Most RAG systems don’t understand sophisticated documents — they shred them

Standard RAG pipelines treat documents as flat strings of text. They use "fixed-size chunking" (cutting a document every 500 ...
Reuters

AI boom drives data-center dealmaking to record high, says report

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Global data-center dealmaking surged to a record high through November this year, driven by an insatiable demand for computing infrastructure to meet the boom in artificial ...
CNBC

South Korea stocks lead losses in Asia-Pacific as investors parse key data from China

Traders in Asia will are parsing key economic data from China on Monday. Japan's Tankan index for business optimism among large Japanese manufacturers increased to +15 for the fourth quarter, hitting ...
GitHub

Align What Truely Matters: Pedestrain-relevant Hierarchical Parsing Network for Text-based Person Retrieval

In this paper, we propose a Pedestrian-relevant Hierarchical Parsing (PHP) module to extract well-aligned fine-grained visual and textual features for alignment. First, we design a Coarse Relevant ...
VentureBeat

Databricks: 'PDF parsing for agentic AI is still unsolved' — new tool replaces multi-service pipelines with single function

There is a lot of enterprise data trapped in PDF documents. To be sure, gen AI tools have been able to ingest and analyze PDFs, but accuracy, time and cost have been less than ideal. New technology ...
PC Gamer

'They just really didn't think anyone would look up': Researchers snooped on unencrypted satellite data with basic equipment, finding private calls, text messages, and even ...

'They assumed that no one was ever going to check and scan all these satellites and see what was out there. That was their method of security.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...
TechCrunch

Satellites found exposing unencrypted data, including phone calls and some military comms

Security researchers have discovered that as many as half of all geostationary satellites in Earth’s orbit are carrying unencrypted sensitive consumer, corporate, and military information, making this ...
9to5Mac

T-Mobile customer call and text data captured from unencrypted satellite comms; military data too

Security researchers at two US universities were able to intercept T-Mobile customer call and text data from completely unencrypted satellite communications. Researchers were also able to eavesdrop on ...
IPM

Data Wrangling in R Parts I & II

"Data wrangling" refers to all the manipulations commonly needed to prepare tabular data for visualization or analysis. This could include subsetting the data, manipulating rows and columns, changing ...
IEEE

Improving Semantic Parsing and Text Generation Through Multi-Faceted Data Augmentation

Abstract: The increasing use of large language models has heightened the demand for more extensive datasets in natural language processing (NLP). While various augmentation techniques are being ...
InfoQ

Google Launched LangExtract, a Python Library for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Text

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