techtimes

Anthropic Hires Berkeley CS Chair Jelani Nelson, Signaling New Phase of AI Race

On Wednesday, Jelani Nelson, a professor of theoretical computer science and chair of UC Berkeley's electrical engineering and computer science division, announced he was taking a leave of absence to ...

I've subscribed to Netflix and Peacock for years - but only one service is worth resubscribing to

Netflix has award-winning originals and a smart algorithm, but Peacock counters with live sports and a lower price.
iTechify

Your Phone’s Google Maps Defaults to the Slowest Route—Here’s How to Fix It

Google Maps taking you the long way? Learn why the app defaults to slower routes and discover the hidden settings that will ...
CNN

Exclusive: Iran sealed uranium cache and placed mines amid fears of US operation to seize material

In recent weeks, Iran has dramatically escalated efforts to seal off its cache of near bomb-grade uranium, deliberately collapsing tunnels and booby-trapping entrances with explosive mines, according ...
VentureBeat

Context compression finally works in production: new research cuts LLM input 16x without the accuracy hit

Context windows are becoming a computational bottleneck. The longer an agent runs, the more tokens accumulate from retrieved documents, reasoning traces and conversation history, and the more memory ...
Singularity Hub

AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It, Researchers Warn

While we still can't explain how AI works, algorithms are rapidly learning what makes us tick. And the gap is widening. AI is becoming more powerful, and mysterious. Despite years of work on ...
Business Wire

Algorithms Are Reshaping News Visibility: Here’s How to Adapt

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...
Harvard Medical School

Understanding algorithms — and how to make them work for you

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...
techtimes

How Social Media Algorithms Work: Simple Tips to Boost Feed Visibility Fast

Social media platforms use complex algorithms to decide what content appears on each user's feed. These systems are designed to filter massive amounts of posts and prioritize the ones most likely to ...
GitHub

Stratum: CPU-Native Proof of Work

A revolutionary proof-of-work algorithm designed to restore the viability of CPU mining and make commodity hardware competitively viable against application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
CoinDesk

Here's what next as Anthropic's most powerful AI model leaked via unsecured data cache

A leaked draft blog post revealed that Anthropic is testing a new AI model, Claude Mythos, which it internally describes as by far its most powerful system to date. The model, part of a new "Capybara" ...