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Image Classification with JAX, Flax, and Optax : A Step-by-Step Guide

Analytics Vidhya

In this tutorial, you will learn how to construct iterate update and train a CNN model using JAX, Flax, and Optax on the MNIST dataset. This tutorial starts from how to set up the environment and preprocess the data to how to define the CNN structure and the final step is to test the model. […] The post Image Classification with JAX, Flax, and Optax : A Step-by-Step Guide appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Banks bet on AI to deliver digital efficiencies

CIO Business Intelligence

In the face of shrinking budgets and rising customer expectations, banks are increasingly relying on AI, according to a recent study by consulting firm Publicis Sapiens. The Global Banking Benchmark Study 2024 , which surveyed more than 1,000 executives from the banking sector worldwide, found that almost a third (32%) of banks’ budgets for customer experience transformation is now spent on AI, machine learning, and generative AI.

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Magic Behind Anthropic’s Contextual RAG for AI Retrieval

Analytics Vidhya

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is tasked with navigating and synthesizing vast amounts of information, the efficiency and accuracy of retrieval methods are paramount. Anthropic, a leading AI research company, has introduced a groundbreaking approach called Contextual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). This method marries traditional retrieval techniques with innovative tweaks, significantly enhancing retrieval accuracy and relevance. […] The post Magic Behind Anthropic’s C

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Sólo el 21% de las empresas se apoya en la tecnología para diseñar estrategias de sostenibilidad 

CIO Business Intelligence

A pesar de que el 84% de las organizaciones considera de importancia “estratégica” sus objetivos de sostenibilidad, sólo el 21% de ellas se apoya en la tecnología para reducir su huella medioambiental y configurar su estrategia global en este ámbito. En el caso de las organizaciones españolas, la cifra decrece hasta el situarse en un 18%. Así se desprende del Barómetro Global de Sostenibilidad desarrollado por Ecosystm a cargo de Kyndryl y Microsoft.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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NVIDIA’s Nemotron-4-340B Assesses the Creativity of Gemini and GPT-4

Analytics Vidhya

The rise of large language models (LLMs) like Gemini and GPT-4 has transformed creative writing and dialogue generation, enabling machines to produce text that closely mirrors human creativity. These models are valuable tools for storytelling, content creation, and interactive systems, but evaluating the quality of their outputs remains challenging.

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Build a strong data foundation for AI-driven business growth

CIO Business Intelligence

In the quest to reach the full potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), there’s no substitute for readily accessible, high-quality data. If the data volume is insufficient, it’s impossible to build robust ML algorithms. If the data quality is poor, the generated outcomes will be useless. Data silos, lack of standardization, and uncertainty over compliance with privacy regulations can limit accessibility and compromise data quality, but modern data management can overc

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Prosegur se apoya en la IA para optimizar y agilizar los procesos de selección

CIO Business Intelligence

Desde su constitución en el año 1976, la compañía de seguridad Prosegur ha basado su crecimiento y evolución en una estrategia sustentada en tres pilares fundamentales: la innovación, su equipo humano y una orientación al cliente. Pilares que han llevado a la marca a estar presente en 34 países con una plantilla de más de 170.000 empleados —cerca de 34.000 en España— en sus diferentes áreas de negocio:  Security, Cash, Alarms, AVOS Tech y Cipher.

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Guide to BART (Bidirectional & Autoregressive Transformer)

Analytics Vidhya

BART is truly one of a kind in the ever-changing realm of NLP, as a strong model that has drastically changed the way we think of text generation and understanding. BART, which is short for Bidirectional and Autoregressive Transformer, takes the best aspects of both sides of the transformer architectures into one single view. In […] The post Guide to BART (Bidirectional & Autoregressive Transformer) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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AI platforms driving business transformation in the UAE: insights from industry experts

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, AI platforms are playing a pivotal role in reshaping industries and driving business transformation. As businesses across the UAE embark on their digital journeys, AI has emerged as a key enabler, streamlining operations, enhancing decision-making, and fostering innovation. In a recent fireside chat featuring leading industry experts from the tech sector, attendees gained valuable insights into how AI platforms can be leveraged to create new growth opport

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OpenAI Swarm vs Microsoft Magentic-One: Which is Better for Multi-Agent Systems?

Analytics Vidhya

The field of multi-agent systems (MAS) in artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing with new frameworks enhancing collaborative and automated decision-making. Two new entries in this space are OpenAI’s Swarm and Microsoft’s Magentic-One, both of which offer different approaches to the development and deployment of multi-agent systems.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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From cloud spend to cloud value: The power of Cloud Unit Economics

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud can unlock new capabilities to strategically drive the business. As a result, organisations are continually investing in cloud to re-invent existing business models and leapfrog their competitors. As cloud spending rises due to AI and other emerging technologies, Cloud FinOps has become essential for managing, forecasting, and optimising costs.

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A Guide to Data Analysis in Python with DuckDB

KDnuggets

Learn how to perform data analysis in Python using DuckDB.

