Shares of Datadog (DDOG 15.12%) charged sharply higher Thursday. As of 10:53 a.m. ET, the stock was up 13.1%.The catalyst that sent the cloud monitoring, analytics, and security company soaring was the revelation that the stock will be joining the most widely followed stock market index in the U.S. An important nodIn a press release that dropped after the market closed on Wednesday, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that Datadog would be added to the S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.84%) before the start of trading on July 9 ...

I'd like to talk to you about human potential in an age of AI at a time when it seems like we're just about to give it all up to the people who are inventing large language models. But this is not the first time it's happened. Back in the day, I coded my own website before most people were on the internet. It went up a year after Apples and 10 months after the White House. What did I do with this groundbreaking technological power, you ask? Well, I put up a picture of a sunset and my email and immediately I ...

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5/13/2025 Summary Within the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs), a type of generative artificial intelligence, offer significant potential for improving the collection, processing, and analysis of large volumes of text data in evaluation. In this note, we present key lessons and good practices for leveraging LLMs based on our recent experiments. The experiments' results reveal that the LLMs tested could perform text classification quite well, achieving satisfactory r ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Wednesday, signaling that its artificial intelligence-powered tools helped pull in advertising dollars despite tariff-related economic growth fears.Shares of the company were up nearly 3% in extended trading.The social media company reported revenue of $42.31 billion for the first quarter, compared with analysts’ average estimate of $41.40 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta reported reven ...

Meta Platforms (META -6.74%) is the parent company of social networks including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, which serve more than 3.3 billion people every single day. The company is coming off of a spectacular year of earnings growth in 2024, and it's scheduled to report its financial results for the first quarter of 2025 (ended March 31) on April 30.Investors can expect to learn more about Meta's growing portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, which are powering brand-new f ...