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A core element of any data retrieval operation is the use of a component known as a retriever. Its job is to retrieve the relevant content for a given query. In the AI era, retrievers have been used as part of RAG pipelines. The approach is straightforward: retrieve relevant documents, feed them to an LLM, and let the model generate an answer based on that context.While retrieval might have seemed like a solved problem, it actually wasn't solved for modern agentic AI workflows.In research published this wee
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A Florida homeowner lost her income in 2008 and still has a mortgage on her home. Now, she rents out the extra rooms in her home to generate income. Read more ›
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Pentagon reporting on military suicide rates is usually released each fall. Right now, it remains unpublished, with no explanation. Read more ›
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What happens when you merge the world’s most toxic social media cesspool with the world’s most unhinged, uninhibited, and intentionally “spicy” AI chatbot? It looks a lot like what we’re seeing play out on X right now. Users have been feeding images into xAI’s Grok chatbot, which boasts a powerful and largely uncensored image and […] Read more ›
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I moved from the US to Copenhagen, the world's most livable city. The language and weather were hard to adapt to, so I left nearly two years later. Read more ›
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One night at the Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach wasn't enough time to take advantage of amenities like a five-star spa and a private beach. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI burned through $7.8 billion in cash in the first nine months of 2025, Bloomberg reported Thursday evening, reflecting the high costs of AI development. XAI is responsible for the Grok AI models and chatbot. The Bloomberg report said xAI had reported a net loss of $1.46 billion in ... Read more ›
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If you take anything at all from the latest edition of the federal dietary guidelines, out this week, it should be… not much. Although US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described them as “the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history,” the new guidelines don’t reveal anything new about nutrition science, and […] Read more ›
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NASA has decided to bring the Crew-11 astronauts home a month earlier than originally planned due to a “medical concern” with one of them. This is the first time in its history that the space agency is cutting a mission short due to a medical issue, but it didn’t identify the crew member or divulge the exact situation and its severity. The astronauts will be heading back to Earth in... Read more ›
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Dolby may have announced Dolby Vision 2 a few months ago, but the company gave the new platform its first big reveal at CES 2026. I got the chance to see the improvements in person for the first time, thanks to a variety of demos and Q&A sessions. Dolby Vision 2 will be available this year, but initially, it will be limited. As such, I’ve compiled the info on where... Read more ›
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France's defense ministry picked Mistral to supply military AI systems running on national infrastructure, demonstrating Europe's push for tech sovereignty. Read more ›
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Seth Meyers has reacted to the Trump administration's response to ICE fatally shooting 37-year-old mother Renee Good. Read more ›
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Chinese researchers have demonstrated a 4F² dual-gate 2T0C capacitor-less, DRAM-like memory cell with multi-bit storage, fast writes, and long retention. In theory, the technology could be used as embedded or stacked 3D memory, but questions remain about its manufacturability and commercial viability. Read more ›
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Intel's CEO says he expects 'great momentum in terms of yields and IP' on the company's 14A process technology. Read more ›
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Probably my favorite thing about the Lego Smart Play system unveiled this week at CES is that it was designed for kids, first and foremost. In the past 10 years or so, Lego has increasingly courted an older audience with more expensive and elaborate sets. But when it was time to bring more advanced technology to Lego, the idea right from the beginning was more social and interactive play. If... Read more ›
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Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. Read more ›
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Spam and cold calls have become such a nuisance that many people simply don't answer their phone unless they recognize the number. In iOS 26, though, you can learn about who's calling before you respond, thanks to a clever feature that intercepts unknown calls and asks the caller to identify themselves before your iPhone even rings. The "Ask Reason for Calling" feature is kind of like having your own receptionist.... Read more ›
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Former Xbox exclusive role-playing game Avowed is coming to PlayStation 5, and it'll be released on the game's first anniversary: 17th February 2026 (note: the original PC and Xbox Series S/X release happened on 18th February 2025 but it's only a day's difference). Read more Read more ›
