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As far as Black Friday deals go, this is the best I’ve seen so far. Apple’s excellent AirPods (4th generation) are on sale for $70 right now, down from their regular price of $130. The version of the wireless earbuds with active noise cancelling are also discounted (they’re on sale for $110, down from $179), but the AirPods 4’s ANC isn’t that great because the earbuds don’t feature an in-ear design, so you aren’t missing much by buying the cheaper earbuds. In fact, I barely notice ANC when I turn it on with the AirPods 4 with ANC — it’s…
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a new reinforcement learning (RL) framework that helps train large language models (LLMs) for complex agentic tasks beyond well-defined problems such as math and coding. Their framework, Agent-R1, is compatible with popular RL algorithms and shows considerable improvement on reasoning tasks that require multiple retrieval stages and multi-turn interactions with tools. The framework is built on a redefinition of the RL paradigm that takes into account the dynamic nature of agentic applications that require interacting with evolving environments and imperfect information. This framing is much more similar to real-world applications…
You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent scientific research has been seriously considering the possibility that either, or both, might be conscious.There are many different ways of studying consciousness. One of the most common is to measure how an animal—or artificial intelligence—acts.But two new papers on the possibility of consciousness in animals and AI suggest new theories for how to test this—one that strikes a middle ground between sensationalism and knee-jerk skepticism about whether humans are the only conscious beings on Earth.A Fierce DebateQuestions around…
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. GreenGeeks is an American web hosting provider with 55,000 customers, managing 600,000 websites, and has a lengthy 17 years of experience in green hosting.The company goes well beyond simple energy-saving; it calculates its energy consumption each year, then pays for three times that in green energy and puts it back into the grid. That’s not just carbon neutral, it’s carbon reducing, with up to 615,000+ kWh/year replaced.In addition, GreenGeeks…
The Walking Dead may be the ultimate post-apocalyptic franchise: the original show, about survivors trying to unite after a zombie plague destroys civilization, ran for 11 seasons, and that’s without counting the numerous spinoffs. A great many characters die brutally in that span, and they were just as likely to be killed by their fellow human beings as by the undead. It was a very grim show. But that doesn’t mean it has no competition. There are actually a ton of shows set after the end of the world, and they all tend to be pretty gritty, for obvious reasons;…
We’re always eager to snap up a Shark deal here at TechRadar, and this one’s looking particularly delicious, as you can now get the Shark UltraCyclone Pet Pro Cordless Handheld at Amazon for $69 (was $99.99).• Shop Amazon’s full Black Friday sale Wading through a sea of Black Friday deals, I was thrilled to see that this 31% discount has chomped $30 off this powerful handheld vacuum, plunging it down to a satisfyingly low price.Today’s best Shark UltraCyclone Pet Pro Black Friday dealI’ve tested a bunch of handheld vacs over the past couple of years, and none have come close…
Agent memory remains a problem that enterprises want to fix, as agents forget some instructions or conversations the longer they run. Anthropic believes it has solved this issue for its Claude Agent SDK, developing a two-fold solution that allows an agent to work across different context windows.“The core challenge of long-running agents is that they must work in discrete sessions, and each new session begins with no memory of what came before,” Anthropic wrote in a blog post. “Because context windows are limited, and because most complex projects cannot be completed within a single window, agents need a way to bridge…
OpenAI isn’t just burning through cash. It’s lighting an entire mountain of money on fire. But since it’s not a publicly traded company, the extent of that mountain remains difficult to gauge. But clues periodically emerge: as the Financial Times reports, for instance, the company recently signed a staggering $250 billion rental agreement with Microsoft — as well as a $38 billion contract with Amazon, less than a week later. According to HSBC, whose software and services team issued an update to its financial model of OpenAI, the company will be spending a nauseating $620 billion per year on renting…
There’s no better day of the year to upgrade your kitchen appliance setup than Black Friday, and with this hefty saving, you can get an all-singing, all-dancing espresso machine for less. Philips has slashed the price of its high-end 4400 Series fully automatic LatteGo machine from $1199.99 to $799.99. That’s a welcome $400 saving, making this high-end, feature-rich kitchen appliance a little more attainable. Save $400 on this high-end coffee machine View Deal However, you’ll want to act fast – at the time of writing, the site states there are only a few left in stock. This is a machine…
There’s a battle for the future of the Internet in the web browser space, and Microsoft Edge and OpenAI’s Atlas are two strong contenders. Microsoft Edge has been integrating powerful AI tools into its interface, whereas OpenAI has newly launched the Atlas browser with its AI core as a tough competitor. However, one question lingers […] This article Microsoft Edge’s AI vs OpenAI’s Atlas Browser: Which one is better? first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.