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Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.
Last month, Sierra launched Ghostwriter, an agent designed to build other agents. With this “agent as a service” tool, the startup intends to replace traditional click-based web applications with natural language. Users simply describe what they need, prompting Ghostwriter to autonomously create and
The two tech giants are looking to co-develop custom chips, at a time when demand for CPUs is high due to a growing global shortage.
Anthropic said this week that it limited the release of its newest model, dubbed Mythos, because it is too capable of finding security exploits in software relied upon by users around the world. Are real cybersecurity concerns a cover for a bigger problem at the frontier lab?
The app was ranking No. 57 on the App Store just before Meta AI's new model launched. Now it's No. 5 — and rising.
After falling victim to a hacker, Mercor is facing lawsuits and reportedly losing big-name customers.
When I started digging into desalination technology for a new story, I couldn’t help but obsess over the numbers. I’d known on some level that desalination—pulling salt out of seawater to produce fresh water—was an increasingly important technology, especially in water-stressed regions including the
ChatGPT had reportedly been used to plan the attack that killed two and injured five at Florida State University last April. The family of one victim has said that they plan to sue OpenAI over the incident.
A rare warm spell in January melted enough snow to uncover Cornell University’s newest athletic field, built for field hockey. Months before, it was a meadow teeming with birds and bugs; now it’s more than an acre of synthetic turf roughly the color of the felt on a pool table, almost digital in its
OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for: a $100/month plan. Previously, subscriptions jumped from $20 to $200 per month.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over. In 2001, Americans installed just over 7 million square meters of synthetic turf. By 2024, that nu
Why do grand productivity promises never actually deliver? Is every product just bad, or is there something else hiding in the numbers? The post The Arithmetic of Productivity Boosts: Why Does a “40% Increase in Productivity” Never Actually Work? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How to optimize context, a precious finite resource for AI agents The post Context Engineering for AI Agents: A Deep Dive appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How a hybrid PyMuPDF + GPT-4 Vision pipeline replaced £8,000 in manual engineering effort, and why the latest models weren’t the answer The post From 4 Weeks to 45 Minutes: Designing a Document Extraction System for 4,700+ PDFs appeared first on Towards Data Science.
A practical system design combining open-source Bayesian MMM and GenAI for transparent, vendor independent marketing analytics insights. The post Democratizing Marketing Mix Models (MMM) with Open Source and Gen AI appeared first on Towards Data Science.
A clear mental model and a practical foundation you can build on The post Grounding Your LLM: A Practical Guide to RAG for Enterprise Knowledge Bases appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Learn how to effectively present product ideas by building MVPs with coding agents The post How to Use Claude Code to Build a Minimum Viable Product appeared first on Towards Data Science.
A low-budget way to get token-level uncertainty estimation for neural machine translations The post Detecting Translation Hallucinations with Attention Misalignment appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Rocket's new AI platform combines strategy, product building, and competitive intelligence, aiming to move beyond code generation.