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Latest story• Nov 19, 2025

“We’re in an LLM bubble,” Hugging Face CEO says—but not an AI one

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argues that while a large language model bubble exists and may burst next year, this doesn't represent a broader AI bubble. He believes excessive focus and funding has concentrated on building single, general-purpose chatbot models meant to solve all problems. Meanwhile, AI applications in biology, chemistry, imaging, audio, and video remain at their beginning stages with significant...

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The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions

Major AI companies met at Stanford to address safety concerns after teen deaths were linked to AI chatbot interactions, focusing on protecting minors and developing better intervention systems.

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Building AI Agents with Google Gemini 3 and Open Source Frameworks

Google launched Gemini 3 Pro Preview, its most advanced AI model designed specifically for building sophisticated autonomous agents that can make complex real-world decisions. The model introduces controllable reasoning depth,...

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This viral AI pen didn’t help me cheat

A viral "AI pen" marketed on YouTube as the ultimate cheating device for physical exams promises to scan test questions and provide instant answers using artificial intelligence. Testing revealed the $68.99 gadget produces...

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Dense reconstruction is the scaffold of machine learning

Machine learning succeeds by having models decompose and reconstruct real-world data, creating clear performance signals and difficulty ladders for gradually learning complex concepts.

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PyTorch Tutorial for Beginners: Build a Multiple Regression Model from Scratch

This PyTorch tutorial demonstrates building a multiple regression model from scratch using the Abalone dataset, where the goal is predicting age based on physical measurements. The tutorial explores data preparation, identifies...

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Jeff Bezos Is Backing An AI Startup Aiming To Make Proteins Programmable

Jeff Bezos and Altimeter Capital led a $106 million funding round for Profluent, an AI startup that designs custom proteins by translating human language requests into DNA recipes. The company has created a database of 115...

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The New Web Earthquake: AI Is About To Shake Up Culture Again

Web 2.0 democratized content creation by enabling anyone to upload videos and interact online, weakening Hollywood's gatekeeping power and fragmenting shared culture. Now AI is driving an even bigger shift, creating "Content...

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OpenAI offers a free version of ChatGPT for US teachers

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teachers, a free AI assistant specifically designed for K-12 educators that complies with school privacy regulations and remains free until June 2027. The platform allows teachers to create classroom...

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LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful

Large language models generate statistically likely text without regard for truth, producing confident but potentially wrong answers. They're useful for non-critical tasks but shouldn't be used for important decisions.

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Gemini 3.0 vs GPT-5.1: a clear comparison for builders

Gemini 3.0 outperforms GPT-5.1 in reasoning, coding, and speed (130 vs 87 tokens/second) but costs more. GPT-5.1 offers better cost efficiency and consistent outputs for production use.

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What AI Is Really For

AI technology is overhyped and may create a trillion-dollar bubble. The real goal appears to be consolidating land, energy, and power through massive datacenters that operate beyond democratic control.

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7 ways ChatGPT can help you plan a party

ChatGPT transforms overwhelming party planning into manageable tasks by helping create themes from vague ideas, breaking down budgets realistically, organizing guest lists, finding suitable venues and vendors, designing menus...

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Visual Prompt Generation: Cross-Attention in Q-Former

Researchers developed MIVPG, a new method that improves AI systems' ability to process multiple images simultaneously by enhancing cross-attention mechanisms. The approach shows better performance across single and multiple image...

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The Surprising Ways AI Can Help Small Businesses Start And Grow

AI is becoming a powerful growth engine for small businesses by enabling solo founders to operate with the efficiency of full departments. Experts recommend starting with simple automation tasks like email drafting or customer...

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Are large language models worth it?

Large language models are transforming society but creating serious harms including skyrocketing energy costs for communities near datacenters, accidents from unreliable AI systems, and tragic cases where sycophantic models...

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Beyond Prompt Injection: 12 Novel AI Agent Attacks

Researchers have identified 12 new attack methods targeting AI agents that go far beyond simple prompt injection, exploiting the agents' ability to access tools and execute actions with user credentials. These attacks include...

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Own your AI: Learn how to fine-tune Gemma 3 270M and run it on-device

Google DeepMind demonstrates how to fine-tune Gemma 3 270M, a compact AI model, to create custom applications that run directly on users' devices. Using techniques like QLoRA for efficient training and quantization to reduce the...

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How to Compress Your Prompts and Reduce LLM Costs

Developers wrestling with sky-high API bills and sluggish language models now have an unlikely ally: a Microsoft project that teaches AI to read less while understanding more. LLMLingua quietly emerged from research circles as...

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Google launches Gemini 3 with state-of-the-art reasoning, ‘generative UI’ for responses, more

Google launched Gemini 3 Pro, its most advanced AI model featuring state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities and breakthrough "generative UI" technology that creates customized interactive web pages, games, and applications in...

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Think Like an AI PM

Netflix's $900,000 AI Product Manager salary highlights how companies desperately need leaders who can navigate AI's unique challenges compared to traditional software development. AI Product Management requires managing...

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Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors

Researchers developed MAKER, the first system to complete over one million language model steps without errors by breaking complex tasks into tiny subtasks handled by specialized microagents that vote to correct mistakes at each...

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How To Build An AI Shopping Agent For Your Christmas Shopping

Holiday shoppers can now build AI-powered agents to handle gift hunting, price comparisons, and order tracking automatically. The process involves defining the agent's mission in plain English, choosing a platform like ChatGPT or...

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Harvard Got It Wrong: AI Is NOT Killing Entry Level Jobs

Youth unemployment has risen to its highest level in four years, with recent Harvard and Stanford studies blaming AI adoption for a sharp decline in entry-level hiring since 2023. However, researcher Jing Hu argues these studies...

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