Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while ...

Why OpenAI's 'goblin' problem matters — and how you can release the goblins on your own

If OpenAI can accidentally train its flagship model to obsess over goblins, what other more subtle and potentially harmful ...
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How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Excel and Business Computing in 2026

If you are a university student preparing for a career in finance or data analytics, the skills you are learning in your business computing and Excel courses are undergoing a radical transformation.
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8 Best AI Certifications to Boost Your Career in 2026

Explore the top AI certifications to boost your career and validate your AI skills. Find the best programs in machine learning and artificial intelligence to increase job opportunities.
Futurism

Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age, whose influence supposedly extends to the White House on ...
IEEE

RLCoder: Reinforcement Learning for Repository-Level Code Completion

Abstract: Repository-level code completion aims to generate code for unfinished code snippets within the context of a specified repository. Existing approaches mainly rely on retrievalaugmented ...
IEEE

A Reinforcement Learning Environment for Automatic Code Optimization in the MLIR Compiler

Abstract: Code optimization is a crucial task that aims to enhance code performance. However, this process is often tedious and complex, highlighting the necessity for automatic code optimization ...
Android Police

I'm finally learning to code, and I have NotebookLM to thank for it

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...
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Brain organoids can be trained to solve a goal-directed task

Study authors Hunter Schweiger (left) and Ash Robbins. Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small ...
Forbes

Leadership Amid Uncertainty: CEOs Can Learn Effective Decision Making From Reinforcement Learning

Leaders, whether in boardrooms or garages, constantly face an unchanging force: uncertainty. For a CEO, making a good decision always involves factoring in as much data as possible, and then trusting ...
Microsoft

Argos: Multimodal reinforcement learning with agentic verifier for AI agents

Over the past few years, AI systems have become much better at discerning images, generating language, and performing tasks within physical and virtual environments. Yet they still fail in ways that ...