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Trump Says He Ended the ‘EV Mandate.’ What Does That Mean?
Policy experts say the implications of Donald Trump’s executive order for EV owners—and the EV-curious—won’t be clear for a while.
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Trump’s Plan to Leave the WHO Is a Health Disaster
The exit will cut a huge chunk from the World Health Organization’s budget, but the short-term financial gain for the US could come at the cost of disease outbreaks flaring up across the world.
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Perplexity launches Sonar API, taking aim at Google and OpenAI with real-time AI search
Perplexity’s Sonar is a real-time AI search API challenging Google and OpenAI with disruptive pricing and superior performance.Read More
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How Meta Tried To Lure TikTok Users to Instagram
In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting its platforms as a comparable alternative.
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How Axis Security is using Xpander.AI’s agent platform to supercharge customer support ticket management
Through its partnership with xpander, Axis says it has managed to save thousands of hours monthly and grow its team sustainably.Read More
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Tencent introduces ‘Hunyuan3D 2.0’ AI that speeds up 3D design from days to seconds
Tencent’s Hunyuan3D 2.0 transforms simple images into detailed 3D models in seconds, a breakthrough in AI technology that could reshape how industries create virtual content and revolutionize digital art production.Read More
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Snowflake AI Research Open-Sources SwiftKV: A Novel AI Approach that Reduces Inference Costs of Meta Llama LLMs up to 75% on Cortex AI
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become pivotal in artificial intelligence, powering a variety of applications from chatbots to content generation tools. However, their deployment at scale presents notable challenges. High computational costs, latency, and energy consumption often limit their wider use. Organizations face the difficulty of balancing high throughput with reasonable operating expenses. Additionally, as…
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Enhancing Lexicon-Based Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
Lexicon-based embeddings are one of the good alternatives to dense embeddings, yet they face numerous challenges that restrain their wider adoption. One key problem is tokenization redundancy, whereby subword tokenization breaks semantically equivalent tokens, causing inefficiencies and inconsistencies in embeddings. The other limitation of causal LLMs is unidirectional attention; this means tokens cannot fully leverage…
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Create Portrait Mode Effect with Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2)
Have you ever admired how smartphone cameras isolate the main subject from the background, adding a subtle blur to the background based on depth? This “portrait mode” effect gives photographs a professional look by simulating shallow depth-of-field similar to DSLR cameras. In this tutorial, we’ll recreate this effect programmatically using open-source computer vision models, like…
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2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: AI in the Spotlight
Companies had a mixed relationship with cybersecurity before generative AI landed on the scene in 2022. Now that companies are quickly adopting GenAI across their organizations, they’re finding themselves playing a game of security catch-up. That will make 2025 an eventful year, security experts predict. Identity resolution is tough enough under the best of circumstances.…