IntroductionThe Apple iPad Pro with the M2 chip and the Microsoft Surface Pro 11 represent the pinnacle of tablet-meets-laptop devices from their respective companies. Both promise powerful performance in sleek, portable designs – but they take very different approaches. Apple’s M2 iPad Pro refines an already polished tablet experience with desktop-class Apple Silicon, while Microsoft’s…
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Introduction Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro – two flagship mixed reality headsets that exemplify very different approaches to spatial computing. Apple’s Vision Pro is the company’s first foray into VR/AR (“spatial computing”) and it positions itself as an ultra-premium device aimed at professionals and early adopters. In contrast, Meta’s Quest 3 is a…
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Introduction Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max and Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra are poised to be two of the most advanced smartphones of 2025/2026, representing the pinnacle of each company’s innovation. This comparison aims to give an in-depth look at how these flagship titans stack up across every aspect – from design and display to performance,…
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Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2025 is no longer a futuristic concept – it’s a daily reality, powering everything from our smartphones to our hospitals and highways. AI systems today help doctors diagnose diseases, enable cars to drive themselves, and answer our questions via human-like chatbots. In fact, AI is now deeply integrated into nearly…
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ChatGPT Evolves From Chatbot to Personal Assistant OpenAI has rolled out a major upgrade to ChatGPT, turning the popular chatbot into a personal AI assistant capable of not just answering questions, but taking actions on a user’s behalf. Dubbed the ChatGPT “Agent”, the new feature launched on Thursday and allows ChatGPT to “think” and act…
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The First AI-Driven Diagnostic to Earn FDA ‘Breakthrough’ Status In a milestone for artificial intelligence in medicine, Roche’s VENTANA TROP2 (EPR20043) RxDx test has become the first AI-powered diagnostic to receive the FDA’s coveted Breakthrough Device Designation roche.com clpmag.com. This computational pathology companion diagnostic – essentially a software-driven analysis of cancer biopsy images – gained…
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Introduction Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve is an experimental AI coding agent that can autonomously design and improve algorithms – a breakthrough that pushes the boundaries of what AI can create. Announced in mid-2025, AlphaEvolve uses Google’s cutting-edge Gemini large language models (LLMs) combined with an evolutionary search process and automated testing to iteratively refine computer code…
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A Globally Distributed AI Training Milestone In May 2025, the Prime Intellect research team unveiled INTELLECT‑2, a 32-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) that was trained not on a single data-center supercomputer, but on a globally distributed “swarm” of volunteer GPUs chakra.dev. This makes INTELLECT-2 the first LLM of its scale to be trained via fully asynchronous…
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A New Vision for a Conversational Web Imagine every website you visit could talk back – answering your questions in natural language, like a built-in ChatGPT trained on that site’s content. That’s the bold idea behind NLWeb, an open protocol unveiled by Microsoft at its Build 2025 conference. NLWeb (short for Natural Language Web) promises…
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Mixture-of-Memories (MoM) is a new sequence modeling architecture (released May 2025) that promises “linear attention” without the usual amnesia. In other words, MoM retains long-term information far better than previous efficient Transformer alternatives, yet keeps linear time complexity. Developed by researchers from Shanghai AI Lab and collaborators, MoM introduces multiple independent memory states guided by…
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