Thu.Mar 13, 2025

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Why AI Video Sometimes Gets It Backwards

Unite.AI

If 2022 was the year that generative AI captured a wider public's imagination, 2025 is the year where the new breed of generative video frameworks coming from China seems set to do the same. Tencent's Hunyuan Video has made a major impact on the hobbyist AI community with its open-source release of a full-world video diffusion model that users can tailor to their needs.

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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

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On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor's official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls "locs"), the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work.

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ServiceNow deploys AI agents to boost enterprise workflows

AI News

ServiceNow has launched its Yokohama platform which introduces AI agents across various sectors to boost workflows and maximise end-to-end business impact. The Yokohama platform release features teams of preconfigured AI agents designed to deliver immediate productivity gains. These agents operate on a single, unified platform, ensuring seamless integration and coordination across different business functions.

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AI is coming for the laptop class

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Enjoy the laptop lifestyle while it lasts, folks. | Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images My entire job takes place on my laptop. I write stories like this in Google Docs on my laptop. I coordinate with my editor in Slack on my laptop. I reach out to sources with Gmail and then interview them over Zoom, on my laptop. This isnt true of all journalists some go to war zones but its true of many of us, and for accountants, tax preparers, software engineers, and many more workers, maybe over one in 10

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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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10 Best AI Avatar Generators (March 2025)

Unite.AI

AI avatar generators have become useful tools for streaming and other forms of AI content creation , such as enhancing presentations, automating video production, or establishing a unique on-screen persona. These platforms enable creators to generate high-quality virtual presenters, complete with realistic facial expressions, synchronized voiceovers, and multilingual capabilities.

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People do not understand how LLMs can/cannot help them

Ehud Reiter

I’ve had several conversations about using LLMs over the past few weeks where the people I talked to had little idea of what LLMs could and could not do, and how LLMs could and could not help them. Which is worrying, because if we want AI to actually help people, them the people being helped need to understand what to use AI for! A few examples: A student was trying to use obscure software library, could not not find info.

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Google’s Gemma 3: Features, Benchmarks, Performance and Implementation

Analytics Vidhya

Googles commitment to making AI accessible leaps forward with Gemma 3, the latest addition to the Gemma family of open models. After an impressive first yearmarked by over 100 million downloads and more than 60,000 community-created variantsthe Gemmaverse continues to expand. With Gemma 3, developers gain access to state-of-the-art, lightweight AI models that run efficiently […] The post Google’s Gemma 3: Features, Benchmarks, Performance and Implementation appeared first on Analytic

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How to Realize Value from a GenAI-Enabled Workforce

Unite.AI

Thanks to OpenAIs ChatGPT, pretty much everyone knows about GenAI today. Its ability to satisfy peoples thirst for knowledge with just a simple prompt sent it viral. This tool's usage is truly impressive. It gained a million users in just five days and attracted more than 100 million visitors in its first few months. Individuals and organizations are integrating it into their daily lives and activities with great enthusiasm.

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How GoDaddy built a category generation system at scale with batch inference for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

This post was co-written with Vishal Singh, Data Engineering Leader at Data & Analytics team of GoDaddy Generative AI solutions have the potential to transform businesses by boosting productivity and improving customer experiences, and using large language models (LLMs) in these solutions has become increasingly popular. However, inference of LLMs as single model invocations or API calls doesnt scale well with many applications in production.

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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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LAI #66: Information Theory for People in a Hurry

Towards AI

Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, Im heading to San Jose, CA, for Nvidia GTC, happening from March 17 to 21. Ill attend many discussions and am excited to meet some of you there. If youre around, feel free to stop by and say hi! Now, for this weeks issue, we have a very interesting article on information theory, exploring self-information, entropy, cross-entropy, and KL divergence these concepts bridge probability t

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Benchmarking customized models on Amazon Bedrock using LLMPerf and LiteLLM

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Open foundation models (FMs) allow organizations to build customized AI applications by fine-tuning for their specific domains or tasks, while retaining control over costs and deployments. However, deployment can be a significant portion of the effort, often requiring 30% of project time because engineers must carefully optimize instance types and configure serving parameters through careful testing.

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Exploring Prediction Targets in Masked Pre-Training for Speech Foundation Models

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Speech foundation models, such as HuBERT and its variants, are pre-trained on large amounts of unlabeled speech data and then used for a range of downstream tasks. These models use a masked prediction objective, where the model learns to predict information about masked input segments from the unmasked context. The choice of prediction targets in this framework impacts their performance on downstream tasks.

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Creating asynchronous AI agents with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

The integration of generative AI agents into business processes is poised to accelerate as organizations recognize the untapped potential of these technologies. Advancements in multimodal artificial intelligence (AI), where agents can understand and generate not just text but also images, audio, and video, will further broaden their applications. This post will discuss agentic AI driven architecture and ways of implementing.

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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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GTC 2025 – Announcements and Live Updates

NVIDIA

Whats next in AI is at GTC 2025. Not only the technology, but the people and ideas that are pushing AI forward creating new opportunities, novel solutions and whole new ways of thinking. For all of that, this is the place. Heres where to find the news, hear the discussions, see the robots and ponder the just-plain mind-blowing. From the keynote to the final session, check back for live coverage kicking off when the doors open on Monday, March 17, in San Jose, California.

