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Large Language Models (LLMs) are the world’s best mimics, but when it comes to the cold, hard logic of updating beliefs based on new evidence, they are surprisingly stubborn. A team of researchers from Google argue that the current crop of AI agents falls far short of ‘probabilistic reasoning’—the a...

Successful AI initiatives and business operations require reliable data foundations — and as more organizations turned to Tamr for master data management, the company’s direct SaaS revenue more than doubled year-over-year Tamr, the only AI-native master data management (MDM) solution, today announce...

Manifest, the leading platform for software and AI supply chain security, today released new research exposing a significant AI readiness gap inside enterprise security teams. In its report, Beyond the Black Box: How AI Is Forcing a Rethink of the Software Supply Chain, executives report confidence ...

In this tutorial, we build a complete pipeline for single-cell RNA sequencing analysis using Scanpy. We start by installing the required libraries and loading the PBMC 3k dataset, then perform quality control, filtering, and normalization to prepare the data for downstream analysis. We then identify...

The facial recognition question is where things get more tangled.

AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week's Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved.

In this tutorial, we explore tqdm in depth and demonstrate how we build powerful, real-time progress tracking into modern Python workflows. We begin with nested progress bars and manual progress control, then move into practical scenarios such as streaming downloads, pandas data processing, parallel...

What if the AI industry is optimizing for a goal that cannot be clearly defined or reliably measured? That is the central argument of a new paper by Yann LeCun, and his team, which claims that Artificial General Intelligence has become an overloaded term used in inconsistent ways across academia and...

Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.

A recently-added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and thinkers — and some tech journalists, too.

There’s something of a sea change underway in the global AI debate, and it’s taking place in the UK of all places. But not in a subtle way, by any stretch. Members of Parliament are finally pushing back on one of the tech industry’s most beloved pastimes: running AI algorithms on huge swaths of onli...

When chatting with the AI models in VirtualGF Chat, the interaction unfolds as a steady exchange rather than a rigid back-and-forth. This approach makes it possible to stay with a topic, explore it from different angles, or shift tone naturally without breaking conversational momentum. How it works ...

The feature, which will give verified adult users access to erotica and other adult content, had already been delayed from December.

A vibrant three‑panel conceptual illustration depicting the stages of innovation: creative constraints represented through cosmic baking metaphors, collaborative iteration shown through two figures interacting with a glowing interface, and a radiant “Aha!” breakthrough moment. Futuristic, whimsical,...

In this tutorial, we implement a production-grade, large-scale graph analytics pipeline in NetworKit, focusing on speed, memory efficiency, and version-safe APIs in NetworKit 11.2.1. We generate a large-scale free network, extract the largest connected component, and then compute structural backbone...

OpenAI has introduced Codex Security, an application security agent that analyzes a codebase, validates likely vulnerabilities, and proposes fixes that developers can review before patching. The product is now rolling out in research preview to ChatGPT Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers through...

The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and AI company Anthropic over its technology has raised a deep open question: does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after E...

Trump's Department of War feud with Anthropic won't impact other companies that are using Claude via Microsoft products.

In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — fourteen of them classified as "high-severity."

The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As Anthropic’s $200 million contract fell apart, the DoD turned ...

Atlantic Data Security (ADS), a leading cybersecurity consultancy and solution provider, today announces the appointment of Mark Ostrowski as Chief Technology Officer. Mark is an experienced cybersecurity expert with a background spanning industry leadership roles in engineering and sales. “We are t...

Booth #2525 will highlight the company’s AI-powered, cloud-first and software solutions intended to help teams access data and insights more efficiently GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) will showcase innovations moving healthcare forward at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) G...

Largest AI vs. human CTF study reveals significant speed gains for elite teams, exposes inflection points for junior and mid-tier talent, and underscores the need for an AI-fluent workforce Hack The Box (HTB), the global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity readiness, today released findings from its ...