Phi-4-mini-Flash-Reasoning, the latest addition to Microsoft’s Phi-4 model family, is an open, lightweight language model designed to excel at long-context reasoning while maintaining high inference efficiency. Released on Hugging…
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NVIDIA AI Released DiffusionRenderer: An AI Model for Editable, Photorealistic 3D Scenes from a Single Video
AI-powered video generation is improving at a breathtaking pace. In a short time, we’ve gone from blurry, incoherent clips to generated videos with stunning realism. Yet, for all this progress, a critical capability has been…
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How Video Games Became the New Battleground for Actors and AI Protections
On Wednesday, members of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, voted to ratify a new contract for video game performers, officially bringing an end to a nearly yearlong strike. A majority, 95…
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You Asked, We Answered: All of Your AI Angst
Welcome to Uncanny Valley’s very first Q&A, where our host addresses your burning AI-related questions.
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AI Is a Lousy Chef
The LibGen list included pirated work from Elisabeth and from me and from thousands of other authors, but I was stunned to when I typed in “America’s Test Kitchen” and 163 results came up, scores of their books like Paleo Perfected, Air Fryer…
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A Coding Guide to Scaling Advanced Pandas Workflows with Modin
In this tutorial, we delve into Modin, a powerful drop-in replacement for Pandas that leverages parallel computing to speed up data workflows significantly. By importing modin.pandas as pd, we transform our pandas code into a…
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Decision Trees Aren’t Just for Tabular Data
Versatile, interpretable, and effective for a variety of use cases, decision trees have been among the most well-established machine learning techniques for decades, widely used for classification and regression tasks.
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Google AI Open-Sourced MedGemma 27B and MedSigLIP for Scalable Multimodal Medical Reasoning
In a strategic move to advance open-source development in medical AI, Google DeepMind and Google Research have introduced two new models under the MedGemma umbrella: MedGemma 27B Multimodal, a large-scale vision-language foundation…
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Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts
Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled Grok 4, the latest AI model from xAI, his multibillion-dollar initiative to rival OpenAI and Google. Without citing detailed evidence, Musk claimed that the model aces standardized tests and exhibits doctorate-level…
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Perplexity Introduces Comet—An AI-First Alternative to Traditional Browsers
Perplexity, a company already recognized for redefining how users interact with information through AI-powered search, has announced the launch of Comet, an ambitious AI-native web browser. Designed with an AI-first architecture,…
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