15 employees. Kalamazoo, Michigan. Competing against offshore moldmakers on price and speed. And winning. Partner Content with Siemens
JK Machining cut mold delivery from 20 weeks to 11 using Siemens NX. Read the full story (link in the comments). #sie_hm #HM26
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JK Machining Cuts Mold Delivery Time Using Siemens NX
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Banking Partnership Expansion Plans Announced for 2026
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Together, we plan to expand the partnership into additional banking workflows over time. Learn more:
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Customers Bank Deploys AI Agents for Customer Support Services
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Customers Bank will roll out a series of AI agents, including:
– A 24/7 voice and chat support agent for account inquiries, card services, and transfers across phone, web, and mobile
– An onboarding agent that guides new customers through account setup
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DeepSeek’s open-source strategy challenges US AI monopolies, alters AGI business models.
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I swear DeepSeek open-sourcing everything is some Sun-Tzu shit. America is trying to build trillion-dollar AI monopolies, and China is trying to make that impossible. If the secret recipe to AGI is (eventually) public, the business model changes. Valuations compress.
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LLMs Dominated by Industry Limits Academic Research Contribution
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I didn't say that. I said that LLM is in the hands of industry, is largely engineering, and requires too much computing resources for academics to contribute significantly. More importantly, LLMs are today's technology. Academic researchers, particularly PhD students, should be
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Weekly Optimist Roundup: mRNA Cancer Vaccine to Robot Bio Labs
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results
SpaceX buys Cursor option
Fervo files S-1
Humble unstealths cabless truck
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Bringing Semiconductor Manufacturing Back to Silicon Valley
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Putting Silicon into Silicon Valley again.
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AI Model Limitations and Human-AI Collaboration in Coding
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You're right It's mostly bs Until the models are smart enough to see the grand scheme of things AND have architectural understanding AND taste, it doesn't work A human telling an AI what to code or edit though yes that works great
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Organizational Adaptation to an AI-Native Future
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Top stories in AI today: – OpenAI retakes the frontier with GPT 5.5
– U.S. flags Chinese labs’ 'industrial-scale' AI theft
– Get newspaper brief every morning with Claude
– AI's biggest productivity winners are also most worried
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Industry dynamics and structural transformations analysis
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on the dynamics of what happens to an industry