Even some of the best AI can’t beat this new benchmark

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

The nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI, a company that provides a number of data labeling and AI development services, have released a challenging new benchmark for frontier AI systems. The benchmark, called Humanity’s Last Exam, includes thousands of crowdsourced questions touching on subjects like mathematics, humanities, and the natural sciences. To make […]
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The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

US President Donald Trump has wasted no time in demonstrating his fealty to the cryptocurrency industry that backed his 2024 election ambitions. The alliance could herald a golden dawn for crypto, industry figures believe.

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Operator: OpenAI’s Next Step Toward the ‘Agentic’ Future

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Operator and the Computer-Using Agent will be available through the OpenAI API at an undisclosed time.

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JetBrains launches Junie, a new AI coding agent for its IDEs

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

JetBrains, the company behind coding tools like the IntelliJ IDE for Java and Kotlin (and, indeed, the Kotlin language itself), on Thursday launched Junie, a new AI coding agent. This agent, the company says, will be able to handle routine development tasks for when you want to create new applications — and understand the context […]
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Trump orders formation of working group to evaluate crypto stockpile

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the formation of a working group to propose federal regulations for “digital assets” — including cryptocurrencies, digital tokens, and stablecoins — and evaluate a national crypto stockpile. Ex-PayPal COO and founder of VC firm Craft Ventures David Sacks, Trump’s pick for crypto an AI ‘czar,’ will lead the working […]
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Twilio stock surges after company issues optimistic 2027 profit forecast

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Twilio wants to grow in conversational artificial intelligence while also becoming more profitable.

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Trump signs executive order promoting crypto, paving way for digital asset stockpile

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on Thursday that could set the stage for developing a national digital asset stockpile.

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Everyone wants MrBeast on their TikTok bid, but he hasn’t committed yet

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

MrBeast is in talks to join a number of bids to buy TikTok, but he hasn’t chosen any of them exclusively yet.
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Anthropic’s new Citations feature aims to reduce AI errors

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

In an announcement perhaps timed to divert attention away from OpenAI’s Operator, Anthropic Thursday unveiled a new feature for its developer API called Citations, which lets devs “ground” answers from its Claude family of AI in source documents such as emails. Anthropic says Citations allows its AI models to provide detailed references to “the exact […]
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Fitbit fined $12M over Ionic smartwatch burns

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a longstanding defeat that caused some wearers to sustain burns. The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company paying a $12.25 million penalty for the issues surround its Ionic smartwatch. The issue dates back to 2018, continuing on into 2020. Fitbit agreed to recall […]
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