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This Humanoid Robot Is a Terrifyingly Competent Office Intern
Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.
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AWS, Microsoft, and Google agree the session is the new unit of compute. They disagree on how to isolate it.
Over the past few months, four AI giants quietly rebuilt the same thing at once: AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic The post AWS, Microsoft, and Google agree the session is the new unit of compute. They disagree on how to…
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Trust in Rust: Foundation debuts official training to tackle steep learning curve
The Rust Foundation on Thursday announced the launch of the Rust Foundation Trusted Training (RFTT) program, a new formal accreditation The post Trust in Rust: Foundation debuts official training to tackle steep learning curve appeared first on The New Stack.
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British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
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How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature
Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.
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GitLab just surveyed 1,500 developers. Here’s why it matters for your codebase.
For the past two years, the conversation about AI-assisted software development has been dominated by speed. A new GitLab survey The post GitLab just surveyed 1,500 developers. Here’s why it matters for your codebase. appeared first on The New Stack.
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Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot
The AI developer tools consolidation continues apace, with news that Cursor has snapped up open-source coding assistant Continue — its The post Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot appeared first on The New Stack.
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The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other…
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How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.