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Google, Character.AI Agree to Settle US Lawsuit Over Teen’s Suicide
Google, Character.AI Agree to Settle US Lawsuit Over Teen’s Suicide A lawsuit alleging an AI chatbot contributed to a teen’s suicide has been settled, closing a closely watched case over AI accountability. Vismaya V Go to decrypt.co
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Three Catalysts That Could Kickstart a Crypto Rally in 2026: Bitwise
Three Catalysts That Could Kickstart a Crypto Rally in 2026: Bitwise Bitcoin’s next rally hinges on market stability, with analysts pointing to calmer crypto conditions and progress on U.S. crypto legislation. Akash Girimath Go to decrypt.co
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World Liberty Financial Applies for OCC Trust Bank Charter
World Liberty Financial Applies for OCC Trust Bank Charter World Liberty Financial is seeking to overcome a federal oversight hurdle, with only one other crypto firm having successfully done so. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health Push Raises Questions About Data Security
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health Push Raises Questions About Data Security The new feature lets users link medical records, while OpenAI emphasized encryption, data separation, and limits on health advice. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co
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Solana Mobile Gears Up to Airdrop SKR Token to Seeker Phone Users—But Not Saga Owners
Solana Mobile Gears Up to Airdrop SKR Token to Seeker Phone Users—But Not Saga Owners Solana Mobile announced it will airdrop its native ecosystem token, SKR, to Seeker device users and app developers on January 20. Logan Hitchcock Go to decrypt.co
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On the Identifiability of Regime-Switching Models with Multi-Lag Dependencies
On the Identifiability of Regime-Switching Models with Multi-Lag Dependencies arXiv:2601.03325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifiability is central to the interpretability of deep latent variable models, ensuring parameterisations are uniquely determined by the data-generating distribution. However, it remains underexplored for deep regime-switching time series. We develop a general theoretical framework for multi-lag Regime-Switching Models (RSMs), encompassing…
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Microeconomic Foundations of Multi-Agent Learning
Microeconomic Foundations of Multi-Agent Learning arXiv:2601.03451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AI systems increasingly operate inside markets and institutions where data, behavior, and incentives are endogenous. This paper develops an economic foundation for multi-agent learning by studying a principal-agent interaction in a Markov decision process with strategic externalities, where both the principal and the agent…
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Online Learning with Limited Information in the Sliding Window Model
Online Learning with Limited Information in the Sliding Window Model arXiv:2601.03533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motivated by recent work on the experts problem in the streaming model, we consider the experts problem in the sliding window model. The sliding window model is a well-studied model that captures applications such as traffic monitoring, epidemic tracking, and…
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A Theoretical and Empirical Taxonomy of Imbalance in Binary Classification
A Theoretical and Empirical Taxonomy of Imbalance in Binary Classification arXiv:2601.04149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class imbalance significantly degrades classification performance, yet its effects are rarely analyzed from a unified theoretical perspective. We propose a principled framework based on three fundamental scales: the imbalance coefficient $eta$, the sample–dimension ratio $kappa$, and the intrinsic separability $Delta$.…
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A path to natural language through tokenisation and transformers
A path to natural language through tokenisation and transformers arXiv:2601.03368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural languages exhibit striking regularities in their statistical structure, including notably the emergence of Zipf’s and Heaps’ laws. Despite this, it remains broadly unclear how these properties relate to the modern tokenisation schemes used in contemporary transformer models. In this note,…
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HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows
HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows How approximate vector search silently degrades Recall—and what to do about It The post HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows appeared first on Towards Data Science. Partha Sarkar Go to original source
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I Evaluated Half a Million Credit Records with Federated Learning. Here’s What I Found
I Evaluated Half a Million Credit Records with Federated Learning. Here’s What I Found Why privacy breaks fairness at small scale—and how collaboration fixes both without sharing a single record The post I Evaluated Half a Million Credit Records with Federated Learning. Here’s What I Found appeared first on Towards Data Science. Arjun Kaarat Go…
