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Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while consuming a fraction of the compute and training data. The release marks the latest and most technically ambitious chapter in the software giant's year-long campaign to prove that carefully engineered small models can compete with, and in key areas outperform, the industry's largest AI systems.The 15-billion-parame
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Hong Kong police can now demand phone or computer passwords from those who are suspected of breaching the wide-ranging National Security Law (NSL). Those who refuse could face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $12,700, and individuals who provide "false or misleading information" could face up to three years in jail. It comes as part... Read more ›
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Quinn Emanuel says judge must recuse herself over post, which judge says she may have liked ‘accidentally’ Read more ›
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Amazon's Spring Sale kicks off very soon, but the deals have already started. This DeWalt 20V combo kit, for example, is available for nearly 50% off. Read more ›
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В языке Python значительная часть практической работы выполняется не только средствами самого языка, но и с использованием библиотек. Библиотекой называется набор готовых программных средств: функций, классов, методов и модулей, предназначенных для решения определённого круга задач. В случае Pygame таким кругом задач являются создание оконных приложений, обработка действий пользователя, вывод графики, работа со временем, звуком и текстом. Читать далее Read more ›
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RooCode — расширение для VS Code с многоагентной системой (встроено 5 Модов: Orchestrator, Ask, Architect, Code, Debug) Ключевые преимущества: синхронное выполнение задач (предсказуемость), гибкая настройка модов, MCP-серверы для снижения ошибок и количества запросов к LLM Основная идея настройки: каждый Мод отвечает за свою задачу, Оркестратор распределяет работу между ними Настройка идёт по спирали: от базовых настроек → скиллы → моды → провайдеры → итеративное улучшение Читать далее Read more ›
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New fathers appear to have fewer mental health diagnoses during pregnancy and the early months after birth. But that early stability does not last. About a year later, depression and stress-related disorders increase significantly, surprising researchers. The findings suggest that the emotional toll of fatherhood builds over time rather than hitting immediately. Read more ›
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SGB's Jireh Chua explains how SGB Net settles $2bn monthly, bridging legacy SWIFT rails and digital assets through a regulated, real-time clearing infrastructure. Read more ›
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AI competition is heating up as Meta plans new pay increases. CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn't included in the plan. Read more ›
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According to a new rumor out of China, Apple is having some trouble placing the Face ID sensor array under the screen. It has so far been rumored multiple times that the company is working on effectively destroying the Dynamic Island by doing this, thus only leaving the camera sensor hole-punched into the screen. And yet, if this rumor is true, it looks like the Dynamic Island will live on,... Read more ›
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While exact definitions can vary by manufacturer, there are some clear-cut differences between a snow blower and a snow thrower, even if they work similarly. Read more ›
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When a four-year-old apologizes for laughing too loudly without being told to, she's revealing an inherited pattern of emotional self-editing that can trace back generations. Recognizing the moment it starts is the first step to interrupting it. Read more ›
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Sarvam Eyes The Unicorn Tag Sarvam AI may soon become India’s newest unicorn, and potentially one of the youngest ones… Read more ›
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We thought the recent sales events in Australia would be the last time we'd see any discounts on Apple tech. How wrong we were, as these savings of up to 40% prove. Read more ›
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Android Auto has been experiencing widespread connectivity issues, but fixes are already on their way. Read more ›
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A new neural implant is so small it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can track and wirelessly transmit brain activity for over a year. It’s powered by laser light that safely passes through tissue and communicates using tiny infrared signals. This ultra-miniature device could transform how scientists study the brain without invasive wiring. Read more ›
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People raised in lower middle class homes often carry money habits that persist long after financial security arrives, from obsessive mental math to guilt about comfort spending. The reason isn't willpower or personality. It's a nervous system that learned to count before it learned to rest. Read more ›
