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A hands-on tutorial you can run for free in Google Colab. Run it yourself: open foundation_instruct_chat_tutorial.ipynb in Google Colab and run every cell top to bottom. It uses the SmolLM2-135M family — small enough for a free CPU runtime, no GPU needed. People say "LLM," "GPT," "an AI model," and
Qtractor is a lightweight Linux DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for audio and MIDI recording. This bible series is organized in a workflow-oriented reference fasion that progresses from session creation → recording → editing → mixing → export → advanced techniques. Contents are organized in consiste
Cloud Architect's 2026 Guide to Cheaper, Faster LLM Inference Three months ago I opened our quarterly cloud spend dashboard and almost choked on my coffee. Our LLM inference line item had ballooned to 14% of the entire infrastructure budget. We were running what I thought was a "moderately busy" mul
Amazon S3 now lets you attach up to 1 GB of rich, mutable, and queryable context directly to your objects using annotations, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows that need to discover, understand, and act on data at scale without maintaining separate metadata systems.
Databricks Inc. today announced plans to acquire Panther Labs Inc., a startup with an artificial intelligence platform for detecting cyberattacks. The companies didn’t disclose the financial terms. Panther received a $1.4 billion valuation in a 2021 funding round that included contributions from Sno
The Chinese company is doubling down on its "embodied AI" bet.
Strategy's bitcoin-backed preferred stock remains well below par value as concerns over dividend coverage and stronger competition from Strive's SATA.
Despite Bitcoin derivatives data highlight traders’ skepticism even though BTC briefly rallied above $67,000. Are bulls stepping into a trap?
Over at Amazon, the Lenovo IdeaPad 1i has dropped to $300, making it one of the best laptop deals available on the platform.
Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Bland builds AI agents that handle phone calls, SMS and chat. Where much
Major enterprise platform companies are racing to build tools for a new class of users: artificial intelligence agents. One example of this was apparent today with the latest releases from Databricks Inc. The company unveiled a new architecture – Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing – that enabl
Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate "long-horizon" autonomous coding and engineering tasks. Available immediately on Hugging Face, the Z.ai A
Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sat with us to discuss the Snap Specs, privacy, parental controls and more. Spoiler: He says "computing" a lot.
The creator of Apple TV's horror comedy hit already has that on her to-do list for the future.
The funny-sounding name offers new insights into galaxy formation.
Hackers are exploiting Steam Workshop to hide malicious code inside community-made desktop themes for Wallpaper Engine, putting users at risk of account theft.
Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.
"As for Arianespace, they have definitely stepped up."
Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built an AI-powered acoustic detection system called Sound Shield that identifies drones by the sound of their engines using microphone sensors that cost between €100 and €150 each. The system is designed as a passive, low-cost alternative to radar for detecting lo
