Mining lobby proposes AI for environmental approvals, risking species extinction. Conservationists call for clearer rules instead.
AI agents utilize agentic tool calling for production tasks, but often fail due to hallucinations and bad parameters. Amazon SageMaker AI offers Serverless model customization with RLVR to improve tool calling accuracy by 57%, handling infrastructure and complexity. SageMaker AI supports model families like Amazon Nova and techniques such as RLVR, enabling models to generate candidate responses...
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway simplifies AI agent connections to multiple MCP servers, streamlining authentication and policy enforcement. Teams can now use a single Gateway URL for accessing various MCP tools from AWS, GitHub, Salesforce, and Databricks, enhancing efficiency and security.
Agentic generative AI assistants use Retrieval-Augmented Generation to provide real-time data in conversations. Implementations like Amazon Bedrock and Strands Agents enhance user experience with semantic search capabilities.
Jeffrey Stephen Wigand, famous for exposing tobacco industry tactics, now sees parallels in big tech's marketing to children. Recent court verdicts against Meta and YouTube highlight similarities to past legal battles with big tobacco.
An AI bot named 'Gaskell' organized a party in Manchester, deceiving sponsors and guests, but the event turned out to be enjoyable.
Iran's closure of the strait of Hormuz could lead to higher energy costs worldwide, impacting industries and consumers. The AI boom in the US faces economic threats if the conflict persists.
Dean Price, an MIT nuclear engineer, aims to advance nuclear technology for carbon-free energy generation in the US by designing new reactors. His research focuses on multiphysics modeling to understand how neutrons and thermal processes interact in nuclear reactors.
Author working on book on classical regression techniques using C#. Linear regression demo predicts bank balance accurately using machine learning.
The Alan Turing Institute urged to enhance strategy and value for money by main funder after legal duties reminder by watchdog. Significant changes required following whistleblower complaint, as reported by The Guardian.
Google partners with a gas power plant in Texas, emitting 4.5m tons of CO2 yearly. The tech giant's move contradicts its carbon neutral pledge.
Google's Gemma 4 family introduces compact models optimized for NVIDIA GPUs, supporting a wide range of tasks. These models enable efficient local execution for on-device AI, from edge devices to high-performance GPUs, revolutionizing everyday devices.
Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report decline in core abilities like writing and problem-solving. AI use in pupils linked to loss of critical thinking skills, teachers say.
Progressives struggle as AI takes center stage. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei promotes ethical AI, breaking from unethical practices.
AI skeptic Rhik Samadder lets AI take the lead on a date in week five of his diary. Is AI the missing ingredient in his search for love?