The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators’ content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon. This move has inspired swift and concentrated backlash from the Twitch community, especially because creators are opted in to having their content used for this AI training by default. For Amazon, these stream recordings are…
print(“\n” + “=” * 90); print(“STAGE 3 — RLVR / GRPO”); print(“=” * 90) grpo_cfg = types.SimpleNamespace(loss_fn=GRPOLossType.dapo, clip_lower=cfg.clip_lower, clip_higher=cfg.clip_higher, kl_estimator=cfg.kl_estimator) _gen_eos = getattr(getattr(model, “generation_config”, None), “eos_token_id”, None) _terms = {tok.eos_token_id, tok.pad_token_id} _terms |= set(_gen_eos) if isinstance(_gen_eos, (list, tuple)) else {_gen_eos} TERMINATORS = torch.tensor(sorted(t for t in _terms if t is not None), device=DEV) def token_logps(seq,…
It also carries obvious risk: He’s trusting that machines will be able to determine what is true, what is newsworthy, and what won’t get him sued. One of his agents runs an analysis on the legal risk a story poses and assigns it a score; he doesn’t publish anything deemed too dangerous. He isn’t the…
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital. Thrive Holdings is akin to a private equity firm for AI, buying traditional businesses like accounting firms and implementing AI into their workflows. So far, Thrive has focused on accounting and…
Tesla intends to build a massive solar panel factory 45 minutes southwest of Houston, according to documents filed with the state of Texas. The new factory, called Project Crystal Sun, could cost as much as $10.1 billion. Tesla has applied for tax incentives to partially offset the cost, saying that it is exploring other sites…
Google’s Pixel Camera chief, Isaac Reynolds, thinks year-to-year upgrades to smartphone cameras are still critical, even though some detractors think they’re passé. “A person who is a casual photographer and desperately wants to be a hobbyist—they’re never going to break that ceiling unless you give them the tools,” he says. “The features that others call…
Google is holding its Made by Google 2026 event on Wednesday, unveiling the Pixel 11 series, the Pixel Watch 5, and even a competitor to Apple’s AirTag. The tech giant also used the event to show off new Gemini-powered features across its devices. Gemini gets more useful on Pixel Google spent a good portion of…
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains unclaimed. Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either —…
Jordan Zietz wants to be clear: He has never, and will never, force anyone to tattoo his startup’s logo on their body. The 24-year-old briefly became the internet’s most hated person after LemonLime, his AI-for-small-business startup, hosted a party following Y Combinator’s Startup School in late July. In a LinkedIn post, Zietz wrote that he…
As AI makes coding dramatically faster, the next big challenge in software development is testing and validating all that code. Blacksmith has raised a new $45 million round to capitalize on that shift. The Series B, led by Peak XV Partners, values Blacksmith at $550 million, up from the $60 million valuation it was assigned…