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Another first-party Xbox game is making the leap to PlayStation 5. This time around, Obsidian’s Avowed — one of our favorite games of last year — is crossing the great divide. The fantasy action RPG will hit Sony’s console on February 17, one day shy of the game’s first anniversary. As it happens, an anniversary update is set to go live on all platforms at the same time. This includes... Read more ›
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Start-up limits use of image generation system to paid users following spread of deepfakes and child sex abuse material Read more ›
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Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or use the CTRL + K keyboard shortcut, you can now simply paste a link on top of the text you want to hyperlink. This new […] Read more ›
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In the fast-moving world of AI development, it is rare for a tool to be described as both "a meme" and AGI, artificial generalized intelligence, the "holy grail" of a model or system that can reliably outperform humans on economically valuable work. Yet, that is exactly where the Ralph Wiggum plugin for Claude Code now sits. Named after the infamously high-pitched, hapless yet persistent character on "The Simpsons," this newish... Read more ›
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Joining the ranks of a growing number of smaller, powerful reasoning models is MiroThinker 1.5 from MiroMind, with just 30 billion parameters, compared to the hundreds of billions or trillions used by leading foundation large language models (LLMs).But MiroThinker 1.5 stands out among these smaller reasoners for one major reason: it offers agentic research capabilities rivaling trillion-parameter competitors like Kimi K2 and DeepSeek, at a fraction of the inference cost.The... Read more ›
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For decades, we have adapted to software. We learned shell commands, memorized HTTP method names and wired together SDKs. Each interface assumed we would speak its language. In the 1980s, we typed 'grep', 'ssh' and 'ls' into a shell; by the mid-2000s, we were invoking REST endpoints like GET /users; by the 2010s, we imported SDKs (client.orders.list()) so we didn’t have to think about HTTP. But underlying each of those... Read more ›
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Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors.The model, called NousCoder-14B, is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code, the agentic... Read more ›
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xAI has launched Grok Business and Grok Enterprise, positioning its flagship AI assistant as a secure, team-ready platform for organizational use. These new tiers offer scalable access to Grok’s most advanced models — Grok 3, Grok 4, and Grok 4 Heavy, already among the most performant and most cost-effective models available in the world — backed by strong administrative controls, privacy guarantees, and a newly introduced premium isolation layer called... Read more ›
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A new study from researchers at Stanford University and Nvidia proposes a way for AI models to keep learning after deployment — without increasing inference costs. For enterprise agents that have to digest long docs, tickets, and logs, this is a bid to get “long memory” without paying attention costs that grow with context length.The approach, called “End-to-End Test-Time Training” (TTT-E2E), reframes language modeling as a continual learning problem: Instead... Read more ›
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The arms race to build smarter AI models has a measurement problem: the tests used to rank them are becoming obsolete almost as quickly as the models improve. On Monday, Artificial Analysis, an independent AI benchmarking organization whose rankings are closely watched by developers and enterprise buyers, released a major overhaul to its Intelligence Index that fundamentally changes how the industry measures AI progress.The new Intelligence Index v4.0 incorporates 10... Read more ›
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Nvidia’s $20 billion strategic licensing deal with Groq represents one of the first clear moves in a four-front fight over the future AI stack. 2026 is when that fight becomes obvious to enterprise builders.For the technical decision-makers we talk to every day — the people building the AI applications and the data pipelines that drive them — this deal is a signal that the era of the one-size-fits-all GPU as... Read more ›
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AI is evolving faster than our vocabulary for describing it. We may need a few new words. We have “cognition” for how a single mind thinks, but we don't have a word for what happens when human and machine intelligence work together to perceive, decide, create and act. Let’s call that process intelition. Intelition isn’t a feature; it’s the organizing principle for the next wave of software where humans and... Read more ›
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When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes.For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. What began as a casual sharing of his personal terminal setup has spiraled into a viral manifesto on the future of software development, with industry... Read more ›
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