In this tutorial, we explore how we use Daft as a high-performance, Python-native data engine to build an end-to-end analytical pipeline. We start by loading a real-world MNIST dataset, then progressively transform it using UDFs,…
Category: AI
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Google AI Releases a CLI Tool (gws) for Workspace APIs: Providing a Unified Interface for Humans and AI Agents
Integrating Google Workspace APIs—such as Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and Sheets—into applications and data pipelines typically requires writing boilerplate code to handle REST endpoints, pagination, and OAuth 2.0 flows. Google AI…
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‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix
Zoë Schiffer: Emil Michael, you should turn off your views on LinkedIn because people can see when they look at your phone.
Brian Barrett: Yeah, that’s a tip for Emil Michael if you’re listening. And then, if you listen to Uncanny Valley, which…
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OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still in the hot seat this week after his company signed a deal with the US military. OpenAI employees have criticized the move, which came after Anthropic’s roughly $200 million contract with the Pentagon imploded, and…
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AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare
Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to help healthcare organizations automate repetitive administrative tasks including appointment scheduling, documentation, and…
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ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns
Move over Sora 2, there’s a hot new AI video model in town.
In early February, ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.0, a major upgrade to its flagship video model, which had previously remained fairly obscure. Its powerful capabilities immediately…
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OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability
Additionally, there are improvements to visual understanding; it can now more carefully analyze images up to 10.24 million pixels, or up to a 6,000-pixel maximum dimension. OpenAI also claims responses from this model are…
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It’s official: The Pentagon has labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk
The Department of Defense has officially notified Anthropic leadership that the company and its products have been designated a supply chain risk, Bloomberg reports, citing a senior department official.
The designation comes after weeks of
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EXCLUSIVE: Luma launches creative AI agents powered by its new ‘Unified Intelligence’ models
AI video generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio. Luma Agents are powered by the startup’s Unified Intelligence family of models, with…
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions
On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new foundation model billed as “our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.” In addition to the standard version, GPT-5.4 is also available as a reasoning model (GPT-5.4…
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