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Я живу вне РФ, но у меня там остаются близкие, с которыми важно продолжать общение.И в какой-то момент я столкнулся с простой, но неприятной реальностью:поддерживать стабильную связь становится всё сложнее.В условиях массовых блокировок и внедрения «белых списков» интернет постепенно перестаёт быть глобальным - вместо этого остаётся ограниченный набор разрешённых сервисов.На практике: Читать далее Read more ›
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In 2026, data engineers working with multi-agent systems are hitting a familiar problem: Agents built on different platforms don’t operate from a shared understanding of the business. The result isn’t model failure — it’s hallucination driven by fragmented context.The problem is that agents built on different platforms, by different teams, do not share a common understanding of how the business actually operates. Each one carries its own interpretation of what... Read more ›
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In the last few years, Chinese AI startup MiniMax has become one of the most exciting in the crowded global AI marketplace, carving out a reputation for delivering frontier-level large language models (LLMs) with open source licenses and before that, high-quality AI video generation models (Hailuo). The release of MiniMax M2.7 today — a new proprietary LLM designed to perform well powering AI agents and as the backend to third-party... Read more ›
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Chinese electronics and car manufacturer Xiaomi surprised the global AI community today with the release of MiMo-V2-Pro, a new 1-trillion parameter foundation model with benchmarks approaching those of U.S. AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic, but at around a seventh or sixth the cost when accessed over proprietary API — and importantly, sending less than 256,000 tokens-worth of information back and forth.Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek... Read more ›
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A rogue AI agent at Meta took action without approval and exposed sensitive company and user data to employees who were not authorized to access it. Meta confirmed the incident to The Information on March 18 but said no user data was ultimately mishandled. The exposure still triggered a major security alert internally.The available evidence suggests the failure occurred after authentication, not during it. The agent held valid credentials, operated... Read more ›
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Cursor, a San Francisco AI coding platform from startup Anysphere valued at $29.3 billion, has launched Composer 2, a new in-house coding model now available inside its agentic AI coding environment, and it offers drastically improved benchmarks from its prior in-house model.It's also launching and making Composer 2 Fast, a higher-priced but faster variant, the default experience for users.Here's the cost breakdown:Composer 2 Standard: $0.50/$2.50 per 1 million input/output tokens... Read more ›
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The future of AI isn’t just agentic; it’s deep personalization. Rather than simple recommender systems that correlate user behavior to identify patterns and apply those to individual workflows, large language models (LLMs) and AI agents can analyze users directly to create deeply personalized experiences. It’s this kind of aggressive customization users are increasingly demanding — and the savviest enterprises who provide it (and soon) will win. The goal is: “Don't... Read more ›
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The hit open source autonomous AI agent OpenClaw may have just gotten mogged by Anthropic. Today, Anthropic announced Claude Code Channels, a way to hook up its own powerful Claude Code AI agentic harness to a human user's Discord or Telegram messaging applications, letting them message Claude Code directly whenever they want while on the go and instruct it to write code for them. Official documentation is here.This isn't just... Read more ›
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Enterprises that have been juggling separate models for reasoning, multimodal tasks, and agentic coding may be able to simplify their stack: Mistral’s new Small 4 brings all three into a single open-source model, with adjustable reasoning levels under the hood.Small 4 enters a crowded field of small models — including Qwen and Claude Haiku — that are competing on inference cost and benchmark performance. Mistral’s pitch: shorter outputs that translate... Read more ›
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Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversation. But the benchmarks used to evaluate those models are largely still running on synthetic speech, English-only prompts, and scripted test sets that bear little resemblance to how people actually talk.Scale AI, the large data annotation... Read more ›
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Large language models are running into limits in domains that require an understanding of the physical world — from robotics to autonomous driving to manufacturing. That constraint is pushing investors toward world models, with AMI Labs raising a $1.03 billion seed round shortly after World Labs secured $1 billion.Large language models (LLMs) excel at processing abstract knowledge through next-token prediction, but they fundamentally lack grounding in physical causality. They cannot... Read more ›
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