Author: Hunter
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Elon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated the General Services Administration
Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say. Read more
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Microsoft Paint is getting a Copilot button, too
All your AI Paint tools under one roof. Windows Insiders will soon see a Copilot icon in one more place: Paint. Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels will see the new button thanks to an update rolling out now, putting AI tools in one location. Clicking the Copilot button in the task bar will… Read more
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YouTube’s new Discord-like Communities are rolling out to more creators
YouTube is expanding the availability of its dedicated community space feature to more creators on the site, giving them more opportunities to connect with their fans without needing to lean on another platform like Discord. Only available for access via mobile devices, Communities first launched during the Made for YouTube event last fall, letting the… Read more
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Sid Meier’s Civilization VII: all the latest on the strategy epic from Firaxis Games
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII is the latest in the long-running 4X strategy franchise that first debuted in 1991 on MS-DOS. The new turn-based game from Firaxis Games and the titular, legendary designer is set to release on PC and modern consoles in on February 11th, 2025 — over eight years after the last installment. Civ… Read more
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How AI can drive business transformation
The race to implement artificial intelligence solutions across the enterprise is in full swing. Most are using AI to drive down bottom-line costs by doing things quicker or more frequently than they did before. The potential for time and cost savings are immense, but almost no one defines what they are going to do with… Read more
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Sony just axed the 60fps Bloodborne mod with a DMCA takedown
A popular Bloodborne framerate mod is no longer available thanks to a DMCA takedown request from Sony. Australia-based Twitch streamer Lance McDonald first developed the mod back in 2020 before making it available to download in 2021. Lance announced today in a post on X that Sony Interactive Entertainment asked them to remove download links… Read more
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The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Releases Tülu 3 405B: Scaling Open-Weight Post-Training with Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) to Surpass DeepSeek V3 and GPT-4o in Key Benchmarks
Post-training techniques, such as instruction tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback, have become essential for refining language models. But, open-source approaches often fall behind proprietary models due to a lack of transparency in training data, methodologies, and optimization techniques. Despite the availability of foundational models, the absence of robust, publicly available post-training recipes creates… Read more
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Common Side Effects’ creators see the US healthcare system as the show’s villain
In Adult Swimâs Common Side Effects from Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (American Dad!), the discovery of a strange mushroom that can heal any sickness or injury is either a miracle or a doomsday scenario, depending on who you ask. The plant is a godsend to people suffering from debilitating illnesses, but its… Read more
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OpenAI launches new o3-mini model – here’s how free ChatGPT users can try it
If you use ChatGPT for STEM tasks, you’ll want to check out this faster and cheaper model. Read more
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Memorization vs. Generalization: How Supervised Fine-Tuning SFT and Reinforcement Learning RL Shape Foundation Model Learning
Modern AI systems rely heavily on post-training techniques like supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) to adapt foundation models for specific tasks. However, a critical question remains unresolved: do these methods help models memorize training data or generalize to new scenarios? This distinction is vital for building robust AI systems capable of handling real-world… Read more