AI persuades best by overwhelming people with information instead of using psychological tricks

A new study challenges the idea that AI's persuasive power comes from personalization or psychological tricks. Instead, researchers found that simply overwhelming people with information—even w [...]

Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

Microsoft's new AI training method eliminates bloated system prompts without sacrificing model performance

In building LLM applications, enterprises often have to create very long system prompts to adjust the model’s behavior for their applications. These prompts contain company knowledge, preferences, a [...]

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 [...]

Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative

One of the coolest things about generative AI models — both large language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators — is that they are "non-deterministic." That is, despite the [...]

ACE prevents context collapse with ‘evolving playbooks’ for self-improving AI agents

A new framework from Stanford University and SambaNova addresses a critical challenge in building robust AI agents: context engineering. Called Agentic Context Engineering (ACE), the framework automat [...]

Lean4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In high- [...]

Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

Researchers convinced large language model chatbots to comply with “forbidden” requests using a variety of conversational tactics. [...]

TrueFoundry launches TrueFailover to automatically reroute enterprise AI traffic during model outages

When OpenAI went down in December, one of TrueFoundry’s customers faced a crisis that had nothing to do with chatbots or content generation. The company uses large language models to help refill pre [...]