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Riverlane Navigates Upstream On Quantum Error Correction

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

The use of quantum error correction techniques is supposed to help us get out of the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) era.

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The Rise of AI Lip-sync: From Uncanny Valley to Hyperrealism

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Remember the awkward dubbing in old kung-fu movies? Or the jarring lip-sync in early animated films? Those days are fading fast, and thanks to the rise of AI-powered lip-sync technology, could forever be behind us. Since April 2023, the number of solutions and the volume of “AI lip-sync” keyword searches has grown dramatically, coming from nowhere to becoming one of the critical trends in generative AI.

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I Went Birding With the World’s First AI-Powered Binoculars

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Swarovski Optik’s new AX Visio binoculars use image-recognition algorithms and GPS data to discern the species of whatever bird you point them at. And they work anywhere in the world.

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iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out

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Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have not been in contact with a cellular network for some time, according to a document obtained by 404 Media.

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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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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Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management is now available in GA

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management , with new features that provide enhanced options for configuring your prompts and enabling seamless integration for invoking them in your generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management simplifies the creation, evaluation, versioning, and sharing of prompts to help developers and prompt engineers get better responses from foundation models (FMs) for their use cases.

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Classifying Rice With PyTorch: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. In the fast-paced world of agriculture, being able to classify different rice varieties quickly and accurately can be a game-changer. But how can we harness machine learning for something as niche as rice classification? Well, this is where PyTorch, a powerful deep learning library, steps in.

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FDA Proposes Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Nasal Decongestant

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FDA is proposing to end the use of oral phenylephrine as an active ingredient from OTC Monograph M012 for the temporary relief of nasal congestion because the agency determined it is not effective.

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Enhance customer support with Amazon Bedrock Agents by integrating enterprise data APIs

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Generative AI has transformed customer support, offering businesses the ability to respond faster, more accurately, and with greater personalization. AI agents , powered by large language models (LLMs), can analyze complex customer inquiries, access multiple data sources, and deliver relevant, detailed responses. In this post, we guide you through integrating Amazon Bedrock Agents with enterprise data APIs to create more personalized and effective customer support experiences.

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Game Theory Made Simple

Towards AI

Author(s): Igor Novikov Originally published on Towards AI. Looking smart 😂 Image created by AI tool DALL·E 3 — the author has the provenance and copyright Many of you, I bet, heard about game theory at some point in your life. If you want to sound smart and impress your girlfriend — just mention “zero-sum game” and your chances to bring her home tonight have just increased by 50%.

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How To Make Money From Home With AI: 5 Proven Ideas To Get You Started

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People are making thousands with AI. Why aren't you? If you’re looking for a change in career, a brand new business, or a way of experimenting with some different technology, exploring artificial intelligence might become your jam. The gold rush is happening.

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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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Mitochondria Are Alive

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An opinion essay by Liyam Chitayat The cells within our body are the remnants of an ancient alliance. In a 1967 paper called “ On the Origin of Mitosing Cells ,” American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis proposed an idea that, upon first hearing, seems ludicrous. Her paper, in fact, was rejected by 12 different journals before it was published.

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Unleashing Stability AI’s most advanced text-to-image models for media, marketing and advertising: Revolutionizing creative workflows

AWS Machine Learning Blog

To stay competitive, media, advertising, and entertainment enterprises need to stay abreast of recent dramatic technological developments. Generative AI has emerged as a game-changer, offering unprecedented opportunities for creative professionals to push boundaries and unlock new realms of possibility. At the forefront of this revolution is Stability AI’s family of cutting-edge text-to-image AI models.

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Unlocking Key Technologies in Document Parsing

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Last Updated on November 7, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Florian June Originally published on Towards AI. A Comprehensive Guide with Insights This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. A large number of documents — including technical documentation, historical records, academic publications, and legal files — exist in scanned or image formats.

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The other election night winner: Perplexity

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On Tuesday, two AI startups tried convincing the world their AI chatbots were good enough to be an accurate, real-time source of information during a high-stakes presidential election: xAI and Perplexity.

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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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Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale

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The Microsoft Azure Core Upstream team is excited to announce the Hyperlight project, an open-source Rust library you can use to create very small VMs for embedded functions. Learn more.

