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Elon Musk Threatens FBI Agents and Air Traffic Controllers With Forced Resignation If They Don’t Respond to an Email
Employees throughout the federal government have until 11:59pm ET Monday to detail five things they accomplished in the last week.
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The iOS 18.4 beta brings Matter robot vacuum support
The Switchbot S10 is one robot vacuum with Matter support. Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 18.4 yesterday, which users have since discovered contains support for robot vacuums in the Apple Home app through Matter. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Smart Home Centre confirmed the functionality using a Switchbot S10, which offers its own beta support…
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Stanford Researchers Introduce OctoTools: A Training-Free Open-Source Agentic AI Framework Designed to Tackle Complex Reasoning Across Diverse Domains
Large language models (LLMs) are limited by complex reasoning tasks that require multiple steps, domain-specific knowledge, or external tool integration. To address these challenges, researchers have explored ways to enhance LLM capabilities through external tool usage. By leveraging pre-built tools, AI systems can handle more intricate problem-solving scenarios, including real-world decision-making, multi-step reasoning, and specialized…
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The long wait for a glimpse of Luigi
There are so many people here that nobody can tell where the end of the line is. New people arrive, ask if thereâs a line, shuffle into a blob of bodies idling and waiting for someone to give them instructions. The hallway is horribly warm â unclear if itâs from the bodies or the heat…
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Meta AI Releases the Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (V-JEPA) Model: A Crucial Step in Advancing Machine Intelligence
Humans have an innate ability to process raw visual signals from the retina and develop a structured understanding of their surroundings, identifying objects and motion patterns. A major goal of machine learning is to uncover the underlying principles that enable such unsupervised human learning. One key hypothesis, the predictive feature principle, suggests that representations of…
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Despite 2024 Layoffs, Tech Jobs Expected to Take Off
In 2024, the technology sector saw yet more layoffs after massive cuts in 2022 and 2023. Though the pace was somewhat slower last year, more than 150,000 employees were laid off across hundreds of companies, according to Layoffs.fyi, a site started during the COVID-19 pandemic to track tech layoffs around the world. The largest single…
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Spotify HiFi was announced four years ago, and it’s almost here — maybe
Iâm hard-pressed to find another example of a tech company announcing something and then waiting over four years to actually ship it, but thatâs exactly the situation weâve reached with Spotify and its long-delayed HiFi feature. The latest reports indicate itâs finally coming in a matter of months as part of a Music Pro package…
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The best smartphone you can buy for under $500
You can get a great device for less than $500 these days if you know how to pick your priorities. | Image: The Verge Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something…
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AT&T will let you split your bill with people on your plan
AT&T has introduced SplitPay, a new payment option that lets those sharing a phone plan with others split their payment line-by-line, so no one person has to pay the entire bill. The company says the program is available for “select postpaid wireless plans,” and that those using SplitPay can still get multi-line discounts. It sounds…
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The rise of browser-use agents: Why Convergence’s Proxy is beating OpenAI’s Operator
A new wave of AI-powered browser-use agents is emerging, promising to transform how enterprises interact with the web. These agents, including OpenAI’s Operator and Convergence’s Proxy, can autonomously navigate websites, retrieve information, and even complete transactions – but early testing reveals significant gaps between promise and performance between these leaders. While consumer examples like ordering…