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Probabilistic Multi-Variant Reasoning: Turning Fluent LLM Answers Into Weighted Options
Probabilistic Multi-Variant Reasoning: Turning Fluent LLM Answers Into Weighted Options Human-guided AI collaboration The post Probabilistic Multi-Variant Reasoning: Turning Fluent LLM Answers Into Weighted Options appeared first on Towards Data Science. alan nekhom Go to original source
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Why Supply Chain is the Best Domain for Data Scientists in 2026 (And How to Learn It)
Why Supply Chain is the Best Domain for Data Scientists in 2026 (And How to Learn It) My take after 10 years in Supply Chain on why this can be an excellent playground for data scientists who want to see their skills valued. The post Why Supply Chain is the Best Domain for Data Scientists in…
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Panaya Seemore Offers Agentic Layer for Transformation Across Critical Systems
Panaya Seemore Offers Agentic Layer for Transformation Across Critical Systems Panaya, a leading enterprise testing and impact analysis platform, is introducing Seemore, its AI agentic layer designed to guide, analyze, fix, and test through every stage of ERP and CRM change. Go to dbta
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KIOXIA Debuts the Next Generation BG7 Series SSDs for PC OEMs, Featuring Enhanced Performance
KIOXIA Debuts the Next Generation BG7 Series SSDs for PC OEMs, Featuring Enhanced Performance Kioxia America, Inc.?is introducing BG7 Series solid state drives (SSDs)?the first client solution to feature Kioxia Corporation’s latest BiCS FLASH?generation 8?3D flash memory with innovative CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology. Go to dbta
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Oracle and the U.S. Department of Energy Partner to Accelerate AI Innovations
Oracle and the U.S. Department of Energy Partner to Accelerate AI Innovations Oracle?and the?U.S. Department of Energy?(DOE) announced a joint effort to further advance the DOE’s current and future AI and advanced computing initiatives, including the?Genesis Mission. As part of a non-binding agreement, Oracle and the DOE will work together to foster technological innovation, accelerate…
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Oracle is on Track to Power New Data Center in Michigan
Oracle is on Track to Power New Data Center in Michigan Oracle is partnering with Related Digital and DTE Energy, to construct Oracle’s AI data center in Saline Township, Michigan. As the future tenant, Oracle will operate the data center once it’s delivered and provisioned, outfitting it with the latest technology for its customer, OpenAI,…
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TikTok to Be Controlled by Oracle and Other Investors
TikTok to Be Controlled by Oracle and Other Investors It’s being reported that TikTok has signed a deal to spin-off its U.S. operations to a group controlled by mostly American investors, including Oracle. According to the agreement, TikTok’s U.S. algorithm will be retrained with only Americans’ data. Content moderation rules around what is permitted and…
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Amazon AI tool blindsides merchants by offering products without their knowledge
Amazon AI tool blindsides merchants by offering products without their knowledge Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses associated with Amazon.com Inc. Go to techxplore
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Grasshopper wings inspire gliding robot design
Grasshopper wings inspire gliding robot design A collaboration between Princeton University engineers and entomologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign began with the researchers chasing grasshoppers in a hot parking lot. Their eventual focus on the hindwings of one species of grasshopper, Schistocerca americana, the American grasshopper, is inspiring a new approach to untethered gliding…
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More efficient holographic solutions can enable smarter vehicle head-up displays
More efficient holographic solutions can enable smarter vehicle head-up displays Imagine driving down a busy highway. You need to check your speed and navigation, but glancing down at the dashboard takes your eyes off the road for a critical second. This is where head-up displays (HUDs) come in, projecting information directly onto the windshield. However,…
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Ten steps to designing more empathetic, human and effective educational video games
Ten steps to designing more empathetic, human and effective educational video games Video games have come to be regarded as valuable educational resources. Through a combination of interactive environments and learning objectives, they have proven to be an effective tool in multiple fields, from school education to corporate training. However, their full adoption in formal…
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With some help from AI, your next move can be predicted
With some help from AI, your next move can be predicted AI might know where you’re going before you do. Researchers at Northeastern University used large language models, the kind of advanced artificial intelligence normally designed to process and generate language, to predict human movement. Go to techxplore
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STAT+: Panel behind new dietary guidelines had financial ties to beef, dairy industries
