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EU AI Act: What businesses need to know as regulations go live

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Next week marks the beginning of a new era for AI regulations as the first obligations of the EU AI Act take effect. While the full compliance requirements won’t come into force until mid-2025, the initial phase of the EU AI Act begins February 2nd and includes significant prohibitions on specific AI applications. Businesses across the globe that operate in the EU must now navigate a regulatory landscape with strict rules and high stakes.

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Decoding DeepSeek R1’s Advanced Reasoning Capabilities

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DeepSeek-R1’s advanced reasoning capabilities have made it the new leader in the generative LLM field. It has caused a stir in the AI industry, with reports of Nvidias $600 billion loss post-launch. But what makes DeepSeek-R1 so famous overnight? In this article, well explore why DeepSeek-R1 is gaining so much attention, delve into its groundbreaking […] The post Decoding DeepSeek R1’s Advanced Reasoning Capabilities appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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DeepSeek's hardware spend could be as high as $500 million, new report estimates

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China's DeepSeek became the biggest topic in tech this week, with many in the industry and on Wall Street focused on a single number: $6 million.

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Exploring ARC-AGI: The Test That Measures True AI Adaptability

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Imagine an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that surpasses the ability to perform single tasksan AI that can adapt to new challenges, learn from errors, and even self-teach new competencies. This vision encapsulates the essence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Unlike the AI technologies we use today, which are proficient in narrow fields like image recognition or language translation, AGI aims to match humans' broad and flexible thinking abilities.

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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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OpenAI Strikes Deal With US Government to Use Its AI for Nuclear Weapon Security

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Wait, isn't this the plot to the "Terminator" movies? Remember the plot to the 1984 sci-fi blockbuster "The Terminator"?

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New wonder material designed by AI is as light as foam but as strong as steel

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The new technique could produce materials for use in helicopters, airplanes and spacecraft.

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How to Run Qwen2.5 Models Locally in 3 Minutes?

Analytics Vidhya

With the growing popularity of DeepSeek, Mistral Small 3, and Qwen2.5 Max, we are now surrounded by models that not only reason like humans but are also cost-efficient. Qwen2.5-Max is quickly gaining attention in the AI community as one of the powerful Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) outperforming DeepSeek V3. With its advanced architecture and impressive training scale, […] The post How to Run Qwen2.5 Models Locally in 3 Minutes?

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AI Designed Computer Chips That the Human Mind Can't Understand.

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That might be a problem. A new neural network process has designed wireless chips that can outperform existing ones. This convolutional neural network analyzes the desired chip properties then designs backward.

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Building a RQA System with DeepSeek R1 and Streamlit

Analytics Vidhya

DeepSeek R1 is here, and its proving to be incredibly helpful for building AI applications. Its advanced architecture, combining reinforcement learning with a Mixture of Experts (MoE) framework, ensures high efficiency and accuracy. In this article, Im going to build a Retrieval-based Question Answering (RQA) system using DeepSeek R1, LangChain and Streamlit.

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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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Sam Altman’s Answer to DeepSeek Is Giving Away OpenAI’s Tech

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CEO of the ChatGPT maker says his company has been on the wrong side of history with open-source software OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said he believes his company should consider giving away its AI models, a potentially seismic strategy shift in the same week Chinas DeepSeek has upended the

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Qwen2.5-Max: ChatGPT’s Biggest Rival?

Analytics Vidhya

Chinese companies have been releasing one model after the other throughout January – all competing with our beloved ChatGPT. But Alibaba Clouds Qwen isnt just done with breaking even with the best. With the latest Qwen2.5-Max, it plans to be the top contender beating the likes of DeepSeek & Kimi k! Competing with GPT-4o in […] The post Qwen2.5-Max: ChatGPTs Biggest Rival?

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Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji files lawsuit seeking San Francisco police records

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Balaji garnered national attention in October when he went public with accusations that his former employer, OpenAI, was flouting federal copyright laws with its blockbuster chatbot, ChatGPT.

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DeepSeek R1 on Databricks

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Deepseek-R1 is a state-of-the-art open model that, for the first time, introduces the reasoning capability to the open source community. In particular, the.

