Why your LLM bill is exploding — and how semantic caching can cut it by 73%

Our LLM API bill was growing 30% month-over-month. Traffic was increasing, but not that fast. When I analyzed our query logs, I found the real problem: Users ask the same questions in different ways.& [...]

Anthropic Skill scanners passed every check. The malicious code rode in on a test file.

Picture this scenario: An Anthropic Skill scanner runs a full analysis of a Skill pulled from ClawHub or skills.sh. Its markdown instructions are clean, and no prompt injection is detected. No shell c [...]

How to generate AI images using ChatGPT

Since March of this year, it's been possible to generate images directly within ChatGPT. Following a period where it briefly wasn't available to free users, you now don't even pay for o [...]

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work, a cloud-based AI agent that manages tasks across email, Slack and calendars

OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent embedded inside its flagship chatbot that aims to transform ChatGPT from a question-and-answer tool into an autonomous work platform capable of [...]

Algorithms from the 1980s power today's AI breakthroughs, earn Turing Award for researchers

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the 2024 A.M. Turing Award for developing key technologies that power modern artificial intelligence, including recent breakthroughs in large reasoning models. [...]

Surfshark VPN review: A fast VPN for casual users

Surfshark is one of the youngest major VPNs, but it's grown rapidly over the last seven years. Since 2018, it's expanded its network to 100 countries, added a suite of apps to its Surfshark [...]

Private Internet Access VPN review: Both more and less than a budget VPN

I came into this review thinking of Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of the better VPNs. It's in the Kape Technologies portfolio, along with the top-tier ExpressVPN and the generally reliable [...]

Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto. He calls current deep learning methods "weak and in [...]

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton says pure generative AI can't do real science

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton sees a central weakness in conventional generative AI: it can't evaluate its own results. Without that ability, real scientific discovery remains impossible: no [...]