STAT+: Panel behind new dietary guidelines had financial ties to beef, dairy industries A group of researchers that formed the scientific basis of new dietary guidelines included people with financial ties to the beef and dairy industries, as well as food companies and other groups. Meat and dairy products received prime placement in new dietary…
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Dietary guidelines declare war on processed foods and sugar, encourage more protein and dairy
Dietary guidelines declare war on processed foods and sugar, encourage more protein and dairy The Trump administration on Wednesday issued a long-promised revamp of national dietary guidelines, urging Americans to eat more protein and less added sugar and, for the first time, discouraging consumption of highly processed foods. The guidelines, despite widespread expectations, do not…
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STAT’s Helen Branswell on the ‘startling’ new U.S. vaccine schedule
STAT’s Helen Branswell on the ‘startling’ new U.S. vaccine schedule It was, in a word, unprecedented. As Helen Branswell, STAT’s infectious diseases correspondent, explains in this video, Monday’s move by the Department of Health and Human Services — political appointees of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — to unilaterally rewrite the list of vaccines…
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STAT+: AI Prognosis readers’ predictions for health AI in 2026. What’s on your bingo card?
STAT+: AI Prognosis readers’ predictions for health AI in 2026. What’s on your bingo card? You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday. Hope you had a great holiday season. I’m starting off…
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STAT+: China expected to soon surpass U.S. in bio innovation
STAT+: China expected to soon surpass U.S. in bio innovation Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. It’s an exciting week not only for biotech M&A, but also for my city (Chicago) as we gear up for our big game…
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Ethereum Raises Data Capacity in Latest Scaling Tweak
Ethereum Raises Data Capacity in Latest Scaling Tweak The update raises Ethereum’s data capacity, easing pressure on rollups and clarifying how the network plans to scale. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co
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Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion With Backing From Nvidia and Cisco
Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion With Backing From Nvidia and Cisco The raise comes as xAI faces mounting international regulatory scrutiny over Grok’s content moderation practices. Vismaya V Go to decrypt.co
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Bitcoin Dips to $92K as Liquidations Top $440M
Bitcoin Dips to $92K as Liquidations Top $440M Bitcoin has slipped from highs near $94,000 as selling pressure returned, exposing the rally’s thin leverage despite improving liquidity. Akash Girimath Go to decrypt.co
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Global Index Maker MSCI Defers Decision on Dropping Crypto-Focused Companies
Global Index Maker MSCI Defers Decision on Dropping Crypto-Focused Companies MSCI will keep crypto-heavy firms in its indexes through February, deferring changes after investor feedback raised classification concerns. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co
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Senate Republicans Schedule Crypto Bill Vote Despite Divide on Key Issues
Senate Republicans Schedule Crypto Bill Vote Despite Divide on Key Issues The Senate Banking Committee will vote on its crypto market structure bill next week, even as Democrats and Republicans still appear far apart on major sticking points. Sander Lutz Go to decrypt.co
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Mitigating Long-Tailed Anomaly Score Distributions with Importance-Weighted Loss
Mitigating Long-Tailed Anomaly Score Distributions with Importance-Weighted Loss arXiv:2601.02440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomaly detection is crucial in industrial applications for identifying rare and unseen patterns to ensure system reliability. Traditional models, trained on a single class of normal data, struggle with real-world distributions where normal data exhibit diverse patterns, leading to class imbalance and…
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Fast Conformal Prediction using Conditional Interquantile Intervals
Fast Conformal Prediction using Conditional Interquantile Intervals arXiv:2601.02769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Conformal Interquantile Regression (CIR), a conformal regression method that efficiently constructs near-minimal prediction intervals with guaranteed coverage. CIR leverages black-box machine learning models to estimate outcome distributions through interquantile ranges, transforming these estimates into compact prediction intervals while achieving approximate conditional…
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Self-Supervised Learning from Noisy and Incomplete Data
Self-Supervised Learning from Noisy and Incomplete Data arXiv:2601.03244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many important problems in science and engineering involve inferring a signal from noisy and/or incomplete observations, where the observation process is known. Historically, this problem has been tackled using hand-crafted regularization (e.g., sparsity, total-variation) to obtain meaningful estimates. Recent data-driven methods often offer…
