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The Amount Amazon Is Actually Making on AI Will Make Your Eyebrows Raise Dramatically

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Even as tariffs loom, big tech companies still plan to splash tons of money on AI infrastructure. But the return they're getting on these moonshot investments should give you pause. In numbers, Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon combined will spend more than $270 billion in capital expenditures to build AI data centers in 2025 alone, according to a Citigroup estimate cited by The Wall Street Journal.

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Firebase by Google: Is it Better than Cursor or Windsurf?

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Think of Firebase Studio as your co-pilot in the cloud. Its a smart, agentic workspace where building, testing, and launching apps feels less like a chore and more like a creative flow. Whether you’re sketching your next big idea or fine-tuning a real-time database, Firebase (by Google) shows up as a reliable, intuitive partner. Interestingly, […] The post Firebase by Google: Is it Better than Cursor or Windsurf?

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OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claims his $97.4 billion takeover offer was a sham bid

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OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman have counter-sued its co-founder turned competitor Elon Musk , accusing the billionaire of unfair and fraudulent business practices. Specifically, ChatGPT 's owners claim that Musk's $97.375 billion offer to buy it out in February was a "sham bid" deliberately intended to impede OpenAI's efforts to raise funding. "Through press attacks, malicious campaigns broadcast to Musk's more than 200 million followers on the social media platform he controls [X], a pretextual

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Generating One-Minute Videos with Test-Time Training

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Video generation from text has come a long way, but it still hits a wall when it comes to producing longer, multi-scene stories. While diffusion models like Sora, Veo, and Movie Gen have raised the bar in visual quality, they’re typically limited to clips under 20 seconds. The real challenge? Context. Generating a one-minute, story-driven […] The post Generating One-Minute Videos with Test-Time Training appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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Writer unveils ‘AI HQ’ platform, betting on agents to transform enterprise work

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Writer unveils AI HQ platform to transform enterprise work with autonomous agents that execute complex workflows across systems, potentially reducing workforce needs while delivering measurable ROI on AI investments.

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Generate user-personalized communication with Amazon Personalize and Amazon Bedrock

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Today, businesses are using AI and generative models to improve productivity in their teams and provide better experiences to their customers. Personalized outbound communication can be a powerful tool to increase user engagement and conversion. For instance, as a marketing manager for a video-on-demand company, you might want to send personalized email messages tailored to each individual usertaking into account their demographic information, such as gender and age, and their viewing preference

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Model customization, RAG, or both: A case study with Amazon Nova

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As businesses and developers increasingly seek to optimize their language models for specific tasks, the decision between model customization and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) becomes critical. In this post, we seek to address this growing need by offering clear, actionable guidelines and best practices on when to use each approach, helping you make informed decisions that align with your unique requirements and objectives.

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Elon Musk's xAI is polluting air in Memphis, using more gas turbines than permitted, advocacy group says

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Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has installed 35 gas turbines to run its Memphis data center, though it only applied for permits to run 15, an advocacy group says.

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Pixtral Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock

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Today, we are excited to announce that Mistral AI s Pixtral Large foundation model (FM) is generally available in Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, you can now access Mistrals frontier-class multimodal model to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative AI ideas on AWS. AWS is the first major cloud provider to deliver Pixtral Large as a fully managed, serverless model.

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The Ultimate Blueprint for an AI-First Contact Center

Start building the AI workforce of the future with our comprehensive guide to creating an AI-first contact center. Learn how Conversational and Generative AI can transform traditional operations into scalable, efficient, and customer-centric experiences. What is AI-First? Transition from outdated, human-first strategies to an AI-driven approach that enhances customer engagement and operational efficiency.

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Cracks are forming in Elon Musk's armor of lies

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As Elon Musk moves to dismiss a lawsuit from Tesla shareholders claiming he failed his fiduciary duties, OpenAI is now suing Musk and exposing lies, which could help Tesla shareholders. It looks like cracks are forming in Elon Musks armor of lies.

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Together AI Released DeepCoder-14B-Preview: A Fully Open-Source Code Reasoning Model That Rivals o3-Mini With Just 14B Parameters

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The demand for intelligent code generation and automated programming solutions has intensified, fueled by a rapid rise in software complexity and developer productivity needs. While natural language processing and general reasoning models have surged with significant breakthroughs, the coding domain has experienced slower progress. This lag is primarily attributed to the scarcity of high-quality, verifiable datasets critical for effectively training RL-based systems.

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OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chats

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OpenAI announced on Thursday that its starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their previous conversations.

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Understanding RAG Part IX: Fine-Tuning LLMs for RAG

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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What the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ can teach us about AI

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TL;DR: 2,000 years later, human choices still matter most. One recent rainy afternoon, I found myself in an unexpected rolephilosophy teacher to a machine.

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Rocket Lab's Success Shows Small Satellite Industry Is on the Rise

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Even in the shadow of larger launch companies, like SpaceX, Rocket Lab shows there's real profit to be made in focusing on smaller rockets.

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AI 50

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The Forbes Artificial Intelligence 50 List of 2025 spotlights promising AI-driven businesses. See the leaders driving the future of the industry.

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Astronaut Captures Rare 'Sprite Lightning' From Space

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Less than a month after scientists determined what causes the bizarre light show, too.

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The New CX: Your Guide to AI Agents

The guide for revolutionizing the customer experience and operational efficiency This eBook serves as your comprehensive guide to: AI Agents for your Business: Discover how AI Agents can handle high-volume, low-complexity tasks, reducing the workload on human agents while providing 24/7 multilingual support. Enhanced Customer Interaction: Learn how the combination of Conversational AI and Generative AI enables AI Agents to offer natural, contextually relevant interactions to improve customer exp

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Craig Federighi’s leadership has already resulted in this major Siri pivot, per report

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Today a revealing new look into Apples recent Siri struggles was published at The Information.

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RTX 5060 Ti Could Be Up to 14% Faster Than the 4060 Ti

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New leaks suggest a modest uplift over the last generation.

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Why 300 Companies Use This Startup’s AI To Slash Costs

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Businesses have poured millions into AI hoping for big returns in the future. This startup is saving them millions in labor costs today. Itwas 2016, and May Habib was in the most important meeting of her life.

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How AI Is Empowering Small Law

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By Daniel Farrar, CEO, Assembly. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool for automating day-to-day tasks in the legal industry its a transformative.

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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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Here are 10 countries with the highest concentration of AI talent globally, according to new LinkedIn data

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Singapore tops LinkedIn's 2025 AI Talent Index, as the country's supply for AI talent is 2.45 the global average.

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Apple to Release 'iPad Fold,' Folding iPhone in 2026: Analyst

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If this prediction is accurate, it could mean two long-running Apple rumors are finally coming to fruition.

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Canva is now in the coding and spreadsheet business

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Visual Suite 2.0 is Canvas one-stop shop for AI, design, and workspace tools. Canva is launching its latest smorgasbord of generative AI-powered workspace tools in its attempt to cram everything that Microsoft, Google, and Adobe can do into a single platform.

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This Tiny Security Camera Has Night Vision, Motion Alerts, and a $20 Price Tag

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The Blink Mini 2 has motion detection, night vision, and a built-in spotlightall packed into a $19.99 cam that takes up zero space.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

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Metas Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musks Grok.

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Google Pixel 9a Review: The Best Midrange Smartphone in North America

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Smart choices with the camera, battery, and display make it an excellent value for many people.

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Canva is getting AI image generation, interactive coding, spreadsheets, and more

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Although there has been significant pushback from artists regarding the proliferation of AI design tools and the content used to train generative models, the companies making the software for creative work are nevertheless building AI into their toolkits.

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