Salesforce AI Research has introduced GTA1, a new graphical user interface (GUI) agent that redefines the state-of-the-art in agentic human-computer interaction. Designed to autonomously operate in real operating system environments…
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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’
If you want a job at McDonald’s today, there’s a good chance you’ll have to talk to Olivia. Olivia is not, in fact, a human being, but instead an AI chatbot that screens applicants, asks for their contact information and resumé, directs them…
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A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control
A new kind of large language model, developed by researchers at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), makes it possible to control how training data is used even after a model has been built.
The new model, called FlexOlmo, could challenge the current…
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Master the Art of Prompt Engineering
In today’s AI-driven world, prompt engineering isn’t just a buzzword—it’s an essential skill. This blend of art and science goes beyond simple queries, enabling you to transform vague ideas into precise, actionable AI…
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Microsoft Open-Sources GitHub Copilot Chat Extension for VS Code—Now Free for All Developers
Microsoft has officially open-sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), placing a previously premium AI-powered coding assistant into the hands of developers—free of charge. Released under the…
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Hugging Face Releases SmolLM3: A 3B Long-Context, Multilingual Reasoning Model
Hugging Face just released SmolLM3, the latest version of its “Smol” language models, designed to deliver strong multilingual reasoning over long contexts using a compact 3B-parameter architecture. While most high-context…
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Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X
Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, made a series of deeply antisemitic remarks in response to several posts on X on Tuesday.
A large language model that is integrated into X, Grok acts as a…
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OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta
OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, to join the company’s scaling team, WIRED has learned. The news came via an internal Slack message sent…
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10 NumPy One-Liners to Simplify Feature Engineering
When building machine learning models, most developers focus on model architectures and hyperparameter tuning.
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Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’
Microsoft and OpenAI are planning to announce Tuesday that they are helping to launch an AI training center for members of the second-largest teachers’ union in the US, according to details about the initiative that appear to have been…
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