Dean Leitersdorf introduces himself over Zoom, then types a prompt that makes me feel like I’ve just taken psychedelic mushrooms: “wild west, cosmic, Roman Empire, golden, underwater.” He feeds the words into an artificial intelligence…
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Roblox’s New Age Verification Feature Uses AI to Scan Teens’ Video Selfies
In the briefing, Kaufman called Roblox “one of the safest places online for people to come together and spend time with their friends and their family.”
Kirra Pendergast, founder and CEO of Safe on Social—an online safety organization…
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NVIDIA AI Releases Canary-Qwen-2.5B: A State-of-the-Art ASR-LLM Hybrid Model with SoTA Performance on OpenASR Leaderboard
NVIDIA has just released Canary-Qwen-2.5B, a groundbreaking automatic speech recognition (ASR) and language model (LLM) hybrid, which now tops the Hugging Face OpenASR leaderboard with a record-setting Word Error Rate (WER) of…
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Google Search Just Got a Major AI Upgrade: Gemini 2.5 Pro, Deep Search, and Agentic Intelligence
Google is transforming how we interact with Search. With the recent rollout of Gemini 2.5 Pro, Deep Search, and a powerful new agentic feature, Google is making its search engine smarter, more interactive, and vastly more…
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Feature Engineering with LLM Embeddings: Enhancing Scikit-learn Models
Large language model embeddings, or LLM embeddings, are a powerful approach to capturing semantically rich information in text and utilizing it to leverage other machine learning models — like those trained using Scikit-learn — in tasks that…
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Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records
Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses.
The practice allows malicious scripts and…
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The 20 Hottest Agentic AI Tools And Agents Of 2025 (So Far)
Research & Cutting‑Edge Agents
- AlphaEvolve (Google DeepMind) – An evolutionary coding agent powered by Gemini, AlphaEvolve autonomously invents and optimizes algorithms across domains—including mathematics, data center scheduling,…
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Where Are All the AI Drugs?
A new drug usually starts with a tragedy.
Peter Ray knows that. Born in what is now Zimbabwe, the child of a mechanic and a radiology technician, Ray fled with his family to South Africa during the Zimbabwean War of Liberation. He remembers the…
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Mistral AI Releases Voxtral: The World’s Best (and Open) Speech Recognition Models
Mistral AI has released Voxtral, a family of open-weight models—Voxtral-Small-24B and Voxtral-Mini-3B—designed to handle both audio and text inputs. Built on top of Mistral’s language modeling framework, these models integrate…
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A Coding Guide to Build an AI Code-Analysis Agent with Griffe
class AICodeAnalyzer: """AI Agent for advanced code analysis using Griffe""" def __init__(self): self.analysis_cache = {} self.dependency_graph = nx.DiGraph() def analyze_package(self, package_name: str, search_paths:...
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