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Latest story• Oct 28, 2025

Breakthrough optical processor lets AI compute at the speed of light

Chinese researchers developed an optical processor called OFE2 that performs AI computations using light instead of electricity, achieving breakthrough speeds of 12.5 GHz and completing calculations in just 250.5 picoseconds. This technology enables real-time processing for applications like medical imaging and high-frequency trading while using significantly less energy than traditional electronic processors.

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Time for Nvidia to worry? Apple has started shipping its AI servers way ahead of schedule - but how will they stand up to real-life performance?

Apple has begun shipping AI servers from its new Houston factory months ahead of schedule, featuring custom chips designed to handle advanced machine learning while maintaining privacy protections. This early rollout challenges...

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Understanding Training Stability in Hyperbolic Neural Networks

Researchers found that hyperbolic neural networks had stability problems due to incorrect parameter update ordering. They created new solutions including improved projection methods and a Riemannian AdamW optimizer.

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What Every E-Commerce Brand Should Know About Prompt Injection Attacks

Prompt injection attacks let malicious users hijack AI agents in e-commerce, stealing data or manipulating functions. Companies must separate user input from AI instructions and implement specialized security layers.

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Adobe's Firefly can now use AI to generate soundtracks, speech and video

Adobe expanded its Firefly AI platform to handle nearly every aspect of video production, introducing tools that can generate soundtracks, narration, video clips, and even brainstorm ideas through a web-based editor. The new...

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Google Gemini Can Now Build Full Presentations From a Single Prompt

Google's Gemini AI creates full presentation decks from prompts in its Canvas workspace, automatically adding text, visuals, and themes that export to Google Slides.

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You can tell Adobe Express’s new AI assistant to edit your designs for you

Adobe Express launched a new AI assistant in public beta that lets users edit designs through conversational prompts like "make this pop" or "give this a jungle theme." The feature replaces traditional design tools with a chatbot...

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Inside Adobe’s AI Strategy: Can It Outpace Rivals In The Creative AI Race?

Adobe is launching agentic AI upgrades in Firefly and GenStudio to automate campaign production while maintaining brand consistency. These tools can interpret briefs, generate multi-channel assets automatically, and boost variant...

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The Evolution of LinkedIn’s Generative AI Tech Stack

LinkedIn transitioned from scattered generative AI experiments to a unified platform by switching from Java to Python, adopting LangChain framework, and creating centralized systems for prompt management and skill registries....

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How Bill Gates wrote the playbook for AI

Bill Gates turns 70 having reshaped not only global health through his $100 billion in philanthropy, but also Silicon Valley's competitive playbook from his Microsoft days. OpenAI now follows Gates' 1990s strategy of capturing...

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Deep Reinforcement Learning: 0 to 100

A virtual drone learns to land on a platform through trial-and-error reinforcement learning rather than pre-programmed instructions, similar to how humans learn to ride bikes. The AI receives feedback rewards for successful...

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Dexto – Connect your AI Agents with real-world tools and data

Dexto is a universal toolkit for building AI agents that connect to real-world tools through natural language. It supports 50+ language models, persistent memory, and pre-built agents for coding and content creation.

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will have a ‘legitimate AI researcher’ by 2028

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company expects to develop an intern-level AI research assistant by September 2026 and a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028, capable of independently completing major research projects....

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Doubling down on DeepAgents

LangChain released DeepAgents 0.2, a Python package for building autonomous agents with pluggable backends for local and cloud storage. The update adds automatic compression and serves as an agent harness alongside LangChain's...

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Let’s Stop Feeding Into the AI Hype

Tech companies have achieved massive valuations by promoting AI as revolutionary technology, but current AI capabilities largely remain marketing hype with little real-world substance. The technology cannot reliably replace human...

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Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-written rival to Wikipedia

Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI encyclopedia with 885,000 articles using xAI's Grok technology to challenge Wikipedia's alleged bias. However, the platform already shows factual errors and controversial content reflecting...

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Adobe launches AI assistants for Express and Photoshop

Adobe launched new AI assistants for Express and Photoshop designed to streamline image creation and editing tasks. The Express assistant operates in a separate mode using text prompts for creating designs, while Photoshop's...

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We’re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game

A subway station materializes out of thin air, street signs read "Sublone" and "Canuial," and sparks from a machine gun shoot backward toward the barrel instead of forward. This fever dream isn't from some surreal art project....

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Seizing the AI opportunity

The US leads global AI development but faces a critical electricity shortage that threatens this advantage, as China added 429 gigawatts of power capacity in 2024 compared to America's 51 gigawatts. OpenAI urges urgent action to...

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How I built a movie suggestion app with zero ML experience

A developer built a real-time movie recommendation app using Shaped, a relevance database that packages data storage, machine learning models, and query interfaces into one API. Using the MovieLens dataset of 100,000 movie...

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AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find

AI-powered search engines draw information from different sources than traditional Google searches, relying more on corporate websites and encyclopedias while avoiding social media platforms. These AI systems compress information...

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OpenAI's hype vs Anthropic's strategy: who's really winning the AI war?

While OpenAI dominates headlines with ChatGPT's 800 million weekly users and $13 billion revenue run rate, Anthropic quietly leads enterprise AI adoption with 32% market share versus OpenAI's 25%. Anthropic's business-focused...

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LexisNexis CEO: the AI law era is already here

LexisNexis, the legal research database that lawyers have relied on for decades, has transformed into an AI-powered drafting platform that helps lawyers write actual legal documents. CEO Sean Fitzpatrick says two-thirds of...

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AI-first helpdesks: The UX shift businesses can’t ignore

Businesses are rapidly adopting AI-first helpdesks that prioritize chatbots over human agents, providing instant responses and higher satisfaction, especially among younger users who prefer AI over phone support.

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