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Reasoning for No Reason: Anthropic finds chain-of-thought reasoning traces may omit key influences
Does a reasoning model’s chain of thought explain how it arrived at its output? Researchers found that often it doesn’t.
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AI Weather Prediction Gains Traction: U.S. working with Google Weather Lab AI to improve storm forecasts
The U.S. government is using AI to predict the paths of hurricanes.
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Low Precision, High Performance: Researchers at Microsoft and Tsinghua researchers propose 1.58-bit AI model that rivals full-precision competitors
Reducing the number of bits used to represent each parameter in a neural network from, say, 16 bits to 8 bits shrinks the network’s size and boosts its speed. Researchers took this approach to an extreme: They built a competitive large language model whose weights are limited to three values.
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A Research Agent for All Biology: Biomni, an AI agent for multidisciplinary biology research
An agent designed for broad biological research could accelerate the work of scientists in specialties from anatomy to zoology.
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Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile: Apple updates its on-device and cloud AI models, introduces a new developer API
Apple revamped two vision-language models in a bid to catch up with fast-moving competitors.
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LLM Rights Historical Wrongs: Stanford and Princeton researchers fine-tune a language model to identify racial discrimination in property
In Northern California, old property deeds may still include racial clauses: language, made illegal decades ago, that was designed to ban people of color from owning or living in certain homes.
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More Reasoning for Harder Problems: OpenAI debuts o3-pro, an updated reasoning model that applies more tokens at inference
OpenAI launched o3-pro, a more capable version of its most advanced reasoning vision-language model.
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Better Video, Fewer Tokens: STORM Processes Fewer Tokens And Still Beats GPT-4o On Video Understanding Benchmarks
Researchers reduced the number of tokens needed to represent video frames to be fed to a transformer.
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More Consistent Characters and Styles: Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX.1 Kontext for Generating and Alterating Images with Consistent Details
Same character, new background, new action. That’s the focus of the latest text-to-image models from Germany’s Black Forest Labs.
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Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links
Researchers identified a simple way to mislead autonomous agents based on large language models.
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Next-Level DeepSeek-R1: DeepSeek-R1’s update leads all open models and brings it up to date with the latest from Google and OpenAI
DeepSeek updated its groundbreaking DeepSeek-R1 large language model to strike another blow for open-weights performance.
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How DeepSeek Did It: Researchers describe training methods and hardware choices for DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models
DeepSeek made headlines late last year, when it built a state-of-the-art, open-weights large language model at a cost far lower than usual. The upstart developer shared new details about its method.