Less is more: UC Berkeley and Google unlock LLM potential through simple sampling
With multiple sampling and self-verification, Gemini 1.5 Pro can outperform o1-preview in reasoning tasks.Read More
Hungryroot Meal Kit Review (2025): AI-Guided Menu
Hungryroot is a shockingly innovative meal kit. Though the results can be more like fast-casual meal assembly than cooking.
DNA data storage: AI method speeds up data retrieval by 3,200 times
Researchers from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science have developed an AI-based method that accelerates DNA-based data retrieval by three orders of magnitude while significantly improving accuracy. The research team included Ph.D. student Omer Sabary, Dr. Daniella Bar-Lev, Dr. Itai Orr, Prof. Eitan Yaakobi, and Prof. Tuvi Etzion.
‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands
Leaked chats obtained by WIRED detail plans for the General Services Administration—and the staff’s angry response.
Novel memristors to overcome AI’s ‘catastrophic forgetting’
So-called “memristors” consume extremely little power and behave similarly to brain cells. Researchers from Jülich, led by Ilia Valov, have now introduced novel memristive components that offer significant advantages over previous versions: they are more robust, function across a wider voltage range, and can operate in both analog and digital modes. These properties could help …
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Hugging Face submits open-source blueprint, challenging Big Tech in White House AI policy fight
Hugging Face challenges Big Tech in White House AI Action Plan submission, arguing open-source models match commercial performance while democratizing access and enhancing national security.Read More
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Squirrel-inspired leaping robot can stick a landing on a branch
A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot designers to discover how squirrels do it, and used what they learned to design a one-legged robot with the balancing ability …
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Nvidia will build accelerated quantum computing research center
Nvidia said it is building a Boston-based research center to provide cutting-edge technologies to advance quantum computing.Read More
Roku Tests Showing Ads Before the Home Screen Loads
Users in the test group are unimpressed by the video ads, which play automatically. Customers say they will be eager to toss their Roku devices if the ads become permanent.