Author: The Tech Guy
A new training framework developed by researchers at Tencent AI Lab and Washington University in St. Louis enables large language models (LLMs) to improve themselves without requiring any human-labeled data. The technique, called R-Zero, uses reinforcement learning to generate its own training data from scratch, addressing one of the main bottlenecks in creating self-evolving AI systems. R-Zero works by having two independent models co-evolve by interacting with and challenging each other.Experiments show that R-Zero substantially improves reasoning capabilities across different LLMs, which could lower the complexity and costs of training advanced AI. For enterprises, this approach could accelerate the development of specialized models for complex…
I dug out my old Xbox 360 and decided to give it a go just to see how it still runs. Unsurprisingly, it was very slow at first, maybe because I hadn’t used it in years, but once it got past the initial loading, it was smooth sailing. With an Xbox Series X and backwards compatibility, I don’t have many reasons to use my 360 anymore, but it’s still fun to mess around with old hardware every now and then. As it turns out, the Xbox 360 is a lot older than I thought. I upgraded to AT&T Fiber for…
Enterprises, eager to ensure any AI models they use adhere to safety and safe-use policies, fine-tune LLMs so they do not respond to unwanted queries. However, much of the safeguarding and red teaming happens before deployment, “baking in” policies before users fully test the models’ capabilities in production. OpenAI believes it can offer a more flexible option for enterprises and encourage more companies to bring in safety policies. The company has released two open-weight models under research preview that it believes will make enterprises and models more flexible in terms of safeguards. gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b will be available on a permissive Apache…
Silver Spring, USA/ Maryland, October 30th, 2025, CyberNewsWire The new capabilities, anchored by Blended Identity and the MCP Identity Gateway, give enterprises a secure and auditable way to manage how AI agents identify themselves and access sensitive systems. Aembit today announced the launch of Aembit Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Agentic AI, a set of capabilities that help organizations safely provide and enforce access policies for AI agents as they move into production. The release introduces Blended Identity, which defines how AI agents act on behalf of verified users, and the MCP Identity Gateway, which ensures secure access to…
OnePlus has set the OnePlus 15’s global debut for November 13, 2025, with faster performance, smarter software, and clearer photos, all wrapped in a cleaner-looking design. As the phone has already been revealed in China, we know a lot about what’s coming. But it’s still great to get a firm date when we’ll know all the region-specific details. The standout spec of the phone, at least the Chinese version, is the huge 7300mAh battery – a massive upgrade over the 6000mAh cell in the OnePlus 13. There is a chance this size could change in the move across regions, but…
Microsoft has been phasing out the Control Panel in favor of the Settings app since 2012. But more than a decade later, it’s still in no hurry to disappear. The Control Panel is still necessary for many system-critical features that are not available in the new Settings app. Remove the Control Panel, and all of a sudden, we don’t have essential features like restore points, advanced power options, File History, User Account Control settings, and the disk management tool. No matter how much Microsoft tries to hide the legacy app, it’s still necessary for the proper functioning of the computer.…
Warning: Huge spoilers for The Witcher season 4 ahead.Over the course of eight episodes, The Witcher season 4 has changed the Netflix franchise for good.After Geralt (now played by Liam Hemsworth), Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) and Ciri (Freya Allen) were separated after the fallout of the Battle of Aretuza, the show’s storyline has been on a quest to bring them back together. You may like There’s a lot of obstacles standing between each of them and that end goal, though. Ciri, fed up of everyone after her for their own gain, has renounced her powers and assumed the pseudonym of Falka,…
The moment Mack McConnell knew everything about search had changed came last summer at the Paris Olympics. His parents, independently and without prompting, had both turned to ChatGPT to plan their day's activities in the French capital. The AI recommended specific tour companies, restaurants, and attractions — businesses that had won a new kind of visibility lottery."It was almost like this intuitive interface that older people were as comfortable with using as younger people," McConnell recalled in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. "I could just see the businesses were now being recommended."That observation has now become the foundation of Geostar,…
Photo by Leonie Asendorpf / picture alliance via Getty Images Staff at Amazon are still reeling from a fresh round of layoffs that saw thousands of corporate workers lose their job as execs appeared to sacrifice employees for their topline. In a memo to all Amazon workers, Beth Galetti, the company’s senior vice president of HR, bragged that “some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well.” “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before,” Galetti beamed. Mileage may…
Enlarge Image I had a blast tooling around in BMW’s new iX, but I’m not sure I’d want to settle down with it just yet. Antuan Goodwin/CNETThe 2023 iX xDrive50 is one of two new electric vehicles BMW launched this year, alongside the i4 sedan. Of the pair, the iX xDrive50 is the bolder play: a completely new vehicle from the ground up, rather than a battery-powered version of an existing model. It also takes much larger risks. Many of those risks pay off in the form of excellent driving dynamics, comfort and range, but some of them don’t. The electric…