Archive: June 2019

A pipeline to benefit the wider industryDeepSeek has shared insights into its rigorous pipeline for reasoning model development, which integrates a combination of supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.According to the company, the process involves two SFT stages to establish the foundational reasoning and non-reasoning abilities, as well as two RL stages tailored for discovering advanced reasoning patterns and aligning these capabilities with h

As AI is increasingly injected into every facet of our lives whether we like it or not, it seems we can only watch in a mixture of horror and frustration as so many of our once-reliable institutions become unusable husks of their former selves. Take, for instance, Google. The search engine’s PageRank algorithm was such a massive hit when it launched that it wasn’t long before contemporary competitors like WebCrawler, Lycos, and AskJeeves were swept into th

From dusty folders and piles of email to a unified repository with documentationWe've come a long way from sending requirements in Word via email to AI-generated documentation directly from the developer's Merge Request. Often, this happens entirely without the involvement of an analyst until the final review stage. But does automation make our documentation better?In this article, I want to look back on the evolution of how we managed project documentatio

1. Cost efficiencyOne of the primary drivers for outsourcing software development is cost efficiency. Developing software in-house involves expenses like recruitment, training, salaries, benefits, office space, equipment, and more. Costs can quickly escalate, especially for small to medium-sized businesses with limited budgets.Key cost-reduction factors:Lower labour costs: Companies outsource software development to tap into talent from regions where labou

Noam Galai/Getty Images We’re not in the business of making financial recommendations, but CNBC personality Jim Cramer says there’s no bubble coming for the AI sector — which, given his track record, should probably make any AI investors just a bit nervous. Now that Cramer — whose calls have historically underperformed so much that he inspired an entire phenomenon of people betting against him, called the “Inverse Cramer” effect — has chimed in on the topi

Both a wildfire and activity of digital "neurons" exhibit a phase transition from an active to an absorbing phase. Once a system reaches an absorbing phase, it cannot escape from it without outside help. Credit: Tamai et al 2025 Researchers from the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Aisin Corporation have demonstrated that universal scaling laws, which describe how the properties of a system change with size and scale, apply to deep neural networks

Anthropic details what stops Claude Duet from going rogue Anthropic has outlined the security and privacy protections behind Claude Duet, its proactive AI agent that can monitor connected accounts and complete tasks while users are away. The safeguards include approval requirements, checks for sensitive information and infrastructure that keeps credentials outside the model’s reach. Duet works through a cloud-based computer and browser to prepare briefings

The computational hurdles associated with Large Language Model (LLM) inference continue to impede their widespread deployment, particularly as prompt lengths increase. Current methods for speeding up pre-filling often struggle to maintain acceptable levels of accuracy or efficiency when applied to long-context LLMs. To address the abovementioned issue, in a new paper MInference 1.0: Accelerating Pre-filling for Long-Context LLMs via Dynamic Sparse Attentio

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: 20th Century Studios YouTube’s janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform has terminated two massive YouTube channels that peddled fake, AI-generated movie trailers, in what is one of the most high profile actions it’s taken against the AI spam polluting the platform. Combined, the channels — called Screen Culture, based in India, and KH Studi

Sarco The inventor of a controversial suicide pod is making sure his device keeps up with the times by augmenting it with AI tech — which, we regret to inform you, is not merely some sort of dark joke. “One of the parts to the device which hadn’t been finished, but is now finished, is the artificial intelligence,” the inventor, Philip Nitschke, told the Daily Mail in a new interview. Named the Sarco pod after the ancient sarcophagus, the euthanasia chamber

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty Images In case you needed further evidence that we’re living in the worst version of a cyberpunk dystopia, immigration officers are now scanning civilians’ faces to index them in a government database. Don’t take our word for it — just listen to the officers themselves. A video shared by freelance journalist Brian Allen appears to show a masked Immigration and Customs Enforceme

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Even if AI is — or eventually becomes — an incredible automation tool, will it make workers’ lives easier? That’s the big question explored in an ongoing study by researchers from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. And so far, it’s not looking good for the rank and file. In a piece for Harvard Business Review, the research team’s Aruna Ranganathan and Xinqi Maggie Ye reported that aft

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain SUTD researchers have developed a streamlined life cycle assessment method that makes environmental evaluation faster, cheaper, and more accessible to product designers without compromising reliability. Choices made in the earliest stages of product design can influence the environmental impact of a product for years to come. From the materials used to the manufacturing method, these decisions can lock in consequences that

@HarmonicModelerWhen I asked Gemini to look up books and explanations about object-oriented programming, how accurate were they?object-oriented programmingOOPGeminiAI0Last updated at 2026-11-12Posted at 2026-11-12 1. Introduction When researching about object-oriented programming, you will encounter various books and explanations. Each book explains objects, classes, and role division using familiar examples and specific cases. For example, animals, vehicl

SpaceX and Tesla, which have established a special committee under Elon Musk's guidance to explore a merger, are said to potentially reach an agreement as early as the end of 2026. SpaceX, Tesla Merger Talks Advance Toward Record Deal - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/spacex-and-tesla-talks-on-record-merger-are-said-to-progress SpaceX could announce a $1.5 trillion Tesla merger in December: report https://electrek.co/2026/11/12