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The Impact of U.S. Tariffs on AI: Broad tariffs will create challenges for AI and beyond, but I see a few silver linings. Here’s what’s in store.
I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.
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The Benefits of Lazy Prompting: You don’t always need to provide context when prompting a large language model. A quick prompt can be enough.
Contrary to standard prompting advice that you should give LLMs the context they need to succeed, I find it’s sometimes faster to be lazy and dash off a quick, imprecise prompt and see what happens.
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When to Fine-Tune — and When Not To: Many teams that fine-tune their models would be better off prompting or using agentic workflows. Here's how to decide.
Fine-tuning small language models has been gaining traction over the past half year.
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Lessons From Our First AI Dev Conference: How our learners began building their way to AI in everything at AI Dev 25 Tags: Letters, DeepLearning.AI News, Learning & Education
Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers.
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Learn the Language of Software: AI won’t kill programming. There has never been a better time to start coding.
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
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Wait Your Turn! Conversation by Voice Versus Text: Text interactions require taking turns, but voices may interrupt or overlap. Here’s how AI is evolving for voice interactions.
Continuing our discussion on the Voice Stack, I’d like to explore an area that today’s voice-based systems mostly struggle with: Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and the turn-taking paradigm of communication.
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What I’ve Learned Building Voice Applications: Best practices for building apps based on AI’s evolving voice-in, voice-out stack
The Voice Stack is improving rapidly. Systems that interact with users via speaking and listening will drive many new applications.
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How AI Saved a Police Officer’s Life: A police drone located an officer under attack before it was too late. Get ready for many more stories like this.
Last month, a drone from Skyfire AI was credited with saving a police officer’s life after a dramatic 2 a.m. traffic stop.
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The Difference Between “AI Safety” and “Responsible AI”: Talk about “AI safety” obscures an important point; AI isn't inherently unsafe. Instead, let’s talk about “responsible AI.”
At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.
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How AI can make you a 10x professional: Every profession can become more efficient and strategic by applying more intelligence.
A “10x engineer” — a widely accepted concept in tech — purportedly has 10 times the impact of the average engineer.
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Three Takeaways from DeepSeek’s Big Week: Innvations by China’s AI powerhouse DeepSeek highlight major shifts in the international scene
The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in plain sight.
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How to Cool a Warming Planet: The only plausible path to keeping climate change in check is geoengineering.
Greetings from Davos, Switzerland! Many business and government leaders are gathered here again for the annual World Economic Forum to discuss tech, climate, geopolitics, and economic growth.