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AI Isn't Taking Over, It's Augmenting Decision-Making

Dataiku

It's a Saturday afternoon, and I'm at a kid's birthday party. The obligatory small talk is in full swing, and after discussing whose kid belongs to whom and comparing notes on cupcake flavors, I hear the inevitable question, "So, what do you do?

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Develop the Right AI Skills for Job Security

KDnuggets

Don’t get left behind - start learning AI with 5-course tracks by DataCamp with 50% on Black Friday deal!

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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The ‘Great IT Rebrand’: Restructuring IT for business success

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditionally viewed as rock-solid and steady, the insurance industry is not exactly associated with taking big risks. But Florida-based Brown & Brown Insurance put old-school conventions to the test when it joined a growing cadre of leading organizations remodeling IT to reflect the pervasive role of technology in business transformation. Under Executive Vice President and CIO Gray Nester, BBIN traded up the legacy IT moniker for the modern-day Technology Solutions Group brand.

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Exploring Python’s Ellipsis (…) : More than Just Syntax Sugar

KDnuggets

Ever wondered what the three dots (.) in Python are used for? Discover how this powerful operator can simplify your code!

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En el camino hacia la eficiencia digital los bancos apuestan por la IA

CIO Business Intelligence

Ante la reducción de las partidas presupuestarias y el aumento de las expectativas de los clientes, los bancos recurren cada vez más a la inteligencia artificial (IA) , según un estudio reciente de la consultora Publicis Sapiens. El Global Banking Benchmark Study 2024 , en el que se encuestó a más de 1000 ejecutivos del sector bancario de todo el mundo, concluyó que casi un tercio (32%) de los presupuestos de los bancos para la transformación de la experiencia del cliente se destina actualment

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The Importance of Reducing Your Digital Shadow as a Data Scientist

KDnuggets

This is the tool you need to protect yourself and your organization.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Beyond the checkbox: Building confidence in your DR strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Disaster recovery (DR) is often no more than a checkbox item for IT, because the team spends so much time fighting fires and working to advance new, mission-critical implementations. To that point, DR didn’t make CIOs’ top five priorities in the Foundry State of the CIO 2024 survey. So, given the lack of focused attention on DR, it should come as no surprise that many CIOs lack confidence that their system will enable them to recover quickly in the event of a disaster or a ransomware attack, mak

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4 Types of Maps: Pin Drops, Heat Maps, Tile Grids, and Overlays

Depict Data Studio

During Office Hours, Sue Griffey walked us through the pros and cons of 3 different mapping approaches: Pin drop maps (made for free with Google) Heat maps (made with Excel) Tile grid maps (also made in Excel) Overlay maps (tile grids, icon stacks, or waffles on top of traditional geographic maps) In this video, you’ll learn about the challenges of each approach.

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Trasformazione digitale data-driven: come costruire una strategia di successo grazie al CIO “innovatore

CIO Business Intelligence

Le imprese europee spenderanno 1,18 trilioni di dollari in IT nel 2024 (+11,1% rispetto al 2023) e 1,28 trilioni nel 2025 (+8,7%), secondo le più recenti stime di Gartner [in inglese]. I CIO europei continueranno a investire in servizi di cloud pubblico (123 miliardi di dollari previsti nel 2024) e in cybersicurezza (47 miliardi), e il cloud verrà usato anche per sostenere i nuovi carichi di lavoro dell’intelligenza artificiale e dell’AI generativa.

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Low-Code/No-Code Analytics Design Engenders Solution Agility!

Smarten

Look for Analytics with Low-Code/No-Code Technology! The advent of low-code, no-code app and software development has enabled rapid, innovative changes to all types of development projects and that new environment is evident in Modern Business Intelligence (BI) and Augmented Analytics products and solutions. Here are some important predictions and statistics from technology research organizations: Gartner predicts that 75% of new software solutions will incorporate a low-code approach to develop

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Cosentino afianza su estrategia de innovación digital con la iniciativa ‘Cantera Tecnológica’

CIO Business Intelligence

La de Cosentino, dice Álvaro de la Haza, vicepresidente ejecutivo del grupo en España, es una aleación de “humildad y ambición”. En un escenario marcado por retos complejos como la carencia de materiales, los requisitos normativos de sostenibilidad, el déficit de talento especializado o la necesidad de seguir el compás de la geopolítica actual para la buena supervivencia del negocio, De la Haza pone en valor el esfuerzo de la compañía española a la hora de definir una estrategia de innovación qu

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How Trump’s appointment of Brendan Carr as FCC chairman will affect enterprises

CIO Business Intelligence

President-elect Donald Trump has announced Brendan Carr as the next head of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the organization responsible for setting the regulations governing telecoms, broadband, satellite communications and broadcasting in the US. Unlike some of the executive appointments made by Trump in recent days, Carr is an experienced hand at the FCC, having served as a commissioner since 2017 after a period as an aide to Commissioner Ajit Pai before becoming the organizat