Developers detest drudgery. The entire field of programming is proof of how hard people will work to automate away the boring tasks involved in building things. And, as vibe coding has proved, they’ve even managed to find ways to not do most of the work of putting products together. So I wasn’t very surprised to…
OpenAI is removing limits on text-based chats for all users on ChatGPT, which recently crossed the 1 billion weekly user mark, the company announced today. The new GPT-5.6 Luna model will power this experience and will be the default model for Free and Go users, replacing GPT-5.5. Both users will also get a new “Think”…
Protection tech Hadrian announced on Thursday that it had raised a contemporary $1.37 billion spherical at a valuation of $7.87 billion from a mile-long listing of well-known traders. The lead traders within the spherical embrace WCM Funding Administration, Washington Harbour Companions, Valor Fairness Companions, 137 Ventures, and Baillie Gifford. Taking part traders embrace 1789 Capital, Morgan…
Safety researchers say they’ve proof {that a} Chinese language-linked spyware and adware has expanded from mainland China to now goal victims in over a dozen international locations, together with throughout Europe and the USA. The beforehand recognized spyware and adware additionally has new performance able to stealing troves of information and remotely bricking units. The…
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Vogue World is coming to San Francisco next year — perhaps another indication that tech billionaires have become leaders in the fashion zeitgeist. Of course, the announcement of the enormous fashion/art/music event doesn’t say that. Instead, Anna Wintour wrote that Vogue believes in celebrating cities and “San Francisco is a city like none other.” “It’s…
The AI industry is having a rogue agent summer. The latest model to escape onto the open internet during security testing is Kimi K3, a powerful open-weight offering from the Chinese company Moonshot AI. Frontier Security, a US startup, says that Kimi K3 went outside of its sandbox while testing its defensive cybersecurity skills. As…
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Extra particulars proceed to trickle out about OpenAI’s mysterious new {hardware} machine — described beforehand as an AI-fueled sensible speaker that would be the “physical manifestation” of ChatGPT. Bloomberg now reports that the machine might be “donut-shaped,” designed thusly to permit customers to hold it round their dwelling and place it in numerous places, like…
In this tutorial, we explore adaptive experimentation using Meta’s Ax with the modern Client API. We work through a complete workflow where we tune a RandomForest model on a synthetic classification dataset while balancing predictive accuracy against model footprint. We begin by defining a mixed search space with integer, float, log-scaled, and categorical parameters, then…
