If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million. For creators, generative video holds the promise of bringing any story or concept to life. However, the reality has often been a frustrating cycle of “prompt and pray” – typing a prompt and hoping for a usable result, with little to …
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 on Wednesday, a smaller and significantly cheaper artificial intelligence model that matches the coding capabilities of systems that were considered cutting-edge just months ago, marking the latest salvo in an intensifying competition to dominate enterprise AI. The model costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens …
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Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.
A stapler slides across a desk to meet a waiting hand, or a knife edges out of the way just before someone leans against a countertop. It sounds like magic, but in Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), researchers are combining AI and robotic mobility to give everyday objects this kind of foresight.
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You don’t always need a heavy wrapper, a big client class, or dozens of lines of boilerplate to call a large language model.
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has transformed how we interact with our environments, from homes to industrial settings. However, as the number of connected devices grows, so does the complexity of managing them. Traditional device management interfaces often require navigating through multiple applications, each with its own UI and learning curve. This …
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Customer service teams at fast-growing companies face a challenging reality: customer inquiries are growing exponentially, but scaling human teams at the same pace isn’t always sustainable. Intelligent AI tools offer a new path forward. They handle routine questions automatically so employees can focus on more complex customer service tasks that require empathy, judgment, and creative …
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2025 was supposed to be the year of “AI agents,” according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and other AI industry personnel. And it has been, in many ways, with numerous leading AI model providers such as OpenAI, Google, and even Chinese competitors like Alibaba releasing fine-tuned AI models or applications designed to focus on a …
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Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.