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Improve your agent’s tool-calling accuracy with SFT and DPO on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, you learn how to use Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) together to improve the tool-calling accuracy of a small language model (SLM). The example uses Amazon SageMaker AI

Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason

Amazon will use visual search and AI to show AI generated product images that match your search queries. The retailer says it will help guide users to products.

NVIDIA Research Unlocks Advanced Grasping, Smarter Autonomous Driving and Agent Training at Scale

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before.  What makes an autonomous vehicle system safe is

NVIDIA Enables the Next Era Of Physical AI Research With Agent Skills For Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics And Vision AI

At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems. The core challenge in physical AI research isn’t

These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked

The startup's own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.

Why AI Is NOT Stealing Your Job

AI does not decide who gets fired. Companies do. The post Why AI Is NOT Stealing Your Job appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation

U.K. regulators are requiring Google offer a tool allowing website publishers to opt-out of generative AI search features. The option will be tested in the U.K. then rolled out globally.

I paid Microsoft's premium Copilot agents to do my work - they were confidently bad at it

Can you get a Copilot agent to do your work for you? I tried, but the AI wasn't ready to play along.

EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud

The Commission’s ‘AI continent’ rhetoric sits atop draft laws that would let it override chip supply contracts and keep US providers away from sensitive government data. The European Commission unveiled its long-delayed

WP Engine bolts bot management onto Global Edge Security as AI crawlers surge

WordPress hosting company WP Engine Inc. today added bot management to its Global Edge Security service, giving site operators a way to filter the growing volume of automated and artificial intelligence traffic reaching

Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally

WhatsApp will charge businesses for using its AI agent based on token usage

I Built a C++ Backend So My GPU Would Stop Eating Air

A comprehensive guide to optimizing LLM inference by eliminating padding overhead with hardware-aware sequence packing. The post I Built a C++ Backend So My GPU Would Stop Eating Air appeared first on Towards Data Scienc

Sanofi aims to cut AI-driven drug development timelines in half with Snowflake

The pharmaceutical industry’s research and development marathon — stretching 10 to 12 years from hypothesis to approval — is set to shrink as AI-driven drug development compresses that timeline. The shift from AI experim

Coralogix raises $200M on bet that someone needs to watch the AI agents

The Series F round values Coralogix at $1.6 billion and comes less than a year after its previous raise.

5 ways Google Search can level up your thrift and vintage shopping

Uncover second-hand scores with AI tools in Google Search and Shopping.

Whoop is building agentic AI maturity on a foundation of enterprise health data

Enterprise AI programs are moving beyond experimentation, but agentic AI maturity — the ability to run governed, autonomous workflows at production scale — remains out of reach for most organizations. The companies closi

Direct Preference Optimization Beyond Chatbots

How E.ON uses SAP S/4HANA to modernise the grid with AI

Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, an

The Download: Trump’s new AI order, and smart glasses for warfare

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. 5 key points in Trump’s new AI order Less than two weeks after scrapping an execut

What AI Agents Should Never Do on Their Own

How to set the rules that keep agents effective and out of trouble The post What AI Agents Should Never Do on Their Own appeared first on Towards Data Science.