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AI firms are getting more interested in AI that continues to learn even after it’s been trained, otherwise known as continual learning, as we discussed in this recap from last week's NeurIPS conference. As an example, some small companies have used special techniques like finetuning and reinforcement learning to teach cheaper open-source models how to do niche tasks like categorizing customer support requests or filling out expense reports very well. Now, one startup that helps companies with this process o
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New research suggests that even light alcohol use may carry serious risks. A large study in India found that drinking just one standard drink a day is linked to a roughly 50% higher risk of mouth cancer, with the greatest danger tied to locally brewed alcohol. When alcohol use overlaps with chewing tobacco, the effect becomes especially severe, potentially explaining nearly two-thirds of all cases nationwide. Read more ›
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Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK and a prominent climate activist and environmental journalist, has died of leukemia at age 35. Read more ›
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The first Iron Beam laser defense system was deployed by Israel on Sunday. This 100kW laser weapon thus became the world’s first drone defense zapper to be operationally deployed. Read more ›
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PC Gamer argues that 2025 was a year full of high-profile AI embarrassments across games and entertainment, with Disney and Lucasfilm serving as the "opening salvo." From the report: At a TED talk back in April, Lucasfilm senior vice president of creative innovation Rob Bredow presented a demonstration of what he called "a new era of technology." Across 50 years of legendary innovation in miniature design, practical effects, and computer... Read more ›
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Disney hopes there'll be better chances for the latest 'Tron' movie to find an audience in streaming. Read more ›
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What do we know about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S26? A lot actually, thanks to the usual leaks that precede a new Samsung mobile launch event. Read more ›
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Two cybersecurity professionals who spent their careers defending organizations against ransomware attacks have pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to using ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware to extort American businesses throughout 2023. Ryan Goldberg, a 40-year-old incident response manager from Georgia, and Kevin Martin, a 36-year-old ransomware negotiator from Texas, admitted to conspiring to obstruct commerce through extortion. Between April and December 2023, Goldberg, Martin, and a third unnamed co-co Read more ›
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SK hynix is bringing its HBM ambitions to U.S. soil with a $3.9 billion plan to build its first domestic manufacturing facility — a 2.5D advanced packaging plant in West Lafayette, Indiana. Read more ›
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China is quietly mandating that chipmakers use at least 50% domestically made equipment when expanding capacity, "as Beijing pushes to build a self-sufficient semiconductor supply chain," according to Reuters. From the report: The rule is not publicly documented, but chipmakers seeking state approval to build or expand their plants have been told by authorities in recent months that they must prove through procurement tenders that at least half their equipment... Read more ›
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Musk allies spin DOGE as having a "higher purpose" beyond federal budget cuts. Read more ›
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I booked Amtrak's private roomette on an overnight train from NYC to Miami in 2021. It packed a lot into 20 square feet. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Mac Bauer is fast, but the city's trams, weighing more than 100,000lbs and traveling at a maximum speed of nearly 45mph, should be far faster than him. And yet as of late December, in head-to-head races against streetcars, the 32-year-old remains undefeated in his quest to highlight how sluggish the trams, used by 230,000 people daily, truly are. Some races have... Read more ›
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After nearly a month and with most options exhausted, one unlucky RTX 5080 buyer finally got their card. Read more ›
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China's missile arsenal can strike targets around Taiwan, across the Indo-Pacific, and even in the continental US. The maps paint a clear picture. Read more ›
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Bill Ackman, Palmer Luckey, Garry Tan, and more are sharing their opinions on a California billionaire tax proposal. Read more ›
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Shawn Layden, once a top executive at Sony Interactive Entertainment, is reminding the gaming world that exclusive games still have a role to play. This comes as consoles are increasingly resembling gaming PCs with cross-platform releases everywhere you look. Layden’s comments, shared in a recent Pause for Thought podcast, push back against the idea that ... Read more ›
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The state deals with flooding and sea level rise by buying homes in flood prone areas. Read more ›
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Axios reports that venture capitalist Alex Davis is warning that a speculative rush to build data centers without committed tenants could trigger a financing crunch by 2027-2028. "This critique is coming from inside the AI optimist camp," notes Axios, as Davis' firm, Disruptive, "recently led a large investment in AI chipmaker Groq, which then signed a $20 billion licensing deal with Nvidia. It's also backed such unicorn startups as Reflection... Read more ›
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Nvidia has stopped testing an Intel process to manufacture its chips, Reuters reported, driving Intel’s shares down. Nvidia was recently testing an Intel production process known as 18A but decided to stop moving forward with the efforts, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the ... Read more ›
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Two Chinese AI startups are vying to be the first publicly traded AI model providers in the global stock market, ahead of expected future initial public offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The Chinese firms’ IPO filings offer a window into the hardship facing smaller AI firms that don’t have older cash-cow businesses.Shanghai-based MiniMax Group and Beijing-based Knowledge Atlas Technology, better known as Zhipu, both recently received regulatory approval to go... Read more ›
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Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech. As AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic raced to release smarter models, the largest tech firms mapped out massive data centers that would guzzle up more energy than tens of millions of American households to power them. “Agent” became the industry’s favorite buzzword for tools promising to eliminate human work. The popularity of coding assistant Cursor made its... Read more ›
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Waymo on Tuesday provided further details about its decision on Saturday to temporarily pause its robotaxi service in San Francisco amid a citywide power outage that caused its driverless cars to stall traffic. The company said it made the decision so its vehicles wouldn’t obstruct first ... Read more ›
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SoftBank said Monday it would buy data center investment firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion, or $16 per share, a 15% premium to Friday’s closing price, its latest step to increase investment in infrastructure for data centers. DigitalBridge owns several data center subsidiaries that are involved ... Read more ›
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OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to prioritize sponsored information in ChatGPT’s responses when users ask relevant queries, a person familiar with the discussions said. For instance, a Sephora-sponsored... Read more ›
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In my hometown of Memphis, Tenn., Elon Musk’s xAI is a big topic of conversation for the second holiday season in a row thanks to the two gigantic data centers the company has opened here. The multibillion-dollar facilities have sparked a lot of local opposition because they’re being powered by gas generators that emit air pollution. In response, xAI has ramped up efforts to convince Memphians it’s a good neighbor.... Read more ›
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“Suspense is an artform,” said Bruce Holsinger, the author of “Culpability,” a tense family drama about the ramifications of a horrific car accident. Oh, yes, I should add: The mini-van was driving itself. “I think a lot about suspense—at the level of the chapter, the sentence, the sequence of chapters,” said Holsinger, an author of four previous novels. “I like a sense of momentum, so that the characters are kind... Read more ›
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Meta Platform is acquiring Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, in the U.S. tech giant’s latest move to expand its AI offerings. The deal will give Manus, operated by a Singapore-based startup called Butterfly Effect, ... Read more ›
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, The Information reported Tuesday. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to ... Read more ›
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