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The following is the feed for Friday, November 21, 2025

1) 3D Spatial Understanding with Gemini: How AI Learns to See, Point, and Reason Like Humans

by Vipin Vashisth | www.analyticsvidhya.com | Nov. 19, 2025, 8:36 a.m. | Score: 0.834

Selected Quotes: "point...For example, when we asked the model to find a grasp point on a mug, it was able to correctly point to the handle for the grasp point...For example, given two views of the same scene, Gemini can match corresponding points, achieving a kind of rough 3D correspondence, given both views."

*Source: https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2025/11/3d-spatial-understanding-with-gemini/

2) Best Introductory Data Science Courses on Ai+ Training for 2026

by None | opendatascience.com | Nov. 18, 2025, 10:46 a.m. | Score: 0.784

Selected Quotes: "The SQL for Data Science course teaches you how to retrieve, shape, and transform data from relational databases – a core skill for any data scientist...ODSC’s Ai+ Training platform offers a rich catalog of on-demand courses tailored for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and data analysts seeking to deepen their expertise...The course also covers practical techniques like zero-shot and few-shot learning and fine-tuning, demonstrating how LLMs can adapt to new tasks with little to no training data."

*Source: https://opendatascience.com/best-introductory-data-science-courses-on-ai-training-for-2026/

3) How Agentic AI Enhances API Testing

by None | dzone.com | Nov. 18, 2025, 10:45 a.m. | Score: 0.727

Selected Quotes: "Agentic AI addresses API testing issues through test creation and maintenance, intelligent test coverage, and more...Moreover, it can prioritize test cases based on recent code changes, business activity, or risk analyses to optimize the use of testing resources...Researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) in API testing, particularly when a single test case corresponds to multiple values."

*Source: https://dzone.com/articles/how-agentic-ai-enhances-api-testing

4) The State of AI: How war will be changed forever

by None | www.technologyreview.com | Nov. 18, 2025, 10:42 a.m. | Score: 0.716

Selected Quotes: "Even if the character of war is changing and remote technology is refining weapon systems, he insists, “the complete automation of war itself is simply an illusion...We’re told AI will not just bring superintelligence and scientific discovery but also make warfare sharper, more accurate and calculated, less prone to human fallibility...There will be both opportunities and hazards in what the military is being offered by a relatively nascent (though booming) defense tech scene."

*Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/17/1127514/the-state-of-ai-the-new-rules-of-war/

5) Why modular AI is emerging as the next enterprise architecture standard

by None | www.cio.com | Nov. 18, 2025, 10:43 a.m. | Score: 0.714

Selected Quotes: "Rather than expecting one massive model to understand and govern everything, this model distributes intelligence across smaller, focused components...But in practice, the gap between model capability and operational reality grows wider when a single model is responsible for every function...Instead of forcing one model to understand every topic in the enterprise, SLMs stay close to the context they are responsible for."

*Source: https://www.cio.com/article/4091387/why-modular-ai-is-emerging-as-the-next-enterprise-architecture-standard.html

6) Developing Human Sexuality in the Age of AI | Towards Data Science

by Stephanie Kirmer | towardsdatascience.com | Nov. 20, 2025, 10:16 a.m. | Score: 0.713

Selected Quotes: "I don’t want to portray this as an indictment of all sexual content, or necessarily even sexual content generated by AI...If this is the case, young people seeking important information to keep themselves safe and healthy in their sexual expression may have a valuable tool in generative AI...But at the same time, the hazards around sexual abuse and nonconsensual sexual content are serious, as are the unrealistic expectations and physical standards being set implicitly."

*Source: https://towardsdatascience.com/developing-human-sexuality-in-the-age-of-ai/

7) Cloud-native computing is poised to explode, thanks to AI inference work

by None | www.zdnet.com | Nov. 18, 2025, 10:47 a.m. | Score: 0.706

Selected Quotes: "At KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)'s leaders predicted an enormous surge in cloud-native computing, driven by the explosive growth of AI inference workloads...AI inference is the process by which a trained large language model (LLM) applies what it has learned to new data to make predictions, decisions, or classifications..."What all this effort means for business is that AI inference spending on cloud-native infrastructure and services will reach into the hundreds of billions within the next 18 months."

*Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-native-computing-is-poised-to-explode-thanks-to-ai-inference-work/

8) Microsoft Ignite 2025 — get the latest news and insights

by None | www.computerworld.com | Nov. 19, 2025, 8:35 a.m. | Score: 0.694

Selected Quotes: "Former editor of Insider Pro and former editor in chief of CIO...That’s the idea behind Microsoft’s Agent 365 (A365), a new “control plane” that lets customers deploy and govern the use of agents, announced at Ignite 2025...20, 2024: Microsoft unveiled new Copilot Studio features aimed at both expanding the functionality of AI agents created with the application and improving the accuracy of outputs."

*Source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3601006/microsoft-ignite-latest-news-and-insights.html

9) The 3 Best AI Tools to Master 'Vibe Coding' — and Cut Costs

by None | www.entrepreneur.com | Nov. 17, 2025, 7:52 a.m. | Score: 0.681

Selected Quotes: "As an engineer applying AI tools to complex projects, especially in machine learning, I’ve managed to cut both time and costs with three key solutions...Structured maintenance and smart input crafting result in significant time and cost savings in complex machine learning projects...Vibe coding transcends small projects, with tech giants competing to master multi-file AI-augmented programming tools."

*Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/the-3-best-ai-tools-to-master-vibe-coding-and-cut/498161

10) AI-Driven Banking: How Fintechs and Banks Are Reinventing Growth: By Stanley Epstein

by None | www.finextra.com | Nov. 19, 2025, 11:57 a.m. | Score: 0.676

Selected Quotes: "Banks with deep transaction histories, risk data, and customer behavior patterns are uniquely positioned to train high-quality models...Many banks are exposing their AI services through APIs, enabling partners and fintechs to embed decisioning capabilities directly into their own products...McKinsey notes that truly transformative “AI banks” are building decisioning layers that enable “n = 1” personalization: instead of cohort-based offers, each customer receives unique, model-driven propositions."

*Source: https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/30141/ai-driven-banking-how-fintechs-and-banks-are-reinventing-growth

11) 5 questions leaders face when adopting AI in hiring — and the solutions

by None | www.businessinsider.com | Nov. 17, 2025, 7:51 a.m. | Score: 0.672

Selected Quotes: "While existing metrics like candidate quality and time to hire are still helpful for measuring recruiting results, stay open to new indicators of success as AI technology evolves...By Amy Jordan, senior program manager, content marketing at IndeedIncreasing reliance on AI in recruiting is changing how job seekers and employers interact in the hiring process...What are some best practices for using AI responsibly in recruiting?Many companies are forming AI ethics committees to define principles, set guidelines, and assess new technologies."

*Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/sc/5-ai-hiring-challenges-leaders-face-and-the-solutions

12) MLCommons Releases MLPerf AI Training v5.1 Results - insideAI News

by staff | insideainews.com | Nov. 17, 2025, 7:25 a.m. | Score: 0.671

Selected Quotes: "1 benchmark suite, highlighting the rapid evolution and increasing richness of the AI ecosystem as well as significant performance improvements from new generations of systems...The open-source and peer-reviewed benchmark suite provides a level playing field for competition that drives innovation, performance, and energy efficiency for the entire industry...The MLPerf Training benchmark suite comprises full system tests that stress models, software, and hardware for a range of machine learning (ML) applications."

*Source: https://insideainews.com/2025/11/14/mlcommons-releases-mlperf-ai-training-v5-1-results/

13) Why LLMs Aren’t a One-Size-Fits-All Solution for Enterprises | Towards Data Science

by Jure Leskovec | towardsdatascience.com | Nov. 18, 2025, 10:44 a.m. | Score: 0.662

Selected Quotes: "Business data, the data enterprises are grounded in, is inherently structured...The Transformer then looks across the graph to pull context from related tables, which helps the model adapt to new database schemas and data types...The culmination of this research and foresight led my team and me to create the first Relational Foundation Model (RFM) for business data."

*Source: https://towardsdatascience.com/why-llms-arent-a-one-size-fits-all-solution-for-enterprises/

14) Metadata: How data about your data is optimal for AI - DataScienceCentral.com

by Kevin Vu | www.datasciencecentral.com | Nov. 20, 2025, 8:24 a.m. | Score: 0.649

Selected Quotes: "Metadata is “data about data” – information that describes, categorizes and provides context for the primary data...Metadata is “data about data” or descriptive information that characterizes, categorizes, and organizes data...Metadata improves AI model accuracy by providing crucial context that helps models better interpret patterns in the data."

*Source: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/metadata-how-data-about-your-data-is-optimal-for-ai/

15) Are AI toys putting young children at risk this holiday season?

by None | www.firstpost.com | Nov. 20, 2025, 8:25 a.m. | Score: 0.638

Selected Quotes: "Because of this, she added, the amount of trust young children are putting in these toys can exacerbate the harms seen with older children...TwitterChildren’s advocacy groups are warning parents against buying AI-powered toys this holiday season, saying they expose kids to unsafe conversations and weaken creativity...Representational Image/APAI-powered toys may look adorable and offer promises of education and companionship, but children’s and consumer advocacy groups warn that they pose significant risks."

*Source: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/are-ai-toys-safe-for-children-holiday-warning-13952525.html

16) Hugging Face CEO says we're in an 'LLM bubble,' not an AI bubble | TechCrunch

by Sarah Perez | techcrunch.com | Nov. 19, 2025, 8:36 a.m. | Score: 0.632

Selected Quotes: "“I think we’re in an LLM bubble, and I think the LLM bubble might be bursting next year,” explained Delangue...Plus, meet the hundreds of startups innovating across every sector...“I think a lot of people right now are rushing — or maybe even panicking — and taking a really short-term approach to things."

*Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/hugging-face-ceo-says-were-in-an-llm-bubble-not-an-ai-bubble/

17) Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search

by Shiri Melumad, University of Pennsylvania, The Conversation | gizmodo.com | Nov. 19, 2025, 11:57 a.m. | Score: 0.628

Selected Quotes: "For example, one possible reason LLM users wrote briefer and more generic advice is simply that the LLM results exposed users to less eclectic information than the Google results...When we learn about a topic through Google search, we face much more “friction”: We must navigate different web links, read informational sources, and interpret and synthesize them ourselves...Likewise, in another experiment we held constant the search platform – Google – and varied whether participants learned from standard Google results or Google’s AI Overview feature."

*Source: https://gizmodo.com/learning-with-ai-falls-short-compared-to-old-fashioned-web-search-2000688085

18) Gemini 3: Google unveils latest AI model, promises new age of intelligence

by None | www.firstpost.com | Nov. 19, 2025, 8:36 a.m. | Score: 0.625

Selected Quotes: "For business customers, Google previewed a new product called Antigravity, a new software development platform where AI agents can plan and execute coding tasks on their own...Pichai said the Gemini 3 launch marked the first time that Google had incorporated its new model into its search engine from day one...Improvements to Gemini 3 in domains such as coding and reasoning enabled Google to build out a set of new features, both for consumers and enterprise customers."

*Source: https://www.firstpost.com/tech/gemini-3-google-unveils-latest-ai-model-promises-new-age-of-intelligence-ws-e-13952067.html

19) How AI is used in cybersecurity - DataScienceCentral.com

by Martin Summer | www.datasciencecentral.com | Nov. 20, 2025, 8:25 a.m. | Score: 0.624

Selected Quotes: "Organizations need to be vigilant and employ advanced security systems that can learn from emerging attack patterns and adapt in real-time to stay ahead of increasingly intelligent threats...Dedicated security hardware: Companies are implementing GPU-accelerated clusters with AI trained to process security telemetry data in real-time, reducing threat detection latency from hours to seconds...The future belongs to self-healing systems that automatically strengthen defenses based on experience—adapting security protocols, patching vulnerabilities, and optimizing detection capabilities autonomously."

