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The Verge Tech

Watch Valve set up the Steam Frame in its own leaked videos

Valve just leaked several new videos showing the Steam Frame's unboxing, setup process, and various accessories. The videos apparently appeared on the ARM Steam client following an update, but they were "quickly pulled after that," according to the Steam Hardware Updates account on X. The Steam Frame is Valve's virtual-reality headset that can stream games from a PC or play them locally. Valve first took the wraps off the headset last year, and it offers LCD screens with 2160 x 2160 resolution p

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ExternalSoftware Architecture
Martin Fowler

Practitioner Voice: The Writing Category Nobody has Named Yet

Jim Highsmith recognizes that effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content. It's a style that I advocate, and my contributors mostly follow. Jim decided it was important to give it a name, and identify what makes it distinctive. more…

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The Hacker News

OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior

OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident. "As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Deploying an Enterprise LLM Chatbot on Databricks With RAG, MLflow, Vector Search, and Model Serving

The demo always works. Someone wires a vector index to a foundation model in a notebook, asks it three questions about the employee handbook, gets three crisp answers, and the room nods. Then the request becomes "ship it to 4,000 employees," and the notebook quietly dies. There's no endpoint, no auth, no version history, no way to see why a particular answer was wrong, and no story for when legal asks how you'll roll back the prompt that started citing the 2019 PTO policy. I've watched several t

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The Verge Tech

The wearable future is stuck in weird, experimental, existential limbo

AI on the wrist is one such experimental feature. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. For the past week, I've been testing the Google Pixel Watch 5. In many ways, it's a typical, modern smartwatch. In others, it feels like one part of a wearable future that's increasingly in flux. Everyone I've spoken to in wearable

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The Verge Tech

Grab an iPad Air M4 for its lowest price since the June increase

The iPad Air M4 in space gray. | Image: The Verge Almost everything with high-end memory or storage is more expensive these days, and tablets are no exception, so we’re glad to see that Amazon and Best Buy have the most recent 11-inch iPad Air with the M4 chip on sale for $649. That’s $100 lower than the new retail price that went into effect (alongside plenty of other Apple price hikes) in June. You can also grab the 256GB model for $749 (usually $849), and the version with a cellular antenna

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ExternalAI
NVIDIA Technical Blog

Building Federated Multimodal AI Workflows with NVIDIA FLARE

Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can support tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, and image-text reasoning. In practice, however, the data... Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can support tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, and image-text reasoning. In practice, however, the data needed to adapt these models may be distributed across institutions or organizations that cannot centralize their raw records. Federated learning provides a way to coordinate trai

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