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A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria

Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer or financial analy...

It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work.

Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited evidence that AI has shifted the headline numbers. But a troubling change may be hiding beneath the sur...

Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI

In an age of AI, Pope looks for "artisans of hope."

I Built My First ETL Pipeline as a Complete Beginner. Here’s How.

A beginner's honest walkthrough of Extract, Transform, Load using the GitHub API The post I Built My First ETL Pipeline as a Complete Beginner. Here’s How. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Can AI Write Your Code?

What a recent study on ChatGPT, Python, R, and Stata tells us about AI-assisted coding for causal inference The post Can AI Write Your Code? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.

The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.

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From TF-IDF to Transformers: Implementing Four Generations of Semantic Search

How did semantic search evolve from simple keyword matching into modern transformer-based language understanding? This hands-on article builds four generations of semantic search systems step by step using Python. The post From TF-IDF to Transformers: Implementing Four Generations of Semantic Sea...

An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation

No one wants to live next to a noisy computer warehouse and communities across the country are successfully fighting them.

US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal

Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it?

Introducing the Agent Toolkit for Amazon Web Services

It’s like having your own personal expert AWS solutions architect and data engineer rolled into one. The post Introducing the Agent Toolkit for Amazon Web Services appeared first on Towards Data Science.

I spent years forcing myself to finish The Witcher 3—don't repeat my mistake

Consensus and genre labels aren't reliable predictors of what you'll enjoy.

Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right

OpenAI, Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL announce strategic content partnership

OpenAI partners with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to bring trusted Brazilian journalism to ChatGPT, expanding access to news with attribution and transparency.

Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google

We're in the transition period -- all of us.

Xreal, Google’s smart glasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry

Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of Xreal, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.

The Ultimate Beginners’ Guide to Building an AI Agent in Python

Simple step-by-step tutorial to building an AI agent in Python The post The Ultimate Beginners’ Guide to Building an AI Agent in Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.

I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.