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How custom evals get consistent results from LLM applications

Public benchmarks are designed to evaluate general LLM capabilities. Custom evals measure LLM performance on specific tasks.

Tech - VentureBeat - November 14

Building Your Customer Success Team? Consider a Fractional Manager

Fractional customer success can bridge your business and customer needs.

Business - Inc. - November 16

McDonald's investing $100 million to lure customers after E.coli outbreak

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said slivered onions on the McDonald's Quarter Pounders were the likely source of the E. coli.

UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs

At the World Cheese Awards in Portugal, British entries were conspicuous by their absence after failing to clear import controls. On Friday, 240 experts from 40 countries descended on Viseu in ...

World - The Guardian - November 16

Thames Water’s emergency loan could cost £800mn in interest and fees

Mooted £3bn loan will hit customers and drain troubled utility’s resources, warn experts

World - Financial Times - November 17

Walmart sales beat again and outlook raised, as retailer cites ‘resilient’ US customers

Walmart’s stock headed for a record after another earnings beat, as general merchandise sales turned positive.

Business - MarketWatch - November 19

Microsoft debuts custom chips to boost data center security and power efficiency

At the Ignite developer conference today, Microsoft unveiled two new chips designed for its data center infrastructure: the Azure Integrated HSM and the Azure Boost DPU.

Tech - VentureBeat - November 19

USC unveils custom Kobe-inspired cleats to be worn against UCLA

The look is modeled after the pair Kobe Bryant debuted on Christmas 2010 and is customized for the USC Trojans.

Sports - ESPN - 6 days ago

How Hearing and Meeting Customer Expectations Boosted Walmart’s Sales

The giant retailer posted huge in-store and online sales gains through product and price diversification and cheaper, faster delivery, offering smaller stores an idea how to bolster their business, ...

Business - Inc. - 6 days ago

Three water firms blocked from using customer money for bonuses

The regulator Ofwat's new powers prevent bonuses being funded from customer bills.

Meta's Threads app launches custom feeds amid Bluesky surge

Meta's Instagram Threads began rolling out a new custom feed feature to give users the ability to build their feeds around the people and topics they are most interested in. The feature was made ...

Politics - The Hill - 6 days ago

Orange partners with OpenAI, Meta to develop custom African-language AI models

Orange is working with OpenAI and Meta to build custom AI models that can understand West African languages not understood by most conversational systems.

Business - CNBC - Yesterday

PagerDuty says software customers are still being ‘prudent’ with their spending

There’s still “a higher level of scrutiny on any major purchase,” PagerDuty’s CFO says.

Business - MarketWatch - 13 hours ago

UK urged to send fewer offenders back to jail for minor probation breaches

Growing number punished for breaking conditions of release, undermining efforts to ease overcrowding

World - Financial Times - October 29

Alphabet quiets the doubters with ‘all-around’ strength that sends stock soaring

“We believe that this ship is sailing smoothly and doing everything right,” an analyst says.

Business - MarketWatch - October 30

Super Micro’s troubles build as auditor resigns, sending stock tumbling 33%

Super Micro filing indicates Ernst & Young flagged governance concerns back in July, which was before a short seller’s report put them on the minds of investors.