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Detecting and Mitigating Treatment Leakage in Text-Based Causal Inference: Distillation and Sensitivity Analysis
Detecting and Mitigating Treatment Leakage in Text-Based Causal Inference: Distillation and Sensitivity Analysis arXiv:2601.02400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-based causal inference increasingly employs textual data as proxies for unobserved confounders, yet this approach introduces a previously undertheorized source of bias: treatment leakage. Treatment leakage occurs when text intended to capture confounding information also contains signals…
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First Provably Optimal Asynchronous SGD for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Data
First Provably Optimal Asynchronous SGD for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Data arXiv:2601.02523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly through large neural networks trained on massive datasets using thousands of GPUs or TPUs. Such training can occupy entire data centers for weeks and requires enormous computational and energy resources. Yet the optimization algorithms behind…
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Measuring What Matters with NeMo Agent Toolkit
Measuring What Matters with NeMo Agent Toolkit A practical guide to observability, evaluations, and model comparisons The post Measuring What Matters with NeMo Agent Toolkit appeared first on Towards Data Science. Mariya Mansurova Go to original source
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The Best Data Scientists Are Always Learning
The Best Data Scientists Are Always Learning Part 2: Avoiding burnout, learning strategies and the superpower of solitude The post The Best Data Scientists Are Always Learning appeared first on Towards Data Science. Jarom Hulet Go to original source
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How to Optimize Your AI Coding Agent Context
How to Optimize Your AI Coding Agent Context Make your coding agents more efficient The post How to Optimize Your AI Coding Agent Context appeared first on Towards Data Science. Eivind Kjosbakken Go to original source
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GliNER2: Extracting Structured Information from Text
GliNER2: Extracting Structured Information from Text From unstructured text to structured Knowledge Graphs The post GliNER2: Extracting Structured Information from Text appeared first on Towards Data Science. Tomaz Bratanic Go to original source
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Data science applications across industries in 2026
Data science applications across industries in 2026 Industries like healthcare, retail and finance use data science applications to improve diagnostics, optimize operations, forecast trends and prevent fraud. Go to techtarget
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How smart home materials can shield us from extreme heat and cut energy bills all year
How smart home materials can shield us from extreme heat and cut energy bills all year Australia is getting hotter. Climate change is driving more frequent and prolonged extreme heat waves and our homes are struggling to keep up. Alarmingly, many Australian houses—especially older ones—weren’t designed for these harsh conditions. Go to techxplore
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AI is quick but risky for updating old software, researchers warn
AI is quick but risky for updating old software, researchers warn At first glance, artificial intelligence looks like a software developer’s dream. A recent McKinsey & Company report found that programmers generated code up to 45% faster with the help of generative AI. Go to techxplore
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Manganese gets its moment as a potential fuel cell catalyst
Manganese gets its moment as a potential fuel cell catalyst The road to a more sustainable planet may be partially paved with manganese. According to a new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Missouri, chemical catalysts containing manganese—an abundant, inexpensive metallic element—proved highly effective in converting carbon dioxide into formate, a compound…
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New semiconductor etching process achieves five-fold speed improvement
New semiconductor etching process achieves five-fold speed improvement After more than a decade of research and development, Tokyo Electron Miyagi Ltd. has introduced an innovative semiconductor etching method that achieves etch rates up to five times faster than conventional processes. Now, a collaborative research team from Nagoya University and the company has examined the underlying…
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What the New Year’s fire at a Swiss bar tells us about fire prevention
What the New Year’s fire at a Swiss bar tells us about fire prevention In the early hours of Jan. 1, 2026, a fire ripped through Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, killing 40 people and injuring 116, many of them severely. Go to techxplore
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STAT+: FDA announces sweeping changes to oversight of wearables, AI-enabled devices
