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King’s Business School: How AI is transforming problem-solving

AI News

A new study by researchers at King’s Business School and Wazoku has revealed that AI is transforming global problem-solving. The report found that nearly half (46%) of Wazoku’s 700,000-strong network of problem solvers had utilised generative AI (GenAI) to work on innovative ideas over the past year. This network – known as the Wazoku Crowd – comprises a diverse group of professionals including scientists, pharmacists, engineers, PhD students, CEOs, start-ups, and business leaders.

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Extracting Training Data From Fine-Tuned Stable Diffusion Models

Unite.AI

New research from the US presents a method to extract significant portions of training data from fine-tuned models. This could potentially provide legal evidence in cases where an artist's style has been copied, or where copyrighted images have been used to train generative models of public figures, IP-protected characters, or other content. From the new paper: original training images are seen in the row above, and the extracted images are depicted in the row below.

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Microsoft’s Drasi: An Open-Source Tool for Efficient Change Management Systems

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Today, data systems evolve quickly, demanding efficient monitoring and response. Real-time change detection is essential to keeping systems stable, preventing failures, and ensuring business continuity. Microsoft’s open-source tool, Drasi, addresses this need by effortlessly detecting, monitoring, and responding to data changes across platforms, including relational and graph databases.

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Microdosing on Low-Hallucinogenic AI

Unite.AI

The Agentforce is here. Salesforce wrapped another edition of its annual Dreamforce conference this September. Joining the swarms of attendees — and the swarms of Waymos shuttling them around an extra-cleaned San Francisco — we each now have a swarm of agents at our fingertips to transform work, neatly controlled within the Salesforce ecosystem. While Dreamforce is always a spectacle for its marketing-honed pronouncements of the future, this year provided an unexpectedly compelling vision of how

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Precision in Motion: Why Process Optimization Is the Future of Manufacturing

Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management

In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.

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Python in Android: Bringing Python Power to Mobile Apps

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Imagine you’re an experienced Python developer who has mastered automating tasks, building web apps, and even experimenting with machine learning. Now, you’re interested in mobile app development but just imagining learning a new language such as Java or Kotlin seems overwhelming. Imagine I told you that you don’t have to begin from square one. […] The post Python in Android: Bringing Python Power to Mobile Apps appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Foxconn to Build Taiwan’s Fastest AI Supercomputer With NVIDIA Blackwell

NVIDIA

NVIDIA and Foxconn are building Taiwan’s largest supercomputer, marking a milestone in the island’s AI advancement. The project, Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center, revealed Tuesday at Hon Hai Tech Day , will be built around NVIDIA’s groundbreaking Blackwell architecture and feature the GB200 NVL72 platform, which includes a total of 64 racks and 4,608 Tensor Core GPUs.

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Dennis Ledenkof, CEO & Founder of roboSculptor – Interview Series

Unite.AI

Dennis Ledenkof is the CEO and founder of roboSculptor the roboSculptor , an autonomous platform for body treatments developed by health industry experts and powered by AI. It ideally fits the longevity concept and delivers precise, safe, and comfortable touchless wellness treatments. Can you share the journey that led you to create roboSculptor? I came up with the idea to build a robotic body therapy system in 2019 during my trip to the US.

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Injured Deep-Sea Jellies Fuse Bodies Together In Animal Kingdom First

Extreme Tech

The jellies appear to combine their stomachs and nervous systems in a form of fusion not seen in any other species.

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How IBM and NASA Are Redefining Geospatial AI to Tackle Climate Challenges

Unite.AI

As climate change fuels increasingly severe weather events like floods, hurricanes, droughts, and wildfires, traditional disaster response methods are struggling to keep up. While advances in satellite technology, drones, and remote sensors allow for better monitoring, access to this vital data remains limited to a few organizations, leaving many researchers and innovators without the tools they need.

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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in Sales

Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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Announcing GA of Provider Usage Analytics

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We are announcing the General Availability of Provider Usage Analytics for Databricks Marketplace providers. This feature lets you analyze lead generation and product.

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Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Had an Accomplice, Study Suggests

Extreme Tech

A second impact crater from the same time period as the Chicxulub crater shows the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't working alone.

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LOONG: A New Autoregressive LLM-based Video Generator That can Generate Minute-Long Videos

Marktechpost

Video Generation by LLMs is an emerging field with a promising growth trajectory. While Autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled in generating coherent and lengthy sequences of tokens in natural language processing, their application in video generation has been limited to short videos of a few seconds. To address this, researchers have introduced Loong, an auto-regressive LLM-based video generator capable of generating videos that span minutes.

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Record Quakes at Washington's 'High Threat' Volcano Rattling Seismologists

Extreme Tech

While researchers at the US Geological Survey don't believe an eruption is imminent, six earthquakes in a single month isn't something to sneeze at.

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AI-Enabled Robotics Software for Manufacturing Automation: Speeding Time-to-Value

Robots are a cornerstone of a smart factory, automating a wide range of manufacturing tasks that are monotonous, physically straining, or even hazardous. However, real-world robotics deployments have not lived up to the revolutionary potential the industrial sector had originally envisioned. Robot implementations are typically confined to specific applications, carry high costs, and are time-consuming.

