The Justice Division’s Civil Rights Division introduced on Wednesday that OpenAI, and its once-subsidiary Statsig, signed a settlement that features three years of oversight over the AI lab’s hiring practices. The DOJ has alleged that these corporations used varied techniques to stop U.S. residents from making use of for jobs held by immigrant workers when…
Prime Intellect has open-sourced Prime Agent, a self-improving coding harness designed around two abstractions, the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and Continual Harness. Fixed tool schemas and context compaction force a model to work around its own scaffolding. Prime Agent replaces both with a persistent Python REPL and a rewritable harness. With Opus 5, it reports…
Meta, thought-about a little bit of a straggler within the AI harnesses realm, is making strides to catch up. This week, the corporate launched a brand new terminal coding agent geared toward programmers on the lookout for help with advanced duties throughout massive software program code bases. Muse Code, which is at the moment obtainable…
One other former Uber government is becoming a member of Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms, just some weeks after it raised $1.7 billion. Gautam Gupta, the previous finance chief underneath Kalanick, mentioned in social media posts on Wednesday that he has joined Atoms as chief monetary officer. Gupta spent greater than 4…
Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after just a little greater than a yr within the position. Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s “time to go the torch and demote myself to my pure state: a poster,” including that he’ll proceed to advise the…
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Meta AI has released Muse Code (in beta), a terminal coding agent in beta, powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model. Meta positions the pair as its next step toward the frontier, with larger models on the way. Muse Code targets complex software engineering across large repositories: it plans changes, writes code, and validates…
In this tutorial, we build a complete Bayesian marketing mix modeling workflow using Google Meridian. We begin by installing the required libraries, verifying GPU availability, and exploring a geo-level marketing dataset that includes media impressions, spend, controls, promotions, conversions, population, and revenue. We then map the raw columns to Meridian’s data schema, define interpretable ROI-based…
SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer developed by a team of researchers from Microsoft, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, and Fudan University. SkillOpt trains a single natural-language skill document while the target model stays frozen. An optimizer model reads scored rollouts and proposes bounded add/delete/replace edits. A held-out selection split accepts an edit only when…
Clarissa Mansbridge spent nearly two decades building an entertainment career behind the scenes, working with the likes of Jason DeRulo and Shengo Deane, Kim Kardashian’s former bodyguard, but she rarely appeared at public events. She liked the thrill of it: building someone’s brand, swerving crises, and dealing with day-to-day challenges. Then, three years ago, her…
