Author: Hunter

The entrance to the now shuttered USAID office can be seen as black plastic covers a USAID sign at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC on April 1, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images After stranding former US Agency for International Development (USAID) workers with devices holding sensitive information, the Trump… Read more

At technology conferences worldwide and on social media, generative AI applications demonstrate impressive capabilities: composing marketing emails, creating data visualizations, or writing functioning code. Yet behind these polished demonstrations lies a stark reality. What works in controlled environments often fails when confronted with the demands of production systems. Industry surveys reveal the scale of this… Read more

Transformers have revolutionized sequence modeling by introducing an architecture that handles long-range dependencies efficiently without relying on recurrence. Their ability to process input tokens simultaneously, while utilizing self-attention mechanisms, enables them to achieve impressive performance in natural language tasks. However, despite their dominance, some of the essential features found in recurrent neural networks, particularly the… Read more

On paper, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 doesn’t seem to stand out amidst a recent wave of prestige RPGs, from the newly polished high fantasy of the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake to the medieval warfare of 15th century Bohemia in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. For one, its fantastical conquests are set in a world reminiscent… Read more

GenAI has progressed at an astonishing pace over the last two and a half years. It began with a surge of exploration and hype in late 2022, followed by a wave of early adoption as tools like ChatGPT and enterprise copilots entered the daily workflows.  By early 2024, the focus shifted to ROI and use-case… Read more

In this tutorial, we explore five levels of Agentic Architectures, from the simplest language model calls to a fully autonomous code-generating system. This tutorial is designed to run seamlessly on Google Colab. Starting with a basic “simple processor” that simply echoes the model’s output, you will progressively build routing logic, integrate external tools, orchestrate multi-step… Read more

Aravind Srinivas is battling Google to get his Perplexity AI assistant preinstalled on Android phones. At the same time, the CEO is refocusing his startup on what he predicts will be the next battleground in the AI race: your web browser. Perplexity plans to release its own browser called Comet next month, Srinivas tells me.… Read more

FRDM+ provides access to an impressive library of automotive videos for $20 a month. Read more

YKK’s self-propelled zipper prototype is chunky and currently being tested for more industrial applications. | Screenshot: YouTube Japan’s YKK, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer (go ahead, grab the nearest zipper, it probably says YKK on the pull), has announced a prototype self-propelled zipper with a built-in motor and gear mechanism it can use to zip… Read more

What happens when AI automates R&D and starts to run amok? An intelligence explosion, power accumulation, disruption of democratic institutions, and more, according to these researchers. Read more