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Google DeepMind seems to be on a roll. Right on the heels of its Gemini 3 and Gemini 3 Pro AI models, the company has now announced Nano Banana Pro. Embedded within and powered by the latest Gemini 3 Pro, the new version of Nano Banana promises a whole new level of AI image generation and editing. And no, this is not your usual “this is the best AI model out there” deal. One look at its new and improved features, and you will know that the new Nano Banana is a powerful upgrade. Glimpse? It solves the brain-numbing, irritating-to-the-core,…

A topic is trending in the world of AI. It’s the question of if AI can now be recognized as an inventor. Put another way, people are asking, “If a machine develops something novel, can it hold a patent?” Historically, the answer would have been a firm, “No.” But two landmark cases — one in South Africa, the other in Australia — have cast new light on the subject. An AI-based system has proven that machines can think somewhat independently. And now, teams worldwide want solutions created by AI to be protected under patent law. We’ll look at how these…

Image by Editor   # Introduction  For many organizations, particularly those in regulated industries or with limited technical infrastructure, Excel and its XLMiner add-in serve as the primary platform for predictive modeling and machine learning workflows. Yet Excel’s accessibility masks a critical gap: the difference between running models and building trustworthy analytics systems. Working on a loan approval prediction project, I discovered that Excel-based machine learning fails not due to algorithmic limitations, but due to some practices that are frequently overlooked. This article transforms the unwelcome experiences into five comprehensive frameworks that will elevate your Excel-based machine learning work.    # Lesson…

There wasn’t exactly anything wrong with online shopping, to be honest. Right from the global lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, the world got (a little too much) used to ordering their favourite things right from the comfort of their homes. But with the advent of AI, in just about everything, it was only a matter of time before AI made its appearance in the online shopping segment. And lo and behold, ChatGPT is now out with Shopping Research – a whole new way of shopping online. Why, you ask? Well, we are all too familiar with the usual process of…

Every business wants to make a profit. And machine learning can help. Price prediction powered by machine learning is one of the most powerful tools in any company’s toolkit. Because automated price forecasting can help you stay in sync with your market and, ultimately, improve the effectiveness of your sales process. In this post, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about what price prediction is, how it works, and its potential benefits for your business. Ready? Let’s go. What is price prediction? Price prediction uses an algorithm to analyze a product or service based on its characteristics, demand,…

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Google has recently released their most intelligent model that can create, reason, and understand across multiple modalities. Google Gemini 3 Pro is not just an incremental update, it is in fact a major step forward in AI capability. This model with the cutting-edge reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic capabilities is going to be the main factor to change the way developers create intelligent applications. And with the new Gemini 3 Pro API, developers can now create smarter, more dynamic systems than ever before. If you are making complex AI workflows, working with multimodal data, or developing agentic systems that can manage…

According to the 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, JavaScript is the most widely used technology among professionals and amateurs alike. Some 61.51% of developers love the coding language. But that still leaves some 40% of programmers who prefer to stay away. So why is that? Well, there’s a fair degree of weirdness about JS, which could be one explanation. Just check the example below:     In this article, we’ll run through why some JavaScript actions work the way they do (as opposed to how you might expect). No hanging around, let’s get stuck in! The oddities of Numbers vs…

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As AI gets smarter, agents now handle complex tasks. People make decisions across whole workflows with plenty of efficiency and good intent, but never with perfect accuracy. It’s easy to drift off-task, over-explain, under-explain, misread a prompt, or create headaches for whatever comes next. Sometimes the result ends up off-topic, incomplete, or even unsafe. And as these agents begin to take on actual work, we need a mechanism for checking their output before letting it go forward. This is just another reason why CrewAI has branched out into using task guardrails. Guardrails create the same expectations for every task: length,…