2025-11-06
The best advent calendars for 2025: Our top picks from Pokémon, Funko Pop, Lego and others
Why settle for tiny pieces of chocolate when you could unwrap a Pokémon card, a Funko Pop or a Star Wars LEGO ship instead? Advent calendars have gone full geek mode, with options for fans of movies, [...]
2025-11-05
AI’s capacity crunch: Latency risk, escalating costs, and the coming surge-pricing breakpoint
The latest big headline in AI isn’t model size or multimodality — it’s the capacity crunch. At VentureBeat’s latest AI Impact stop in NYC, Val Bercovici, chief AI officer at WEKA, joined Matt [...]
2025-11-04
Amazon and Perplexity are fighting over the future of AI shopping
Amazon has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity that demands that the AI startup prevents its Comet browser from making purchases on Amazon, Bloomberg reports. In a blog post responding to Ama [...]
2025-11-04
Snowflake builds new intelligence that goes beyond RAG to query and aggregate thousands of documents at once
Enterprise AI has a data problem. Despite billions in investment and increasingly capable language models, most organizations still can't answer basic analytical questions about their document re [...]
2025-11-04
Attention ISN'T all you need?! New Qwen3 variant Brumby-14B-Base leverages Power Retention technique
When the transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 in the now seminal Google paper "Attention Is All You Need," it became an instant cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence. Ever [...]
2025-11-03
The beginning of the end of the transformer era? Neuro-symbolic AI startup AUI announces new funding at $750M valuation
The buzzed-about but still stealthy New York City startup Augmented Intelligence Inc (AUI), which seeks to go beyond the popular "transformer" architecture used by most of today's LLMs [...]
2025-11-03
Meet Denario, the AI ‘research assistant’ that is already getting its own papers published
An international team of researchers has released an artificial intelligence system capable of autonomously conducting scientific research across multiple disciplines — generating papers from initia [...]
2025-11-03
Our favorite advent calendars for 2025: The top picks from Pokémon, Lego, Magna-Tiles, Funko Pop and more
Advent calendars aren’t just about chocolate anymore. Recent years have shown that the countdown to Christmas Day can be packed with fun surprises. Whether you’re into building Lego sets, adding m [...]
2025-11-02
Moving past speculation: How deterministic CPUs deliver predictable AI performance
For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and [...]