Trump’s Trade War Is Strengthening China’s Soft Power
President Trump’s tariffs are boosting China’s global image even as they threaten to decimate its economy.
Leveraging silicon photonics for scalable and sustainable AI hardware
The emergence of AI has profoundly transformed numerous industries. Driven by deep learning technology and Big Data, AI requires significant processing power for training its models. While the existing AI infrastructure relies on graphical processing units (GPUs), the substantial processing demands and energy expenses associated with its operation remain key challenges. Adopting a more efficient …
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2000s AnalogCore v3 – Flux LoRA update
Hey everyone! I’ve just rolled out V3 of my 2000s AnalogCore LoRA for Flux, and I’m excited to share the upgrades: https://civitai.com/models/1134895?modelVersionId=1640450 What’s New Expanded Footage References: The dataset now includes VHS, VHS-C, and Hi8 examples, offering a broader range of analog looks. Enhanced Timestamps: More authentic on-screen date/time stamps and overlays. Improved Face Variety: …
The State of AI in Retail Marketing 2025
Retail is ahead of the AI adoption curve in 2025, but gaps and opportunities remain. Get exclusive insights for retailers from Jasper’s latest research.
How to Perform Scikit-learn Hyperparameter Optimization with Optuna
Optuna is a machine learning framework specifically designed for automating hyperparameter optimization , that is, finding an externally fixed setting of machine learning model hyperparameters that optimizes the model’s performance.
5 Reasons Why Traditional Machine Learning is Alive and Well in the Age of LLMs
Nowadays, everyone across AI and related communities talks about generative AI models, particularly the large language models (LLMs) behind widespread applications like ChatGPT, as if they have completely taken over the field of machine learning.
Ferret-UI 2: Mastering Universal User Interface Understanding Across Platforms
Building a generalist model for user interface (UI) understanding is challenging due to various foundational issues, such as platform diversity, resolution variation, and data limitation. In this paper, we introduce Ferret-UI 2, a multimodal large language model (MLLM) designed for universal UI understanding across a wide range of platforms, including iPhone, Android, iPad, Webpage, and …
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Implement human-in-the-loop confirmation with Amazon Bedrock Agents
Agents are revolutionizing how businesses automate complex workflows and decision-making processes. Amazon Bedrock Agents helps you accelerate generative AI application development by orchestrating multi-step tasks. Agents use the reasoning capability of foundation models (FMs) to break down user-requested tasks into multiple steps. In addition, they use the developer-provided instruction to create an orchestration plan and …
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Delivering an application-centric, AI-powered cloud for developers and operators
Today we’re unveiling new AI capabilities to help cloud developers and operators at every step of the application lifecycle. We are doing this by: Putting applications at the center of your cloud experience, abstracting away the infrastructure complexities of the traditional cloud model. Now you can design, observe, secure, and optimize at the application level, …
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Market Madness, Manufacturing, and the Liberation Day of It All
Donald Trump’s tariff announcements are roiling the markets. On this week’s special episode of Uncanny Valley, we break it all down.