver on their promises.

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September 17, 1787: "A Republic, If You Can Keep It"

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The AI that Silicon Valley fears: how DeepSeek democratised innovation

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It has been over a month since the launch of DeepSeek AI sent shock waves through the global tech and investor landscape, reverberating far beyond

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Brazil justice orders ban of video platform Rumble

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Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the platform, which hosts conservative content, has failed to comply with court orders. In response, Rumble said it faces "unprecedented censorship in Brazil.

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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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Underwater mics and machine learning aid right whale conservation

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Using underwater microphones and machine learning (ML), Cornell University researchers have developed a new method to estimate North Atlantic right

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Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website

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If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.

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Generative AI video actually isn’t that easy to create, according to an AI director. Here’s why

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The launch of generative AI video arrived with promises of the ability to create videos in seconds but a creative director working with a number of

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Binned staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses

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And really, nothing out of the ordinary for Silicon Valley

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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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Groundbreaking AI can accurately decode emotions from multiple animal species

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For years, scientists have tried to understand how animals express emotions.

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IQ numbers for historical figures are made up

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Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns, unicorns, or mermaids

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how the algorithm keeps you under control

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In their 1947 Dialectic of Enlightenment, the philosophers Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer voiced their concerns about how the popular media of the

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Kaneo – An open source project management platform

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An open source project management platform focused on simplicity and efficiency. Self-host it, customize it, make it yours.

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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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Secret's out: this is how you're supposed to use ChatGPT

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Here's how you can use ChatGPT to save some serious time Consider this your VIP pass to the inner circle of ChatGPT mastery.

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Digital Services Playbook

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The next wave of AI is here: Autonomous AI agents are amazing—and scary

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A chief data officer explains why you need to pay attention to the rise of autonomous AI agents. The relentless hype around AI makes it difficult to separate the signal from the noise. So its understandable if youve tuned out recent talk about autonomous AI agents. A word of advice: Dont.

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In Defense of Text Labels: Why Icons Alone Aren't Enough

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Im a firm believer in text labels. Interfaces are over-stuffed with icons.

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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.