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AI Friend: Can Zuckerberg Solve Loneliness?

Mark Zuckerberg promotes AI for friendships, envisioning a future where people befriend systems instead of humans. Online discussions about relationships with AI therapists are becoming more common, blurring the line between real and artificial connections.

Unleashing AI Factories' Profit Power

AI factories are reshaping the economics of modern infrastructure by producing valuable tokens at scale. Throughput, latency, and goodput are key metrics in creating engaging user experiences and maximizing revenue potential per token.

Socrates: AI Innovation by Qualtrics

Qualtrics pioneers Experience Management (XM) with AI, ML, and NLP capabilities, enhancing customer connections and loyalty. Qualtrics's Socrates platform, powered by Amazon SageMaker, drives innovation in experience management with advanced ML technologies.

GOP Pushes for 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations

US Republicans seek to block state laws regulating AI for 10 years in budget bill, aiming to prevent guardrails on automated decision-making systems. Proposed provision in House bill would restrict any state or local regulation of AI models or systems unless to facilitate deployment.

AI learns to talk like humans

Study finds AI agents can develop human-like social norms when communicating in groups, like humans. Research by City St George’s, University of London and IT University of Copenhagen.

HyperPod recipes for customizing DeepSeek-R1 671b model

DeepSeek AI's DeepSeek-R1 model with 671 billion parameters showcases strong few-shot learning capabilities, prompting customization for various business applications. SageMaker HyperPod recipes streamline the fine-tuning process, offering optimized solutions for organizations seeking to enhance model performance and adaptability.

Demystifying the Parquet File Format

Apache Parquet is a game-changer in data storage, offering data compression, columnar storage, language flexibility, open-source format, and support for complex data types. Unlike traditional row-based storage, Parquet's column-based approach allows for faster data read operations, optimizing analytics workloads.