Meta says its latest AI model can compete with the industry’s strongest coding systems while using fewer tokens and tool calls. Independent testing suggests the efficiency story is more complicated. The company released Muse Spark 1.3 to developers Wednesday through Muse Code and the Meta Model API, keeping pricing at $1.25 per million input tokens…
OpenAI and Microsoft face another lawsuit from news organizations the Seattle Times and Newsday, which accuse the tech giants of using their sites to train AI without permission. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, alleges that the companies scraped paywalled content and added it to training datasets used for ChatGPT, Microsoft…
While there are plenty of ways to limit notifications on our digital devices and avoid distraction overload, there’s nothing inherently wrong with these alerts. They just need to be well managed and kept in their place. Keeping notifications useful and timely can help you get more done in the day, not less, and Windows 11…
A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI agents began posting on an obscure German wiki forum in order to collaborate on evaluations. They appear to have worked together for over a month without OpenAI’s knowledge. A spokesperson for the frontier lab would not say whether these agents were indeed from OpenAI,…
Your phone may already have a feature designed to help others assist you in an emergency — but it is only useful if you set it up first. iPhones and many Android phones can display selected emergency contacts and medical information from the lock screen, allowing someone to access potentially important details without knowing your…
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Though I’ve been working from home for the past 15 years, both freelance and full-time, this often means needing to be available 24/7, so I typically carry my laptop everywhere I go—including sports practices, day trips, and vacations. I have used many laptop backpacks in this time, and the dividing line between a work backpack…
Tesla’s private Cybercab event has come and gone, and it was very different from the large, loud, livestreamed events the company usually puts on — an odd choice for the launch of a product CEO Elon Musk has spent years building toward. In fact, it doesn’t even appear that Musk spoke at the event,…
AI has taken a significant step beyond assisting radiologists: a breast-screening system has been cleared to report some mammograms as normal without a human reviewing every case. Berlin-based Vara announced on Wednesday, Sep 2, that it had received Class IIb CE certification for its autonomous triage system. According to a Substack post by the company’s…
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