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That NPM attack could have been so much worse.

One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

Breed unique melodies with genetic algorithms! Explore Conway's musical life and cultural evolution patterns. Interactive AI music lab

Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPods will be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week, with strict EU...

Fortunes are riding on one AI technique, even as cracks start to show.

The Atlantic's ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world's most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.

AI is now what makes a phone feel smart. In side-by-side tests, Google’s latest Pixel handled everyday tasks the iPhone still can’t.

A federal judge has rejected the $1.5 billion settlement that Anthropic agreed to pay authors for allegedly using pirated copies of their books for AI training.

Apple's sleek iPhone Air has a powerful processor and large display, but its battery life and camera might be a problem.

Apple's Repair Assistant is coming to macOS Tahoe, making it simple to pair and calibrate new and used device components.

Apple is using custom chips to provide even more functionality for its devices.

Creators have unknowingly fueled tools that may eventually make their work obsolete.

"We've made billions using AI already," Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian said on Tuesday.

The epic tale of how the internet radio giant got disrupted by Spotify, Apple, and the all-you-can-stream model.

iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users are getting an additional year of free access to satellite connectivity features, according to Apple’s iPhone 17 press releases.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Employees at Robert F Kennedy Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services received an email Tuesday morning with the subject line "AI Deployment," which told them that ChatGPT would be rolled out for all employees at the agency. The deployment is...

I found myself thinking about satellite connectivity during today’s Apple event, during which the company announced that the Apple Watch Ultra 3 would include the feature. Back when the featu…

Microsoft is diversifying its AI portfolio by integrating some of Anthropic's AI features into Office 365 apps. "The move will blend Anthropic and OpenAI technology in the apps, after years in which Microsoft primarily used OpenAI for the new features in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint," reports...

Meet EMTE.

Self-evolving Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a scalable path toward super-intelligence by autonomously generating, refining, and learning from their own experiences. However, existing methods for training such models still rely heavily on vast human-curated tasks and labels, typically via fine-tuning or reinforcement learning, which poses a fundamental bottleneck to advancing AI systems toward capabilities beyond human intelligence. To overcome this limitation, we introduce R-Zero, a fully autonomous framework that generates its own training data from scratch. Starting from a single base LLM, R-Zero initializes two independent models with distinct roles, a Challenger and a Solver. These models are optimized separately and co-evolve through interaction: the Challenger is rewarded for proposing tasks near the edge of the Solver capability, and the Solver is rewarded for solving increasingly challenging tasks posed by the Challenger. This process yields a targeted, self-improving curriculum without any pre-existing tasks and labels. Empirically, R-Zero substantially improves reasoning capability across different backbone LLMs, e.g., boosting the Qwen3-4B-Base by +6.49 on math-reasoning benchmarks and +7.54 on general-domain reasoning benchmarks.

The situation led Nepal's prime minister to resign Tuesday following violent demonstrations against the government.

Apple policy documents enacted by a subcontractor show how the company shifted its approach to fine-tuning its AI in March, two months after the U.S. president was inaugurated.

Robinhood Social will allow users to post their trades and track those of public figures, like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Compact cinema cameras are heating up as Nikon begins to integrate with RED.

Three XProtects, and one of them installed in two different locations. How they’re updated, and how you can ensure your Mac keeps up to date with them.

Google rolled out three big Gemini updates: the app now supports audio uploads (with tiered limits for free vs. paid users), Search gains AI Mode in five new languages, and NotebookLM expands to generate reports, study guides, quizzes, and other formats in over 80 languages. The Verge reports: Acco...

Tech CEOs aren't worried about overbuilding because they know their data centers will outlive an AI bust.