The Surprising MacBook Neo Competitor You’ve Never Heard Of
In many ways, the HP OmniBook 5 is a better budget laptop than the MacBook Neo, especially when the discounts are strong.
Tiny cameras in earbuds let users talk with AI about what they see
University of Washington researchers developed the first system that incorporates tiny cameras in off-the-shelf wireless earbuds to allow users to talk with an AI model about the scene in front of them. For instance, a user might turn to a Korean food package and say, “Hey Vue, translate this for me.” They’d then hear an …
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Update: Distilled v1.1 is live
We’ve pushed an LTX-2.3 update today. The Distilled model has been retrained (now v1.1) with improvements to audio quality and a slightly refined visual aesthetic. It’s available on HuggingFace alongside the previous Distilled version. Along with the new checkpoint, we’ve also retrained the distilled LoRA, updated all four ComfyUI example workflows, and refreshed the union …
Structured Outputs vs. Function Calling: Which Should Your Agent Use?
Language models (LMs), at their core, are text-in and text-out systems.
How to Implement Tool Calling with Gemma 4 and Python
The open-weights model ecosystem shifted recently with the release of the
Cram Less to Fit More: Training Data Pruning Improves Memorization of Facts
This paper was accepted at the Workshop on Navigating and Addressing Data Problems for Foundation Models at ICLR 2026. Large language models (LLMs) can struggle to memorize factual knowledge in their parameters, often leading to hallucinations and poor performance on knowledge-intensive tasks. In this paper, we formalize fact memorization from an information-theoretic perspective and study …
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How to build effective reward functions with AWS Lambda for Amazon Nova model customization
Building effective reward functions can help you customize Amazon Nova models to your specific needs, with AWS Lambda providing the scalable, cost-effective foundation. Lambda’s serverless architecture lets you focus on defining quality criteria while it handles the computational infrastructure. Amazon Nova offers multiple customization approaches, with Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) standing out for its ability to teach …
How to find the sweet spot between cost and performance
At Google Cloud, we often see customers asking themselves: “How can we manage our generative AI costs effectively without sacrificing the performance and availability our applications demand?” This is the million-dollar question — or, perhaps more accurately, the “tokens-per-minute” question. The key isn’t just about choosing the cheapest option, but about finding the right recipe …
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You Can Soon Buy a $4,370 Humanoid Robot on AliExpress
Unitree is bringing its R1 to international markets. It arrives with some aerobatic capabilities and an entry-level price, but the question of what you’d actually do with it remains open.
“Giant superatoms” could finally solve quantum computing’s biggest problem
In the pursuit of powerful and stable quantum computers, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed the theory for an entirely new quantum system – based on the novel concept of ‘giant superatoms’. This breakthrough enables quantum information to be protected, controlled, and distributed in new ways and could be a key step …
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