STAT+: FDA announces sweeping changes to oversight of wearables, AI-enabled devices LAS VEGAS — The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it will ease regulation of digital health products, following through on the Trump administration’s promises to deregulate artificial intelligence and promote its widespread use. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary indicated that one of the…
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Opinion: What I got wrong 33 years ago as a new pediatrician talking to parents about vaccines
Opinion: What I got wrong 33 years ago as a new pediatrician talking to parents about vaccines In 1993, a young couple expecting their first child walked into my office. As the new pediatric residency director at the University of California San Diego, I was eager to help them find the right doctor for their…
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Trump tells Republicans to be ‘flexible’ on abortion restrictions to get a health care deal
Trump tells Republicans to be ‘flexible’ on abortion restrictions to get a health care deal President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants Republicans to reach a deal on health care insurance assistance by being willing to bend on a 50-year-old budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on abortion services. “You have to be a little…
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STAT+: HHS slashes vaccine recommendations
STAT+: HHS slashes vaccine recommendations You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We’re almost healthy again, according to RFK Jr., though I’m certainly not in top form after my holiday break.…
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New vaccine schedule adds near- and long-term risks for children, experts warn
New vaccine schedule adds near- and long-term risks for children, experts warn WASHINGTON — When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assumed the role of health secretary almost one year ago, he said he had one overriding goal: to improve children’s health. But Kennedy’s sudden, unilateral, and sweeping change to the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule, announced Monday,…
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Why 2026 Could Redefine Crypto Market Structure
Why 2026 Could Redefine Crypto Market Structure As regulation advances and institutions scale in, 2026 is shaping up as the year crypto markets are forced to prove their resilience. Vismaya V Go to decrypt.co
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Grayscale’s Ethereum ETF Begins Paying Staking Rewards
Grayscale’s Ethereum ETF Begins Paying Staking Rewards The Ethereum payout marks the first time a U.S. spot crypto product has distributed protocol-level income to investors. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co
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Bitcoin Gains Momentum as Traders Look for Confirmation
Bitcoin Gains Momentum as Traders Look for Confirmation Bitcoin’s push to $95,000, supported by bullish options flows, is being tempered by flat open interest and weak spot demand. Akash Girimath Go to decrypt.co
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Amazon Launches New Chatbot-Style Interface for Alexa
Amazon Launches New Chatbot-Style Interface for Alexa The company has rolled out Alexa.com in early access, extending Alexa+ to browsers with smart-home controls, text, and image generation. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co
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Elon Musk’s xAI Refuses to Rein In Grok as Non-Consensual Deepfakes Run Wild
Elon Musk’s xAI Refuses to Rein In Grok as Non-Consensual Deepfakes Run Wild Users are getting Grok to generate non-consensual images of women. Elon Musk’s AI platform says this is just another form of free speech. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co
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Beyond Demand Estimation: Consumer Surplus Evaluation via Cumulative Propensity Weights
Beyond Demand Estimation: Consumer Surplus Evaluation via Cumulative Propensity Weights arXiv:2601.01029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops a practical framework for using observational data to audit the consumer surplus effects of AI-driven decisions, specifically in targeted pricing and algorithmic lending. Traditional approaches first estimate demand functions and then integrate to compute consumer surplus, but…
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Fibonacci-Driven Recursive Ensembles: Algorithms, Convergence, and Learning Dynamics
Fibonacci-Driven Recursive Ensembles: Algorithms, Convergence, and Learning Dynamics arXiv:2601.01055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops the algorithmic and dynamical foundations of recursive ensemble learning driven by Fibonacci-type update flows. In contrast with classical boosting Freund and Schapire (1997); Friedman (2001), where the ensemble evolves through first-order additive updates, we study second-order recursive architectures in…
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Neural Networks on Symmetric Spaces of Noncompact Type
Neural Networks on Symmetric Spaces of Noncompact Type arXiv:2601.01097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent works have demonstrated promising performances of neural networks on hyperbolic spaces and symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifolds. These spaces belong to a family of Riemannian manifolds referred to as symmetric spaces of noncompact type. In this paper, we propose a novel…
