U.S. Steel shares plunge on report White House preparing to block Nippon Steel takeover
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, said U.S. Steel “should remain American-owned and American-operated.”
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Boy, 14, arrested after four killed in US school shooting
Colt Gray arrested after deaths of two pupils and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.
Build an ecommerce product recommendation chatbot with Amazon Bedrock Agents
Many ecommerce applications want to provide their users with a human-like chatbot that guides them to choose the best product…
Girl ‘killed inside home’ as Israeli West Bank operation continues
Health officials say 30 Palestinians have been killed since a major Israeli operation began a week ago.
How Thomson Reuters Labs achieved AI/ML innovation at pace with AWS MLOps services
This post is co-written by Danilo Tommasina and Andrei Voinov from Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters (TR) is one of the…
Peer Review Demystified: What, Why, and How
Learnings as an AI & Robotics Associate Editor with 100 Peer Reviews Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash I will share what…
US accuses Russia of 2024 election interference
Two members of Russian state broadcaster RT accused of running $10m operation to push Kremlin propaganda.
Your Pathway to Success: How You Can Land a Machine Learning and Data Science Internship
Advice and tips from a data scientist who landed two internships in a year Continue reading on Towards Data Science…
Automated Prompt Engineering: The Definitive Hands-On Guide
Learn how to automate prompt engineering and unlock significant performance improvements in your LLM workload Continue reading on Towards Data…
Sweden’s Volvo Cars scraps plan to only sell electric vehicles by 2030
The announcement means Volvo Cars follows in the footsteps of other industry players in scaling back its EV ambitions.
OpenAI Japan CEO talks about “GPT Next” with a reported 100x more power than GPT-4
At the KDDI SUMMIT 2024 in Japan, OpenAI Japan CEO Tadao Nagasaki hinted at the company’s next-generation AI model, named…
Clearview AI fined $33m for facial recognition image scraping
Clearview AI provides facial recognition services to law enforcement and other government agencies but, a Dutch data watchdog says its…
Volkswagen faces tense townhall as workers battle possible plant closures
Management at German automotive giant Volkswagen is set to go toe-to-toe with workers on Wednesday as leaders are set to…
Monte Carlo Methods for Solving Reinforcement Learning Problems
Dissecting “Reinforcement Learning” by Richard S. Sutton with Custom Python Implementations, Episode III Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Two killed in fresh strikes on Ukraine – governor
The Ukrainian military says the whole country has been placed on alert.
How I Used Clustering to Improve Chunking and Build Better RAGs
It’s both fast and cost-effective Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Approximating Stochastic Functions with Multivariate Outputs
A novel method for training generative machine learning models Pin Movement Training — Image by Author You can reproduce the experiments in this article…
Nikkei plunges over 3%, leading losses in Asia after Wall Street plummets on weak U.S. data
Investors in Asia will be watching for any spillover from the U.S. tech sell off, led by Nvidia with a…
Diving Deeper with Structured Outputs
Helping enhance your understanding and optimal usage of structured outputs and LLMs Figure 1 — steps that are executed both explicitly, as well…
Build a generative AI image description application with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock and AWS CDK
Generating image descriptions is a common requirement for applications across many industries. One common use case is tagging images with…
Here Comes Mamba: The Selective State Space Model
Part 3 — Towards Mamba State Space Models for Images, Videos and Time Series Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Ukraine says soldiers among 51 killed in Poltava missile attack
President Zelensky says two Russian missiles struck a military training institute.
