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Empower Your Systems with CrewAI and Amazon Bedrock

The enterprise AI landscape is evolving rapidly, with Deloitte predicting a surge in AI agent deployment by 2027. CrewAI's framework, combined with Amazon Bedrock, enables the creation of sophisticated multi-agent systems revolutionizing business operations.

OpenAI Secures Record-Breaking Deal with SoftBank

OpenAI partners with SoftBank to achieve 'artificial super intelligence' surpassing human capabilities, raising $40bn in the largest startup funding round ever. The collaboration aims to advance AI research towards AGI, emphasizing the necessity of significant computing power.

Copyright Concerns: UK Designers at Risk

Leading UK designers, including Tom Dixon and Sebastian Conran, criticize government's AI opt-out proposal. Proposal to allow AI companies to use copyrighted work without permission sparks backlash from creative industry icons like Sir Paul McCartney and Kate Bush.

Crafting Your Supply Chain Analytics Portfolio

Supply Chain Analytics is crucial in navigating disruptions and uncertainties in supply chains. Samir Saci shares insights and practical case studies in his comprehensive Supply Chain Analytics Cheat Sheet to help improve profitability and optimize operations.

Building Attention Mechanism from Scratch

Attention mechanism, crucial in Machine Translation, helps RNNs overcome challenges, leading to the rise of Transformers. Self-attention in Transformers involves key, value, and query vectors to focus on important elements within a sequence.

Pattie Maes Honored with Lifetime Research Award

MIT's Pattie Maes awarded 2025 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award for human-computer interaction contributions, advocating for human-centered AI integration. Maes' pioneering work in software agents and wearable devices shapes today's online experience, emphasizing ethical design and human experience enhancement.

AI: The New Threat to Fashion Models

H&M introduces AI ‘twins’ of models for marketing, sparking debate on exploitation in fashion industry. Chief creative officer ensures human-centric approach remains unchanged despite AI integration.

Introducing Young Minds to AI

Parents and teachers are preparing children for the future with generative artificial intelligence, despite age restrictions on tools like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. Guardian readers share their strategies and reasons for introducing AI education to the youngest learners.

MIT Open Learning: A Life-Changing Journey

Serbian college student Ana Trišović credits MIT OpenCourseWare with transforming her career, leading her to become a research scientist at MIT's FutureTech lab. Trišović's journey from learning Data Analytics with Python to studying AI democratization showcases the impact of open learning resources on her interdisciplinary research.

Shifting Concepts in Mathematics

Adam Kucharski, a renowned epidemiologist, delves into the importance of evidence in the age of AI and social media. In his new book, he explores how our understanding of 'proof' is evolving in a world where information and trust are paramount.