Author: Hunter
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Tech leaders respond to the rapid rise of DeepSeek
Marc Andreessen, Yann LeCunn, and Mark Zuckerberg have all penned what appear to be responses to the Chinese open source model’s ascent.Read More Read more
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The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster
At the start of 2025, with no warning, Microsoft gave its flagship productivity app a name change and a huge price increase. Most everything about this launch was a mess. Here’s what went wrong. Read more
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Researchers at Stanford Propose a Unified Regression-based Machine Learning Framework for Sequence Models with Associative Memory
Sequences are a universal abstraction for representing and processing information, making sequence modeling central to modern deep learning. By framing computational tasks as transformations between sequences, this perspective has extended to diverse fields such as NLP, computer vision, time series analysis, and computational biology. This has driven the development of various sequence models, including transformers,… Read more
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Deal alert: Save almost 60% on one of the best robot vacuum brands I’ve tested — but hurry
The Dreame L10s Ultra is a robot vacuum and mop combination that is seeing a huge 56% discount for a limited time. But hurry, this Amazon lightning deal ends soon. Read more
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Google Home users can ask Gemini to control their smart homes now – how it works
Rolling out to all users this week, the new integration lets you ask the AI bot to turn lights on or off or control other smart devices. Read more
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This Man Eats So Much Butter, Cheese, and Beef that Cholesterol Oozes from His Skin
High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man’s was over 1,000 mg/dL. Read more
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Video Friday: Hottest On The Ice
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY German Robotics Conference: 13–15 March 2025, NUREMBERG,… Read more
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YOU SEE AN LLM HERE: Integrating Language Models Into Your Text Adventure Games
Text-based adventure games have a timeless appeal. Read more
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India’s Param Foundation Opens New Science Centers
Inavamsi Enaganti has long been a dreamer. He keeps ever-evolving lists of life goals, ticking them off as he achieves them, then adding more. One childhood dream has burned particularly brightly in his mind: Create a science-focused amusement park. Enaganti is now working on a version of that dream through India’s Param Foundation. The Bengaluru-based… Read more
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How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which claims that R1 matches or even surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1 on multiple key benchmarks but operates at a fraction of the cost. “This could be a truly equalizing breakthrough that is… Read more