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Snowflake’s Openflow tackles AI’s toughest engineering challenge: Data ingestion at scale

For anyone in AI, it’s no big news that “data is the real prize.” If you have strong data foundations, your models and the applications powered by them will be right on the money. But that’s where it gets messy. Building that foundation is no piece of cake, especially when there are dozens of data sources, each hosting valuable information. You need to build and maintain integration…
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OpenAI’s Sora is now available for FREE to all users through Microsoft Bing Video Creator on mobile

OpenAI‘s Sora was one of the most hyped releases of the AI era, launching in December 2024, nearly 10 months after it was first previewed to awe-struck reactions due to its — at the time, at least — unprecedented level of realism, camera dynamism, and prompt adherence and 60-second long generation clips. But now OpenAI and its ally/investor/frenemy Microsoft are seeking to bring Sora to far…
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The future of engineering belongs to those who build with AI, not without it

When Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently announced that the company would not hire any more engineers in 2025, citing a “30% productivity increase on engineering” due to AI, it sent ripples through the tech industry. Headlines quickly framed this as the beginning of the end for human engineers — AI was coming for their jobs.But those headlines miss the mark entirely. What’s really…
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DeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro

The whale has returned. After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release of its hit open source reasoning AI model R1, the Chinese startup DeepSeek — a spinoff of formerly only locally well-known Hong Kong quantitative analysis firm High-Flyer Capital Management — has released DeepSeek-R1-0528, a significant update that brings DeepSeek’s…
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