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In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It's a lot of money!

EnCompass executes AI agent programs by backtracking and making multiple attempts, finding the best set of outputs generated by an LLM. It could help coders work with AI agents more efficiently.

We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.

Schemas, and Composable DataFrame ContractsIn this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build robust, production-grade data validation pipelines using Pandera with typed DataFrame models. We start by simulating realistic, imperfect transactional data and progressively enforce strict schema constraints, c...

Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI videos from others.

Sorting through the good, bad, and ambiguous aspects of vibe coding The post TDS Newsletter: Vibe Coding Is Great. Until It’s Not. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Building AI in healthcare is hard enough without fighting your own data systems. In Austin, Takeda is tackling that problem head-on, creating a platform designed for scale, compliance, and real-world impact.

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Discover the 10 best AI SDR tools of 2026 with a full comparison of features, pricing, user ratings, pros, cons, and expert insights. Learn which AI sales platforms deliver the strongest automation, personalization, and ROI for modern outbound teams.

ElevenLabs CEO argued at Web Summit Qatar that voice is the next interface for AI, as OpenAI, Google, and Apple push conversational systems into wearables, new hardware, and everyday interactions.

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AI agents that use tools, make decisions, and complete multi-step tasks aren't prototypes anymore.

The Zero-Impact Cloud Security leader advances its AI-native security platform, expands channel and technology alliances, and reports strong sales growth and market momentum heading into 2026 Mitiga, the leader in zero-impact cloud detection and response (CDR), today announced significant momentum a...

Break out the cake and green sprinkles — GeForce NOW is turning six. Since launch, members have streamed over 1 billion hours, and the party’s just getting started. Throughout February, members can look forward to new games, fresh ways to play across more devices and even more ways to bring RTX powe...

Stop guessing and start diagnosing performance issues using Py-Spy The post Why Is My Code So Slow? A Guide to Py-Spy Python Profiling appeared first on Towards Data Science.

We have seen big corporate rivalries in products across the gamut. Mac and Windows went at it for long. Then it was Pepsi and Coca-Cola, Burger King and McDonald’s, BMW and Mercedes, and the list goes on. But it is the era of AI, and it was only a matter of time before the competitiveness […] The po...

Recent developments on AI models have been specifically focused on one task – coding agents. Following the line, Alibaba’s Qwen is now out with a new model, one that promises industry-leading results, all while running locally. This essentially makes it an open-weight language model designed, in the...

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TOKYO: 6981) (ISIN: JP3914400001) has launched a new technology guide entitled: ‘Optimizing Power Delivery Networks for AI Servers in Next-Generation Data Centers.’ Available on the company’s website, the guide introduces specific power delivery network optimization s...

A simple mental model to remember when each one works (with examples that finally click). The post The Rule Everyone Misses: How to Stop Confusing loc and iloc in Pandas appeared first on Towards Data Science.

An autonomous lab combining OpenAI’s GPT-5 with Ginkgo Bioworks’ cloud automation cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40% through closed-loop experimentation.

Moves Zero Trust beyond application visibility into continuous, governed control of segmentation across network, cloud, and host environments FireMon, the leading network security and firewall policy management company, today announced the general availability of its integration with Illumio, giving...

Veteran cybersecurity sales leader brings 25+ years of experience scaling high-growth security organizations DirectDefense, a leading information security services company, today announced that Venkat Rangarajan, CISSP, has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. In this role, Rangarajan will...

Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, has become the backbone of most serious AI systems in the real world. The reason is simple: large language models are great at reasoning and writing, but terrible at knowing the objective truth. RAG fixes that by giving models a live connection to knowledge. W...