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What to Look for When Buying a Sleep Mask (2025)
Sleep masks offer a range of benefits, including deeper and more restful sleep, but there are many styles on the market. We’ll help you navigate the options.
DOGE Put Everyone’s Social Security Data at Risk, Whistleblower Claims
Plus: China’s Salt Typhoon hackers target 600 companies in 80 countries, Tulsi Gabbard purges CIA agents, hackers knock out Iranian ship communications, and more.
Falcon 9 Milestones Vindicate SpaceX’s ‘Dumb’ Approach to Reuse
The workhorse rocket has continued its streak of success.
Gear News of the Week: Apple’s iPhone Event Gets a Date, and Plaud Upgrades Its AI Note-Taker
Plus: Level debuts a discreet smart lock, Chipolo unveils rechargeable Bluetooth trackers, Samsung releases a budget tablet, and Nothing faces backlash for using stock photography.
Meta updates its chatbots to block sensitive and romantic conversations with teens
Meta's leaked chatbot guidelines permitted racist and sexualized content, including "sensual" conversations with children, while the company moved to address complaints about so-called "woke AI" by hiring a right-wing activist. The article Meta updates its chatbots to block sensitive and romantic conversations with teens appeared first on THE DECODER.
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Microsoft AI Introduces rStar2-Agent: A 14B Math Reasoning Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Frontier-Level Performance
The Problem with “Thinking Longer” Large language models have made impressive strides in mathematical reasoning by extending their Chain-of-Thought (CoT) processes—essentially “thinking longer” through more detailed reasoning steps. However, this approach has fundamental limitations. When models encounter subtle errors in their reasoning chains, they often compound these mistakes rather than detecting and correcting them. Internal […] The post Microsoft AI Introduces rStar2-Agent: A 14B Math Reasoning Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Frontier-Level Performance appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Accenture Research Introduce MCP-Bench: A Large-Scale Benchmark that Evaluates LLM Agents in Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers
Modern large language models (LLMs) have moved far beyond simple text generation. Many of the most promising real-world applications now require these models to use external tools—like APIs, databases, and software libraries—to solve complex tasks. But how do we truly know if an AI agent can plan, reason, and coordinate across tools the way a […] The post Accenture Research Introduce MCP-Bench: A Large-Scale Benchmark that Evaluates LLM Agents in Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers appeared first on MarkTechPost.
How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on September 7
Viewers in Africa, Asia, and Australia will be able to see the blood moon in the sky—but those in the Americas will have to settle for a live feed this time around.