Microsoft’s Differential Transformer cancels attention noise in LLMs
Source: Venture Beat A simple change to the attention mechanism can make LLMs much more effective at finding relevant information in their context window. Read Full Article
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JD Vance thinks monarchists like Curtis Yarvin have some good ideas
Source: The Verge JD Vance is, by his own admission, “plugged into a lot of weird right-wing subcultures.” His much-mocked comments about childless cat ladies and unassimilated Italian immigrants were made on a “masculinist” podcast. He doesn’t eat seed oils, a dietary restriction du jour on the extremely online right. When he was nominated to…
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Apple’s new feature lets brands put their stamp on emails and calls to your iPhone
Source: The Verge Soon, Apple will let businesses customize how they appear in emails and phone calls on the iPhone. Apple announced on Wednesday how companies using its Business Connect tool can add their brand name and logo in ways that will pop up in iPhone apps used for email, phone calls, and payments. Each…
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Amazon discontinues the last Kindle with physical buttons
Source: The Verge Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons. The company announced a new Kindle lineup earlier today, but Amazon confirmed to The Verge that it’s moving on from the Oasis. “Once current inventory of Kindle Oasis sells out online and in stores, we…
SuperGaming launches Indus Battle Royale mobile esports game
Source: Venture Beat SuperGaming launched its made-in-India Indus Battle Royale, targeted at mobile gamers and esports tournaments. Read Full Article
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Discord fights DMCA subpoena it says would violate the First Amendment
Source: The Verge Discord is fighting to keep its users anonymous in a court battle over piracy on the platform, claiming it would violate users’ First Amendment rights to hand over too much of their information. Nexon, which publishes games including MapleStory, alleges that Discord has refused to comply with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act…
Mistral AI’s new language models bring AI power to your phone and laptop
Source: Venture Beat Mistral AI, a rising star in the artificial intelligence arena, launched two new language models on Wednesday, potentially reshaping how businesses and developers deploy AI technology. The Paris-based startup’s new offerings, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, are designed to bring powerful AI capabilities to edge devices, marking a significant s… Read Full…
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Prada helped make a spacesuit
Source: The Verge Space travel, it must be said, does not seem glamorous. You have to pee your pants and eat reconstituted roast beef for dinner. But future space flights might get a little fancier when the next moon-bound astronauts put on Axiom Space’s new spacesuit, designed in partnership with Prada. The Axiom Extravehicular Mobility…
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Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs a few billion dollars first
Source: The Verge If you want to raise ungodly amounts of money, you better have some godly reasons. That’s what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out for us on Friday in more than 14,000 words: otherworldly ways in which artificial general intelligence (AGI, though he prefers to call it “powerful AI”) will change our lives….
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A day at the F1 Arcade: here’s what it’s like to drive
Source: The Verge Confidence was my first mistake. As I plopped down in one of the 83 racing simulators in the new F1 Arcade location in Washington, DC, I told the company’s CEO, Adam Breeden, that I’d raced plenty of times before. I picked Semi-Pro difficulty, even as Breeden told me he recommends most first-time…