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AI’s Criminal Underground Revealed: Researchers uncover black market for AI-driven cybercrime services
Researchers probed the black market for AI services that are designed to facilitate cybercrime.
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Voice-to-Voice and More for GPT-4o API: OpenAI unveils tools for speech, vision, and cost-efficiency at DevDay
OpenAI launched a suite of new and updated tools to help AI developers build applications and reduce costs.
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Familiar Faces, Synthetic Soundtracks: Meta debuts Movie Gen for text-to-video generation with consistent characters
Meta upped the ante for text-to-video generation with new systems that produce consistent characters and matching soundtracks.
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Enabling LLMs to Read Spreadsheets: A method to process large spreadsheets for accurate question answering
Large language models can process small spreadsheets, but very large spreadsheets often exceed their limits for input length. Researchers devised a method that processes large spreadsheets so LLMs can answer questions about them.
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Llama Herd Expands: Meta updates Llama models with vision-language, edge sizes, and agentic APIs
Meta extended its Llama family of models into two new categories: vision-language and sizes that are small enough to fit in edge devices.
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Robot Server: Google’s table tennis robot triumphs over beginners
A robot that plays table tennis beats human beginners and entertains experts.
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More, Better Open Source Options: Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5 models, raising the bar for open weight LLMs
The parade of ever more capable LLMs continues with Qwen 2.5.
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Reducing Memorization in LLMs: A technique that masks tokens in large language models, protecting data privacy
Studies have established that large language models can memorize the text passages they’ve been trained on repeatedly and regurgitate them when prompted in adversarial and, though rarely, in benign ways.
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OpenAI Forges Chains of Thought: OpenAI’s o1 models excel in reasoning, outperform GPT-4o in math and coding
Preliminary versions of OpenAI’s new model family were trained explicitly to think step-by-step, yielding outstanding marks in math, science, and coding — but users can’t see their reasoning steps.
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2D-to-3D Goes Mainstream: AI systems from Stability AI and Shutterstock transform 2D images into 3D meshes in seconds
Traditionally, building 3D meshes for gaming, animation, product design, architecture, and the like has been labor-intensive. Now the ability to generate 3D meshes from a single image is widely available.
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Balancing Web Data Distributions: Automated method organizes large datasets for better model performance
Datasets that were scraped from the web tend to be unbalanced, meaning examples of some classes (say, cats) are plentiful while examples of others (say, caterpillars) are scarce.
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Making LLMs Explainable: Google’s Gemma Scope probes how large language models think
Researchers have probed the inner workings of individual layers of large language models. A new tool applies this approach to all layers.