The battle to AI-enable the web: NLweb and what enterprises need to know
Microsoft’s NLWeb protocol transforms websites into AI-powered apps with conversational interfaces.Read More
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The 3 biggest bombshells from this week’s AI extravaganza
Enterprises looking to build with AI should find plenty to look forward to with the announcements from Microsoft, Google & Anthropic this week.Read More
Why enterprise RAG systems fail: Google study introduces ‘sufficient context’ solution
Google’s “sufficient context” helps refine RAG systems, reduce LLM hallucinations, and boost AI reliability for business applications.Read More
The Download: meet Cathy Tie, and Anthropic’s new AI models
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein” Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after…
Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein”
Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after a three-year incarceration for illegally creating the world’s first gene-edited children. While he has bounced between cities, jobs, and meetings with investors, one area of visible success on his…
The FDA plans to limit access to covid vaccines. Here’s why that’s not all bad.
This week, two new leaders at the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to limit access to covid vaccines, arguing that there is not much evidence to support the value of annual shots in healthy people. New vaccines will be made available only to the people who are most vulnerable—namely, those over 65 and…
After GPT-4o backlash, researchers benchmark models on moral endorsement—Find sycophancy persists across the board
A new benchmark can test how much LLMs become sycophants, and found that GPT-4o was the most sycophantic of the models tested.Read More
Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus feature that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’
Bowman later edited his tweet and the following one in a thread to read as follows, but it still didn’t convince the naysayers.Read More
Anthropic Claude 4: A new era for intelligent agents and AI coding
Anthropic has unveiled its latest Claude 4 model family, and it’s looking like a leap for anyone building next-gen AI assistants or coding. The stars of the show are Claude Opus 4, the new powerhouse, and Claude Sonnet 4, designed to be a smart all-rounder. Anthropic isn’t shy about its ambitions, stating these models are…
Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a time
Anthropic has announced two new AI models that it claims represent a major step toward making AI agents truly useful. AI agents trained on Claude Opus 4, the company’s most powerful model to date, raise the bar for what such systems are capable of by tackling difficult tasks over extended periods of time and responding…