Author: The Tech Guy

Imagine you do two things on a Monday morning.First, you ask a chatbot to summarize your new emails. Next, you ask an AI tool to figure out why your top competitor grew so fast last quarter. The AI silently gets to work. It scours financial reports, news articles and social media sentiment. It cross-references that data with your internal sales numbers, drafts a strategy outlining three potential reasons for the competitor's success and schedules a 30-minute meeting with your team to present its findings.We're calling both of these "AI agents," but they represent worlds of difference in intelligence, capability and…

On a clear night, you might see thousands of stars in the sky. Most of these stars are dozens or hundreds of light years away from us. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a year: about 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers). This means that for those stars we see at night, it takes their light, which travels at about 186,000 miles per second (or about 300 thousand kilometers per second), dozens or hundreds of years to reach us. But in the daytime, we only see one star: the Sun. It dominates the daytime…

As the reigning leader in the global wearables market, Huawei has been refining its premium smartwatches with a focus on more accurate health and activity tracking. Watch GT 6 Pro arrives as the successor to last year’s GT 5 Pro with a familiar look and updates on several fronts. On the hardware side, there’s a slightly larger and much brighter OLED screen, improved positioning accuracy, and a larger battery. Huawei is also offering an updated TruSense system alongside improved algorithms for more accurate health readings. As for sports tracking, there’s an all-new virtual power meter for cyclists, and vector maps…

Perplexity AI launched a comprehensive search application programming interface on Thursday, giving developers direct access to the same massive web index that powers the startup's answer engine and potentially breaking the stranglehold that tech giants have maintained over global search data.The Search API poses the most significant challenge yet to Google's dominance in providing search infrastructure to developers, offering access to an index spanning hundreds of billions of web pages with real-time updates and AI-optimized results formatting. The move comes as Perplexity positions itself as a disruptive force in the search industry, following its audacious $34.5 billion bid for Google's…

Andy Walker / Android AuthorityMy Gmail email philosophy is simple: keep all emails in the All Mail folder for the rest of time. However, Gmail includes several organizational tools that allow you to fully control your mailbox, from custom rules to labels, filters, and its new AI smarts. One management action that has stood the test of time is Archive.This little tool is just a horizontal swipe on an email away, immediately removing it from the Inbox and stuffing it out of view. This, in a sense, is a helpful option. It pushes users towards that revered inbox zero, but…

Sometimes, surprises are lurking in everyday data. Take a category of consumers that Doug Rubin’s startup, Northwind Climate, calls “climate doers.” They’re concerned about climate change and tend to prioritize climate-friendly purchases, the sort of identifiers who might be stereotypically associated with things like buying organic foods or prioritizing local businesses.  “Turns out that the climate doers category actually are the consumers who most frequent fast-food restaurants,” Rubin told TechCrunch. What’s more, some 30% of climate doers are Republicans, he added. Northwind Climate evolved from Rubin’s work in the political world, where surveys are vital to understanding shifts in public…

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant have continued to analyze the recent Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) extortion campaign and their researchers have identified some of the pieces of malware deployed in the attacks. The attacks came to light on October 2, when GTIG and Mandiant warned that executives at many organizations using Oracle EBS had received extortion emails. It has since been determined that hackers likely exploited known EBS vulnerabilities patched in July, likely along with a zero-day flaw tracked as CVE-2025-61882. The hacker groups ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider (now calling themselves Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters) have published a proof-of-concept…

Artificial IntelligenceNvidia Researchers Boost LLM Reasoning Skills by Getting Them to ‘Think’ During Pre-trainingBen Dickson | VentureBeat”This approach encourages the model to ‘think for itself before predicting what comes next, thus teaching an independent thinking behavior earlier in the pretraining,’ the researchers state in their paper. [Models trained like this] show significant improvements in learning complex reasoning tasks downstream, hinting at a future of more capable and adaptable AI for real-world tasks.”BiotechnologyScientists Just Reversed Alzheimer’s in Mice. Could They Do It in Humans?Gayoung Lee | Gizmodo”[In their a paper the researchers] describe how, by harnessing the brain’s garbage disposal system,…

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ChatGPT is famously polite (and so are we). It agrees, elaborates, and rarely challenges you. Its lightning-fast answers make us feel productive. But after a while, the responses sounded smart but safe. I realized the importance of making AI stop agreeing with me. I didn’t want it as an echo chamber, but a thinking partner. One day, I typed: “Play devil’s advocate and argue against my idea.” With this tweak, ChatGPT went from agreeable assistant to critical partner. It uncovered weak arguments, questioned my logic, and even highlighted blind spots. Since then, the “devil’s advocate prompt” has become one of…