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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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Sam Altman’s Stargate is science fiction

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Stargate is a staggering power grab. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has spent the past year seeking an absurd amount of computing power to train the companys AI models one report says Japanese officials literally laughed at the amount of electricity he demanded.

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Accelerate DeepSeek Reasoning Models With NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series AI PCs

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The recently released DeepSeek-R1 model family has brought a new wave of excitement to the AI community, allowing enthusiasts and developers to run state-of-the-art reasoning models with problem-solving, math and code capabilities, all from the privacy of local PCs. With up to 3,352 trillion operations per second of AI horsepower, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs can run the DeepSeek family of distilled models faster than anything on the PC market.

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DeepSeek hysteria could quickly fade as skepticism on Wall Street grows

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The markets want you to think the DeepSeek freak-out is an immediate existential threat to US tech and AI dominance.

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How Travelers Insurance classified emails with Amazon Bedrock and prompt engineering

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This is a guest blog post co-written with Jordan Knight, Sara Reynolds, George Lee from Travelers. Foundation models (FMs) are used in many ways and perform well on tasks including text generation, text summarization, and question answering. Increasingly, FMs are completing tasks that were previously solved by supervised learning, which is a subset of machine learning (ML) that involves training algorithms using a labeled dataset.

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Beyond the Buzz: How to Turn Marketing Trends into Revenue-Driving Strategies

Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader

Marketing is evolving at breakneck speed—new tools, AI-driven automation, and changing buyer behaviors are rewriting the playbook. With so many trends competing for attention, how do you cut through the noise and focus on what truly moves the needle? In this webinar, industry expert Alexa Acosta will break down the most impactful marketing trends shaping the industry today and how to turn them into real, revenue-generating strategies.

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DeepSeek Data Leak Exposes 1,000,000 Sensitive Records

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On Jan. 29, cybersecurity researchers at Wiz Research revealed that DeepSeek, a Chinese AI-driven data analytics firm, had suffered a significant data leak, exposing over one million sensitive records.

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Accelerate digital pathology slide annotation workflows on AWS using H-optimus-0

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Digital pathology is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, playing a critical role in healthcare delivery and pharmaceutical research and development. Pathology traditionally relies heavily on pathologist expertise and experience to conduct meticulous examination of tissue samples to identify abnormalities. However, the increasing complexity and volume of cases necessitate advanced tools to assist pathologists in making faster, more accurate diagnoses.

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AI Creates New Glowing Protein, Simulating 500 Million Years of Evolution

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Synthesizing new proteins the building blocks of biological life is a scientific field of immense potential, and a newly developed AI model promises to create instructions for new proteins way beyond those found in nature.

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Nvidia’s RTX 50 Debut Was a Paper Launch, Stock Not Expected for Months

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Some retailers had just 4 RTX 5090s at launch.

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

Speaker: Kevin Burke

AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.

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DeepSeek claims to have cured AI’s environmental headache. The Jevons paradox suggests it might make things worse

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AI burns through a lot of resources.

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Super-Earth's Long Orbit Makes It Only Occasionally Habitable

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The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

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OpenAI Launches o3-mini, a Cost-Efficient Reasoning Model Rivaling DeepSeek

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OpenAI today released o3-mini, a new, more cost efficient model that's available for both ChatGPT and the OpenAI API starting today. OpenAI previewed o3-mini in December, but it is ready at a time when OpenAI is aiming to keep up with Chinese company DeepSeek.

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Here’s How to Avoid Microsoft 365’s Price Hike—Grab This Office License Instead

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You'll get lifelong access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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“Just give me the f ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews

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The latest trick to stop those annoying AI answers is also the most cathartic.

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Microsoft Announces Intel Versions of Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7

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The business-oriented machines come with the latest Intel silicon and higher price tags.

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A.I. Art Generated With Text Prompts Cannot Be Copyrighted, U.S. Rules

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The decision would effectively remove protections for Jason Allens A.I.-generated work, "Thtre Dopra Spatial.