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How Data Contracts Support Collaboration between Data Teams
Data contracts define the interface between data providers and consumers, specifying things like data models, quality guarantees, and ownership. They are essential for distributed data ownership in data mesh, ensuring data is discoverable, interoperable, and governed. Data contracts improve communication between teams and enhance the reliability and quality of data products.
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OpenAI Launches Deep Research: Advancing AI-Assisted Investigation
OpenAI has launched Deep Research, a new agent within ChatGPT designed to conduct in-depth, multi-step investigations across the web. Initially available to Pro users, with plans to expand access to Plus and Team users, Deep Research automates time-consuming research by retrieving, analyzing, and synthesizing online information.
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DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information Highlights AI Security Risks
Cloud security firm Wiz uncovered unprotected DeepSeek database giving full control over database operations and access to internal data including millions of lines of chat logs. While the vulnerability has been quickly fixed, the incident shows the need for the AI industry to enforce higher security standards, says the company.
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DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepSeek-R1 LLM with Performance Comparable to OpenAI's o1 Model
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement learning )RL) to improve reasoning capability. DeepSeek-R1 achieves results on par with OpenAI's o1 model on several benchmarks, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.
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Hugging Face Expands Serverless Inference Options with New Provider Integrations
Hugging Face has launched the integration of four serverless inference providers Fal, Replicate, SambaNova, and Together AI, directly into its model pages. These providers are also integrated into Hugging Face's client SDKs for JavaScript and Python, allowing users to run inference on various models with minimal setup.
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Block Launches Open-Source AI Framework Codename Goose
Block’s Open Source Program Office has launched Codename Goose, an open-source, non-commercial AI agent framework designed to automate tasks and integrate seamlessly with existing tools. Goose provides users with a flexible, on-machine AI assistant that can be customized through extensions, enabling developers and other professionals to enhance their productivity.
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OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Gov for U.S. Government Agencies
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov, a version of its AI-powered chatbot designed specifically for U.S. government agencies. This tailored deployment provides federal, state, and local agencies with access to OpenAI’s latest AI models while allowing them to maintain control over security, privacy, and compliance.
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Google's Vertex AI in Firebase SDK Now Ready for Production Use
Three months after its launch in beta, the Vertex AI in Firebase SDK is now ready for production, says Google engineer Thomas Ezan, who further explores three dimensions that are essential for its successful deployment to production: abuse prevention, remote configuration, and responsible AI use.
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AWS Glue 5.0 Introduces Spark 3.5.2 and Enhanced ETL Performance
At the latest re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Glue 5.0, designed to accelerate ETL jobs powered by Apache Spark. The latest release of the serverless data integration service introduces upgraded runtimes, including Spark 3.5.2, Python 3.11, and Java 17, along with enhancements in performance and security.
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JetBrains AI Coding Agent Junie Provides Tight Integration with JetBrains IDEs
JetBrains has announced Junie, its new AI coding agent, in closed preview. Junie, says the company, is able to carry through the coding tasks you assign it and leverage the knowledge about your project context as available in the IDE.
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AMD and Johns Hopkins Researchers Develop AI Agent Framework to Automate Scientific Research Process
Researchers from AMD and Johns Hopkins University have developed Agent Laboratory, an artificial intelligence framework that automates core aspects of the scientific research process. The system uses large language models to handle literature reviews, experimentation, and report writing, producing both code repositories and research documentation.
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DeepSeek Release Another Open-Source AI Model, Janus Pro
DeepSeek has released Janus-Pro, an updated version of its multimodal model, Janus. The new model improves training strategies, data scaling, and model size, enhancing multimodal understanding and text-to-image generation.
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Build Resilient Systems with Insights on AI, Multi-Cloud, Leadership & Security at QCon London 2025
From AI and ML to cloud, leadership, and modern data strategies, QCon London 2025, April 7-10, features 15 tracks of insights from 125+ senior practitioners. Discover practical solutions to scaling architectures, enhancing productivity, securing supply chains, and integrating cutting-edge technologies - all through real-world examples and actionable takeaways.
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Inside Atlassian Lithium: How a Dynamic ETL Platform is Transforming Data Movement and Cutting Costs
Atlassian recently introduced Lithium, an in-house ETL platform designed to meet the requirements of dynamic data movement. Lithium streamlines tasks such as cloud migrations, scheduled backups, and in-flight data validations by supporting ephemeral pipelines and tenant-level isolation while ensuring efficiency and scalability, resulting in significant cost savings.
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Meta Open-Sources Large Concept Model, a Language Model That Predicts Entire Sentences
Meta recently open-sourced Large Concept Model (LCM), a language model designed to operate at a higher abstraction level than tokens. Instead, LCM uses a sentence embedding space that is independent of language and modality and can outperform a similarly-sized Llama 3.1 model on multilingual summarization tasks.