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Conformal Blindness: A Note on $A$-Cryptic change-points
Conformal Blindness: A Note on $A$-Cryptic change-points arXiv:2601.01147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conformal Test Martingales (CTMs) are a standard method within the Conformal Prediction framework for testing the crucial assumption of data exchangeability by monitoring deviations from uniformity in the p-value sequence. Although exchangeability implies uniform p-values, the converse does not hold. This raises the…
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Evidence Slopes and Effective Dimension in Singular Linear Models
Evidence Slopes and Effective Dimension in Singular Linear Models arXiv:2601.01238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian model selection commonly relies on Laplace approximation or the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), which assume that the effective model dimension equals the number of parameters. Singular learning theory replaces this assumption with the real log canonical threshold (RLCT), an effective…
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Feature Detection, Part 3: Harris Corner Detection
Feature Detection, Part 3: Harris Corner Detection Finding the most informative points in images The post Feature Detection, Part 3: Harris Corner Detection appeared first on Towards Data Science. Vyacheslav Efimov Go to original source
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Ray: Distributed Computing for All, Part 1
Ray: Distributed Computing for All, Part 1 From single to multi-core on your local PC and beyond The post Ray: Distributed Computing for All, Part 1 appeared first on Towards Data Science. Thomas Reid Go to original source
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Stop Blaming the Data: A Better Way to Handle Covariance Shift
Stop Blaming the Data: A Better Way to Handle Covariance Shift Instead of using shift as an excuse for poor performance, use Inverse Probability Weighting to estimate how your model should perform in the new environment The post Stop Blaming the Data: A Better Way to Handle Covariance Shift appeared first on Towards Data Science.…
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YOLOv1 Loss Function Walkthrough: Regression for All
YOLOv1 Loss Function Walkthrough: Regression for All An explanation of how YOLOv1 measures the correctness of its object detection and classification predictions The post YOLOv1 Loss Function Walkthrough: Regression for All appeared first on Towards Data Science. Muhammad Ardi Go to original source
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2026 will be the year data becomes truly intelligent
2026 will be the year data becomes truly intelligent As AI moves into production, enterprises are redefining data management around shared meaning, operational trust and system coherence rather than standalone capabilities. Go to techtarget
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8 Predictions for AI in 2026
8 Predictions for AI in 2026 It’s now 2026 and AI has become a daily part of business conversations. Everyone in the C-suite is contemplating whether to hop on the “hype train.” The bubble surrounding the industry seems poised to pop at some point as the market becomes saturated with companies producing “AI slop” in…
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8 Predictions for AI in 2026
8 Predictions for AI in 2026 It’s now 2026 and AI has become a daily part of business conversations. Everyone in the C-suite is contemplating whether to hop on the “hype train.” The bubble surrounding the industry seems poised to pop at some point as the market becomes saturated with companies producing “AI slop” in…
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Concentric AI Expands Private Scan Manager for Azure to Enable Compliant and Comprehensive GenAI Data Security
Concentric AI Expands Private Scan Manager for Azure to Enable Compliant and Comprehensive GenAI Data Security Concentric AI is expanding the Private Scan Manager functionality in its Semantic Intelligence data security governance platform?enabling customers to deploy Semantic Intelligence within their own private Microsoft Azure cloud. Go to dbta
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KurrentDB 26 Provides Non-Disruptive Integration for AI Systems and Eliminates Custom Code in Event-Driven Architectures
KurrentDB 26 Provides Non-Disruptive Integration for AI Systems and Eliminates Custom Code in Event-Driven Architectures Event-native data platform innovator?Kurrent?is releasing KurrentDB 26, adding native Kafka Source Connector, Relational Sink, and Custom Indices capabilities that reduce custom code requirements for event-driven architectures. Go to dbta
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Q&A: Developing a sustainable power grid in the era of AI
Q&A: Developing a sustainable power grid in the era of AI Le Xie, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), wants to know how we can modernize the electric grid to support rapid electrification and the growing demands of AI infrastructure. His research at SEAS…
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German renewable energy shift slowed in 2025
German renewable energy shift slowed in 2025 The share of renewables in German power production almost stagnated in 2025, data showed Monday, as concerns grow about a shift away from green policies under conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Go to techxplore
