Fri.Apr 25, 2025

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What Is Agentic AI? A Gateway to Building Smarter and Autonomous Agents

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It is easy to forget how much our devices do for us until your smart assistant dims the lights, adjusts the thermostat, and reminds you to drink water, all on its own. That seamless experience is not just about convenience, but a glimpse into the growing world of agentic AI. Whether it is a self-driving car navigating rush hour or a warehouse robot dodging obstacles while organizing inventory, agentic AI is quietly revolutionizing how things get done.

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Announcing Public Preview of Streaming Table and Materialized View Sharing

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We are thrilled to announce that the sharing of materialized views and streaming tables is now available in Public Preview.

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7 Essential Ready-To-Use Data Engineering Docker Containers

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Ready to level up your data engineering game without wasting hours on setup? From ingestion to orchestration, these Docker containers handle it all.

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Gen AI-Powered Command Center

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The Challenge: Fragmented Data and Delayed Decision-Making Energy companies grapple with a pervasive challenge: data silos.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

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Would you buy a truck this bare-bones?

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Mike Lindell lawyers threatened by judge over briefs loaded with AI-generated fake cases

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A federal judge put My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell's lawyers "on notice" this week over nearly 30 citations in a legal brief submitted in a defamation lawsuit involving Eric Coomer, the former director of product security and strategy for voting technology supplier Dominion.According to a report from KU.

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An OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card denied

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Kai Chen, a Canadian AI researcher working at OpenAI whos lived in the U.S. for 12 years, was denied a green card, according to Noam Brown, a leading research scientist at the company. In a post on X, Brown said that Chen learned of the decision Friday and must soon leave the country.

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New LLM jailbreak bypasses all major FMs

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HiddenLayers latest research uncovers a universal prompt injection bypass impacting GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and more, exposing major LLM security gaps.

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The Jobs That Will Fall First As AI Takes Over The Workplace

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at breakneck speed. The big question is how long it will take until technology dominates the job market. You should start thinking about your own career. Will you be caught up in the change? With the U.S.

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Century-old genetics mystery of Mendel's peas solved

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Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist. Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All

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The vast brains of artificial intelligence models can memorize endless lists of rules. Thats useful, but not how humans solve problems.

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Curry: A Functional Logic Programming Language

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A Truly Integrated Functional Logic Programming Language

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AI Executives Promise Cancer Cures. Here’s the Reality

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The technology is genuinely useful for scientific discovery, but its applications are less dramatic than you might think. To hear Silicon Valley tell it, the end of disease is well on its way.

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Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI

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How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Exclusive: Crypto VC giant Paradigm makes $50 million bet on decentralized AI startup Nous Research at $1 billion token valuation

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The crypto industry has been fighting to get a piece of the red-hot artificial intelligence sector, but despite some hefty investments, blockchain

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Google announces 1st and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in October 2025

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Google's oldest smart thermostats have an expiration date. The company has announced that the first and second generation Nest Learning Thermostats will lose support in October 2025, disabling most of the connected features. Google is offering some compensation for anyone still using these devices, but there's no Google upgrade for European users. Google is also discontinuing its only European model, and it's not planning to release another.

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Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed

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The minute-long ad has been live for months, but Microsoft only just explained AIs involvement. Microsoft has revealed that its created a minute-long advert for its Surface Pro and Surface Laptop hardware using generative AI.

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Huge reproducibility project fails to validate biomedical studies

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Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform. Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool

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In the battle between two agentic coding tools Anthropics Claude Code and OpenAIs Codex CLI the latter appears to be fostering more developer goodwill than the former.

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Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court

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Emmanuel Lidden had been attempting to collect every element on the periodic table

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

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ChatGPT, OpenAIs text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.

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Finding Things the Government Might Know About You

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Two reporters spent over a month compiling and analyzing information about the reams of data the U.S. government collects about Americans.

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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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The new AI calculus: Google’s 80% cost edge vs. OpenAI’s ecosystem

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Explore the Google vs OpenAI AI ecosystem battle post-o3.

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Eurorack Knob Idea

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Google’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by design

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Google started testing AI-summarized results in Google Search, AI Overviews, two years ago, and continues to expand the feature to new regions and languages. By the companys estimation, its been a big success. AI Overviews is now used by more than 1.

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Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Why are companies lining up to buy Chrome?

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Chrome could, someday, be for sale, and a few companies have already expressed interest. Chrome could eventually be up for sale, if the US Department of Justice gets its way in the remedies trial for US v. Google. And there are already buyers lining up at Googles door.

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FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities

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U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says the arrest of a Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities is a gravely serious and drastic move.

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U.S. government agency sounds alarm on AI's toll on environment, humanity

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The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says much more research on AI is needed. Generative AI's impact on the environment is still deeply understudied, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and its human effects are just as unclear.

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FBI arrests Wisconsin judge on charges of obstructing immigrant arrest

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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?