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Low, Medium, or High: Which o3-mini Reasoning Level is the Smartest?

Analytics Vidhya

Ever wish your AI could switch between “fast and furious” and “deep and thoughtful”? OpenAI’s o3-mini offers precisely that with its three distinct reasoning levels: Low, Medium, and High. This article provides a detailed comparison of these modes, highlighting their speed, use cases, benchmarks, and ideal applications to help you choose the perfect level for […] The post Low, Medium, or High: Which o3-mini Reasoning Level is the Smartest?

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Chrome and Firefox users must update ASAP

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Google and Mozilla announced updates for their Chrome and Firefox browsers on Tuesday to address multiple high-severity memory safety vulnerabilities. Chrome 133 includes 12 security fixes, while Firefox 135 also resolves several critical issues. Google and Mozilla release critical updates for Chrome and Firefox Chrome 133 , now available in versions 133.0.6943.53/54 for Windows and macOS, and 133.0.6943.53 for Linux, includes three notable vulnerabilities reported by external researchers.

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Build a Deep Research Agent: $1 Alternative to $200 OpenAI’s Tool

Analytics Vidhya

Agentic AI Systems are all the rage these days! They are simply LLMs in a for-loop connected with certain prompts and tools which can autonomously do tasks for you. However, you can also build reliable step-by-step workflows, guiding the LLM to be more reliable as it solves problems for you. Recently in February 2025, OpenAI […] The post Build a Deep Research Agent: $1 Alternative to $200 OpenAI’s Tool appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Social Links Launches Darkside AI Initiative to Address Cybercrime and Misinformation

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Social Links, an open-source intelligence (OSINT) solutions company, has announced the Darkside AI initiative designed to combat the rising misapplication of artificial intelligence in cybercrime, disinformation, and digital fraud. Social Links is inviting enterprises, researchers, policymakers and individual experts.

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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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Stop Overpaying – Get All LLMs for Just $10 on ChatLLM!

Analytics Vidhya

Which LLM subscriptions do you currently have? ChatGPT Plus, Gemini Advanced, Claude Pro, or maybe something else? We all know that some models excel at content generation, others at image creation, while some are masters of data analysis. And to get the best of all worlds, youve probably been juggling multiple subscriptions. But what if […] The post Stop Overpaying – Get All LLMs for Just $10 on ChatLLM!

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Contel Smart Energy launches Energynie™ for renewable energy optimization

Dataconomy

Contel Smart Energy has launched Energynie, a composable AI-driven platform aimed at transforming renewable energy optimization. This next-generation platform is designed to rapidly adapt, scale, and integrate new technologies, enabling seamless management of various energy assets including PV, wind, storage, and engines across different site configurations such as hybrid technologies, ground-mounted, rooftops, dual-use, and microgrids.

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Databricks Clean Rooms: Now Generally Available on AWS and Azure

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Were thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Databricks Clean Rooms on AWS and Azure, a significant step forward in enabling secure.

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Enhancing LLM Capabilities with NeMo Guardrails on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning Blog

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into customer-facing applications, organizations are exploring ways to leverage their natural language processing capabilities. Many businesses are investigating how AI can enhance customer engagement and service delivery, and facing challenges in making sure LLMs driven engagements are on topic and follow the desired instructions.

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Simplifying Product On-Boarding with Generative AI

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Registering new products can be a complex and time-consuming process for both suppliers and retailers. Retailers often report issues with incomplete, inaccurate, or.

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If you own these Zyxel devices uninstall them now: No fix is coming

Dataconomy

Taiwanese hardware maker Zyxel announced that it will not release a patch for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in multiple legacy DSL customer premises equipment (CPE) products. These vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-40890 and CVE-2024-40891 , allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands, leading to potential system compromise and data exfiltration.

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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 State of Data Governance

The Data Administration Newsletter

In 2024, our research at Dresner Advisory Services revealed that only 32% of organizations have a formal data governance organization in place. This statistic highlights a critical gap, especially as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly integrated into operations, expanding business reliance on data and analytic content.

