Meta working on a Self-Taught Evaluator for LLMs
Facebook parent Meta’s AI research team is working on developing what it calls a Self-Taught Evaluator for large language models (LLMs) that could help enterprises reduce their time and human resource requirements while developing custom LLMs. Earlier this month, the social media giant’s AI research team, dubbed Meta FAIR, published a paper on the […]
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Red-teaming AI with PyRIT
Much of the documentation is provided through notebooks, so you can use it interactively. This is an interesting alternative to traditional documentation, ready for use locally or on GitHub. Using PyRIT to test your generative AI The heart of PyRIT is its orchestrators, This is how you link data sets to targets, constructing the attacks […]
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Anthropic adds prompt caching to Claude, cutting costs for developers
A 2023 paper from researchers at Yale University and Google explained that, by saving prompts on the inference server, developers can “significantly reduce latency in time-to-first-token, especially for longer prompts such as document-based question answering and recommendations. The improvements range from 8x for GPU-based inference to 60x for CPU-based inference, all while maintaining output accuracy […]
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GitHub rolls out AI-powered fixes for code vulnerabilities
GitHub has unveiled Copilot Autofix, an AI-powered software vulnerability remediation service as part of its GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) service. GitHub introduced Copilot Autofix in production on August 14. “Copilot Autofix analyzes vulnerabilities in code, explains why they matter, and offers code suggestions that help developers fix vulnerabilities as fast as they are found,” GitHub […]
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Why I don’t buy Apple products
In addition, Apple leverages their closed system to brag about their privacy features. But what they are really doing is making sure they are the only ones that can monitor your every move online. Apple ran a large marketing campaign talking about how safe your information is on their systems, implying that companies can’t track you on […]
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Tabnine AI coding assistant flexes its models
Tabnine, the “OG” AI-powered coding assistant, offers several powerful features that improve code generation and code generation, including context-aware suggestions, a chat window with a strong array of selectable AI models, and personalization of its models. The Tabnine Protected model supports about 15 popular programming languages at the “excellent” or “good” level, and another 65 […]
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Tauri 2.0 moves core functionality to plugins
Announced August 1, the Tauri 2.0 release candidate has followed more than a year and a half of beta versions and more than a year of alpha releases. The project said the long alpha and beta states happened in part because Tauri 2.0 was overpromised as having “mobile as a first-class citizen.” The project’s developers […]
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Microsoft Teams offers more for developers
Using Teams to develop and document code Teams is also a tool for developers, providing a place to collaborate around code. Up till now, one key feature was missing. Despite Markdown-based formatting, there was no way to use Teams as a place to share code. That gap has now been filled, and it’s possible to […]
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11 reasons the new JavaScript isn’t like the old JavaScript
With JavaScript’s 30th anniversary on the horizon, now seems like a good time to take stock of how much the language has changed. Here are 11 ways the JavaScript we use today is completely different from the language its inventors and early adopters could have imagined. 11 ways JavaScript is not what it used to […]
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Small language models and open source are transforming AI
SLMs also sharpen customization. These models can be finely tuned for specific tasks and industry domains, yielding specialized applications that produce measurable business outcomes. Whether in customer support, financial analysis, or healthcare diagnostics, these leaner models prove their effectiveness. The open source advantage The open source community has been a driving force behind the advancement […]
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