February 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), excelling at text generation, translation, and summarization tasks. However, their ability to engage in logical reasoning remains a challenge. Traditional LLMs, designed to predict the next word, rely on statistical pattern recognition rather than structured reasoning. This limits their ability to solve complex problems…

Event planners are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to streamline the planning of conferences, trade shows, and corporate gatherings. Below, we highlight some of the best AI-powered tools for event planning, each offering unique capabilities to enhance efficiency and attendee experience. These tools range from specialized event management platforms to general AI assistants that can…

Although the deepfaking of private individuals has become a growing public concern and is increasingly being outlawed in various regions, actually proving that a user-created model – such as one enabling revenge porn – was specifically trained on a particular person’s images remains extremely challenging. To put the problem in context: a key element of…

With its cute whale logo, the recent release of DeepSeek could have amounted to nothing more than yet another ChatGPT knockoff. What made it so newsworthy – and what sent competitors’ stocks into a tailspin – was how little it cost to create. It effectively threw a monkey wrench into the U.S.’s notion of the…

All biological function is dependent on how different proteins interact with each other. Protein-protein interactions facilitate everything from transcribing DNA and controlling cell division to higher-level functions in complex organisms. Much remains unclear, however, about how these functions are orchestrated on the molecular level, and how proteins interact with each other — either with other…

In the field of biomedical research, transforming a hypothesis into a tangible discovery is often a lengthy and expensive process. On average, developing a new drug can take over a decade and cost billions of dollars. To address these challenges, Google has introduced the AI Co-Scientist, an innovative tool designed to assist researchers in generating…

SmartSuite, the next-generation work management platform, has announced a significant global expansion, fueled by a total of $38 million in funding. The investment includes a newly secured $13 million Series A round, led by Canapi Ventures with participation from Sorenson Capital and High Alpha. This follows an earlier $25 million founder-led seed round, underscoring the…

As a college educator and former IT industry veteran, I find that the hype around China’s DeepSeek R1 model is a useful reminder of three things. The first is that generative AI is no longer just about processing vast amounts of content to generate relevant responses to prompts; it’s also about cognitive reasoning (the “R”…

Shikhil Sharma is the Founder of Astra Security – a continuous pentesting platform. At the very onset of his career, Shikhil consulted a number of businesses, startups & banks on cyber security. After helping some top businesses secure their websites & apps, Shikhil noted how in-effective traditional pentesting was, and founded Astra Security as an…

In a move that has caught the attention of many, Perplexity AI has released a new version of a popular open-source language model that strips away built-in Chinese censorship. This modified model, dubbed R1 1776 (a name evoking the spirit of independence), is based on the Chinese-developed DeepSeek R1. The original DeepSeek R1 made waves…