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Sopra Steria Next: Generative AI market set for $100 billion by 2028

Dataconomy

Sopra Steria Next has published its study titled “Generative AI: From Exploration to Impact,” focusing on the global generative AI market. This second edition explores market dynamics, challenges, and opportunities to enhance the value of generative AI. The study indicates that 2024 was a pivotal year for technological acceleration in generative AI, marked by unprecedented investment levels and the emergence of diverse solutions.

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Download CDC data through Internet Archive

FlowingData

The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was taken down last Friday. For now, it seems data.cdc.gov is up in a modified form, but just in case, the Internet Archive has all the data that was available prior January 28, 2025. The compressed data file is only 95 gigabytes, so maybe just download it now.

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Easy Late-Chunking With Chonkie

Towards AI

Last Updated on February 5, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): Michael Ryaboy Originally published on Towards AI. Image Source [link] Late Chunking has just been released in Chonkie, a lean chunking library that already boasts over 2,000 stars on GitHub. This is a welcome update for anyone looking to integrate late chunking into their retrieval pipelines, since implementing it from the ground up can be conceptually tricky and prone to mistakes.

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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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OfferUp improved local results by 54% and relevance recall by 27% with multimodal search on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Machine Learning Blog

This post is co-written with Andrs Vlez Echeveri and Sean Azlin from OfferUp. OfferUp is an online, mobile-first marketplace designed to facilitate local transactions and discovery. Known for its user-friendly app and trust-building features, including user ratings and in-app chat, OfferUp enables users to buy and sell items and explore a broad range of jobs and local services.

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Python Oddities That Might Surprise You

KDnuggets

Let's explore some of Python's quirks with helpful code examples.

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Which Python Dashboard Is Better? Dash, Panel And Streamlit Showdown

Towards AI

Author(s): John Loewen, PhD Originally published on Towards AI. Prompting GPT-4 for multi-visual interactive dashboard creation This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. As a comp sci professor, over the past year, I have heavily integrated GPT-4o into my data visual creation workflow. Recently I have noticed that GPT-4 has improved in leaps and bounds with its ability to create Python code for multi-visual dashboards.

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Tracking daily federal expenditures

FlowingData

The Hamilton Project is tracking federal expenditures and updating daily: This data interactive shows actual daily and weekly processed outlays to key programs and departments, as well as to states, Congress, and the Judiciary. This tool only reports outlays of federal funds, meaning the actual transmission of funds from the federal government to another entity.

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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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Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50

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AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI reasoning model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a new research paper released last Friday.

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Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

Hacker News

Were announcing new updates to Gemini 2.0 Flash, plus introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.

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The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA

Flipboard

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hies ChatGPT for genomes could pick up patterns that humans cant see, accelerating biological design.

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Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany

Hacker News

Teslas sales have dropped nearly 60% in January in Germany compared to the same period last year. The same thing is happening throughout Europe.

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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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Machine-learning pioneer Yann LeCun on why “a new revolution in AI” is coming

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Our podcast on science and technology.

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The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange

Hacker News

The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors

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Hugging Face clones OpenAI’s Deep Research in 24 hours

Flipboard

Open source "Deep Research" project proves that agent frameworks boost AI model capability.

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First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years

Hacker News

The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.

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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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Google scraps promise not to develop AI weapons

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Google updated its artificial intelligence principles on Tuesday to remove commitments around not using the technology in ways that cause or are likely to cause overall harm.

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Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era

Hacker News

NYC subway crime has dropped significantly so far this year even as ridership increased in the congestion pricing era, according to the newest NYPD data released on Tuesday. In the first month of 2025, there were 147 reported crimes on the subway down from 231 last yearresulting in 36% fewer crimes committed on the rails.

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6 unsettling thoughts Google's former CEO has about artificial intelligence

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Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, is thinking about artificial intelligence how it interacts with humans, and how it may reshape democracy. Or replace it.

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25 Years Ago, Joan Didion Kept a Diary. It's About to Become Public

Hacker News

The notes, taken after meetings with her psychiatrist, will be published in April as a book, Notes to John. They provide a raw account of her life, her work and her complex relationship with her daughter.

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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.