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From fake photos of Donald Trump being arrested by New York City police officers to a chatbot describing a very-much-alive computer scientist as having died tragically, the ability of the new generation of…

Building a RAG (short for Retrieval Augmented Generation) to “chat with your data” is easy: install a popular LLM orchestrator like LangChain or LlamaIndex, turn your data into vectors, index those in a vector database, and…

Photo by Delia Giandeini on Unsplash Discussions around the risks of AI often gravitate towards the hypothetical dangers of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and doomsday scenarios. Robots are not going to take over…

At Agoda, Quality Assurance (QA) Engineers are more than just testers; they play a crucial role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality products. They are the gatekeepers of quality, responsible…

“The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.” ― Ben Schneiderman In today’s data-driven world, clear and insightful data visualization is crucial. At Agoda, we understand that data isn’t just…

Apache Kafka has become an essential tool in Agoda for building resilient and scalable architectures. Its inherently distributed nature facilitates seamless data streaming and processing, which is essential for handling…

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has ended talks with Oracle on a potential $10 billion server deal, opting instead to build its own system using Nvidia’s H100 GPUs. Musk’s shift…

PayPal is expanding into U.S. point-of-sale payments by integrating its debit card with Apple Pay, offering 5% cashback to attract in-person consumers.  CEO Alex Chriss is driving this push as…

Northern Data AG is exploring a U.S. initial public offering of its artificial intelligence (AI) cloud computing and data center unit ata valuation of up to $16 billion. The company,…

The US venture capital funding surged to $55.6 billion in Q2, driven by significant investments in AI companies, reversing a previous decline. The resurgence in venture capital funding highlights the…