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[Webinar] Operationalizing unstructured text for ML workflows
This webinar focuses on how teams can leverage unstructured data, including text across any file type (including PDFs) and audio – while protecting privacy – in order to fine-tune ML models.
Watch for best practices and real world examples from Tonic Textual customers.
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🎮 Microsoft unveils handheld console after 10 years of speculation
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- Microsoft announced the Asus ROG Xbox Ally hardware line, a Windows-11-powered handheld console representing its largest step into portable gaming yet.
- This new device offers access to titles from Game Pass, Battle.net, and other PC storefronts via an "aggregated gaming library" system.
- It boots to an "Xbox Experience for Handheld," a bespoke interface hiding Windows, which aims for higher framerates by minimizing background activity.
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🧠 Apple researchers say AI models fail true reasoning
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- Apple researchers claim large language models are failing true reasoning, as they prioritize benchmark scores over actual problem-solving according to a recent paper.
- Their research paper detailed how AI, including OpenAI's o3-mini, showed declining accuracy and used fewer inference-time tokens on harder custom-designed puzzles, termed a "collapse."
- Researchers concluded AI systems are not as advanced in reasoning as assumed, since models failed to improve on the Tower of Hanoi puzzle even with the algorithm.
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📱 Apple to unveil ‘Liquid Glass’ UI
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- Apple's new Liquid Glass UI, taking cues from visionOS, will feature sheen and see-through visuals that mimic a glassy surface on devices like iPhones and iPads.
- The Liquid Glass interface brings transparency and shine effects to Apple's tool bars, in-app interfaces, and controls on new operating systems like iOS 26.
- Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman notes the Liquid Glass design will lay groundwork for future products, especially the 20th anniversary iPhone, reportedly called "Glasswing" with its glass-centric concept.
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🔥 Waymo robotaxis burned during protests
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- People in Los Angeles are ordering Waymo's autonomous Jaguar I-PACE EVs during protests with the reported intention of setting these robotaxis on fire.
- The LAPD requested Waymo shut down its self-driving car service in the Los Angeles area after several autonomous vehicles were burned during recent protests.
- Videos show multiple Waymo Jaguar I-PACE EVs burning extensively in LA, with reports suggesting at least five of these self-driving cars were destroyed by fire.
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💰 Meta to invest over $10B in Scale AI
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- Meta is reportedly in talks for financing Scale AI that may exceed $10 billion, making it one of the largest private company funding events ever.
- The data labeling firm Scale AI was valued at about $14 billion in a 2024 funding round that already included financial backing from Meta.
- Scale AI helps companies like Meta annotate and curate massive amounts of text data to train and improve their artificial intelligence models.
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🔒 Google fixed bug exposing phone numbers
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- A security researcher discovered a bug in Google's account recovery feature that could expose a user's private recovery phone number without any notification.
- Google confirmed it corrected the reported bug, which allowed bypassing anti-bot protections to brute-force an account's recovery phone number in minutes.
- The company has now resolved this issue, rewarded the finder $5,000, and stated there are no confirmed, direct links to exploits of the vulnerability.
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