Databricks reportedly in talks to raise funding at a $130B+ valuation
Databricks is said to be in talks to raise a new round of funding just a few months after its last fundraise, which valued the company at $100 billion.
2025
Focal Loss vs Binary Cross-Entropy: A Practical Guide for Imbalanced Classification
Binary cross-entropy (BCE) is the default loss function for binary classification—but it breaks down badly on imbalanced datasets. The reason is subtle but important: BCE weighs mistakes from both classes…
Uni-MoE-2.0-Omni: An Open Qwen2.5-7B Based Omnimodal MoE for Text, Image, Audio and Video Understanding
How do you build one open model that can reliably understand text, images, audio and video while still running efficiently? A team of researchers from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen…
Multimodal AI: Real-World Use Cases, Limits & What You Need
If you’ve ever explained a vacation using photos, a voice note, and a quick sketch, you already get multimodal AI: systems that learn from and reason across text, images, audio—even…
Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the Executive Director as the company become structured as a nonprofit government by…
Kimi K2 vs Qwen 3 vs GLM 4.5: Full Model Comparison, Benchmarks & Use Cases
Compare Kimi K2, Qwen 3, and GLM 4.5 across benchmarks, cost, speed, context windows, and use cases. Discover which model fits coding, agents, and enterprise AI
As consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT, Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt
With consumers increasingly asking questions to ChatGPT, not Google, product discovery is changing — and the promise to give brands visibility and control over this fast-growing search channel has made…
a16z-backed super PAC is targeting Alex Bores, sponsor of New York’s AI safety bill — he says bring it on
A super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI, and other tech leaders has targeted New York Assembly member Alex Bores’ congressional campaign, marking its first attack against a lawmaker supporting…
The 4 Things You Need for a Tech Bubble
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, guest Brian Merchant walks us through a historical framework he used to analyze whether AI fits the classic signs of an economic bubble—and what…
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Digital Marketing Strategies
Abstract The article analyzes the transformational role of artificial intelligence (AI) in reshaping digital marketing strategies. The key areas of application are examined: customer behavior analytics, content personalization, advertising campaign…