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Before OpenAI’s GPT-3 ushered in the era of foundation models, companies built specialized natural language processing models from scratch, training each on large amounts of task-specific data. Today, most organizations start with a general purpose model like OpenAI’s GPT series, Claude, or Llama, and then fine-tune or prompt
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Somewhere above the Great Plains, a virtual woodpecker is on its way to Alaska to deliver a message to my anonymous pen pal. At the same time, a zebra finch named Tucker soars into Manhattan to send a friend my shabby doodle of the Cool S. These messages take hours
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The Steam Machine isn't worth the price that Valve is asking. RATING : 6.5 / 10 When I appeared on the Engadget Podcast last week, I casually compared the Steam Machine to the Steam Deck, essentially calling my review unit a beefed-up version of Valve's handheld. Now
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Revenue is still rising for these companies, so at least someone's making out well here. Worldwide PC shipments have fallen by nearly five percent to 68.2 million units, according to research conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC.) This is the first decline in two years after
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AI images, videos and writing used to be relatively easy to spot. There were too many fingers, warped backgrounds, strange nonsensical text and other visual artefacts that really quickly gave the AI game away. Deepfake videos often had delayed lip-syncing and AI-generated writing felt repetitive and formulaic, like reading a
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While the groundwork for this was technically laid back in November when Intel released GCC patches (following our earlier reporting), a major new piece of the puzzle has just surfaced. Those patches revealed that Nova Lake would have not only AVX-512, but in fact the latest AVX10.2 version of
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Google Photos is getting a new “Video Remix” feature that can edit and transform videos in seconds, Google announced on Wednesday. The feature is powered by Gemini Omni, Google’s recently released model that promises to “create anything from any input.” The launch is Google’s latest push to bring
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PERSONAL TECH IDC warns smaller players may struggle as DRAM drought drags on The memory chip crisis caused PC shipments to fall by 5 percent from last year in Q2 2026 as vendors struggled to secure supplies, and IDC warns smaller suppliers may be forced out of business if the
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* The first agentic ransomware attack has been dubbed JADEPUFFER by researchers at Sysdig * Threat exploited a known vulnerability, adapted to obstacles, and targeted an Alibaba Nacos * Unfortunately for victims, paying up means nothing, as JADEPUFFER fails to back up the data Has ransomware become self-aware? Sysdig researchers have analyzed an
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Meta's aware that its camera glasses are making people worried. A new update aims to prevent tampering with the recording light. But even more is needed. 3 min read There's been a lot of social blowback against camera-enabled smart glasses this year, particularly those from Facebook-maker
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OpenAI says the new AI models should be better at live translation. 3 min read OpenAI is updating its AI voice technology to match its text-based artificial intelligence. Two new models, GPT-Live-1 and a mini version, are rolling out now to all ChatGPT users. The new model duo relies on
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
