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UAE bets big on AI to literally rewrite the rules
The United Arab Emirates is rolling out an AI-driven legislative framework designed to analyze and update laws in real time. The state is calling it "a new phase in the legislative journey of the UAE.
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Go read this to learn how reinforcement learning makes LLMs better at reasoning
AI researcher Sebastian Raschka has published a new analysis that looks at how reinforcement learning is used to improve reasoning in large language models (LRMs). In a blog post, he describes how ...
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Gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0-gguf sounds like a Wi-Fi password but it’s Google’s leanest LLM yet
With a specialized training approach, these new Gemma 3 variants can now run efficiently on consumer hardware—think gaming GPUs or even mobile devices—without taking a major hit in quality. For ...
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Google’s AI Overviews are quietly draining clicks from top sites, new data shows
New analysis from Ahrefs shows Google’s "AI Overviews" are driving down clicks to top-ranked websites by over 34%, directly contradicting Google’s own claims. A recent analysis from Ahrefs suggests ...
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OpenAI's o3 achieves near-perfect performance on long context benchmark
With support for up to 200,000 tokens, o3 is the first model to achieve a perfect 100 percent on the Fiction.live benchmark using 128,000 tokens—that’s roughly 96,000 words. For any language model ...
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Students delegate higher-level thinking to AI, Anthropic study finds
A new study from Anthropic examines how university students are using its language model Claude in daily academic work. The analysis reveals discipline-specific usage patterns and raises concerns ...
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The next leap in AI depends on agents that learn by doing, not just by reading what humans wrote
Richard S. Sutton's "Bitter Lesson" lays out a hard truth at the heart of modern AI: Not the clever injection of human knowledge, but scalable learning and search algorithms are what deliver lasting ...
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Seedream 3.0 beats GPT-4os image generation, says ByteDance
ByteDance introduces Seedream 3.0, a new text-to-image model. Benchmarks suggest improvements over GPT-4o and Midjourney in speed, accuracy, and visual quality. ByteDance has released Seedream 3.0, a ...
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Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash gives you speed when you need it and reasoning when you can afford it
Developers can try it now through the Gemini API using Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. The model is also available to users in the Gemini app. Built on the 2.0 Flash foundation, the new version is ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"
The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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Apple will use your emails to improve AI features without ever seeing them
Apple is rolling out a new system that processes user data directly on devices in an effort to enhance its AI capabilities while maintaining privacy standards. Starting with beta versions of iOS and ...
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Safety assessments show that OpenAI's o3 is probably the company's riskiest AI model to date
OpenAI’s latest language models, o3 and o4-mini, incorporate advanced reasoning capabilities and extensive tool use, including image analysis, Python execution, and web browsing. According to OpenAI, ...