Articles for category: AI News

March 5, 2025

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Step by Step Guide to Build an AI Research Assistant with Hugging Face SmolAgents: Automating Web Search and Article Summarization Using LLM-Powered Autonomous Agents

Hugging Face’s SmolAgents framework provides a lightweight and efficient way to build AI agents that leverage tools like web search and code execution. In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build an AI-powered research assistant that can autonomously search the web and summarize articles using SmolAgents. This implementation runs seamlessly, requiring minimal setup, and showcases the power of AI agents in automating real-world tasks such as research, summarization, and information retrieval. !pip install smolagents beautifulsoup4 First, we install smolagents beautifulsoup4, which enables AI agents to use tools like web search and code execution, and BeautifulSoup4, a Python library for parsing

March 5, 2025

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Alternative Data Use Grows Strongly Among Investors, Thanks to AI

(Zakharchuk/Shutterstock) Investment advisors are expanding their use of alternative data thanks to generative AI and the competitive advantages they plan to obtain through it, according to the latest report on alternative data from Lowenstein Sandler. Alternative data is the investment arena refers to anything that doesn’t appear in company filings, press releases, analyst reports, and other traditional sources. Investors are looking to alternative data like company credit card transactions, geolocation, mobile device data, and social media in order to gain a potentially lucrative signal that can be exploited for competitive advantage. Lowenstein Sandler is a law firm that has been

March 5, 2025

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Nexla Expands AI-Powered Integration Platform for Enterprise-Grade GenAI

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 04, 2025 — AI-powered integration company Nexla announced a major update to the Nexla Integration Platform, expanding its no-code integration, RAG pipeline engineering, and data governance capabilities with the intent to make enterprise-grade GenAI more accessible. The Nexla integration platform is the first integration platform powered by AI and built to handle today’s data variety. With Nexla, you can integrate any data, create AI-ready data products, and deliver GenAI projects without coding and up to 10x faster than the alternatives. Nexla uses AI to connect, extract metadata, and transform source data into human-readable data products, called

March 5, 2025

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JDK 25 kicks off with a stable values API

While Java Development Kit 25 is not set to arrive until September, the first feature already has been proposed for it — a preview of a stable values API that promises to improve startup of Java applications. Stable values are objects that hold immutable data. Because stable values are treated as constants by the JVM, they allow for the same performance optimizations that are enabled by declaring a field final. At the same time, they offer greater flexibility as to the timing of initialization. Thus they could be used to improve the startup of Java applications by breaking up the

March 5, 2025

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The Challenges and Upsides of Using AI in Scientific Writing

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum, The Institute or IEEE. Scientific writing is at a pivotal stage, driven by artificial intelligence as a disruptor and enabler. Academics, publishers, and policymakers are attempting to weigh the value of using AI responsibly to enhance productivity versus risking the integrity and purpose of scholarly communication. In this context, the responsible use of the technology in scientific writing pertains to employing AI tools in ways that uphold the integrity, transparency, and ethical standards of scholarly communication. As we collectively

March 4, 2025

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Nothing Shows Off Its Phone (3A) Line

Image: Nothing Like last year, the London-based independent smartphone company Nothing announced a new model during Mobile World Congress. The Phone (3A) line continues Nothing’s trend of distinct visual design with modernized cameras and an artificial intelligence feature: Essential Space. Two models make up the Phone (3A) line: (3A) and (3A) Pro. The basic (3A) model costs $379; it can be preordered starting March 4, shipping March 11. The (3A) Pro model costs $459; it can be ordered starting March 11, shipping March 25. UK-based Nothing phone has limited U.S. availability To get a Nothing phone in the U.S., you’ll

March 4, 2025

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A springtail-like jumping robot | ScienceDaily

Springtails, smallbugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in theHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the boundaries of what small robots can do. Published in Science Robotics, the research glimpses a future where nimble microrobots can crawl through tiny spaces, skitter across dangerous ground, and sense their environments without human intervention. The new Harvard robot was created in the lab of Robert J. Wood, the Harry Lewis and Marlyn McGrath Professor of Engineering and Applied

March 4, 2025

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All the Top New Gadgets at MWC 2025

Mobile World Congress, better known as MWC, is an annual tradeshow in Barcelona, where many of the major players in mobile get together to unveil new devices, announce services, and make deals. It’s no longer the central hub of all the latest and greatest smartphone announcements as it used to be, but there were a few notable reveals this year, along with plenty of fun concepts, AI, and other gadgets. WIRED has been trudging the halls of the show to find the best of the best—here are our top picks from MWC 2025. Power up with unlimited access to WIRED.

March 4, 2025

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LA Times Uses AI to Provide “Different Views” on the KKK

The Los Angeles Times is now shoving artificial intelligence into its opinion articles — and it already seems to be backfiring. Earlier this week, the newspaper’s billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong announced that the LA Times would be “releasing new features to enhance and improve our digital product,” including “insights” on opinion pieces that offer a “wide range of different AI-enabled perspectives.” In other words, AI will generate counter-arguments to opinion pieces penned by the newspaper’s human experts, with no input from the paper’s journalists. Shortly thereafter, reporters noticed that an excellent article about Anaheim residents kicking the Ku Klux Klan out of

March 4, 2025

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How the risk of AI weapons could spiral out of control

Sometimes AI isn’t as clever as we think it is. Researchers training an algorithm to identify skin cancer thought they had succeeded until they discovered that it was using the presence of a ruler to help it make predictions. Specifically, their data set consisted of images where a pathologist had put in a ruler to measure the size of malignant lesions. It extended this logic for predicting malignancies to all images beyond the data set, consequently identifying benign tissue as malignant if a ruler was in the image. The problem here is not that the AI algorithm made a mistake.