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The article announces the release of six new Sentence Transformers CrossEncoder reranker models, ranging from 17 million to 1 billion parameters, which are built on Ettin ModernBERT encoders and achieve state-of-the-art …
Creation of TechLit Viewer, a technical literature management system built using a no-code/low-code stack that combines LDX hub StructFlow for AI-powered data extraction from PDFs, patents, and reports with Microsoft 365…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, *Magnifica humanitas*, focusing on preserving human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence, will be released on May 25, 2026. The document will be presented at the Vatican alongsid…
An autonomous AI system built for penetration testing that overcomes human limitations by combining tool selection, memory of past attacks, real-time vulnerability database queries, mathematical modeling for zero-day dis…
Anthropic designed Claude with a philosophy prioritizing both capability and safety, which is reflected in its API design where system prompts have higher authority than user messages. It provides practical guidance on u…
The author quit their FAANG job in 2024 to become an independent researcher and built a $48K GPU server called "grumbl" with six RTX 6000 Ada GPUs. They chose these GPUs over A100s and H100s based on price/throughput rat…
Biologists Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg are using an AI tool called Co-Scientist to accelerate aging research by identifying genetic pathways that reverse cellular senescence. The AI scans tens of thousands of …
In the late 1940s, engineers at the University of Manchester, including Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and G. E. Thomas, developed Manchester code to solve the problem of unreliable data reading caused by timing drif…
At Google's annual I/O developer conference this week, the company enters as a clear third place in the foundation model race, having fallen behind rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in AI coding capabilities. Google is expecte…
An MIT Technology Review insider panel that discusses key trends, tensions, and technological shifts shaping the future of AI. It also highlights other popular stories, including OpenAI’s push to build a fully automated …
Guide for fine-tuning NVIDIA's Cosmos Predict 2.5 world model using LoRA and DoRA techniques to generate synthetic robot manipulation videos. The approach freezes the base model's 2 billion parameters while training smal…
Google's methodology for conducting large-scale A/B experiments on its core infrastructure, such as operating systems and memory allocators, rather than just on user-facing features. It highlights four key pillars of thi…
Xint, an LLM-based security tool developed by Theori, reports a false positive rate of less than 25% for its highest-severity vulnerability findings, based on manual validation through proof-of-concept testing. For examp…
A developer named ThroatyMumbo has successfully ported Microsoft Windows CE 2.11 to run on original Nintendo 64 hardware. The project uses a custom Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to run the unmodified Windows CE kernel…
Distribution Fine Tuning (DFT) is a new post-training algorithm designed to correct the formulaic and repetitive writing patterns common in standard supervised fine-tuned (SFT) language models. The method improves output…
SFHformer, an image restoration framework that integrates Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) with Transformer architecture to address various image degradations like dehazing, deraining, and deblurring. By analyzing degradatio…
Findings from Project Glasswing, where security-focused LLMs, particularly Anthropic's Mythos Preview, were tested against over fifty internal code repositories. It highlights Mythos Preview's advanced capabilities in ex…
In this podcast episode, critical informatics scholar Britt Paris discusses her new book, *Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up*, which examines the physical infrastructure of the internet an…
University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras to record first-person footage of classroom interactions, aiming to use the data to train AI models. One parent described the program a…
The article explains that the robotics field uses "dull, dirty, and dangerous" (DDD) to describe tasks suitable for automation, but a recent study found that only 2.7% of robotics publications define these terms, and def…