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Automating Data Analysis with Python Dashboards

In today's data-rich environment, business are always looking for a way to capitalize on available data for new insights and ...

Someone hacked AI into Animal Crossing to give villagers even more to gossip about, including Tom Nook's evil empire and Trump

The dialogue AI was trained from a character sheet created by scraping the fan wiki. A "tiny shared memory" was added between ...

How to Quickly Build AI Demonstrations with Gradio

Suppose you want to train a text summarizer or an image classifier. Without using Gradio, you would need to build the front end, write back-end code, find a hosting platform, and connect all parts, ...
XDA Developers on MSN

6 FOSS Notepad alternatives for coders

Discover the best free and open-source alternatives to Notepad that offer powerful features for coders and programmers. From lightweight editors to full-featured IDEs, find the perfect Notepad ...
Windows Central

Microsoft’s new AI can turn plain text into a full podcast — and it’s freakishly good at it

What's happening today with Microsoft and AI, then? For once, it's not Copilot being stuffed into something, instead, an interesting new open-source project called VibeVoice. VibeVoice is an entirely ...
Wall Street Journal

How a 9-Year-Old Tiktoker Helped Turn a Joke Into Arizona Beverages’ Next Drink

What began as an April Fools’ joke has become a real product for Arizona Beverages, thanks to a 9-year-old TikTok star known as “The Rizzler.” Arizona, known for its 99-cent iced-tea tallboys, is ...
TechCrunch

AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit

“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot ...
Variety

Why A$AP Rocky, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd Struggle to Turn Music Fame Into Movie Stardom

The phenomenon of the music star fizzle dates back decades, having dinged the big-screen aspirations of everyone from Mariah Carey (“Glitter”) to Britney Spears (“Crossroads”) to even Rihanna ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Kenya, China in Talks to Convert Dollar Loans Into Yuan Debt

Kenya is in talks with China to convert dollar-denominated debt the East African nation owes its biggest bilateral lender to yuan and extend the repayment period, Treasury Secretary John Mbadi said.
WOOD-TV

Kalamazoo cancels loan for project to turn hotel into apartments

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The city of Kalamazoo is clawing back approval of a $400,000 loan for a project to turn an old hotel into affordable housing. At the city Business Commission’s Monday meeting ...
Reuters

Kenya in talks with China to convert dollar rail loan into yuan

NAIROBI, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Kenya is in talks with China to convert a dollar-denominated railway loan into Chinese yuan, an aide to the Finance Minister John Mbadi told Reuters on Wednesday. China is ...