The Download: The case for AI slop, and helping CRISPR fulfill its promise

—Caiwei Chen If I were to locate the moment AI slop broke through into popular consciousness,…

Signals for 2026 – O’Reilly

We’re three years into a post-ChatGPT world, and AI remains the focal point of the tech…

Developer_Direct Returns January 22: Watch Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and Beast of Reincarnation Gameplay, Direct from the Studios

2026 is going to be an incredible year for Xbox players – you might even call…

Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work Launches at MIT | MIT News

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work…

Supervised Learning: The Foundation of Predictive Modeling

Share Post Share Supervised Learning: The Foundation of Predictive ModelingImage by Author Editor’s note: This article…

Scientists create robots smaller than a grain of salt that can think

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built the smallest fully…

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

When a model is trained, each word in its vocabulary is assigned a numerical value that…

MCPs for Developers Who Think They Don’t Need MCPs – O’Reilly

The following article originally appeared on Block’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Lately,…

AI skills for changemakers: A Deaf Writer’s Journey with AI: Discovering New Creative Paths 

“Hi, I’m Min-ji So, an author who captures the daily moments of a deaf mother and her hearing…

MIT scientists investigate memorization risk in the age of clinical AI | MIT News

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and…