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Build and deploy a UI for your generative AI applications with AWS and Python

AWS Machine Learning Blog

The emergence of generative AI has ushered in a new era of possibilities, enabling the creation of human-like text, images, code, and more. However, as exciting as these advancements are, data scientists often face challenges when it comes to developing UIs and to prototyping and interacting with their business users. Traditionally, building frontend and backend applications has required knowledge of web development frameworks and infrastructure management, which can be daunting for those with e

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European night train map

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The Night Train Map is for Europeans who want to travel at night: Have you ever wondered to which destinations you can travel by night train? Are you looking for inspiration for your next holiday? Then we got you covered: This is a map of all night train lines currently running in Europe, based on our night train database. The database and map are updated regularly to reflect time table changes and announcements of new night train services.

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Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL?

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Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT. On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a simple URL on X: chat.com. It automatically routes to OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT. Prior to this, the domain was owned by Dharmesh Shah, the founder and CTO of HubSpot. In early 2023, Shah purchased the chat.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Bird flu infections in farmworkers are going undetected, study shows

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For months, as human cases of H5N1 bird flu associated with an outbreak of the virus in U.S. dairy cattle have mounted, one question has loomed larger than others: how many human infections are getting missed? Farmworkers face some of the most intense exposure to the bird flu virus, but resistance from farmers and a lack of health insurance and paid sick leave in the industry have limited the amount of testing of workers and hampered public health officials’ ability to track where the vir

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Integrate foundation models into your code with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

The rise of large language models (LLMs) and foundation models (FMs) has revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI). These powerful models, trained on vast amounts of data, can generate human-like text, answer questions, and even engage in creative writing tasks. However, training and deploying such models from scratch is a complex and resource-intensive process, often requiring specialized expertise and significant computational resources.

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Llama 3.2 Vision Review

Towards AI

Author(s): Barhoumi Mosbeh Originally published on Towards AI. Ollama multi-modal Ollama has just announced its official support for the Llama 3.2 Vision models. The Llama 3.2 Vision models come in two sizes: 11 billion and 90 billion parameters. In this article, I will provide an overview of their performance in different cases, along with my personal thoughts on them.

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Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch

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Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.

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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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Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company

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Nvidia Corp. became the largest company in the world on Tuesday, surpassing Apple Inc. and underscoring just how dominant artificial intelligence has become on Wall Street.

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Build a multi-tenant generative AI environment for your enterprise on AWS

AWS Machine Learning Blog

While organizations continue to discover the powerful applications of generative AI , adoption is often slowed down by team silos and bespoke workflows. To move faster, enterprises need robust operating models and a holistic approach that simplifies the generative AI lifecycle. In the first part of the series, we showed how AI administrators can build a generative AI software as a service (SaaS) gateway to provide access to foundation models (FMs) on Amazon Bedrock to different lines of business

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Pandas Is Dead. Machine Learning Teams Are Using These Tools Instead.

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Author(s): Julia Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash Python’s Pandas library has been a long-standing favorite among data analysts due to its powerful DataFrame structure and intuitive API. However, for handling extensive datasets, Pandas is not always the most efficient option, as it is limited by its single-core processing design.

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How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?

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With lots of data, a strong model and statistical thinking, scientists can make predictions about all sorts of complex phenomena. Today, this practice is evolving to harness the power of machine learning and massive datasets. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with statistician Emmanuel Candès about black boxes, uncertainty and the power of inductive reasoning.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

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Unearth insights from audio transcripts generated by Amazon Transcribe using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Generative AI continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible. One area garnering significant attention is the use of generative AI to analyze audio and video transcripts, increasing our ability to extract valuable insights from content stored in audio or video files. Speech data is unique and complex, which makes it difficult to analyze and extract insights.

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From Supervised Learning to Contextual Bandits: The Evolution of AI Decision-Making

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Last Updated on November 8, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Joseph Robinson, Ph.D. Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Supervised Learning: Train once, deploy static model; Contextual Bandits: Deploy once, allow the agent to adapt actions based on content and its corresponding reward.

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Find Out What ChatGPT Knows About You: 5 Prompts For Instant Answers

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If you’ve been using ChatGPT for a while, it knows a lot about you. Where you work, who you work with. Your dream customer, your products and services, your landing page copy. It has written your proposals, your sales emails and your best man’s speech. The tool holds secrets.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.