Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X
The fire department said a room with batteries contributed to the blaze at a building leased by Elon Musk’s X near Portland, Oregon.
Could AI understand emotions better than we do?
Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of suggesting appropriate behavior in emotionally charged situations? A team put six generative AIs — including ChatGPT — to the test using emotional intelligence (EI) assessments typically designed for humans. The outcome: these AIs outperformed average human performance and were even able to generate new tests in record time. These …
Researchers use AI to ‘see’ beyond a structure’s facade in Google Street View
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a method that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and Google Maps’ Street View images to glean more detailed information about buildings—such as their age and floor area.
Why Context is the Ultimate Differentiator for AI in Marketing
Context is the key to making AI work in marketing. Here’s why generic tools fall short and contextual AI drives better results.
10 Python One-Liners for Feature Selection Like a Pro
In many data analysis processes, including machine learning , data preprocessing is an important stage before further analysis or model training and evaluation.
Humanoid Policy ~ Human Policy
Training manipulation policies for humanoid robots with diverse data enhances their robustness and generalization across tasks and platforms. However, learning solely from robot demonstrations is labor-intensive, requiring expensive tele-operated data collection which is difficult to scale. This paper investigates a more scalable data source, egocentric human demonstrations, to serve as cross-embodiment training data for robot …
FM-Intent: Predicting User Session Intent with Hierarchical Multi-Task Learning
Authors: Sejoon Oh, Moumita Bhattacharya, Yesu Feng, Sudarshan Lamkhede, Ko-Jen Hsiao, and Justin Basilico Motivation Recommender systems have become essential components of digital services across e-commerce, streaming media, and social networks [1, 2]. At Netflix, these systems drive significant product and business impact by connecting members with relevant content at the right time [3, 4]. While …
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Integrate Amazon Bedrock Agents with Slack
As companies increasingly adopt generative AI applications, AI agents capable of delivering tangible business value have emerged as a crucial component. In this context, integrating custom-built AI agents within chat services such as Slack can be transformative, providing businesses with seamless access to AI assistants powered by sophisticated foundation models (FMs). After an AI agent …
Introducing AI.GENERATE_TABLE: creating structured data from gen AI models in BigQuery
The explosion of digital content from social media, smartphones, and other sources has created a massive amount of unstructured data like images, videos, and documents. To help you analyze this data, BigQuery is connected with Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s powerful AI platform, so you can use advanced AI models, like Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, to understand …
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At Google I/O, Sergey Brin makes surprise appearance — and declares Google will build the first AGI
Google co-founder Sergey Brin makes surprise appearance at Google I/O, declaring “Gemini will be the very first AGI,” revealing philosophical tensions with DeepMind CEO Hassabis who urges scientific caution in the high-stakes AI race.Read More