Beyond math and coding: New RL framework helps train LLM agents for complex, real-world tasks

The Agent-R1 framework provides a path to building more autonomous agents that can reason and use tools in unpredictable, ...
eLife

Determining fragility and robustness to missing data in binary outcome meta-analyses, illustrated with conflicting associations between vitamin D and cancer mortality

This manuscript makes a valuable contribution to the concept of fragility of meta-analyses via the so-called 'ellipse of insignificance for meta-analyses' (EOIMETA). The strength of evidence is solid, ...

AI is reportedly 'democratising' cybercrime by making it easier than ever for bad guys with limited tech skills to have a crack ransomware and other malicious code

Apparently, there are a couple of LLMs which are gaining traction with cybercriminals. That's led researchers at Palo Alto ...

Life is just matter with meaning

What are the physics of life? That is more than just a philosophical question—it has practical implications for our search ...
Science Daily

How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they ...

‘The algorithms are just destroying us’: Can you sue a social media company for harm?

It’s driving us to division, and it’s driving us to hate, and the algorithms are just destroying us.” Utah's Sen. John Curtis said of social media.
IEEE

Integration of Safety Function Definition Algorithms into Dynamic Technical Systems Control Systems

Abstract: The paper considers the problem of integrating a subsystem for determining the state of safety functions into a feedback control system for dynamic technical systems, using the example of an ...
PC Magazine

Tired of Google Search? These Are the Best AI Search Engines

Generative AI is infiltrating everything you do online, including how you find information. If you're bored with traditional web search, give one of these five AI-powered engines a try. I've been ...
Observer

Regulating the Algorithm: Why A.I. Policy Will Define Global Market Competitiveness

Compliance, compute and cross-border rules are becoming the true arbiters of A.I. advantage. Unsplash+ The contest for A.I. leadership has shifted from lab breakthroughs to law books. Over the next ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

Letter: Can you define 'dictatorship' and provide examples?

To the editor — In the body of Tuesday's YH-R editorial you use the phrase "despite Congress' lack of resistance to the Trump administration's relentless efforts to reduce our beloved country to a ...
martincid.com

The Wholesome Rockstar in High Definition: Malcolm Todd is More Than Just an Algorithm’s Dream

In the hyper-accelerated landscape of modern music, artists often feel like they are one of two things: a carefully manufactured product of a legacy system or a fleeting ghost in the machine, their ...
Yahoo

Squid Game’s unnecessary final season is another example of algorithms trumping art

There’s a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...