Invisible touch: AI can feel and measure surfaces
Quantum-science advances using AI can measure very small surfaces and distances — opening a world of medical, manufacturing and other applications.
Our brains are vector databases — here’s why that’s helpful when using AI
Parallels between our brains and vector databases go deeper than retrieval. Both excel at compression, organizing and identifying patterns.Read More
What Okta’s failures say about the future of identity security in 2025
2025 needs to be the year identity providers go all in on improving every aspect of software quality and security, including red teaming.Read More
Best Early REI Black Friday Deals on Outdoor Gear (2024)
Why wait? Our favorite tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, and other outdoor gear are on sale now.
Common way to test for leaks in large language models may be flawed
Large language models are everywhere, including running in the background of the apps on the device you’re using to read this. The auto-complete suggestions in your texts and emails, the query responses composed by Gemni, Copilot and ChatGPT, and the images generated from DALL-E are all built using LLMs.
AI search wars heat up: Genspark adds Claude-powered financial reports on demand
Distill Web gives users the ability to look up of 300,000-and-counting public companies and generate polished financial reports.Read More
Behavioral analysis in mice: More precise results despite fewer animals
Researchers are utilizing artificial intelligence to analyze the behavior of laboratory mice more efficiently and reduce the number of animals in experiments.
Donald Trump to Nominate Anti-Vaccine Activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Oversee US Public Health
Putting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services would fulfill Donald Trump’s promise to let him “go wild on health.”
AI can ‘hear’ when a lithium battery is about to catch fire
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a way to use sound to detect when lithium-ion batteries are about to catch fire. The NIST team included Wai Cheong “Andy” Tam and Anthony Putorti.
How Microsoft’s next-gen BitNet architecture is turbocharging LLM efficiency
A smart combination of quantization and sparsity allows BitNet LLMs to become even faster and more compute/memory efficientRead More