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AI Coding: Hype, Hope, and Hard Truths
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A gentle introduction to DSPy for graph data enrichment | Kuzu Learn how to use DSPy to enrich a graph dataset using LLMs and a vector index in Kuzu.

Building Knowledge Graphs Without the Headache: A DSPy Success Story
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Hype vs. Reality: There is a major disconnect between the vision of AI replacing programmers and the current, early-stage reality of AI-assisted coding
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🆕 From Hype to Reality: The True State of AI-Assisted Development
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These blanket funding cuts make no sense, now they are targeting UCLA.
♾️🧮 Terence Tao explains it well

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Meet the Fraudster Who Wants to Make California Its Own Country The man behind the Calexit movement claims to be a baller. But he's broke.

🚨🚨🚨 The March quarterly report for Mitchell’s primary company, Valiant Eagle … showed the business with only about $2,000 cash on hand, with its stock trading at one ten thousandth of a cent

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alternative 🔗 archive.ph/00WM6

Tequila, Drugs and Torture: The Spending Binge of Two Crypto Bros That Ended Behind Bars William Duplessie and John Woeltz hatched grandiose plans in business and politics but instead drew charges in an alleged kidnap scheme.

Profile of #crypto wrench attackers
₿ great long read from @wsj.com
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How Agentic AI is Transforming Wall Street Josh Pantony on Agentic AI, LLM Orchestration, and the Future of Financial Analysis.

From Prompts to Persistent Agents in Finance 🎧
🙌 Alfa — from Boosted AI — creates long-lived AI agents that continually execute finance workflows instead of one-off answers

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GitHub - tsinghua-fib-lab/AgentSociety: AgentSociety: Large-scale Social Simulation to Understand Human Behaviors and Society through LLM-driven Agents AgentSociety: Large-scale Social Simulation to Understand Human Behaviors and Society through LLM-driven Agents - tsinghua-fib-lab/AgentSociety

🆕 Ray Framework Enables Unprecedented Scale in AI Agent Social Simulation Research
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From Chatbots to Deal-Makers: 🏦 AI’s New Role in Banking
✅Combining generative and deterministic models yields accurate, explainable investment insights.
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From the toptalent community on Reddit: The Hat-trick to end all hat-tricks 🤯 Explore this post and more from the toptalent community

Incredible

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🆕 How AI is Reshaping Finance Behind the Scenes
📈 Firms are deploying AI to automate tedious work like document review and client communication, saving thousands of hours
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YouTube video by DW Documentary Racism, hatred and terror - The global network of rightwing extremists | DW Documentary

This is a chilling, but important documentary from Deutsche Welle
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YouTube video by CNN Attackers targeted a popular content creator over her crypto holdings. Here's what happened

There have been a spate of stories about #crypto wrench attacks, few with video like this one from @cnn.com youtu.be/QMgwDwDjSLg?...

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AI agents are automating complete financial workflows, from loan processing to document analysis
✅ Successful implementations combine AI reasoning with traditional deterministic models for reliability
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How Agentic AI is Transforming Wall Street Josh Pantony on Agentic AI, LLM Orchestration, and the Future of Financial Analysis.

Democratizing Wall Street 🎯 How Boosted makes Institutional AI Tools Available to Everyone
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Becoming Led Zeppelin - Wikipedia

Becoming Led Zeppelin 🆕 fantastic documentary @netflix.com
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Press Release: Nancy Pelosi Issues Statement Supporting Congressional Stock Trading Ban | Stock News Nancy Pelosi supports the HONEST Act, promoting transparency and accountability in Congressional sto

🎊🎊🙌

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Tariffs 🟰🟰 Import Tax

Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary - 2025 M06 Results

1️⃣ More than half of metro areas (217 out of 387) experienced rising unemployment compared to the previous year
2️⃣ Only 30 metro areas achieved meaningful job growth over the 12-month period
3️⃣ National unemployment held steady at 4.4% with minimal year-over-year change
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LAMs marry neural perception with planning engines to navigate real apps
✅ they combine perception, reasoning, and execution in one foundation, reducing the need for chained point solutions
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The Promise and Peril of AI That Can Act on Your Behalf.
📩 AI models can now autonomously navigate websites and applications to achieve a goal
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🆕 Enterprise #AI Gets Hands-On
— LAMs differ from LLMs/VLMs by actively executing tasks rather than just generating or analyzing content
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Companies with High China Exposure 📉 via Alfa from Boosted.ai
[Universe of candidates: S&P 500: Dividend Yield >2%, P/E >15]
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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who gained a popular following in the 1950s and ’60s lampooning marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, has died at 97.

RIP 🎶♾️ Tom Lehrer

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From the LiveFromNewYork community on Reddit: Bathroom Attendant - a hilariously awkward sketch played perfectly by Kevin Nealon and host Harvey Keitel (S18 E11) Explore this post and more from the LiveFromNewYork community

To teams building in AI customer service — Don't be the 'Bathroom Attendant' from that old SNL sketch 🤷🏼
🎯 there's a fine line between helpful and intrusive
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Billy Joel: And So It Goes (TV Mini Series 2025) ⭐ 8.9 | Documentary 2h 27m | TV-MA

Still in the middle of the 🆕 5-hour Billy Joel documentary 💯
🎹 it's incredible, I highly recommend it
🙏 HBO
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