Author: The Tech Guy

Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open source VibeThinker-1.5B—a 1.5 billion parameter large language model (LLM) that is a fine-tuned variant of rival Chinese tech firm Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B. It's available now for free download and usage by researchers and enterprise developers—even for commercial purposes—under a permissive MIT License on Hugging Face, GitHub and ModelScope, with a technical report on open access science publishing site arxiv.org.And yet, despite its compact size, VibeThinker-1.5B achieves benchmark-topping reasoning performance on math and code tasks,…

An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard‘s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The song, titled “Walk My Walk,” by a fictional group called Breaking Rust, tells an incredibly generic story about a man who has “been beat down” and got “mud on my jeans,” yet perseveres through it all. The song was accompanied by an AI slop video on Instagram, showing a man in a cowboy hat heroically walking into the sunset. Despite the song’s generic and uninspired nature, Breaking Rust has accumulated over two…

Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy Z Flip8 alongside the Galaxy Z Fold8 next summer, and today a report from its home country of Korea has some intriguing details about the former. The Flip8 will allegedly be at least 10% thinner and lighter than its predecessor. That would make it at most 6mm thin when opened, 12mm thick when closed, and around 170g in weight. This is going to be key to Samsung achieving 10% better sales for the Flip8 and Fold8 compared to the Flip7 and Fold7. The company has apparently set a sales target of 6.7 million…

Like most of us, I have depended on Google’s productivity tools for years. Google Keep has been the underrated hero through it all. Lately, its place next to Gmail in the narrow sidebar has made it a quiet connector between Gmail, Google Docs, and Gemini. I have stopped losing ideas thanks to Keep’s utility, a mouse nudge away. The minutes saved add up as I don’t juggle too many tools. Everything is just a bit more seamless now. I have found a few different ways to use the Gmail + Keep combo, starting with small time-savers and ending with the…

There’s a pretty good chance that whatever weather app you’re using isn’t just telling you the forecast, but also selling your data to outside entities. MyRadar, one of the most popular apps in the space, has been open about selling data to third-party companies such as Arity. Arity, a mobility data and analytics company and a subsidiary of Allstate Insurance, partners with several popular apps, including Life360, to track traffic data and patterns using geolocation by implementing its own software development kit in third-party apps. To the average consumer, this sounds pretty dicey, and it probably should. Luckily, I have…

As software systems grow more complex and AI tools generate code faster than ever, a fundamental problem is getting worse: Engineers are drowning in debugging work, spending up to half their time hunting down the causes of software failures instead of building new products. The challenge has become so acute that it's creating a new category of tooling — AI agents that can diagnose production failures in minutes instead of hours.Deductive AI, a startup emerging from stealth mode Wednesday, believes it has found a solution by applying reinforcement learning — the same technology that powers game-playing AI systems — to…

Almost all of the World’s AI Data Centers will be built in space from 2035 onwards. We already have a medium nuclear reactors (200 MW) worth of energy in Space. This will scale to 3-5 large nuclear reactors worth of power by 2029. Almost all of this power has already and will in future be put up by SpaceX. Tesla, SpaceX and XAI will work together to put 100 Gigawatts of AI in space from 2030-2033. This could take $1 to 2 trillion. This will increase to trillions per year from 2034 onwards. Why will Tesla or SpaceX get most…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. CMF Headphone Pro: two-minute reviewAnyone familiar with Nothing and/or its affordable sub-brand CMF (often written as “CMF by Nothing”, but the company has seemingly dropped the last two words of its traditional moniker for this particular product) knows that a normal-looking set of headphones was never going to be on the brand’s bingo card.And true to form, the CMF Headphone Pro neither look normal nor behave normally for the…

As a Y Combinator-backed founder, I’ve lived and breathed the grind of a growing startup. Every day, the calendar is jam-packed and “business hours” quickly lose their meaning.Each member of the team wears what feels like a hundred different hats for each of their roles, and every decision, every line of code, every customer interaction feels like it could make or break your dream.Starting a company in 2018, we benefitted directly from SaaS platforms developed for core functions of the business, from accounting, communications, collaboration and marketing to payroll, project management, and beyond. You may like It’s hard to imagine…

Researchers at Meta FAIR and the National University of Singapore have developed a new reinforcement learning framework for self-improving AI systems. Called Self-Play In Corpus Environments (SPICE), the framework pits two AI agents against each other, creating its own challenges and gradually improving without human supervision.While currently a proof-of-concept, this self-play mechanism could provide a basis for future AI systems that can dynamically adapt to their environments, making them more robust against the unpredictability of real-world applications.The challenge of self-improving AIThe goal of self-improving AI is to create systems that can enhance their capabilities by interacting with their environment. A…