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Counting the number of users who visit a website accurately requires recording visitor IDs and eliminating duplicates. However, using the algorithm "HyperLogLog" published in 2007, it is possible to estimate the number of users on the scale of hundreds of millions with just a few KB of memory. Scientific American, a science magazine, explains the mechanism of HyperLogLog. The coin-flipping trick that counts the Internet | Scientific American https://www.sc

Cats may sometimes appear aloof toward their human owners, but they occasionally meow as if trying to communicate. An experiment targeting 38 cats and their owners suggested that cats might meow to resolve their own dissatisfaction. The social use of meow in the interaction between cats and humans - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347226002940 Science Has Finally Shown That Your Cat Meows to Demand That You Fix Thei

AI technology is developing rapidly, and in recent years, its use in academic research has become commonplace. Pietro Miotti, an AI researcher from Italy, reported a case in which he “re-discovered a Maya civilization site that had been missing from official registries using AI agents.” “My AI agents re-discovered a Maya site in just 72 hours.” https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site/ On October 18, 2026, while researching Peru, Miotti came across a pers

Zhixingdongxi (WeChat Official Account: zhidxcom) Compilation | Huang Fei Editing | Jiang Yu According to Zhixingdongxi on November 12, Google announced the launch of the Gemini Decisions API, which can be called using the newly released Gemini Decision 1 model. Unlike traditional generative models, Gemini Decision 1 can directly evaluate input content and make judgments on up to 1,000 pre-defined questions at once. This model supports multiple modalities,

智东西（公众号：zhidxcom） 编译 | 黄菲 编辑 | 江宇 智东西11月12日消息，昨日，谷歌DeepMind推出新一代DNA序列模型AlphaGenome 2，该模型能够预测同一段DNA序列在不同细胞中如何被读取，以及单个DNA碱基变化会对特定细胞产生什么影响，帮助科学家理解疾病发生的遗传机制。 人体心脏、大脑和免疫系统中的细胞虽然拥有相同的DNA序列，但一个碱基的变化可能只在某些细胞中引发疾病，而不影响其他细胞。 相比起上一代模型，AlphaGenome 2重新设计了模型架构，在延续了上一代模型的核心DNA功能实验指标的同时，还新增了DNA甲基化预测。 谷歌称，AlphaGenome 2能够将单细胞生物学与人类遗传学结合起来，通过分析不同细胞对同一段DNA序列的不同读取方式，预测数百种人体细胞类型中的基因变异影响。 在社交平台X上，AlphaGenome 2的发布也引发了网友对AI医疗应用前景的讨论。 一名网友称：“我们真的有望在有生之年解决健康问题。” 另一名网友则提到：“从2025年3月开始

Zhixingdongxi (WeChat Official Account: zhidxcom) Author | Cheng Qian Editor | Xinyuan According to a report by Zhixingdongxi on November 12th, at the Baidu World Conference 2026, Baidu announced a series of updates to its basic models, applications, and cloud infrastructure. In the area of basic models, Baidu officially released the 280 billion-parameter ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview and introduced two new Wenxin application models. Sun Tianxiang, who joined Ba

Is Baidu Wenxin’s recent efforts in catching up strong enough? Author | Zhou Lei, Lin Jiexin Editor | Cen Feng Today, Baidu Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview was officially released, marking the third major update in just one week. @@ On November 5th, the underlying model Wenxin 5.5 Flash Base was made open-source; On November 9th, progress on the RSI (Research Speed Indicator) project was announced, along with the release of ERNIE Evolve; On November 11th, Wenxin

The three issues mentioned in must be resolved; otherwise, data will ultimately become the biggest bottleneck in the implementation of these technologies. This is the conclusion drawn by a former Microsoft researcher from Asia. As for the other , they are not directly related to the main topic but provide additional context. Author: Deng Zheming, Editor: Qi Chengyong, Earlier this autumn, technologies such as Skild S1, Generalist GEN-1.5, and RoboTTT made

Vitaura Selected for “The 50 Most Promising Startups 2026” List. Beijing, November 12, 2026—The globally renowned technology and business publication The Information recently announced its “The 50 Most Promising Startups 2026” list.Vitaura (百曜科技) was selected for its original technology and commercialization progress in the AIVC field. Only six Asian companies made the list, a sign that the company’s technological capabilities and commercialization potenti

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism A new Wikipedia-style site is purportedly made entirely of AI-hallucinations, treating visitors to preposterous insights beamed from a nonexistent reality. Called “Halupedia,” its creators say that the “infinite” encyclopedia invents everything it contains on the fly, with each search term — or link click — becoming a prompt for an AI model on the backend, which relates information “in the deadpan register of

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Allison Robbert / AFP via Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand yesterday in Musk v. Altman, the chaotic, embarrassing, and yet deeply illuminating lawsuit — filed against Altman by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man — that’s been gripping Silicon Valley for the past few weeks. As expected, Altman’s testimony, delivered under threat of perjury, was fascinating for a number of reasons. Amon

Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images; Futurism A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information like emails and user IDs with the tech giants — and targeted advertising behemoths — Meta and Google, without obtaining proper user consent. Filed yesterday in California, the lawsuit claims that OpenAI’s data-sharing with Google and Meta violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act, known as

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried out by humans — in an attempt to boost productivity and efficiency, often in a prelude to laying off workers wholesale. However, a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper conducted by a group of Microsoft researchers and spotted by IT Pro found that today’s top AI systems remain eyeb

Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images; Futurism OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced what sounds like a truly awful day on the stand this week during cross-examination in the ongoing Musk v. Altman court saga, as the opposing counsel hammered him with ruthless questions about his growing record of alleged dishonesty. Steven Molo, the lead attorney for plaintiff Elon Musk, attacked Altman with a series of questions about his rumored mendaciousness — or, as the former

Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images; Futurism Elon Musk is locked in a heated trial in a lawsuit he lodged against his rival OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. Or at least, he’s supposed to be. Despite the judge’s explicit order that he be ready to testify in court again, the world’s richest man has eloped to China with president Donald Trump on an official diplomatic visit, leaving his lawyers flailing. Today, each side gave their closing arguments. Ste

Getty / Futurism These days, the conversation around AI automation and the job market is increasingly focused on “labor displacement,” the phenomenon in which new technology eliminates certain jobs but supposedly creates new ones elsewhere. But AI, more than any tech that came before it, represents the possibility of mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale. Because a working class person’s wellbeing in a market economy depends almost entirely on their

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat that could impact all life on Earth. Our best experts can’t agree on its trajectory or even its distance from our planet, but knowledge of its presence is enough to throw society into a fervor. There’s no way to know: it could hit with such force that it lays waste to all but a chosen few,

Screenshot via X A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet painting while claiming it was an AI fake, unleashing a flood of ill-informed reactions and muddled discourse. So, you know, it was just another day online. “I just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI,” read the original post, published to X-formerly-Twitter yesterday by an anonymous conceptual artist who goes by the pse

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg’s new initiative to track employee computer use is tearing the company apart. In a sign that those simmering tensions are boiling over into open revolt, some workers are sending clear shots across the bow. “Selfishly, I don’t want my screen scraped because it feels like an invasion of my privacy,” an engineer wrote this week in an internal post seen

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a programmer realizes he’s living in an invisible cage, mediated by algorithms that keep him going through the dull motions of life — and he’ll stop at nothing to break out. No, we’re not talking about the 1999 blockbuster “The Matrix.” Instead, this is the story of Max, a San Francisco-based tech worker who began to feel his existence was eerily r