The best smart scales for 2025

The New Year is here and there’s no better time to kickstart those health and fitness goals. Whether you’re looking to shed a few holiday pounds, track your muscle gains or simply stay on top of a [...]

What Is 'Toxic Positivity'? We Asked an Expert

Having a positive outlook is good, but you can’t be positive all the time. Suppressing or invalidating negative emotions may lead to toxic positivity -- which isn't as helpful as you think. [...]

5 ways to lead with positivity - because no one wants a negative manager

Positivity is a critical leadership trait. Seasoned business leaders share their top tips for spreading good vibes. [...]

Microsoft Research's Lens proves detailed captions matter more than raw scale for training efficient image generators

Microsoft Research presents Lens, a text-to-image model with just 3.8 billion parameters that matches much larger rivals on benchmarks, at a fraction of the training cost. The secret sauce: 800 millio [...]

Scale AI launches Voice Showdown, the first real-world benchmark for voice AI — and the results are humbling for some top models

Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversat [...]

Phi-4 proves that a 'data-first' SFT methodology is the new differentiator

AI engineers often chase performance by scaling up LLM parameters and data, but the trend toward smaller, more efficient, and better-focused models has accelerated. The Phi-4 fine-tuning methodology [...]

Cerebras stock nearly doubles on day one as AI chipmaker hits $100 billion — what it means for AI infrastructure

Cerebras Systems, the Silicon Valley chipmaker that built the world's largest commercial AI processor, erupted onto the Nasdaq on Wednesday, opening at $350 per share — nearly double its $185 I [...]

A Zelda puzzle proves AI models can crack gaming riddles that require thinking six moves ahead

Current reasoning models can solve a complex color-changing puzzle from a Zelda game, an interesting real-world example of how far the problem-solving capabilities of modern language models have come. [...]

LongCat-Image proves 6B parameters can beat bigger models with better data hygiene

Chinese tech company Meituan has introduced LongCat-Image, a new open-source image model that challenges the industry's "bigger is better" mindset.<br /> The article LongCat-Image [...]