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March 31, 2025

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14 alternative managed Kubernetes platforms

Rackspace Managed Kubernetes (MPK) Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes (MPK) is powered by Platform9, providing a unified control plane for cluster deployment, monitoring, incident response, and upgrades. MPK supports three environments—Rackspace bare metal, AKS, and EKS. Unique benefits include an SLA guaranteeing Kubernetes upgrades within 120 days of end of life and dedicated support, with a pod of Kubernetes-certified engineers assisting each customer. Highly Kubernetes-conformant, MPK integrates CNCF-backed tools like Prometheus, Fluentd, Helm, and Istio. However, MPK lacks a native container registry, IAM, and storage, requiring public cloud or bring-your-own solutions. MPK is a solid choice for teams using Rackspace

March 31, 2025

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ChatGPT’s Projects Feature Brings Order to Your AI Chaos

OpenAI isn’t slowing down when it comes to building extra functions and add-ons into its ChatGPT AI bot, and one of the newest features to roll out—exclusive to paying users, for now—is ChatGPT Projects. This is a major step forward for keeping conversations and data organized in ChatGPT: It gives you the ability to put your discussions with ChatGPT in separate spaces, like folders in a filing cabinet, complete with uploaded documents, web searches, custom instructions, and whatever else you’ve added. You can have one project for researching birthday present ideas, for example, and one for analyzing the current state

March 31, 2025

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Chinese Startup Launches Free AI Agent Powered by Models 8x Faster than DeepSeek-R1

Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, unveiled a new AI agent called AutoLM Rumination on Monday, Reuters reported. The tool can perform deep research tasks, generate detailed reports, and help users plan various activities and tasks—all for free.  The AI agent is powered by the company’s proprietary models, which are claimed to be as good as DeepSeek R1.  The report also noted that the company claims its model operates eight times faster while using only one-thirtieth of the resources.  Recently, the startup secured $69 million in Series D funding, just weeks following a $137 million funding round. Zhipu is

March 31, 2025

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What’s cooking?

Good morning, everyone. I’ve read many of you saying that progress, innovation, or change is already in the works in secret for several years before becoming mainstream. I wanted to ask if, by any chance, you are aware of any new projects in any field of our lives that have already been technically developed and exist or are close to realization. I'm referring to technology, medicine, or society in general—something secret, perhaps, that people are currently completely unaware of but is theoretically close to being implemented or already present on the planet. Thank you. submitted by /u/WhiteHalfNight

March 31, 2025

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Elon’s $113B AI-social merger

PLUS: New book goes behind-the-scenes on OpenAI’s boardroom drama Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The Musk empire just underwent a major restructuring — with xAI acquiring social platform X in a $113B deal that officially creates a unified AI-social media powerhouse. With both companies’ futures now officially “intertwined” and resources being pooled across data, models, and talent, is this the strategic move that finally puts Grok on equal footing with industry leaders? Musk merges X and xAI in $113B deal New book details OpenAI’s boardroom drama How to build web apps without any setup Apple developing AI doctor for Health app

March 31, 2025

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AI can be a powerful tool for scientists. But it can also fuel research misconduct

Nadia Piet & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / Model Collapse / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Jon Whittle, CSIRO and Stefan Harrer, CSIRO In February this year, Google announced it was launching “a new AI system for scientists”. It said this system was a collaborative tool designed to help scientists “in creating novel hypotheses and research plans”. It’s too early to tell just how useful this particular tool will be to scientists. But what is clear is that artificial intelligence (AI) more generally is already transforming science. Last year for example, computer scientists won the Nobel Prize for

March 31, 2025

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Top 10 Open Source Python Libraries for Voice Agents

The way humans interact with technology is changing dramatically, and voice agents are at the forefront of this shift. Ranging from home automation systems and virtual assistants to customer support robots and assistive technology devices, voice technology facilitates more intuitive user-machine interaction. This increasing need requires more capable and flexible tools that enable developers to create sophisticated voice agents. In this article, we’ll explore the 10 best open-source Python libraries with which you can build strong and efficient voice agents. This includes Python libraries for speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, audio processing, speech-to-text conversion, and more. So, let’s get started. What are

March 31, 2025

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How Terraform is evolving infrastructure as code

HashiCorp also offers features like Terraform Stacks for managing complex multicomponent deployments, module life-cycle management to streamline upgrades and deprecations, and enhanced tagging for improved organization and governance within Terraform. Couple this with tight integration into other HashiCorp products such as Vault (secrets management), Consul (service discovery and connectivity), and Nomad (workload orchestration), and enterprises walk away with a more complete solution for managing and securing cloud infrastructure than they’d get from Terraform alone—or a competitive offering. Customers are listening This approach is working. BT Group, a leading telecommunications company, exemplifies how HashiCorp has blended its holistic product approach with