“Mastering NLP From Foundations to Agents” by Lior Gazit and Meysam Ghaffari, from @PacktPublishing @PacktDataML http://
amzn.to/4nJrLw4 Learn this:
•Engineer NLP systems from ML foundations to LLM architectures
•Implement RAG pipelines, routing layers, and agent
RESEARCH
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Mastering NLP From Foundations to Agents by Lior Gazit and Meysam Ghaffari
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Announcing ECCV 2026 Workshop on Efficient Visual Generation
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CVPR is over, time to add something new to the calendar. We are excited to announce the ECCV 2026 Workshop on Efficient Visual Generation. The workshop will focus on efficient generative models for visual and multimodal generation. We are excited to have speakers behind
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Anthropic reverses policy degrading Claude Fable 5 after backlash
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That was quick: Anthropic reversed a controversial policy that would have secretly degraded Claude Fable 5 for users doing frontier AI research after backlash from researchers who saw it as covert sabotage of competing AI development.
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Syll: Open-source harness unifying APIs, CLI, GUI for AI agent learning
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What if your AI agent could learn your workflow by watching you click, type, and run commands across apps, terminals, and websites? Tsinghua University and GigaAI present Syll — an open-source, self-hosted harness that unifies APIs, CLI, and GUI in one runtime. Users teach
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Anthropic backs down on invisible sabotage of Fable
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As expected, Anthropic backs down on its intention to sabotage without warning the user when using Fable for AI research. From now on, the sabotage will not be invisible thanks to a fallback system to Opus 4.8, as it does with other topics.
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Agentic evaluation remains under-resourced
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Agentic evaluation remains massively under-resourced as a field.
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Anthropic not first to keep good models internal; Google does too
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Btw, Anthropic is not the first company that keeps the good models to themselves. Google’s internal coding models are trained on their own codebase, and are not available publicly
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Pause on AI now considered by all three leading labs
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What did they see? A pause used to be at the edge of the overton window. Now it's being considered by 3 out of the 3 leading labs.
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Gary Marcus posts links to his critiques of Yann LeCun and deep learning
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you can start with this https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/the-false-glorification-of-yann-lecun?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
… and https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/open-letter-responding-to-yann-lecun?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
… and https://
garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-new-are-
yann-lecuns-new-ideas
…. endless receipts. my original deep learning critiques include my Deep Learning a critical appraisal (2018) and Deep learning is hitting a wall (2022), among others, including -
DiffusionGemma: lightning-fast, 4x faster than Gemma 4
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Awesome to see this innovation in text diffusion. DiffusionGemma is lightning fast, 4x faster than other Gemma 4 models! Congrats to @bodonoghue85 and the team who worked so hard on this – excited to see what people build with it! https://t.co/AwDNx8bm7J
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) 11 juin 2026Great to see this innovation in text diffusion. DiffusionGemma is lightning-fast, 4x faster than other Gemma 4 models! Congratulations to @bodonoghue85 and the team who worked so hard on this project – can't wait to see what people will build with it!