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Building TMT Mirror Visualization with LLM

Martin Fowler

Creating a user interface that visualizes a real-world structure — like the Thirty Meter Telescope's mirror — might seem like a task that demands deep knowledge of geometry, D3.js, and SVG graphics. But with a Large Language Model (LLM) like Claude or ChatGPT, you don't need to know everything upfront. Unmesh Joshi describes how working with an LLM gave him a working prototype even when he's unfamiliar with the underlying tech.

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How MCP can revolutionize the way DevOps teams use AI

CIO

Traditionally, the main benefit that generative AI technology offered DevOps teams was the ability to produce things, such as code, quickly and automatically. But not all DevOps work involves generating things. Much of it centers on performing actions, like modifying cloud service configurations, deploying applications or merging log files, to name just a handful of examples.

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How to convert the output of Google Cloud Asset Query to JSON or Python

Xebia

In this blog, I will show you how you can convert the output of a Google Cloud Asset query into JSON format using the command line, or to an Python object in a Python program. This transformation will streamline your workflow and make reporting and data handling easier. I will show you how to do this from the command line and from within a Python program.

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Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation: Boost function calling accuracy while reducing cost and latency

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation is generally available, and it addresses the fundamental challenge many organizations face when deploying generative AI : how to maintain high performance while reducing costs and latency. This technique transfers knowledge from larger, more capable foundation models (FMs) that act as teachers to smaller, more efficient models (students), creating specialized models that excel at specific tasks.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Going Global: Key Signs Your Business Is Ready For New Markets

Crunchbase News

By Roman Eloshvili Depending on which statistics you believe, there are more than 150 million startups in the world today, and about 50 million new ones launched each year. But the harsh reality is that about 90% of them fail without getting very far. One of the top reasons is premature scaling. That includes expanding into new markets before you and your business are ready.

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How IT leaders use agentic AI for business workflows

CIO

Were not just automating a handful of manual tasks and processes across a department or two, says Kellie Romack, CDIO at ServiceNow. Wereinfusing AI agents everywhereto reimagine how we work and drive measurable value. Agentic AI is the new frontier in AI evolution, taking center stage in todays enterprise discussion. AI agents topped Forresters 2024 trend list, and Salesforce expects one billion in use by the end of fiscal year 2026.

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When is the best time to book your flight? Google just spilled all the airfare secrets

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Google Flights analyzed four years of airfare data, providing insights on finding the cheapest flights and the best days to book.

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Extend large language models powered by Amazon SageMaker AI using Model Context Protocol

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Organizations implementing agents and agent-based systems often experience challenges such as implementing multiple tools, function calling, and orchestrating the workflows of the tool calling. An agent uses a function call to invoke an external tool (like an API or database) to perform specific actions or retrieve information it doesnt possess internally.

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The SPAC Is Back

Crunchbase News

Going public via SPAC was a very 2021 thing to do. During the peak of the last bull market, dozens of startups took this quick route to market, merging with publicly traded shell companies, or SPAC s, in lieu of a traditional IPO. Looking back, most of them didnt work out so well, in areas from scooters to autonomous driving , genetic testing and vertical farming the list goes on.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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3 Delegation Leadership Skills that Improve Productivity and Reduce Overwhelm

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 301: What if the key to improving productivity is simply learning how to delegate without anything falling through the cracks? Delegation is supposed to free up your time and build your teambut if you’re constantly chasing updates or getting back subpar work, it can feel more like a trap than a tool. This episode tackles that head-on, giving you the exact steps to make sure delegation actually works the way it shouldclear, clean, and effective.

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Microsoft sees AI agents shaking up org charts, eliminating traditional functions

CIO

At a press conference held at Microsoft Koreas Gwanghwamun office, Oh Seong-mi, head of the business division, highlighted the top findings of Microsofts 2025 Work Trend Index, including the companys prediction that corporate organizational charts will rapidly change in the coming years, centering on AI agents. According to Microsofts survey, AI has gone beyond a simple work assistant to performing work flexibly as a team member in collaboration with human staff.

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This Lenovo mini PC competes with both Windows and Mac - my buying advice after testing it

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Lenovo's ThinkStation P3 Tiny is a compact powerhouse that offers users a long list of customizations, including support for Linux out of the box.

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FloQast builds an AI-powered accounting transformation solution with Anthropic’s Claude 3 on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

With the advent of generative AI solutions, a paradigm shift is underway across industries, driven by organizations embracing foundation models (FMs) to unlock unprecedented opportunities. Amazon Bedrock has emerged as the preferred choice for numerous customers seeking to innovate and launch generative AI applications, leading to an exponential surge in demand for model inference capabilities.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Investors Look To The Stars And Defense

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the weeks top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest funding rounds of last week here. It was a big week for the space and defense sectors, as investors clearly were looking to the skies.

