Issue 81

Highlights

OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release

OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC and perform actions on your behalf. Tibor Blaho, a software engineer with a reputation for accurately leaking upcoming AI products, claims to have uncovered evidence of OpenAI’s long-rumored Operator tool. Publications including Bloomberg have previously reported on Operator, which […]

Why Small Language Models Are The Next Big Thing In AI

With Elon Musk’s xAI raising an $5 billion and Amazon investing an $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic — artificial intelligence enters the holiday season with a competitive roar.

President Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive order

During his first day in office, President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that sought to reduce the potential risks AI poses to consumers, workers, and national security. Biden’s executive order directed the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to author guidance that helps companies […]

Research

AutoGen v0.4: Reimagining the foundation of agentic AI for scale, extensibility, and robustness

Announcing AutoGen 0.4, fully reimagined library for building advanced agentic AI systems, developed to improve code quality and robustness. Its asynchronous, event-driven architecture is designed to support dynamic, scalable workflows.

Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact

Rapid development and deployment of powerful generative AI models comes with environmental consequences, including increased electricity demand and water consumption.

Video

Sy Choudhury - Silicon Minds, Human Hearts

Join us as we sit down with Sy Choudhury, who manages and supports AI partnerships at Meta, for an insightful discussion on the current advancements and future potential of AI. This series explores how AI intersects with daily human life, featuring interviews with leading experts and innovators.

Articles

RAG Isn’t Immune to LLM Hallucination

How to measure how much of your RAG’s output is correct.

Would you let AI choose your outfits?

My friend walks into the village hall, scene of my son’s third birthday party, a mixture of panic and incredulity creeping across his face. “I didn’t realise we were dressing up,” he says, taking in my outfit. I feel myself blush.

DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 "reasoning" model. Today they've released R1 itself, along with a whole family of new models derived from that base.

Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs

From electronic shelf labels to more self-service checkouts, automation is coming to your local supermarket Electronic shelf labels, returns machines, robot bag packers and yet more self-service tills – just some of the many technologies that UK retailers are embracing as they try to solve the problem of rising labour costs.

MLOps Workflow Simplified for PyTorch with Arm and GitHub Collaboration

PyTorch is one of the most widely used and most powerful deep learning frameworks for training and deploying complex neural networks. It has never been easier to train and deploy AI applications, and low-cost, high-performance, energy-efficient hardware, tools, and technology for creating optimized workflows are more accessible than ever. But data science, machine learning, and devops can be deep topics unto themselves, and it can be overwhelming for developers with one specialty to see how they all come together in the real world, or even to know where to get started.

Microsoft and Artificial Intelligence: Evolution and Strategy

Since its founding in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft has grown from a software company to one of the most influential tech…

Improve the RAG pipeline with RAG triad metrics

In my previous RAG Evaluation — A Step-by-Step Guide with DeepEval post, I showed how to evaluate a RAG pipeline with the RAG triad…

How do AI writing detectors actually identify AI generated text, and which free tool is the best?

Surfer SEO’s AI detection software shines with semantic insights.

Multimodal Embeddings: An Introduction

A key insight from CLIP is that by aligning text and image representations, the model is capable of 0-shot image classification on an arbitrary set of target classes since any input text can be treated as a class label (we will see a concrete example of this later).

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Global AI Bootcamp 2025 | March & April 2025

The Global AI Bootcamp is an annual event that occurs worldwide, where developers and AI enthusiasts can learn about AI through workshops, sessions, and discussions.

Code

How to Log Your Data with MLflow

This article will guide you through the best practices of logging a dataset in MLflow using the California Housing Dataset as an example. MLflow’s ability to track datasets alongside models and parameters ensures that any new experiment can reliably compare results against previous runs using the exact same data, providing transparency and clarity.