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Online ‘brainrot’ isn’t ruining children’s minds; it’s a new way of navigating the modern internet
Online ‘brainrot’ isn’t ruining children’s minds; it’s a new way of navigating the modern internet “Brainrot” is what many people call the chaotic, fast-moving memes, sounds and catchphrases that spread across TikTok, Roblox and online gaming and into playgrounds. An example is the endlessly repeated chant of “six-seven,” which still echoes through houses and schools…
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Ultrathin polymer layer extends lifespan of anode-free lithium metal batteries
Ultrathin polymer layer extends lifespan of anode-free lithium metal batteries Anode-free lithium metal batteries, which have attracted attention as candidates for electric vehicles, drones, and next-generation high-performance batteries, offer much higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion batteries. However, their short lifespan has made commercialization difficult. Go to techxplore
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Location, location, location: Model IDs best spots for offshore energy projects
Location, location, location: Model IDs best spots for offshore energy projects Researchers have developed a computational model that identifies the best combination of location and energy technologies to maximize offshore energy production, reducing the financial risk associated with investing in offshore projects. The model accounts for different types of wind and marine hydrokinetic technologies, the…
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With political savvy and outrage over drug prices, advocate David Mitchell was ahead of his time
With political savvy and outrage over drug prices, advocate David Mitchell was ahead of his time About a dozen years ago, I was interviewing for a job at The Wall Street Journal when I was asked by an editor what I thought would be the most important story in the coming year for the pharmaceutical…
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Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations under Trump’s directive
Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations under Trump’s directive WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are unilaterally reducing the number of recommended pediatric immunizations in response to an order from President Trump, the most significant reshaping of the vaccine schedule since Trump took office and empowered health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic…
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STAT+: Insilico inks cancer drug deal with Servier after IPO
STAT+: Insilico inks cancer drug deal with Servier after IPO Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Welcome back and happy new year! We have plenty of fresh coverage to start the week. We can also report that our upcoming STAT@JPM…
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about the U.S. launch of a Wegovy pill, a Chinese biotech incubator, and more
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about the U.S. launch of a Wegovy pill, a Chinese biotech incubator, and more Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We have returned from an extended break, which perhaps many of you enjoyed as well. In any event, we hope that any down time was relaxing and invigorating,…
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BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Sees Biggest Inflow in Three Months as Crypto Prices Rise
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Sees Biggest Inflow in Three Months as Crypto Prices Rise Analysts cite Bitcoin portfolio rebalancing as institutional investors price in three more years of Trump’s “America First” policy. Vismaya V Go to decrypt.co
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Meme Coins Swell as Sector Outstrips Broader Crypto Market
Meme Coins Swell as Sector Outstrips Broader Crypto Market Pepe, Bonk, and other meme coins soar with double-digit gains as risk-on sentiment renews amid improving geopolitical and fiscal policies. Akash Girimath Go to decrypt.co
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US Strike on Venezuela Puts Bitcoin in Focus as Oil Slides
US Strike on Venezuela Puts Bitcoin in Focus as Oil Slides The U.S. capture of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro sent oil to four-year lows, while crypto markets have held steady. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co
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Active learning for data-driven reduced models of parametric differential systems with Bayesian operator inference
Active learning for data-driven reduced models of parametric differential systems with Bayesian operator inference arXiv:2601.00038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work develops an active learning framework to intelligently enrich data-driven reduced-order models (ROMs) of parametric dynamical systems, which can serve as the foundation of virtual assets in a digital twin. Data-driven ROMs are explainable, computationally…
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Detecting Unobserved Confounders: A Kernelized Regression Approach
