Meta's latest creator push comes with $3,000 bonuses for posting on Facebook

Stop me if you've heard this before: Meta has a new program to lure top creator talent to Facebook and it comes with hefty bonus payments. The company is launching a new initiative aimed at popul [...]

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- [...]

Three AI coding agents leaked secrets through a single prompt injection. One vendor's system card predicted it

A security researcher, working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, opened a GitHub pull request, typed a malicious instruction into the PR title, and watched Anthropic’s Claude Code Securit [...]

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 [...]

'Western Qwen': IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture

IBM today announced the release of Granite 4.0, the newest generation of its homemade family of open source large language models (LLMs) designed to balance high performance with lower memory and cost [...]

Meta’s new CWM model learns how code works, not just what it looks like

Meta’s AI research team has released a new large language model (LLM) for coding that enhances code understanding by learning not only what code looks like, but also what it does when executed. The [...]

Apple’s Self Service Repair program now extends to iPad

Apple’s increasingly comprehensive Self Service Repair program now includes iPad too. Starting tomorrow, owners of various models of Apple’s slate can easily acquire official parts, repair manuals [...]

Musk's Starlink stands to benefit from changes to a broadband equity program

Another day, another move from the Trump administration that will benefit Elon Musk — shocking. The US Department of Commerce has announced an overhaul of 2021's Broadband Equity, Access, and D [...]

Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets

Every new gadget you buy comes at a cost to your wallet, but there’s a hefty environmental price to pay as well. Every phone and laptop out there is a non-compostable mass of metal and plastic, and [...]