Author: Hunter
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New approach to agent reliability, AgentSpec, forces agents to follow rules
Researchers from Singapore Management University developed a new domain-specific language for agents to remain reliable.Read More Read more
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Lenovo’s upcoming SteamOS handheld will cost $50 more than expected
The SteamOS-powered version of Lenovoâs Legion Go S handheld gaming PC debuted at CES 2025 with a somewhat attractive $499.99 price tag. At that price, The Vergeâs Sean Hollister considered it a true Steam Deck rival, wedged neatly between the cost of Valveâs $399 LCD and $549 OLED models. The handheld recently went up for… Read more
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Prophecy 4.0 Offers Fully Governed Self-Service Data Prep for Databricks SQL
In 2024, data integration company Prophecy unveiled its AI Copilot for Databricks, marking a significant step forward in data transformation. Leveraging the power of GenAI, the tool enabled business users and analysts to construct data pipelines using natural language. It aimed to simplify workflows and offer organizations a more efficient path to managing and utilizing… Read more
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YouTube tests turning off notifications for channels you don’t watch
YouTube is switching off some push notifications for channels with frequent uploads in a new test that might make you miss alerts you’ve signed up for. The latest test announced by the official TeamYouTube community targets channels that users have notifications set to “all” for, but often don’t open those notifications. The test won’t turn… Read more
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ChatGPT’s Ghibli filter is political now — but it always was
When I saw my colleague Kylie Robison’s story about OpenAI’s new image generator on Tuesday, I thought this week might be fun. Generative AI images raise all kinds of ethical issues, but I find them wildly entertaining, and I spent large chunks of that day watching other Verge staff test ChatGPT in ways that covered… Read more
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A Gentle Introduction to Attention and Transformer Models
Transformer architecture originated from the 2017 paper “Attention is All You Need” by Vaswani et al. Read more
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The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) Has Cleared the Tower
Many of us are old enough to remember the Apollo Saturn V rocket lifting off the launch pad. It took about 12 seconds for the rocket to clear the tower. The five big engines pushed a lot of mass. The goal, of course, was getting men and equipment to the moon and back. Big goals take organization,… Read more
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Musk threatens to sic the government on people ‘pushing’ Tesla ‘propaganda’
As protests against Tesla continue to grow, Elon Musk is threatening to âgo afterâ the people who say or post anything negative about the company â which he labels âpropaganda.â  That was what I took away from Elon Muskâs 38-minute interview on Fox News last night, which largely focused on the billionaireâs efforts to eliminate… Read more
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Google to pay $100 million to settle 14-year-old advertising lawsuit
Google will pay $100 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the company of charging for clicks on ads placed outside the geographic locations selected by advertisers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The proposed settlement was filed in a California court on Thursday and still requires approval by a judge. The lawsuit, first filed… Read more
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Here’s what military planning usually looks like — and why it doesn’t include Signal
The Trump administration planned a military strike in Yemen the way normal people plan a surprise birthday party: in a group chat. As detailed by The Atlantic earlier this week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and other senior officials used a Signal group to discuss an attack on Houthi targets, sharing… Read more