Engineering
TutorMoments: Do AI Tutors Know When to Help and When to Hold Back?
Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI introduced TutorMoments, a framework that pauses real one-on-one math tutoring transcripts at critical…
Engineering
Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6-billion-parameter model built for on-device agentic use cases. The model goes through a training…
Engineering
Meet North Micro Vision: A 2.4B Native-Resolution Vision-Language Model
Cohere Labs has released North Micro Vision, a 2.4-billion-parameter vision-language model that pairs a custom 400-million-parameter native-resolution vision encoder with…
News
Google Unveils Pixel 11 Lineup With Deeper Gemini AI Integration
Google introduced the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL and Pixel 11 Pro Fold at its Made…
Engineering
Building monday.com Sidekick: Why Capable Agents Need More Than Just Tools
Monday.com’s Sidekick assistant evolved from a single general-purpose agent equipped with many tools into a layered system with distinct responsibilities.…
Engineering
Open-Sourcing Metals v2: Databricks’ Java and Scala Language Server for Multi-Million Line Codebases
Databricks has open-sourced Metals v2, a language server for Scala and Java built to handle codebases with millions of lines.…
Engineering
Databricks Network Configuration Delivery to Tens of Millions of Serverless VMs
Databricks redesigned its network configuration delivery system using an event-driven architecture that decouples the critical serving path from upstream dependencies.…
Engineering
Putting Sign Language AI Into Users’ Hands
Google DeepMind has introduced SL2T, a sign-language-to-text model trained on more than 100,000 hours of data spanning over 50 sign…
Opinions
Does AI Fight or Fuel Election Disinformation?
A Brennan Center for Justice report examines whether AI chatbots help correct or worsen election-related disinformation. Testing found that popular…
Opinions
Our Position on Open-Weights Models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarifies that the company does not support banning open-weights AI models, despite recent speculation to the…
Opinions
Separating AI’s Technological Problems From Its Capitalism Problems
Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that many of the harms attributed to AI stem less from the technology itself…
Opinions
Why Businesses Lie About AI
Cory Doctorow examines why corporate leaders systematically overstate the benefits of AI deployment inside their own companies. Drawing on consultant…