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Slack is becoming an AI workplace: Here’s what that means for your job
Slack is evolving from a simple messaging app into an AI-powered workplace platform where digital agents work alongside humans, promising to transform how office work gets done — here’s what that means for your job.Read More
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Accelerating AI for financial services: Innovation at scale with NVIDIA and Microsoft
Always on the cusp of technology innovation, the financial services industry (FSI) is once again poised for wholesale transformation, this time with Generative AI. Yet the complexity of what’s required highlights the need for partnerships and platforms calibrated to fast-track solutions at scale to capitalize on AI-era change. Financial institutions have an unprecedented opportunity to…
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Event Store Changes Name to Kurrent, Raises $12M to Unify Streams and Databases
Event Store, a startup that aims to unify streaming data systems and databases, today announced today that it has changed its name to Kurrent to better reflect its goals. The company also announced $12 million in funding, as well as the launch of Kurrent Enterprise Edition. The gap between systems of record and streaming data…
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Salesforce drops Agentforce 2.0, brings reasoning AI to enterprise
Salesforce has unveiled Agentforce 2.0, introducing AI agents with human-like reasoning abilities that can autonomously handle complex business tasks, marking a major push into the emerging ‘digital labor’ market.Read More
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AI filmmakers take note! Runway launches talent platform to meet, greet, and get hired
The new Runway Talent Network is already home to dozens of AI-skilled artists and companies, including Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD studio.Read More
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CDC Confirms First US Case of Severe Bird Flu
This is the first case of H5N1 in the US this year that has sent a patient to the hospital.
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CMU Researchers Propose miniCodeProps: A Minimal AI Benchmark for Proving Code Properties
Recently, AI agents have demonstrated very promising developments in automating mathematical theorem proving and code correctness verification using tools like Lean. Such tools pair code with specifications and proofs to ensure it meets its intended requirements, offering very strong safeguards in safety-critical applications. Artificial Intelligence has demonstrated that it can enable the fundamental steps of…
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Microsoft AI Introduces SCBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Context Methods in Large Language Models
Long-context LLMs enable advanced applications such as repository-level code analysis, long-document question-answering, and many-shot in-context learning by supporting extended context windows ranging from 128K to 10M tokens. However, these capabilities come with computational efficiency and memory usage challenges during inference. Optimizations that leverage the Key-Value (KV) cache have emerged to address these issues, focusing on…
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AI software startups set to take over $12 trillion US services industry
Areas resistant to automation – like legal services and healthcare – are attracting novel applications that could even displace human workers, according to a Bank of America report.
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Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality
Botto is a ‘decentralized AI artist’ whose work has fetched millions. As AI improves, its creators may give it fewer guardrails to test its emerging personality.