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The danger of relying on OpenAI's Deep Research

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Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful

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Death of OpenAI whistleblower deemed suicide in new autopsy report

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Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the citys medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled widespread speculation online.

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How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State

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Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions and may discourage future research.

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A look under the hood of transfomers, the engine driving AI model evolution

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How transformers work, why they are so important for the growth of scalable solutions and why they are the backbone of LLMs.

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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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Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department

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The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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ChatGPT's Deep Research Is Here. But Can It Really Replace a Human Expert?

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OpenAI's 'deep research' is the latest artificial intelligence (AI) tool making waves and promising to do in minutes what would take hours for a human expert to complete.

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Meta Betting on AI-Powered Humanoid Robots

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Meta reportedly plans to develop software that can power robots built by other companieslike Android does for smartphonesrather than launching its

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The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate

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The billion-dollar startup bubble is deflating, and more than $1 trillion in value is locked up in companies with dwindling prospects.

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AI is the future of tech, but its effects on the climate could change everything

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Over the last few years, the tech industry and their energy-hungry data centers have been responsible for large increases in climate emissions, with

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Ollama-Swift

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While we wait for Apple Intelligence to arrive on our devices, something remarkable is already running on our Macs. Think of it as a locavore approach to artificial intelligence: homegrown, sustainable, and available year-round.

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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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Marie Curie, Lord Voldemort And Sheldon Cooper Tell Us About AI Ethics

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When many of us think about artificial intelligence, we have a sort of nebulous idea about digital entities trying to trick us into believing that theyre human. But in some ways, its a lot more complex than that.

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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.

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How DeepSeek’s AI has become a must-have feature in Chinese smart EVs

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Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers are scrambling to install artificial intelligence (AI) developed by DeepSeek to add to their cars digital bells

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Nintendo Obtains New Anti-Palworld Patent and Seeks Even More

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Nintendo secures an anti-Palworld patent in the United States, signaling that its legal dispute with Pocketpair could go global.

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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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Perplexity AI's Deep Research feature is available now — here's how to try it for free

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Following ChatGPT and Google Gemini deep research advancements, Perplexity AI has unveiled its latest feature, "Deep Research," designed to give

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Kleene as a Container Management Platform for FreeBSD

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Kleene is a container management (jail manager) platform designed specifically for FreeBSD, bringing familiar concepts from Docker while fully embracing FreeBSDs native tools and philosophy. Instead of reinventing the wheel, Kleene follows the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle, leveraging FreeBSD's built-in features to simplify application deployment, maintenance, and upgrades without unnecessary complexity or abstraction.

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[Tech Thoughts] On AI, journalism, and responsible disclosures

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While journalists of all stripes are being displaced by the rise of artificial intelligence cannibalizing the written word, theres more than one bit

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The True Costs of Being on YouTube

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what I spent, what I earned, and why I'm walking away

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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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Perplexity has its own ‘Deep Research’ tool now too

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It's available now on the web, and will soon roll out to the iOS, Android and Mac apps.

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If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it

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Here's a Mastodon thread from a year ago. Just a quick check on how ChatGPT's getting on. Me: Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when? ChatGPT: The species Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to its own genus, Giraffatitan, by the paleontologist Michael Janensch in 1914.

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This Free App Is a Game Changer for PDFs on Windows

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While PDF documents are ubiquitous, working with them can often be cumbersome, especially when it comes to editing, converting, or extracting text.

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Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai

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Shrouded in secrecy and isolated from the world, North Korea exudes an air of mystery. Hardly anything is known about the country except media stories about their dear leader, Kim Jong Un - his unrivalled cult-style ofgovernance that has bred a nation of adoring peoplewho hang on to his every command.

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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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AI math tutor: ChatGPT can be as effective as human help, study suggests

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A recent study published in PLOS One provides evidence that artificial intelligence can be just as helpful as a human tutor when it comes to learning

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Half of CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Laid Off

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The purging of federal workers continues.

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Understandability of Deep Learning Models

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Last Updated on February 17, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): Lalit Kumar Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Blackbox nature of DL models Deep learning systems are a kind of black box when it comes to analysing how they give a particular output, and as the size of the model increase this complexity is further increased.

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US wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers can't figure out how to reach them

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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 can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified

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Dealing with an evil cyber-intelligence probably sounds more like a movie than real life. It may be closer to reality than we realize some researchers even think we should begin preparing for artificial intelligence (AI) going rogue.

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Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find

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The Rise Of The Hybrid Workforce: Humans And AI Working Together

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We are moving from the hybrid workplace, with the flexibility to work where and when you want, to the hybrid workforce, where humans and AI agents work together.

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Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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Its bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.

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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.