Author: Hunter

LLMs based on transformer architectures, such as GPT and LLaMA series, have excelled in NLP tasks due to their extensive parameterization and large training datasets. However, research indicates that not all learned parameters are necessary to retain performance, prompting the development of post-training compression techniques to enhance efficiency without significantly reducing inference quality. For example,… Read more

Thanks to a unique recycling process, the secret to this high-performance puffer is repurposed climbing kit Read more

Sony announced Wednesday that you won’t need to log in to a PlayStation Network account to play four of its single-player games on PC: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (which comes out tomorrow), The Last of Us Part II Remastered (which launches on April 3rd), God of War Ragnarök, and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. However, to incentivize… Read more

Waymo is sending autonomous vehicles to 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, the company shared exclusively with The Verge.  The vehicles will be manually driven, and the testing operations are not necessarily a precursor to the launch of a commercial robotaxi service. (They’re also not precluded from launching a… Read more

Final Fantasy VII Remake, on PS4, is currently available on the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. | Image: Square Enix Sony announced Wednesday that it will change to “occasionally” including PS4 games as a PlayStation Plus benefit starting in January 2026. You’ll still have access to any of the monthly PS4 games you’ve already redeemed to… Read more

You can bet on seeing lots of AI ads during the Super Bowl LIX, according to Mark Evans, the executive VP of ad sales for Fox Sports. Evans told The Hollywood Reporter that AI “will be coming like a freight train,” and that some companies have paid over $8 million for 30-second spots during the… Read more

When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is:… Read more

If you’re a Pixel 9 user, you can ask Gemini Live more about what you’re seeing on your phone. Read more

Existing open-source AI approaches are still not entirely open, which is a challenge that former Google and Apple engineers, alongside a coalition of 13 universities are looking to solve.Read More Read more

A final hearing will take place in June. MGM Resorts International has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a lawsuit over data breaches that collectively exposed the personal information of 37 million customers. The case consolidated 22 class-action lawsuits filed over two security incidents: a data breach in 2019, and a ransomware attack in… Read more