Tom Hanks warns about AI ads as California passes new laws
Tom Hanks warned his fans not to be duped by ads using his likeness and voice to promote “wonder drugs”…
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The peak interest rate era is over. Here’s what investors are watching
The U.S. Federal Reserve is about to join the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of…
German far right hails ‘historic’ election victory in east
Germany’s anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany is on course for victory in Thuringia.
Asia-Pacific markets open mixed as investors look toward a packed week of economic data
Among the economic data coming out from major markets in the region are inflation data from South Korea and Australia’s…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sells more Bank of America, has now cut stake by nearly 15%
Warren Buffett has added around $6 billion to Berkshire Hathaway’s sizable cash pile this summer with a string of Bank of…
Israel union calls general strike after hostage deaths
Monday’s walkout comes as the government faces calls to get a deal to free the remaining Gaza captives.
Building Scalable Data Platforms
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Israel says bodies of six Gaza hostages recovered
The Israeli military says the captives were killed shortly before troops discovered them in the Rafah area.
What’s stalling China’s stock market recovery, according to KraneShares’ CIO
With investors fleeing Chinese stocks over growth concerns, the case for fiscal intervention could be stronger than ever.
UN agencies to start rollout of Gaza polio vaccines
The drive comes after the first confirmed case of the disease in 25 years was discovered in Gaza.
Russia pushes on key Ukraine city while Kyiv’s Kursk incursion slows
Russia is poised to assault Pokrovsk, a crucial supply and reinforcement hub for Ukraine’s frontline troops.
NSFW Character AI Pricing, Pros Cons, Features, Alternatives
NSFW Character AI is an online tool designed to generate and interact with AI-generated characters in explicit, adult-themed scenarios. It…
China and Philippines trade blame as ships collide
The crash is the latest incident in an escalating row over key zones in the South China Sea.
The sneaky way Big Tech is acquiring AI unicorns without buying the companies
Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others have been quietly poaching coveted talent from AI startups, without actually acquiring the companies.
Streamline Property Data Management: Advanced Data Extraction & Retrieval with Indexify
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Musk’s X banned in Brazil after disinformation row
The social media giant says it refused to comply with a judge’s order to appoint a legal representative.
How to Deal with Time Series Outliers
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Monitoring Amazon EventBridge Rules
Exploring Rule Metric Offerings and Suggesting Improvements Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Brazil’s top court orders nationwide suspension of Elon Musk’s X
Brazil’s supreme court on Friday ordered a nationwide suspension of Elon Musk’s social network X after the company vowed to…
Best practices for prompt engineering with Meta Llama 3 for Text-to-SQL use cases
With the rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI), many AWS customers are looking to take advantage of publicly available…
Implementing advanced prompt engineering with Amazon Bedrock
Despite the ability of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic human behavior, it often requires detailed instructions to generate high-quality…
Girl, 14, killed as Russian strike hits Kharkiv playground
The strikes, which left at least five other dead, also hit a 12-storey building in the eastern city.
The Ultimate Guide to Vision Transformers
A comprehensive guide to the Vision Transformer (ViT) that revolutionized computer vision. Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Warren Buffett leads Berkshire Hathaway to new heights at age 94
“It’s been a matter of a well thought out strategy prosecuted for seven decades with discipline, consistency, and unusual insight,”…
Nastia AI Pricing, Features, Details, Alternatives
Nastia AI is an advanced AI companion designed to provide users with emotional support, mental wellness coaching, and dynamic, personalized…
The Fed’s favorite inflation indicator increased 0.2% in July, as expected
The PCE price index was expected to rise 0.2% in July and 2.5% from a year ago, according to the…
The Future of AI in Education: Personalized Learning or Teacher Replacement?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a concept confined to science fiction. It’s here, and it’s revolutionizing every aspect of…
Alibaba jumps 4% in premarket after it completes three-year regulatory overhaul
Alibaba has completed a three-year regulatory “rectification” process following an antitrust fine it received for monopolistic practices in 2021, China’s…
OpenAI strikes security deal with US government, eyes $100 billion valuation
OpenAI has signed a first-of-its-kind agreement with the US government to collaborate on AI safety research and evaluation. The deal…
Euro zone inflation falls to 3-year low of 2.2%, in line with expectations
Economics polled by Reuters had forecast a decline to 2.2% in August, down from 2.6% in July.
