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CareYaya Health Technologies has launched QuikTok, an AI phone companion targeted at lonely older adults.Read More Read more

One of the greatest things about working in technology is the surprise advancements that take the industry by storm.  Things like:  The personal computer The internet The cloud Blockchain The Internet of Things (IoT) Generative artificial intelligence (genAI)   One of the worst things about working in technology is the surprise advancements that take the industry… Read more

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is en route to assess how NASA’s 2022 DART mission impacted the asteroid Dimorphos. DART smashed into the asteroid at a little over 6 kilometers per second, sending out a cloud of debris and slowing it slightly. Hera’s detailed post-collision survey aims to tell us just how efficient the… Read more

Transformers have gained significant attention due to their powerful capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text, making them suitable for various applications like language translation, summarization, and creative content generation. They operate based on an attention mechanism, which determines how much focus each token in a sequence should have on others to make informed predictions.… Read more

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made considerable advancements in natural language understanding and generation through scalable pretraining and fine-tuning techniques. However, a major challenge persists in enhancing LLMs’ reasoning abilities, particularly for complex logical and mathematical tasks. The scarcity of high-quality preference data for fine-tuning reward models (RMs) limits the effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning from… Read more

Some bad news for CIOs: Many C-suite leaders, including IT leaders themselves, have less confidence in your department’s ability to get the job done than they did a decade ago. Less than half of C-level executives believe their IT organizations are effectively delivering basic services, compared to about two-thirds with confidence in 2013, according to… Read more

Amazon made headlines a few weeks ago with its announced reorganization. According to CEO Andy Jassy, a massive reorganization is what’s needed to remove layers, flatten organizations, increase teammates’ ability to move fast, and create an employee utopia by getting rid of lots and lots of non-value-adding managers. I’m not optimistic. And I don’t think… Read more

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting private accounts on LinkedIn and WhatsApp because they are less secure than business accounts, according to Europe cybersecurity agency Enisa’s latest threat landscape report.  Here, an increasingly common method sees cybercriminals pretending to be recruiters targeting people in higher positions with sugarcoated offers of enticing jobs.  Sometimes hard to see through… Read more

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We are in the early stages of a geopolitical competition for the future of artificial intelligence. The winners will dominate the global economy in the 21st century. But what’s been too often left out of the conversation is that AI’s huge demand for concentrated and consistent amounts of power represents a chance to scale the… Read more