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From Fixed to Random Designs: Unveiling the Hidden Factor Behind Modern Machine Learning ML Phenomena

Marktechpost

Modern machine learning (ML) phenomena such as double descent and benign overfitting have challenged long-standing statistical intuitions, confusing many classically trained statisticians. These phenomena contradict fundamental principles taught in introductory data science courses, especially overfitting and the bias-variance tradeoff. The striking performance of highly overparameterized ML models trained to zero loss contradicts conventional wisdom about model complexity and generalization.

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Apple M4-Powered MacBook Pro Appears in Geekbench

Extreme Tech

The unannounced machine is noticeably speedier than its predecessor.

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Dentons’ Rowena Rix On The Firm’s AI Strategy

Artificial Lawyer

Dentons has done plenty with genAI already, such as developing one of the first internal LLM-based tools for general legal use, Fleet AI, but where is it now, and what is its strategy for this tech…

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Nvidia's CEO Is Now Worth More Than Intel's Market Cap

Extreme Tech

He could buy Intel, theoretically, and still have over $10 billion left for some renovation work.

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New Research-Backed Strategies to Empower Managers as Culture & Engagement Leaders

Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture

When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.

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15 Use Cases of ChatGPT for Recruiters

Marktechpost

Recruitment is a dynamic process that has undergone tremendous transformation in recent years, with the adoption of new technologies playing a crucial role. One of the latest tools revolutionizing the recruitment landscape is OpenAI’s ChatGPT. With its advanced natural language processing capabilities, ChatGPT offers recruiters numerous opportunities to streamline their processes, improve candidate experiences, and make better-informed decisions.

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SSD Capacity Projected to Double by 2029

Extreme Tech

We could have affordable 8TB SSDs in just a few years.

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Exploring In-Context Reinforcement Learning in LLMs with Sparse Autoencoders

Marktechpost

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable in-context learning capabilities across various domains, including translation, function learning, and reinforcement learning. However, the underlying mechanisms of these abilities, particularly in reinforcement learning (RL), remain poorly understood. Researchers are attempting to unravel how LLMs learn to generate actions that maximize future discounted rewards through trial and error, given only a scalar reward signal.

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Space Probe Maps Mercury's Magnetic Field in Just 30 Minutes

Extreme Tech

The BepiColombo mission won't be in Mercury's orbit for several years, but it was able to take some measurements during last year's flyby.

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The AI Productivity Shift: Whats Working & Whats Next

85% of teams are using AI, but only 27% report clear productivity gains. Why? Because most are still stuck in surface-level adoption. In this expert panel, top voices in workplace strategy and remote innovation—Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Phil Kirschner, Nadia Harris, and Eryn Peters—reveal how leading teams are cutting digital noise, training AI to fit their workflows, and building cultures that embrace change.

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Build a generative AI Slack chat assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Despite the proliferation of information and data in business environments, employees and stakeholders often find themselves searching for information and struggling to get their questions answered quickly and efficiently. This can lead to productivity losses, frustration, and delays in decision-making. A generative AI Slack chat assistant can help address these challenges by providing a readily available, intelligent interface for users to interact with and obtain the information they need.

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Revisiting Recurrent Neural Networks RNNs: Minimal LSTMs and GRUs for Efficient Parallel Training

Marktechpost

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been foundational in machine learning for addressing various sequence-based problems, including time series forecasting and natural language processing. RNNs are designed to handle sequences of varying lengths by maintaining an internal state that captures information across time steps. However, these models often struggle with vanishing and exploding gradient issues, which reduce their effectiveness for longer sequences.

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How well do you know your hypervisor and firmware?

IBM Journey to AI blog

IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is designed for secured cloud computing, and several features of our platform planning, development and operations help ensure that design. However, because security in the cloud is typically a shared responsibility between the cloud service provider and the customer, it’s essential for you to fully understand the layers of security that your workloads run on here with us.

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What Happens When Diffusion and Autoregressive Models Merge? This AI Paper Unveils Generation with Unified Diffusion

Marktechpost

Generative models based on diffusion processes have shown great promise in transforming noise into data, but they face key challenges in flexibility and efficiency. Existing diffusion models typically rely on fixed data representations (e.g., pixel-basis) and uniform noise schedules, limiting their ability to adapt to the structure of complex, high-dimensional datasets.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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Early Prime Day Deal: Acer Swift Go 14 Intel Evo Laptop, a $1,000 Machine, Now $699.99

Extreme Tech

Now at 30% off, this AI-ready ultrabook saves you $300.

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NVIDIA AI Introduces FACTS: A Comprehensive Framework for Enterprise RAG-Based Chatbots

Marktechpost

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, enterprise chatbots are becoming essential tools to enhance employee productivity by providing quick access to organizational knowledge. However, the journey to build effective, scalable, and secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems is fraught with challenges. NVIDIA’s recent research offers a comprehensive solution with the FACTS framework, addressing issues such as content freshness, architecture, cost efficiency, testing, and secur

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VQAScore: Evaluating and Improving Vision-Language Generative Models

ML @ CMU

Introduction Text-to-image/video models like Midjourney, Imagen3, Stable Diffusion, and Sora can generate aesthetic, photo-realistic visuals from natural language prompts, for example, given “ Several giant woolly mammoths approach, treading through a snowy meadow… ”, Sora generates: But how do we know if these models generate what we desire? For example, if the prompt is “ The brown dog chases the black dog around a tree ”, how can we tell if the model shows the dogs “ chasing around a tree ” r

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