Analytics Vidhya
JANUARY 28, 2025
Python 3.8 features the Walrus Operator as an important language syntax improvement delivering assignment expression capabilities. This operator, represented by := operator, developers can establish variable assignments while working within expressions. Developers find the Walrus Operator useful when writing compact code through variable assignment expressions specifically for situations requiring instant value usage.
KDnuggets
JANUARY 28, 2025
Python environment management can sometimes give you that awful feeling in the pit of your stomach. So don't do it: just use Docker containers.
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CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
The META region is on the brink of a technological revolution, with governments and businesses accelerating their efforts to embrace AI and GenAI technologies. This transition represents more than just a shift from traditional systemsit marks a significant pivot from experimentation and proof-of-concept to scaled adoption and measurable value. As organizations work to embed AI into their operations, investment in the necessary infrastructure, platforms, and skills will be key to supporting this
KDnuggets
JANUARY 28, 2025
Rather than fearing AI, we should see it as a tool that complements human skills, helping professionals focus on high-value work and enhancing job roles.
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
Analytics Vidhya
JANUARY 28, 2025
With the release of DeepSeek V3 and R1, U.S. tech giants are struggling to regain their competitive edge. Now, DeepSeek has introduced Janus Pro, a state-of-the-art multimodal AI that further solidifies its dominance in both understanding and generative AI tasks. Janus Pro outperforms many leading models in multimodal reasoning, text-to-image generation, and instruction-following benchmarks.
KDnuggets
JANUARY 28, 2025
Evaluation methodologies, metrics, and best practices for different language tasks, explained.
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O'Reilly on Data
JANUARY 28, 2025
January has been notable for the number of important announcements in AI. For me, two stand out: the US governments support for the Stargate Project, a giant data center costing $500 billion, with investments coming from Oracle, Softbank, and OpenAI ; and DeepSeeks release of its R1 reasoning model , trained at an estimated cost of roughly $5 milliona large number but roughly one-tenth what it cost OpenAI to train its o1 models.
Analytics Vidhya
JANUARY 28, 2025
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has spurred the development of frameworks to build AI agents capable of dynamic decision-making and task execution. Two prominent contenders in this space are smolagents (from Hugging Face) and LangGraph (from LangChain). This article delves into the features and capabilities of both these models, providing a detailed comparison […] The post Smolagents vs LangGraph: A Comprehensive Comparison of AI Agent Frameworks appeared first on Analytics Vidhya
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
JANUARY 28, 2025
Enterprises have been investing in software to manage their environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives and compliance requirements. The need to account for these considerations in parallel with financial accounting began growing early in the century and accelerated as governments and regulatory authorities began to require companies to measure and document activities and outcomes.
Analytics Vidhya
JANUARY 28, 2025
The Qwen family of vision-language models continues to evolve, with the release of Qwen2.5-VL marking a significant leap forward. Building on the success of Qwen2-VL, which was launched five months ago, Qwen2.5-VL benefits from valuable feedback and contributions from the developer community. This feedback has played a key role in refining the model, adding new […] The post Qwen2.5-VL Vision Model: Features, Applications, and More appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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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.
Srividya Sridharan
JANUARY 28, 2025
DeepSeeks open-source model, DeepThink (R1) by a little-known company in China sent shock waves across the technology world. It’s amazing. Yes, it does excel at benchmarks comparable to other state-of-the-art models. Yes, it’s partially open-source. Yes, the DeepSeek app explains its reasoning by default. But there are far-reaching implications to this important AI development.
Analytics Vidhya
JANUARY 28, 2025
OpenAI was the first to introduce reasoning models like o1 and o1-mini, but is it the only player in the game? Not by a long shot! Chinese LLMs like DeepSeek, Qwen, and now Kimi are stepping up to challenge OpenAI by delivering similar capabilities at much more affordable prices. After DeepSeek’s impressive debut, it’s Kimi […] The post Kimi k1.5 vs OpenAI o1: Is it Worth Spending $20 for ChatGPT Plus?
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
Many CIOs expect significant price increases in the cloud and other IT products and services during 2025, requiring those with stagnant budgets to make difficult decisions about IT spending. CIOs surveyed by Gartner at the end of 2024 expect an 8.9% cost increase, on average, for IT products and services. These price hikes, along with continued AI investment, are driving a projected 9.8% increase in worldwide IT spending, according to Gartner.
Timo Elliott
JANUARY 28, 2025
The recent launch of DeepSeek, a groundbreaking AI model from China, has sent shockwaves through the global stock markets. With its impressive capabilities and cost efficiency, DeepSeek has quickly become a significant competitor to established Western technologies like OpenAIs ChatGPT. Nvidiaa major supplier of AI hardwaresaw a historic 17% drop in its stock value, wiping out nearly $593 billion in market capitalization.
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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.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
Hoy en da, los CIO tienen muchos motivos para preocuparse: desde las antiguas preocupaciones sobre el tiempo de actividad y la disponibilidad hasta la revolucin cuntica que se avecina. Por supuesto, tambin hay muchos otros problemas que preocupan a los CIO en este momento. Por eso, les preguntamos a varios lderes de TI: Qu es lo que les quita el sueo a los CIO?