Use LangChain with PySpark to process documents at massive scale with Amazon SageMaker Studio and Amazon EMR Serverless
Harnessing the power of big data has become increasingly critical for businesses looking to gain a competitive edge. From deriving…
Why Personalization Programs Fail
Hard Truths and Paths Forward Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Elon Musk reveals xAI’s “Colossus,” probably the most powerful supercomputer in the world
Elon Musk’s startup xAI has revealed its latest creation: a supercomputer named Colossus. This massive AI training system currently boasts…
Mongolia was meant to arrest Russia’s President Putin last night. It didn’t, and now it’s in trouble
Mongolia, as a member of the International Criminal Court, should have arrested the Russian president as soon as he landed…
Uneven Scoring in Multi-Event Athletics
Patterns in performance and reward in the heptathlon and decathlon Image by author with DALL-E 3 While watching the 2024 Olympic…
Information in Noise
Two Techniques for Visualizing Many Time-Series at Once Imagine this: you’ve got a bunch of line charts, and you’re confident that…
The school hostage massacre that exposed Putin’s weakness
The roots of Putinism were already evident after the massacre of 334 people in a school in Russia in 2004.
Subway Route Data Extraction with Overpass API: A Step-by-Step Guide
Simplify Geodata Extraction from OpenStreetMaps via the Overpass API Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Coinbase CEO reveals first AI-to-AI crypto transaction
Brian Armstrong, CEO of popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, says his company witnessed the first AI-to-AI crypto transaction. The idea…
Volkswagen braces for showdown with unions after warning of possible German plant closures
Volkswagen’s management is expected to lay out their cost-cutting plans to about 18,000 workers at a town hall meeting in…
Use R to build Clinical Flowchart with shinyCyJS
Customizable R package for Graph / Network visualization Clinical Flowchart A Clinical (Trial) Flowchart is a visual representation of each…
UK defends partial Israel arm sales ban
Defence Secretary John Healey responds to criticism by saying the UK remains a “staunch ally” of Israel.
Putin welcomed in Mongolia despite ICC arrest warrant
The Russian leader’s visit to the ICC-member state is seen as a show of defiance against the Hague.
Starlink in Brazil’s crosshairs as spat over Elon Musk’s X escalates
The confrontation between Brazil and Musk continues to escalate over the country’s decision to block his social media company X.
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Deep Dive
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a pivotal part of modern technology, shaping everything from healthcare to entertainment. As AI systems…
Rolls-Royce shares rebound 4.6% after engine issue grounds Cathay Pacific flights
Cathay Pacific has identified an engine component failure in 15 of its A350 aircraft, a long-range, wide-body which uses Rolls-Royce…
Illegal outpost settlers rapidly seizing land in West Bank, BBC finds
The number of illegal outposts has risen in the past five years to 196, BBC analysis has found.
JPMorgan economist says China’s housing market crash is still not over yet
China’s troubled housing market could see prolonged softness, as a slew of government stimulus and supportive measures have not been…
Asia-Pacific markets mostly rise after South Korea’s inflation rate hits 42-month low
South Korea’s headline inflation for August eased to 2% form 2.6%, its lowest level since March 2021
Netanyahu asks ‘forgiveness’ over hostage deaths as protests continue
It comes as Hamas said more hostages could be “returned to their families in shrouds” if a ceasefire isn’t reached.
AI cameras to catch more UK drivers using phones and not wearing seatbelts
Starting September 3rd, Greater Manchester in the UK will become the latest region to deploy AI cameras to automatically detect…
UK suspends some arms export licenses to Israel
British Foreign Minister David Lammy said Monday that the country would immediately suspend some arms export licenses to Israel.
Netanyahu not doing enough on Gaza hostages, says Biden
US president says he is ‘very close’ to presenting proposal to free remaining hostages as Israelis protest over latest deaths
Training AI Models on CPU
Revisiting CPU for ML in an Era of GPU Scarcity Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash The recent successes in AI are…
Volkswagen warns of plant closures in Germany, citing ‘extremely tense’ situation
Volkswagen on Monday warned it will no longer be able to rule out plant closures in Germany.
Scholz urges firewall against far right after election win
The German Chancellor called the results of Sunday’s state elections “worrying” and “bitter”.
Huawei looks to upstage Apple with product launch just hours after expected iPhone 16 unveiling
It’s unclear what Huawei plans to launch, but the company’s consumer and automotive technology executive Richard Yu, called it an…
Nationwide strikes erupt in Israel as hostage deaths kindle pressure for cease-fire deal
Israel’s largest labor union called a general strike on Monday, amid rising pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to clinch a…