Study: Transparency is often lacking in datasets used to train large language models
In order to train more powerful large language models, researchers use vast dataset collections that blend diverse data from thousands…
Europe markets nudge higher ahead of key inflation data
European markets inched higher on Friday, the last trading day of August, as investors looked to key inflation data from…
Harris defends White House record in high-stakes first interview
Harris said her “values have not changed” when asked about past policy positions in her first interview as a presidential…
Decision Tree Classifier, Explained: A Visual Guide with Code Examples for Beginners
CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM Branching out into machine learning’s favorite flowchart Decision Trees are everywhere in machine learning, beloved for their intuitive…
DAI#54 – Ethereal strawberries, Apple intelligence, and AI unleashed
Welcome to our weekly roundup of handmade AI news. This week, OpenAI gave us more vaporware to look forward to.…
A Comprehensive Introduction to Marketing Data Engineering
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The power of Pandas plots : backends
The Power of Pandas Plots: Backends Create interactive graphics from Pandas effortlessly Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash Index ContextBackends2.1. Matplotlib2.2. Plotly2.3. HvplotDiscussionA…
Causal Machine Learning for Customer Retention: a Practical Guide with Python
Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash An accessible guide to leveraging causal machine learning for optimizing client retention strategies Details of…
‘A sniper is right outside the house’: Inside Jenin’s sealed-off refugee camp
The camp has been sealed off by the Israeli army as part of a huge military operation in the occupied…
Asia markets climb as U.S. jobless and GDP numbers calm recessionary fears; investors assess Japan data
Jobless claims fell slightly compared to August, while U.S. second-quarter GDP was revised upwards to 3% from 2.8%.
Accelerate Generative AI Inference with NVIDIA NIM Microservices on Amazon SageMaker
This post is co-written with Eliuth Triana, Abhishek Sawarkar, Jiahong Liu, Kshitiz Gupta, JR Morgan and Deepika Padmanabhan from NVIDIA. …
Dell beats estimates as server sales soar 80%, riding AI wave
Dell said it recorded $3.1 billion of AI server sales in the quarter, up from $1.7 billion in the May…
Celebrating the final AWS DeepRacer League championship and road ahead
The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first autonomous racing league, open to everyone and powered by machine learning (ML).…
Affirm shares surge 34% and head for best day in three years after earnings beat
Affirm shares soared on Thursday after the provider of buy now, pay later loans reported better-than-expected quarterly results.
From Text to Networks: The Revolutionary Impact of LLMs on Knowledge Graphs
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Provide a personalized experience for news readers using Amazon Personalize and Amazon Titan Text Embeddings on Amazon Bedrock
News publishers want to provide a personalized and informative experience to their readers, but the short shelf life of news…
Identifying and Leveraging Leading Indicators for Time Series Forecasting
Using Granger Causality and SARIMAX Models Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash Introduction On a daily basis, companies are faced with decisions…
A visual explanation of LLM hyperparameters
Understand temperature, Top-k, Top-p, Frequency & Precense Penalty once and for all. Getting a handle on temperature, Top-k, Top-p, frequency, and…
LLMs, AI Agents, the Economics of Generative AI, and Other August Must-Reads
Feeling inspired to write your first TDS post? We’re always open to contributions from new authors. As many of our readers…
German inflation posts surprise drop to 2% in August
The harmonzied German consumer price index eased to 2% in August, the statistics office Destatis said Thursday.