Jet Global
JANUARY 28, 2025
ESG reporting processes wont scale to meet upcoming regulatory demands, fear 92% of organizations RALEIGH, N.C. Jan. 28, 2025 insightsoftware , the most comprehensive provider of solutions for the Office of the CFO, today released its 2025 ESG Insights and Challenges Report. The report highlights the growing complexities that global organizations face in ESG reporting, including the challenges finance leaders experience gathering, integrating, and analyzing data from multiple sources.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
El profundo impacto que la digitalizacin ha causado en el sector bancario y finanzas en los ltimos aos es incontestable. Un claro ejemplo de su xito es visible en BBVA. Y es que la entidad bancaria ha hecho de la transformacin digital una de las piedras angulares de su estrategia desde hace ms de una dcada. La evolucin de la propuesta de valor ha pasado por transformar los procesos y la tecnologa y, para ello,ha sido necesario poner a las personas en el centro, atraer y fidelizar al mejor talent
AWS Big Data
JANUARY 28, 2025
This post is cowritten with Sean Zou, Terry Quan and Audrey Yuan from MuleSoft. In our previous thought leadership blog post Why a Cloud Operating Model we defined a COE Framework and showed why MuleSoft implemented it and the benefits they received from it. In this post, well dive into the technical implementation describing how MuleSoft used Amazon EventBridge , Amazon Redshift , Amazon Redshift Spectrum , Amazon S3 , & AWS Glue to implement it.
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CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
Arranca el 2025 con el soterramiento de la A-5, una iniciativa impulsada por el ayuntamiento capitalino en respuesta a la ancestral demanda vecinal. Por delante, al menos, 25 meses de arduo trabajo para materializar el bautizado como Paseo Verde del Suroeste. Hasta la fecha circulaban diariamente por esta va alrededor de 80.000 vehculos; con la puesta en marcha del proyecto, el trfico se ver reducido presumiblemente en un 90%.
Smarten
JANUARY 28, 2025
Improve the Value of OEM and ISV Offerings with Embedded BI! If you read industry publications and stay up to date on business technology, you are no doubt aware of embedded business intelligence (BI), but you may be wondering how this approach can help your ISV products business thrive. A Mordor Intelligence study found that, the growing requirement for embedded analytics software will boost productivity, save operating expenses, and save time when reviewing data.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
El big data puede contribuir de forma eficaz a la transformacin digital de la experiencia turstica en las ciudades, creando patrones que permiten mejorar la gestin de los flujos de visitantes, as como los servicios que se prestan a los ciudadanos a travs del anlisis del dato. Con este fin, el Ayuntamiento de Toledo ha confiado a Orange el proyecto para utilizar el anlisis de los datos extrados de la red mvil -siempre agregados y anonimizados- para medir la afluencia turstica y lograr un alto con
Jet Global
JANUARY 28, 2025
Visualizations in business intelligence software are often dismissed as a commodity interchangeable and easy to overlook. But this perspective misses the mark. Visualizations are the gateway to understanding; theyre how users interact with and interpret the insights derived from all the data gathering, preparation, and analysis. This becomes especially critical in embedded analytics, where crafting the perfect dashboard or report design with the right functionality for your users can make or br
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Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
Over the past year, as a part of our larger transformation, weve doubled down on our commitment to enhancing our partner ecosystem. Combining their unique strengths to drive impact and scale provides the opportunity to achieve more than we ever could alone. And with every partnership connection, we build a future thats not just biggerbut better for our mutual customers.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
INE Security , a leading global provider of cybersecurity training and certifications, today announced a new initiative designed to accelerate compliance with the Department of Defenses (DoD) newly streamlined Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0. This initiative aims to assist Defense Industry Base (DIB) contractors in swiftly adapting to the updated certification standards, which are critical to securing and maintaining defense contracts.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
Back in 2020, SAP announced it would extend the end of mainstream ECC6.0support from 2025 to 2027.At the time, that wasnt a big surprise.There was speculation among the SAP community that SAP would extend the deadline again. As they say, Sorry to burst your bubble, but . Hey, its not me, its SAP CEO Christian Klein. When asked if SAP would extend the ECC support deadline beyond 2027, he clearly said no.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
There are only two types of companies in this world, those who are great at AI and everybody else. If you dont know AI, you are going to fail, period, end of story. You have to understand it, because it will have a significant impact on every single thing that you do. Theres no avoiding it. Mark Cuban. This quote sums up the need for companies to prioritize artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives and also captures the state of the AI race today.
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
Every January futurists opine on what will be different. Just as important, but typically underappreciated, are trends that will perpetuate themselves deep into the year to come. Heres a look at what I see staying the same for IT leaders in 2025. Musks shadow will continue to loom over all things technology The top-of-tech bromance between the President Trump and Elon Musk will last much longer than most observers think.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
The past year was a whirlwind for CIOs and CISOs, marked by the rapid expansion of enterprise AI, persistent cyber threats, and the growing menace of deepfakes. Added to this tumult were emerging threats from activist hackers, who found innovative ways to infiltrate corporate data systems, banking networks, and social media platforms. Throw in bad actors capitalizing on a heated political climate into this mix, and thats a lot of challenges for any CIO or CISO to handle.
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