Author: Hunter
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How Axis Security is using Xpander.AI’s agent platform to supercharge customer support ticket management
Through its partnership with xpander, Axis says it has managed to save thousands of hours monthly and grow its team sustainably.Read More Read more
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Tencent introduces ‘Hunyuan3D 2.0’ AI that speeds up 3D design from days to seconds
Tencent’s Hunyuan3D 2.0 transforms simple images into detailed 3D models in seconds, a breakthrough in AI technology that could reshape how industries create virtual content and revolutionize digital art production.Read More Read more
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Snowflake AI Research Open-Sources SwiftKV: A Novel AI Approach that Reduces Inference Costs of Meta Llama LLMs up to 75% on Cortex AI
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become pivotal in artificial intelligence, powering a variety of applications from chatbots to content generation tools. However, their deployment at scale presents notable challenges. High computational costs, latency, and energy consumption often limit their wider use. Organizations face the difficulty of balancing high throughput with reasonable operating expenses. Additionally, as… Read more
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Enhancing Lexicon-Based Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
Lexicon-based embeddings are one of the good alternatives to dense embeddings, yet they face numerous challenges that restrain their wider adoption. One key problem is tokenization redundancy, whereby subword tokenization breaks semantically equivalent tokens, causing inefficiencies and inconsistencies in embeddings. The other limitation of causal LLMs is unidirectional attention; this means tokens cannot fully leverage… Read more
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Create Portrait Mode Effect with Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2)
Have you ever admired how smartphone cameras isolate the main subject from the background, adding a subtle blur to the background based on depth? This “portrait mode” effect gives photographs a professional look by simulating shallow depth-of-field similar to DSLR cameras. In this tutorial, we’ll recreate this effect programmatically using open-source computer vision models, like… Read more
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2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: AI in the Spotlight
Companies had a mixed relationship with cybersecurity before generative AI landed on the scene in 2022. Now that companies are quickly adopting GenAI across their organizations, they’re finding themselves playing a game of security catch-up. That will make 2025 an eventful year, security experts predict. Identity resolution is tough enough under the best of circumstances.… Read more
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What CIOs should know when assessing Oracle 23ai
You’ve probably seen promotions and heard talk about Oracle 23ai. Its promise of AI-driven features and enhanced capabilities sound easy to access, but is it so linear? And is it the right move for your organization? We’ve outlined three need-to-knows for CIOs who are assessing whether Oracle Database 23ai is worth the hype. The path… Read more
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Broadcast TV Is Dying. Trump Is Threatening It Anyway
The slow fade of broadcast television—one of the few remaining free sources of news and entertainment—is about to accelerate, thanks to the policies of the new US presidential administration. Read more
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How to turn Ollama from a terminal tool into a browser-based AI with this free extension
Ollama allows you to use a local LLM for your artificial intelligence needs, but by default, it is a command-line-only tool. To avoid having to use the terminal, try this Firefox extension instead. Read more
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ServiceOps: Unleashing a new AI agent to reduce change failures in complex systems
Agentic AI promises to transform enterprise IT work. For CIOs and IT leaders, this means improved operational efficiency, data-driven decision making and accelerated innovation. Agentic AI’s ability to assess changing conditions in service operations (ServiceOps) and proactively recommend steps to reduce change failures sets the technology apart from traditional AI and automation tools. But before… Read more