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AI Native Dev: Shaping the Future of AI-First Software Development

DevOps.com

In an era where artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the software development landscape, a new community has emerged to lead this evolution: AI Native Dev. The community is centered around the website, [link] The site serves as a platform for a raft of different types of content and information.

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IT leaders see big business potential in small AI models

CIO

Small language models (SLMs) are giving CIOs greater opportunities to develop specialized, business-specific AI applications that are less expensive to run than those reliant on general-purpose large language models (LLMs). By 2027, smaller, context-specific models will outpace their counterparts with usage volume at least three times more than those of LLMs, according to a recent report from Gartner, which also claims LLM response accuracy declines for tasks requiring specific business context.

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This $400 Motorola phone has no business being this good (and it has a stylus)

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Despite its midrange price point, the Moto G Stylus 2025 punches well above its weight with a snappy chipset and brilliant AMOLED screen.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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Improve Amazon Nova migration performance with data-aware prompt optimization

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In the era of generative AI , new large language models (LLMs) are continually emerging, each with unique capabilities, architectures, and optimizations. Among these, Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading cost-performance, available exclusively on Amazon Bedrock. Since its launch in 2024, generative AI practitioners, including the teams in Amazon, have started transitioning their workloads from existing FMs and adopting Amazon Nova models.

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The Essential Infrastructure For AI In The Enterprise Isn’t Your LLM, It’s Orchestration

Crunchbase News

By Sagi Eliyahu Excitement about the transformational potential of AI in the enterprise has never been higher. Its manifested most recently into the explosion of interest in AI agents. Agents are specialized, AI-powered software programs that can work autonomously to achieve long-term goals. As Meta s head of business AI, Clara Shih , recently told CNBC , Meta expects every business to use AI agents the way that businesses today have websites and email addresses.

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Embracing the Future of Work with Innovations in Prisma SASE

Palo Alto Networks

We are witnessing a seismic shift in the way we work. The browser has evolved from a simple utility to the central workspace of modern organizations, where employees connect, collaborate and create. From using GenAI tools to accessing business-critical apps, the majority of work now happens in the browser. In fact, employees spend over 85% of their time working in the browser.

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Can AI solve your technical debt problem?

CIO

IT leaders know they must eventually deal with technical debt, but because addressing it doesnt always directly result in increased revenue or new capabilities, it can be difficult to get business management to take it seriously. But t echnical debt can undercut an organizations ability to innovate long term, and the shortcuts taken during initial development likely resulted in a codebase thats convoluted, slow, or difficult for devs to understand.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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How to analyze your entire Amazon library with ChatGPT - and what you can learn

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Here's how I used AI to analyze my massive Kindle book collection - and the surprising mysteries it revealed.

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WordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communication

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this post, we showcase how Dr. Kori Ramajoo, Dr. Sonia Brownsett, Prof. David Copland, from QARC, and Scott Harding, a person living with aphasia, used AWS services to develop WordFinder, a mobile, cloud-based solution that helps individuals with aphasia increase their independence through the use of AWS generative AI technology. In the spirit of giving back to the community and harnessing the art of the possible for positive change, AWS hosted the Hack For Purpose event in 2023.

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Defense Tech Startup Chaos Industries Hits $2B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Less than six months after raising a $145 million in a Series B , defense and critical infrastructure tech startup Chaos Industries locked up a $275 million Series C that reportedly values the company at $2 billion. The new round was led by Accel and New Enterprise Associates , with participation from StepStone Group , Overmatch Ventures , Tru Arrow Partners and Valor Equity Partners.

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Context Serialization

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In a recent edition of The Sequence Engineering newsletter, Why Did MCP Win? , the authors point to context serialization and exchange as a reasonperhaps the most important reasonwhy everyones talking about the Model Context Protocol. I was puzzled by thisIve read a lot of technical and semitechnical posts about MCP and havent seen context serialization mentioned.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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What makes a true AI agent? CIOs struggle with the definition as hype blurs lines

CIO

Agentic AI has replaced generative AI at the top of the technology hype cycle, but theres one major problem: A standard definition of an AI agent doesnt yet exist. With dozens, if not hundreds, of vendors touting their agentic AI products, a lack of definition could lead to confusion as CIOs and other IT leaders seek to purchase and deploy the emerging technology.

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This 2K video doorbell gave me similar features as a Ring but with no subscription fees

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Lorex 2K video doorbell ditches subscription fees thanks to local storage and gives you the flexibility of both wired and wireless setup options.

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Best practices for Meta Llama 3.2 multimodal fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Multimodal fine-tuning represents a powerful approach for customizing foundation models (FMs) to excel at specific tasks that involve both visual and textual information. Although base multimodal models offer impressive general capabilities, they often fall short when faced with specialized visual tasks, domain-specific content, or particular output formatting requirements.