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General-purpose LLMs' success in medical tasks suggests a shift in AI tool preference, impacting future healthcare technology development and adoption. The post Nature Medicine study finds general-purpose LLMs outperform dedicated medical AI tools appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Modern AI systems have evolved beyond the simple chatbots that quickly became popular. Now they use semantic tools to manage workflows and link machines to machines, providing a flexible and effective framework for the next generation of business automation. What you used to build in Microsoft’s Power Platform or construct inside Biztalk is now an agent, built around large language models (LLMs) that can parse both your data and the APIs that you want to use your data with, orchestrating workflows with a level of autonomy that traditional tooling can’t match. That shift has offered new opportunities, much like those that came with business platforms like Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce. Here, tools built to solve one set of business problems could be turned into applications that could be sold to other companies. What worked for you to solve one of your problems could now be an added revenue stream, sold through platform marketplaces that helped customers manage installations and cus

Learn how the SAS Agentic AI Accelerator and SAS Viya can be used to build a governed, multi-agent support-ticket solution that combines text analytics, RAG, LLMs, business rules, and human oversight to improve resolution speed, accuracy, and operational efficiency. The post Modernizing attendance ticketing in SAS Viya using SAS Agentic AI Accelerator appeared first on SAS Blogs.

Years ago, right-wingers coined the phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) to describe people who hate US President Donald J. Trump. (I think it better describes the president’s outlandish, truth-challenged statements and the followers who think he can do no wrong.) What’s really deranged is his recent AI executive order. First, a little history. As you may recall, Trump often (and loudly) trashed his predecessor’s Executive Order 14110, which had demanded “safe, secure, and trustworthy” AI. That Biden Administration order was replaced last year by Trump’s own “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” directive; it basically let US AI companies do whatever they wanted in the name of innovation. Then, a little thing called Anthropic Mythos came along — and scared the pants off even AI’s biggest fans. Seemingly in response, someone in the federal government decided that letting AI companies do whatever they want might not be the brightest policy.  Or, did t

This is how LLMs are used today to increase precision in recommendation systems The post Increase Recommendation Systems’ Precision with LLMs, Using Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Analyzing several reasons why structural content decay may happen when asking LLMs to perform complex document editing for us.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has gained considerable momentum as a standard connector between LLM-powered tools and local systems, internal and external APIs, and data sources. From major clouds to devops tools, MCP servers are enabling powerful, AI-powered development and operations capabilities through natural language commands. Nowhere is this more true than in the world of databases. Most major database platforms now support agentic access through MCP servers. Using an MCP server for databases, you and your AI agent proxies can perform lookups, create and update data, and perform administrative tasks without you having to write SQL by hand. The MCP server could also guide your LLMs to write new code or build automations that align with your database schema, like its tables, structure, and fields, as well as embeddings, indexes, and metadata. It could also aid debugging by enabling faster queries to surface data issues or misconfigurations, along with plenty of other possible use ca

Every enterprise, from a seed-stage startup deploying its first automated workflow to a Fortune 50 firm rebuilding its entire labor model, now depends on agent software to plan, reason, execute, and iterate without constant human instruction. The CEOs building that software are, in a very real sense, deciding what autonomous work looks like in the […]