Author: Hunter

Answering open-domain questions in real-world scenarios is challenging, as relevant information is often scattered across diverse sources, including text, databases, and images. While LLMs can break down complex queries into simpler steps to improve retrieval, they usually fail to account for how data is structured, leading to suboptimal results. Agentic RAG introduces iterative retrieval, refining… Read more

Large-scale language models (LLMs) have advanced the field of artificial intelligence as they are used in many applications. Although they can almost perfectly simulate human language, they tend to lose in terms of response diversity. This limitation is particularly problematic in tasks requiring creativity, such as synthetic data generation and storytelling, where diverse outputs are… Read more

The Pokémon Company International says it’s now “actively investigating” ways to improve the feature after players threatened to cancel their subscriptions. Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent has been named the Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the bureau announced today. Bessent quickly instructed the agency to “to stop all rulemaking, communications, litigation, and other activities,” reports Bloomberg Law. A source inside the CFPB told… Read more

WIRED confirmed various automated efforts to remove pronouns from both email and Slack at USAID, the EPA, the GSA, and more. Read more

EcoFlow has confirmed new advanced features coming to its PowerStream solar system are currently being tested by some users. | Image: EcoFlow EcoFlow has confirmed that it’s currently testing new advanced features for its PowerStream Balcony Solar System that were made available to a small group of testers “on a paid basis.” After other EcoFlow… Read more

What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI Speakers: Charlotte Jee, news editor, Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor, and Caiwei Chen, China reporter. The tech world is abuzz over a new open-source reasoning AI model developed by DeepSeek, a Chinese startup. The company claims that this new model, called DeepSeek R1, matches or even surpasses… Read more

Uber introduced a new feature designed to make it easier for people with disabilities to ride with service animals. For years, Uber’s policies toward service animals have been in accordance with state and federal law: they are allowed to ride at all times at no extra cost. But now the company is allowing customers to… Read more

The breadth and complexity of modern cyber-attacks have made the potential for an attack on IT infrastructure, including mainframes, a matter of ‘when,’ not ‘if.’ Oftentimes, these attacks come down to system access—a bad actor who shouldn’t be there slips into critical systems, resulting in disaster. It’s a reality that is growing increasingly common. In… Read more

As enterprises across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong undergo rapid digitalisation, democratisation of artificial intelligence (AI) and evolving cloud strategies are reshaping how they operate. Enterprises must adapt to an increasingly interconnected and intelligent ecosystem while keeping a watchful eye on evolving cybersecurity threats, regulatory changes, and sustainability-driven innovation. Here are 25 key predictions and… Read more