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Big tech’s AI spending hits new heights

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In 2024, Big Tech is all-in on artificial intelligence, with companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta leading the way. Their combined spending on AI is projected to exceed a jaw-dropping $240 billion. Why? Because AI isn’t just the future—it’s the present, and the demand for AI-powered tools and infrastructure has never been higher. The companies aren’t just keeping up; they’re setting the pace for the industry.

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Small Language Models, Big Impact: Fine-Tuning DistilGPT-2 for Medical Queries

Analytics Vidhya

Language models have transformed how we interact with data, enabling applications like chatbots, sentiment analysis, and even automated content generation. However, most discussions revolve around large-scale models like GPT-3 or GPT-4, which require significant computational resources and vast datasets. While these models are powerful, they are not always practical for domain-specific tasks or deployment in […] The post Small Language Models, Big Impact: Fine-Tuning DistilGPT-2 for Medica

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AI in Product Management: Leveraging Cutting-Edge Tools Throughout the Product Management Process

Unite.AI

Product management stands at a very interesting threshold because of advances happening in the area of Artificial Intelligence. As the capabilities of AI evolve unceasingly, the traditional role of the product manager will be transformed in ways never dreamed possible, marking the dawn of a new era: that of the “Product Alchemist.” As a hyper-growth driver at startups across diverse industries such as ed-tech, food-tech, and social networks, I have created products that create an impact at scale

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How to Be Systematic About Adopting AI at Your Company

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Leaders and companies everywhere recognize the transformative potential that AI holds for their business — but very few of them have a systematic plan for how to experiment with and adopt AI at scale. In this article, John Winsor offers one, based on the successful work that he and Jin Paik have done in recent years helping companies experiment with and adopt digital-talent platforms at scale.

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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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Peering Inside AI: How DeepMind’s Gemma Scope Unlocks the Mysteries of AI

Unite.AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making its way into critical industries like healthcare, law, and employment, where its decisions have significant impacts. However, the complexity of advanced AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs), makes it difficult to understand how they arrive at those decisions. This “black box” nature of AI raises concerns about fairness, reliability, and trust—especially in fields that rely heavily on transparent and accountable systems.

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Top AgentOps Tools in 2025

Marktechpost

As AI agents become increasingly sophisticated and autonomous, the need for robust tools to manage and optimize their behavior becomes paramount. AgentOps, the practice of managing and operating AI agents, is emerging as a critical discipline. These tools are essential for streamlining the development, deployment, and maintenance of AI agents, ensuring their reliability, efficiency, and ethical operation.

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Governing the ML lifecycle at scale, Part 3: Setting up data governance at scale

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This post is part of an ongoing series about governing the machine learning (ML) lifecycle at scale. To view this series from the beginning, start with Part 1. This post dives deep into how to set up data governance at scale using Amazon DataZone for the data mesh. The data mesh is a modern approach to data management that decentralizes data ownership and treats data as a product.

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Demystifying Ensemble Methods: Boosting, Bagging, and Stacking Explained

Machine Learning Mastery

Unity makes strength. This well-known motto perfectly captures the essence of ensemble methods: one of the most powerful machine learning (ML) approaches -with permission from deep neural networks- to effectively address complex problems predicated on complex data, by combining multiple models for addressing one predictive task.

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Google Upgrades Gemini-exp-1121: Advancing AI Performance in Coding, Math, and Visual Understanding

Marktechpost

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, with competition among large language models (LLMs) remaining intense. Despite recent advances pushing the boundaries of what these models can achieve, challenges persist. One of the main difficulties for existing LLMs, such as GPT-4, is finding the right balance between general-purpose reasoning, coding abilities, and visual understanding.

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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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Orchestrate generative AI workflows with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Companies across all industries are harnessing the power of generative AI to address various use cases. Cloud providers have recognized the need to offer model inference through an API call, significantly streamlining the implementation of AI within applications. Although a single API call can address simple use cases, more complex ones may necessitate the use of multiple calls and integrations with other services.

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Open Research on Discord: A New Model for Scientific Collaboration

NYU Center for Data Science

Scientific research traditionally requires institutional affiliations and formal commitments. However, CDS Research Scientist Ravid Shwartz-Ziv is experimenting with a different approach, coordinating multiple research projects through a Discord server where anyone interested can contribute to exploring connections between large language models and information theory.

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Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival

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Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives.

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What is LSTM – Long Short Term Memory?

Pickl AI

Summary: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are a specialised form of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) that excel in learning long-term dependencies in sequential data. By utilising memory cells and gating mechanisms, LSTMs effectively manage information flow, preventing issues like the vanishing gradient problem. Introduction Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks are a specialised type of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) designed to effectively learn and remember from sequences of data over

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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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Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS is ‘primary’ cloud partner

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Anthropic, OpenAI’s close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, the primary place it’ll train its flagship generative AI models.

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A History of Supercomputers

Extreme Tech

From the CDC 6600 to Seymour Cray and beyond, supercomputers dominated science, industrial, and military research for decades. Come with us as we explore the history and evolution of these amazing systems here on ExtremeTech.

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Nvidia Working As Fast As It Can to Certify Samsung’s AI Memory

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Nvidia is working as fast it can to certify Samsung’s AI memory chips, CEO Jensen Huang tells Bloomberg TV on the sideline of an event at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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OpenAI Brings Voice Mode to ChatGPT on the Web

Extreme Tech

It's easier than ever to talk to OpenAI's best robot.

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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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This New York Startup Aims to Diagnose and Treat Dyslexia with the Help of A.I. Games

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Dyslexia affects up to one in five children globally and has been a persistent challenge for educators and families. A New York startup aims to approach this common learning disability differently.

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TeamGroup Unveils T-Force GA PRO PCIe 5.0 SSD With Speeds Up to 10,000MB/s

Extreme Tech

It features a graphene heatsink and data security isolation.

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AI Summaries Simplify Science, Boosting Public Understanding and Trust

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AI-generated summaries make scientific studies more accessible and improve public trust in scientists.

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Shares 360 Panorama of Gediz Vallis Before Moving On

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Curiosity spent a year studying the ancient stream bed.

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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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Amazon Investing an Additional $4 Billion in AI Firm Anthropic

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Amazon.com Inc. is boosting its stake in OpenAI rival Anthropic, builder of the Claude generative artificial intelligence software.

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SpaceX Starship Will Send Lunar Outpost's Rover to the Moon

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This is the second lunar rover deal for Starship, which has yet to reach orbit.

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AI harm is often behind the scenes and builds over time – a legal scholar explains how the law can adapt to respond

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As you scroll through your social media feed or let your favorite music app curate the perfect playlist, it may feel like artificial intelligence is …

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Windows 11 24H2's Latest Preview Delivers Taskbar, Interface Tweaks

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Windows 11’s latest preview update streamlines the taskbar, enhances the Start menu, and fixes lingering bugs.

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Relevance, Reach, Revenue: How to Turn Marketing Trends From Hype to High-Impact

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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LLM Siri: The wait is frustrating, but the privacy payoff will be worth it

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Bloomberg yesterday reported that Apple is currently testing an “LLM Siri” within the company, with the intention of announcing it as an iOS 19 feature.

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Samsung's 34" Odyssey QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Drops to $648.99

Extreme Tech

Comes with a 175Hz refresh rate and 0.03ms response time, heaven for gamers, now at $551 off.

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Beyond Moonshots: AI Agents Will Come To Earth In 2025

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As artificial intelligence (AI) matures, it’s moving beyond high-level experimentation and into hands-on roles within organizations.