Judging from headlines and social media posts in recent years, one might reasonably assume that AI is going to fix the power grid, cure the world’s diseases, and finish my holiday shopping for me. But maybe there’s just a whole lot of hype floating around out there. This week, we published a new package called…
Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost The AI boom has caused as much carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere in 2025 as emitted by the whole of New York City, it has been claimed. The global environmental impact of the…
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we bring you our conversation with Jon M. Chu from WIRED’s Big Interview event, fresh on the heels of directing Wicked: For Good.
Enterprises can now harness the power of a large language model that’s near that of the state-of-the-art Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, but at a fraction of the cost and with increased speed, thanks to the newly released Gemini 3 Flash. The model joins the flagship Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3 Deep Think, and Gemini Agent,…
Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence company valued at €11.7 billion, unveiled its third-generation optical character recognition model on Tuesday, positioning document digitization as the critical first step enterprises must take before realizing the full potential of generative AI. The new model, called Mistral OCR 3, claims a 74% win rate against competing products when…
Presented by T-Mobile for Business Small and mid-sized businesses are adopting AI at a pace that would have seemed unrealistic even a few years ago. Smart assistants that greet customers, predictive tools that flag inventory shortages before they happen, and on-site analytics that help staff make decisions faster — these used to be features of…
Neural networks often feel like black boxes. In this article, we build a neural network regressor from scratch using only Excel formulas. By making every step explicit, from forward propagation to backpropagation, we show how a neural network learns to approximate non-linear functions with just a handful of parameters. The post The Machine Learning “Advent…
Patronus AI, the artificial intelligence evaluation startup backed by $20 million from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Datadog, unveiled a new training architecture Tuesday that it says represents a fundamental shift in how AI agents learn to perform complex tasks. The technology, which the company calls "Generative Simulators," creates adaptive simulation environments that continuously…
LLM-as-a-Judge, regression testing, and end-to-end traceability of multi-agent LLM systems The post Production-Grade Observability for AI Agents: A Minimal-Code, Configuration-First Approach appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Family members can be sweet and relentless but how can we aid our relatives in the age of new tech and device addiction • Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I don’t want to sound dramatic but, a few weeks ago, something happened that has completely changed how I…