Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The caveat is that one of the world’s most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding. “For 70 years, I’ve been creating my own storyboards,” he said in…
Audiobook, e-book, or both? Now, you won’t have to choose. The Scribd-owned reading subscription service Everand wants to make the choice unnecessary. On Tuesday, the company took the wraps off a combined subscription that brings together Everand’s catalog of over 1.5 million audiobooks and e-books with the social book club app Fable, which Everand acquired…
AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on its exorbitant AI spend. Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new rule that places a monthly $1,500 cap…
Data storage security company Cyera is finalizing a round led by Evolution Equity Partners of at least $300 million at a $12 billion valuation, according to four people with knowledge of the deal. Calcalist was first to report the funding deal, although TechCrunch’s sources added new details about the company and its financials. Cyera has…
In this tutorial, we fine-tune Liquid AI’s LFM2 model through a complete open-source workflow. We start by loading the base LFM2 checkpoint with QLoRA, preparing a chat-style supervised fine-tuning dataset, training a lightweight LoRA adapter using TRL and PEFT, and then merging the adapter back into the model. We also extend the workflow with DPO…
For the past 10 years, Uber’s annual Lost & Found Index has provided a rather quirky anthropological snapshot of its riders — and even a few insights into society. The annual catalogue of millions of forgotten items ranges from mundane modern-day tools such as smartphones and laptops, to more eyebrow-raising objects like live fish, an…
JetBrains released Mellum2, open-sourcing the weights under the Apache 2.0 license. The first version of Mellum was a completion-focused 4B dense model. Mellum2 is its successor: a general-purpose model specialized in software engineering. It covers code generation and editing, debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use and function calling, agentic coding, and conversational programming assistance. JetBrains team…
When I reach out to the self-proclaimed “open source baddie” CC for an interview, I’m pretty sure she’s emailing me back from a pink mermaid purse. “I’m just having so much fun,” she tells me about her seashell cyberdeck. “It’s a Tamagotchi. It’s also an e-reader. It’s networked to my vault and my servers, so…
Quickly, your coworkers in Microsoft Groups won’t all be human. Scout, an always-on AI agent introduced at Microsoft’s Construct developer convention on Tuesday, can undergo your work messages, calendar, and electronic mail inbox to automate duties, reschedule assembly conflicts, and draft professional-sounding responses. Microsoft roughly constructed an enterprise agent on high of OpenClaw, the AI…
Building a structured dataset from the web is still a pipeline problem. You identify a data source, write or configure a scraper, design a schema, handle deduplication, schedule refreshes, and fix breakage when upstream sites change. That process stays roughly the same whether you do it once or a hundred times. TinyFish is releasing BigSet…