*Source: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-is-used-in-cybersecurity/

20) When Text Helps Time Series (and When It Doesn’t) - Gradient Flow

by Ben Lorica | gradientflow.com | Nov. 19, 2025, 8:34 a.m. | Score: 0.609

Selected Quotes: "The landscape is divided into encoder-only models (like MOMENT and MOIRAI), decoder-only models (like TimesFM and Lag-Llama), and encoder-decoder architectures (like TimeGPT)...Adding textual data like news headlines to forecasts is appealing, but for most businesses, a more powerful source of context is already available: their own structured, relational data...This allows the model to adapt on the fly without any gradient updates, offering the accuracy of a specialized model without the operational overhead of managing separate fine-tuning jobs."

*Source: https://gradientflow.com/when-text-helps-time-series-and-when-it-doesnt/

21) Experts: AI chatbots unsafe for teen mental health

by None | mashable.com | Nov. 20, 2025, 8:30 a.m. | Score: 0.541

Selected Quotes: "Her areas of expertise include suicide prevention, screen use and mental health, parenting, youth well-being, and meditation and mindfulness...She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology...Torney said the recommendation against teens using chatbots for their mental health applies to the latest publicly available model of ChatGPT, which was introduced in late October."

*Source: https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-claude-meta-ai-gemini-unsafe-for-teen-mental-health

22) This $2.6B Japanese A.I. Startup Exposes the Language Gap in Today’s LLMs

by None | observer.com | Nov. 18, 2025, 10:46 a.m. | Score: 0.534

Selected Quotes: "The Tokyo-based startup is building language models that reflect Japan’s language, culture and economy...The young company’s products so far include reasoning models, a self-improving coding agent and “AI Scientist,” a system designed for scientific discovery...But where the Tokyo-based venture stands apart from most of the world’s model developers is in its focus on designing products specifically for Japanese society, language and industries."

*Source: https://observer.com/2025/11/sakana-ai-raises-135m-japan-tailored-models/

23) Kaaj Nets $3.8 Mn To Automate Small Business Lending

by Bhupendra Paintola | inc42.com | Nov. 20, 2025, 10:17 a.m. | Score: 0.523

Selected Quotes: "Stay ahead with the latest news, funding, startup financials, & governments policies on the hottest tech industries in the Indian startup ecosystem...Learn from India’s top 1% of D2C founders & experts through actionable insights, proven strategies and tactics on how to launch a successful D2C Brand in 6 weeks...Learn from India's top 1% D2C founders and experts through actionable insights, proven strategies and tactics on how to 10X your D2C brand."

*Source: https://inc42.com/buzz/kaaj-nets-3-8-mn-to-automate-small-business-lending/

24) Synthio Labs Bags $5 Mn To Provide Voice AI To Life Sciences Industry

by Ananya Upadhyaya | inc42.com | Nov. 19, 2025, 8:36 a.m. | Score: 0.509

*Source: https://inc42.com/buzz/synthio-labs-bags-5-mn-to-provide-voice-ai-to-life-sciences-industry/

25) Gemini 3 launches: Everything new, how to try them

by None | mashable.com | Nov. 20, 2025, 8:30 a.m. | Score: 0.504

Selected Quotes: "Chance Townsend is the General Assignments Editor at Mashable, covering tech, video games, dating apps, digital culture, and whatever else comes his way...In a note sharing the launch, the company stated that the model incorporates deeper reasoning, stronger multimodal understanding, and enhanced awareness of user intent compared to earlier versions...The model rolled out across Google products on day one, marking the first time a new Gemini release has gone live in Search at launch."

*Source: https://mashable.com/article/google-gemini-3-launch-everything-new-how-to-try