AI/ML News

Vibe coding platform Cursor releases first in-house LLM, Composer, promising 4X speed boost

The vibe coding tool Cursor, from startup Anysphere, has introduced Composer, its first in-house, proprietary coding large language model (LLM)…

4 months ago

The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures

The second major cloud outage in less than two weeks, Azure’s downtime highlights the “brittleness” of a digital ecosystem that…

4 months ago

Artificial neurons replicate biological function for improved computer chips

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and School of Advanced Computing have developed artificial neurons that replicate the…

4 months ago

IBM’s open source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models are small enough to run locally directly in your browser

In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course…

4 months ago

Breakthrough optical processor lets AI compute at the speed of light

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz…

4 months ago

AI use makes us overestimate our cognitive performance, study reveals

When it comes to estimating how good we are at something, research consistently shows that we tend to rate ourselves…

4 months ago

MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes…

4 months ago

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling…

4 months ago

Beyond electronics: Optical system performs feature extraction with unprecedented low latency

Many modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as surgical robotics and real-time financial trading, depend on the ability to quickly…

4 months ago

From human clicks to machine intent: Preparing the web for agentic AI

For three decades, the web has been designed with one audience in mind: People. Pages are optimized for human eyes,…

4 months ago