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Hours-long videos of ’80s and ’90s Weather Channel broadcasts set to vaporwave tunes are all over YouTube. They’re perfect for those moments you want to remember a time when weather was a little less scary. Read more

Recent years have brought hundreds of new applications, including modern videoconferencing, task trackers, and AI assistants, but some IT leaders haven’t seen the employee productivity gains they expected. Many apps and platforms have promised productivity gains, and some have delivered, but a new productivity paradox — in which employee productivity doesn’t match the rapid advancement… Read more

On Monday of last week, former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi presented his “long-awaited” report on the EU’s competitiveness, which the Commission tapped him to produce a year ago. The report will form the basis of the policy work going forward for the new commission that will soon take office.  I put long-awaited in quotation marks… Read more

Just as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was preparing to present her new team, there is trouble over the line-up for Commission posts: The European Union’s current Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Thierry Breton, has unexpectedly submitted his resignation. In his resignation letter, which the Frenchman posted on X, Breton justified… Read more

La contratación de personal TI es difícil. Para empezar, el desempleo relativamente bajo en el sector implica más competencia entre las empresas en general que buscan contratar. Además, las tasas de desempleo de los trabajadores de TI suelen ser aún más bajas. Sin embargo, los directores de Sistemas de Información y sus equipos de contratación… Read more

Thrills and spills from a fold-up bike? We couldn’t believe it either. Read more

This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. Welcome back to The Algorithm! This week we’re going to talk about OpenAI’s impressive new reasoning model, called o1. I want to illustrate why it’s such a big deal with an example from my wedding… Read more

A significant challenge in text-to-speech (TTS) systems is the computational inefficiency of the Monotonic Alignment Search (MAS) algorithm, which is responsible for estimating alignments between text and speech sequences. MAS faces high time complexity, particularly when dealing with large inputs. The complexity is O(T×S), where T is the text length and S is the speech… Read more

Prior research on Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrated significant advancements in fluency and accuracy across various tasks, influencing sectors like healthcare and education. This progress sparked investigations into LLMs’ language understanding capabilities and associated risks. Hallucinations, defined as plausible but incorrect information generated by models, emerged as a central concern. Studies explored whether these errors… Read more

AI assistants have the drawback of being rigid, pre-programmed for specific tasks, and in need of more flexibility. The limited utility of these systems stems from their inability to learn and adapt as they are used. Some AI frameworks include hidden features and processes that are difficult for users to access or modify. This lack… Read more