Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, that was another executive order that came out. I think it was literally titled something around eliminating data silos. Another thing that on its surface sounds good: data silos, inefficient, sounds bad, but there’s a really…
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Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi
Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores…
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Introducing a New Chapter for ‘Uncanny Valley’
In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what’s happening in 2026—including what’s in store for Uncanny Valley.
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We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate those chording instructions at the bottom.…
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OpenAI is reportedly trying to raise $100B at an $830B valuation
OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $100 billion in a funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at up to $830 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources.
The company is aiming to raise the funding by the…
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Google Introduces T5Gemma 2: Encoder Decoder Models with Multimodal Inputs via SigLIP and 128K Context
Google has released T5Gemma 2, a family of open encoder-decoder Transformer checkpoints built by adapting Gemma 3 pretrained weights into an encoder-decoder layout, then continuing pretraining with the UL2 objective. The release is…
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How to Fine-Tune a Local Mistral or Llama 3 Model on Your Own Dataset
In this article, you will learn how to fine-tune open-source large language models for customer support using Unsloth and QLoRA, from dataset preparation through training, testing, and comparison.
Topics we will cover include:
- Setting up a…
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YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers
Deadline reports that the behavior of these creators ran afoul of YouTube’s spam and misleading-metadata policies. At the same time, Google loves generative AI—YouTube has added more ways for creators to use generative…
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Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential | MIT News
Even networks long considered “untrainable” can learn effectively with a bit of a helping hand. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have shown that a brief period of…
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School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error.
Monitoring these systems continually, humans review AI flags, then text any concerning images detected to school superintendents. Police are alerted when human review determines images may constitute actual threats….
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