Do new AI reasoning models require new approaches to prompting?
Even when it comes to non-reasoning LLMs such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet, there may be room for regular users to improve their prompting.Read More
Judge Ends One Man’s 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill
A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a landfill for over a decade.
New training technique opens the door to neural networks that require much less energy
AI applications like ChatGPT are based on artificial neural networks that, in many respects, imitate the nerve cells in our brains. They are trained with vast quantities of data on high-performance computers, gobbling up massive amounts of energy in the process.
AI is set to transform education — what enterprise leaders can learn from this development
Unbound Academy will replace teachers with AI tools, representing the latest chapter in a 60-year quest in computer assisted instruction.Read More
Panasonic Z95A OLED TV Review: Searing Brightness and Colors
Panasonic makes a fiery return with one of the best TVs right now.
Listen to your technology users — they have led to the most disruptive innovations in history
Technology users can be a source of ingenious ideas rather than a barrier. Here’s how to seek out innovative disruption.Read More
Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves
So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news ecosystem.
The Evolving (and Inexact) Science of Fleeing a Wildfire
As extreme wildfires become the new norm, scientists are trying to crack how to save lives.
Microsoft introduces rStar-Math, an SLM for math reasoning and problem solving
A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server outlining the technology and math behind the new tool and how well it has performed on standard …
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LlamaIndex goes beyond RAG so agents can make complex decisions
A new orchestration architecture from LlamaIndex brings more context and decision-making capabilities to AI agents.Read More