The final penny, nominally worth $0.01, was minted Wednesday by the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ending 232 years of minting and circulating new pennies. U.S. President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Treasury Department in February to halt production of the penny, and the Treasury initially set a goal for the last mint in…
A language model is a mathematical model that describes human language as a probability distribution of its vocabulary. To train a deep learning network to model a language, it must identify vocabulary and learn its probability distribution. You can’t create a model from scratch. We need a dataset for our model to learn from. In…
Another day in late 2025, another impressive achievement from a Chinese open source artificial intelligence company. The AI arm of Chinese social networking company Weibo recently released the open source VibeThinker-1.5B. It is a 1.5 billion parameter large language model (LLM) that is a tweaked version of rival Chinese technology company Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B. Now, researchers…
Michael Saylor’s strategy saw its dominance among corporate Bitcoin holders decline in October as purchases slowed and more companies added cryptocurrencies to their coffers. According to a report by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, the company still ranks as the largest Bitcoin (BTC) holder with 640,808 BTC as of October 31st, but its share of total corporate assets has…
What can we learn about human intelligence by studying how machines “think”? If we can better understand the artificial intelligence systems that are becoming a more important part of our daily lives, can we better understand ourselves? These questions may be deeply philosophical, but for Philippe Isola, finding the answers is as much a calculation…
Payment processor Square has launched a Bitcoin payment feature for merchants, allowing them to opt-in to accept Bitcoin at checkout through their point-of-sale system. Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Block, which owns Square, said in an X post on Monday that the new feature will allow merchants using Square to accept Bitcoin-to-Bitcoin, Bitcoin-to-fiat, fiat-to-Bitcoin, and fiat-to-fiat…
Meta has released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that supports over 1,600 languages. This dwarfs OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which only supports 99 languages. This architecture also allows developers to extend their support to thousands more. Through a feature called zero-shot in-context learning, users can provide several example audio-text pairs in…
In this article, learn how to evaluate large language models using practical metrics, reliable benchmarks, and repeatable workflows that balance quality, safety, and cost. Topics covered include: Automate and easily check text quality and similarity metrics. When to use benchmarks, human reviews, LLMs as judges, and verifiers. Safety/bias testing and process level (inference) evaluation. Let’s…
Trump Media and Technology Group’s Bitcoin holdings were not enough to support its balance sheet, and the company suffered from rising costs and reported a $54.8 million loss in third-quarter profit. The Trump-affiliated company, which runs the social media platform Truth Social, said Friday its third-quarter net loss widened from a $19.3 million loss in…
Companies hate to admit it, but the path to production-level AI adoption is littered with proofs of concept (PoCs) that fail to achieve their goals and failed projects that never reach their goals. In certain fields, especially those like life sciences, where AI applications drive new treatments or disease diagnosis to market, there is little…