Detecting Unobserved Confounders: A Kernelized Regression Approach arXiv:2601.00200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting unobserved confounders is crucial for reliable causal inference in observational studies. Existing methods require either linearity assumptions or multiple heterogeneous environments, limiting applicability to nonlinear single-environment settings. To bridge this gap, we propose Kernel Regression Confounder Detection (KRCD), a novel method for…
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Generative Conditional Missing Imputation Networks
Generative Conditional Missing Imputation Networks arXiv:2601.00517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, we introduce a sophisticated generative conditional strategy designed to impute missing values within datasets, an area of considerable importance in statistical analysis. Specifically, we initially elucidate the theoretical underpinnings of the Generative Conditional Missing Imputation Networks (GCMI), demonstrating its robust properties in…
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Deep learning estimation of the spectral density of functional time series on large domains
Deep learning estimation of the spectral density of functional time series on large domains arXiv:2601.00284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We derive an estimator of the spectral density of a functional time series that is the output of a multilayer perceptron neural network. The estimator is motivated by difficulties with the computation of existing spectral density…
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Identification and Estimation under Multiple Versions of Treatment: Mixture-of-Experts Approach
Identification and Estimation under Multiple Versions of Treatment: Mixture-of-Experts Approach arXiv:2601.00287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption (SUTVA) includes the condition that there are no multiple versions of treatment in causal inference. Though we could not control the implementation of treatment in observational studies, multiple versions may exist in the treatment.…
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Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 05 Jan, 2026 – 12 Jan, 2026
Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 05 Jan, 2026 – 12 Jan, 2026 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…
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[Official] 2025 End of Year Salary Sharing thread
[Official] 2025 End of Year Salary Sharing thread This is the official thread for sharing your current salaries (or recent offers). See last year’s Salary Sharing thread here. Please only post salaries/offers if you’re including hard numbers, but feel free to use a throwaway account if you’re concerned about anonymity. You can also generalize some…
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Tips for standing out in this market?
Tips for standing out in this market? Hey all, I just finished my master’s in data science last month and I want to see what it takes to break into a mid level DS role. I haven’t had a chance to sterilize my resume yet (2 young kids and a lot of recent travel), but…
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Learning Python by doing projects: What does that even mean?
Learning Python by doing projects: What does that even mean? I’m learning Python and considering this approach: choose a real dataset, frame a question I want to answer, then work toward it step by step by breaking it into small tasks and researching each step as needed. For those of you who are already comfortable…
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Which class should I take to help me get a job?
Which class should I take to help me get a job? I’m in my final semester of my MS program and am deciding between Spatial and Non-Parametric statistics. I feel like spatial is less common but would make me stand out more for jobs specifically looking for spatial whereas NP would be more common but…
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Prompt Engineering vs RAG for Editing Resumes
Prompt Engineering vs RAG for Editing Resumes Running a code-free comparison in Azure The post Prompt Engineering vs RAG for Editing Resumes appeared first on Towards Data Science. Robert Etter Go to original source
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How to Filter for Dates, Including or Excluding Future Dates, in Semantic Models
How to Filter for Dates, Including or Excluding Future Dates, in Semantic Models It is common to have either planning data or the previous year’s data displayed beyond today’s date. But future data can be confusing. How can I add a Slicer to show or hide future data? Let’s see how to do it. The…
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Self-driving cars could prevent over 1 million road injuries across the US by 2035
Self-driving cars could prevent over 1 million road injuries across the US by 2035 Autonomous vehicles could dramatically reduce traffic accidents and injuries on U.S. roads. Drawing on historical data and current trends, a recent JAMA Surgery study projected that self-driving cars could prevent more than 1 million injuries between 2025 and 2035, resulting in…
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The Grisliest Bitcoin and Crypto Wrench Attacks That Grabbed Headlines in 2025
The Grisliest Bitcoin and Crypto Wrench Attacks That Grabbed Headlines in 2025 Attacks against Bitcoin and crypto holders became increasingly physical in 2025. Here’s a look back at some of the horrific assaults. Logan Hitchcock Go to decrypt.co