Google researchers introduce 'faithful uncertainty', allowing LLMs to offer best guesses instead of hallucinations

Large language models continue to struggle with hallucinations, presenting a major roadblock for real-world enterprise applications. Reducing these errors is a messy business, forcing model developers [...]

AI tool catches pancreatic cancer in routine scans before symptoms appear

According to physician Zhu Kelei, AI has definitively saved the lives of patients whose scans were only flagged by PANDA, an AI tool developed by Alibaba researchers. The system analyzes non-contrast [...]

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains

A group of researchers from across the US and the UK have conducted a study on what AI does to our brains and the results are, in a word, grim. These results were published in a paper called "AI [...]

Boox updates popular Palma E Ink device with color and 5G connectivity

If Amazon's new lineup of Kindle Scribes didn't pique your interest, Boox, a long-time player in the E Ink gadget space, might have what you're looking for. The company's recently [...]

TCL introduces its own take on a color Kindle Scribe

Hot on the tail of Amazon's Kindle Scribe Colorosoft, TCL is introducing its own take on a distraction-free note-taking and reading device. Unlike the new Scribe, however, it doesn't use E I [...]

Resolve AI says the AI coding boom is breaking production systems. It wants to fix that.

Resolve AI, the production-operations startup backed by Greylock and Lightspeed Venture Partners, today announced a sweeping expansion of its platform that introduces always-on background agents, a re [...]

Apple study finds "a fundamental scaling limitation" in reasoning models' thinking abilities

LLMs designed for reasoning, like Claude 3.7 and Deepseek-R1, are supposed to excel at complex problem-solving by simulating thought processes. But a new study by Apple researchers suggests that these [...]

AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI benchmarks, and that splitting your annotation budget the right way matters [...]

Students who cheat are more likely to use generative AI tools for academic work, study finds

A new study finds that narcissism, Machiavellianism, materialism, and psychopathy are closely linked to academic dishonesty and heavier use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney.<br /& [...]