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Optimize hosting DeepSeek-R1 distilled models with Hugging Face TGI on Amazon SageMaker AI

AWS Machine Learning Blog

DeepSeek-R1 , developed by AI startup DeepSeek AI , is an advanced large language model (LLM) distinguished by its innovative, multi-stage training process. Instead of relying solely on traditional pre-training and fine-tuning, DeepSeek-R1 integrates reinforcement learning to achieve more refined outputs. The model employs a chain-of-thought (CoT) approach that systematically breaks down complex queries into clear, logical steps.

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Elon Musk wants to use AI to run US gov’t, but experts say ‘very bad’ idea

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Govt use of AI can go wrong in many ways, experts say, including lack of transparency on how tools are trained. Is Elon Musk planning to use artificial intelligence to run the US government? That seems to be his plan, but experts say it is a very bad idea.

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Gaming Goodness: NVIDIA Reveals Latest Neural Rendering and AI Advancements Supercharging Game Development at GDC 2025

NVIDIA

AI is leveling up the worlds most beloved games, as the latest advancements in neural rendering, NVIDIA RTX and digital human technologies equip game developers to take innovative leaps in their work. At this years GDC conference, running March 17-21 in San Francisco, NVIDIA is revealing new AI tools and technologies to supercharge the next era of graphics in games.

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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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Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, open-sources its base AI model

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Sesame, the AI company behind the impressively realistic voice assistant Maya, has released the base AI model powering Maya, as it recently promised. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (parameters referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.

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Relive the Magic as GeForce NOW Brings More Blizzard Gaming to the Cloud

NVIDIA

Bundle up GeForce NOW is bringing a flurry of Blizzard titles to its ever-expanding library. Prepare to weather epic gameplay in the cloud, tackling the genres of real-time strategy (RTS), multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) and more. Classic Blizzard titles join GeForce NOW, including Heroes of the Storm, Warcraft Rumble and three titles from the Warcraft: Remastered series.

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Robots, drones and AI: How next-generation tech is changing the global supply chain

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Logistics companies globally are leaning into emerging technologies such as robots, drones and AI to speed up the supply chain and serve customers faster.

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Drop It Like It’s Mod: Breathing New Life Into Classic Games With AI in NVIDIA RTX Remix

NVIDIA

PC game modding is massive, with over 5 billion mods downloaded annually. Mods push graphics forward with each GPU generation, extend a games lifespan with new content and attract new players. NVIDIA RTX Remix is a modding platform for RTX AI PCs that lets modders capture game assets, automatically enhance materials with generative AI tools and create stunning RTX remasters with full ray tracing.

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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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China’s AI Hype Machine Kicks Into Overdrive

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An AI frenzy is quickly spreading throughout China, with support from the government.

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Middle Layers Excel: New Research Challenges Final-Layer Focus in Language Models

NYU Center for Data Science

The intermediate layers of large language models (LLMs) contain surprisingly rich representations that often outperform the final layer on downstream tasks, according to new research from CDS Research Scientist Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , CDS Professor Yann LeCun , and their collaborators. Their paper, Layer by Layer: Uncovering Hidden Representations in Language Models , led by Oscar Skean and Md Rifat Arefin , reveals that the conventional wisdom of using final-layer outputs for embeddings may be sub

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OpenAI’s ‘creative writing’ AI evokes that annoying kid from high school fiction club

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When I was 16, I attended a writing workshop with a group of precocious young poets, where we all tried very hard to prove who among us was the most tortured upper-middle-class teenager. One boy refused to tell anyone where he was from, declaring, Im from everywhere and nowhere.

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Bayesian Deep Learning is Needed in the Age of Large-Scale AI [Paper Reflection]

The MLOps Blog

In his famous blog post Artificial Intelligence The Revolution Hasnt Happened Yet , Michael Jordan (the AI researcher, not the one you probably thought of first) tells a story about how he might have almost lost his unborn daughter due to a faulty AI prediction. He speculates that many children die needlessly each year in the same way. Abstracting away the specifics of his case, this is one example of an application in which an AI algorithm’s performance looked good on paper during its de

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Revolutionize CX with AI Agents for Your Business

The guide for revolutionizing the customer experience and operational efficiency Explore how AI Agents are transforming customer service and delivering innovative solutions for your business now with our latest eBook. 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.

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10 startups to watch from Y Combinator’s W25 Demo Day

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One of Silicon Valleys most storied startup accelerators, Y Combinator, held its Winter 2025 Demo Day on Wednesday, showcasing what its latest batch of 160 startups are cooking up.

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Understanding Copyright and AI: What the U.S. Copyright Office Says

ODSC - Open Data Science

The rise of artificial intelligence has brought significant changes to the creative landscape, raising new legal and ethical questions about authorship and intellectual property rights. Recently, the U.S. Copyright Office clarified its stance on AI-generated content and what is eligible for copyright protection. For data scientists, AI developers, and professionals working with generative models, understanding these guidelines is crucial to navigating copyright claims in AI-assisted projects.

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French publishers and authors sue Meta over copyright works used in AI training

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Three French trade groups are launching legal action against Meta over the company's widespread use of copyrighted works to train its generative AI model - all without authorization.