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For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now “it is finally here,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four
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Sources at several banks have indicated that they have been taking actions independent of user instructions. Unauthorized third-party AI agents are accessing US bank accounts, according to a report by Axios. Some of these agents are even taking actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, though this is
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Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) today usually forces a tradeoff between training loop control and operational simplicity. With fully managed services you select a base model, provide data and hyperparameters, and the service owns everything else, which works well when a standard, prepackaged recipe fits your problem. Less managed
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Companies getting real results from AI aren’t only using foundation models (FMs) off the shelf. They’re customizing open-weight models using post-training techniques such as reinforcement learning. A model trained on your business context, product catalog, or clinical vocabulary will be more accurate for your task and cost less
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Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The plus-ification of subscription services continues unabated with Amazon becoming the latest company to follow suit with a Kindle Unlimited
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A customer asks an AI voice agent a question and waits. The agent already has an answer, it’s midway through generating a long, multi-paragraph response, but the customer hears nothing for five seconds. By the time an answer arrives, the customer is frustrated, confused, and no longer paying attention.
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Healthcare organizations want the same thing from AI that every other business wants: faster answers, less manual work, and insights that reach decision-makers in time to act on them. However, what makes the healthcare industry different is that the data is uniquely complex, deeply contextual, and strictly regulated. So this
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On Tesla’s earnings call Wednesday, Elon Musk made one of his patented pie-in-the-sky predictions that typically sends his fans into paroxysms of ecstasy: 5 million vehicle deliveries by 2030. “We were aiming for 5 million vehicles a year by approximately 2030,” he said. “And I think we’ve got
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Featured Podcasts The Upstarts Podcast: The Parking Startup That Swallowed A 100-Year-Old Giant | Metropolis CEO Alex Israel Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more. Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
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Most people revel in milestones. Turning the yearly page on birthdays, holidays and anniversaries is an opportunity for big parties, exchanging nice gifts and celebrating the ones we love. It can also be a minefield of missed connections and hurt feelings if you forget the dates. If you’re ever
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable
