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Hey Hackers! Welcome to another edition of HackerNoon Projects of the Week, where we spotlight standout entries from the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon, HackerNoon's global competition designed to reward what actually matters: real utility, real users, real impact. This week, we're looking at three projects solving
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Privacy and surveillance are common concerns these days. I've also gotten more questions about how companies use (or misuse) security video, especially if it's kept in the cloud. And everyone gets nervous thinking about others peering at them through security cam live views at any time.
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Big Tech built its reputation on mountains of cash. It is building its AI empire on debt, and the bill is starting to land in Europe. The five biggest builders of AI data centres in the US have doubled their debt over five years. Together, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and
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Anthropic has built something close to a mind-reading tool for its own AI. What it found sits somewhere between a breakthrough and an unsettling party trick. Anthropic researchers now have the clearest view yet of what a large language model does while it thinks. In a paper published on the
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Malaysia’s prime minister is trying something new: sending an autonomous copy of himself out to serve the public. Anwar Ibrahim is preparing to launch an artificial intelligence version of himself. The avatar is called PMX AI, a nod to his place as Malaysia’s tenth prime minister. Bloomberg reports
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Britain is spending £2bn to train its army inside a simulation. It has handed the job to an American defence giant, with a German one taking a slice. The UK has signed a £2bn ($2.7bn) contract to train its soldiers with artificial intelligence. The deal, announced by the Ministry
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In this post we show how to build a semantic layer on AWS using Stardog’s Semantic AI Application over Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift, and how to run a Strands Agents agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that queries the layer to answer customer 360 questions across both sources without
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In dentistry, image quality determines whether a claim is paid or denied. Up to 20 percent insurance claims are initially denied, with missing or low-quality images among the leading causes. Yet quality assessment has traditionally been a manual, after-the-fact process. A clinician reviews an X-ray hours or days after capture,
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Model customization transforms general-purpose AI models into specialized enterprise assets. By fine-tuning foundation models (FMs) on domain-specific data, businesses teach AI their unique workflows, terminology, and deep domain specialization, along with strict adherence to brand voice and fewer hallucinations. For enterprises, this is more than an optimization. It’s the
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When prefill and decode share a GPU, long prompts stall token generation for every concurrent request. Disaggregated Prefill and Decode (DPD) removes this interference by running each phase on separate GPU pools connected through Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). Large language model (LLM) inference has
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In this post, learn how KTern.AI, an SAP digital transformation platform, used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build and deploy AI agents ready for enterprise-scale SAP transformation workloads. These agents autonomously orchestrate workflows from reverse engineering, fit-to-standard, and code analysis to exception mining in Finance and Sales processes. The result
