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Two UC Merced Computer Science and Engineering Professors Receive ‘Amazon Research Awards’ Providing Funding for Research into Making AI More Efficient

Recipients have access to more than 700 Amazon public datasets and can use AWS AI/ML services and tools through their AWS ...

Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

AI learns to spot problems in AI training systems before they occur

Researchers have developed a new AI-based method for predicting optical transceiver failures in the computer clusters used for AI training. The new technology could allow operators to anticipate ...
New Scientist

Analogue computers could train AI 1000 times faster and cut energy use

Analogue computers that rapidly solve a key type of equation used in training artificial intelligence models could offer a potential solution to the growing energy consumption in data centres caused ...
Neowin

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model outperforms leading alternatives on multiple AI benchmarks

Google has announced Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, a new AI model that allows agents to interact with user interfaces on websites and mobile apps. During Google I/O earlier this year, Google revealed that ...