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Nobel committees have recognized the transformative power of artificial intelligence by honoring the developers of computational tools to study and design proteins with the chemistry prize, and pioneers of neural networks with the physics prize. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper from Google’s AI division DeepMind and David Baker from the University of Washington were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The pioneering work of these scientists has “cracked the code” of the building blocks of life: proteins, paving the way for advancements in drug development and enhancing our understanding of human biology.  Hassabis and Jumper were awarded for AlphaFold2, … Read more

Introduction Over the last few years, a growing interest has been in testing the adversarial robustness of natural language processing (NLP) models. The research in this area covers new techniques for generating adversarial examples and defending against them. Comparing these attacks directly is challenging because they are evaluated on different data and victim models. Replicating earlier work as a baseline takes time and increases the risk of errors because of missing source code. Perfectly replicating results is also challenging because of the tiny details left out of the publications. These issues create challenges for benchmark comparisons in this space. Frameworks … Read more

Anthropic has kicked off a fresh wave of AI safety evaluations, pushing its Claude models to the edge to find out just how capable they might be of sabotaging systems, code, or human decisions. The company has taken a step beyond traditional safety testing, moving into a space where AI’s ability to manipulate or disrupt is put under scrutiny. Testing for Sabotage Potential in AI Models The tests, applied to models like Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, were designed to explore how AI might intentionally act in ways that are harmful. Four different sabotage scenarios were evaluated, including … Read more

iBUYPOWER is a U.S.-based company known for its custom-built gaming PCs and peripherals. Established in 1999, the company offers a wide range of self-branded products, including pre-built desktop computers, laptops, and gaming accessories. These products are designed to cater to various performance needs, from casual gaming to high-end competitive gaming. iBUYPOWER is particularly recognized for its customizable gaming PCs, allowing users to choose specific components according to their preferences. The company’s self-branded peripherals, like keyboards, mice, and headsets, are designed to complement their gaming systems, providing a cohesive experience for gamers. iBUYPOWER also offers a selection of cooling-related products, including … Read more

Back at San Diego Comic-Con, Paramount revealed our first look at the long-awaited Michelle Yeoh Star Trek: Discovery spinoff, Section 31. From the long road of a TV show in the earliest days of Trek‘s streaming expansion to now a streaming-exclusive movie headlined by an Oscar-winning actress, the footage was bound to make a splash either way. Paramount didn’t feature a more extensive trailer for Section 31 at New York Comic Con during its Star Trek Universe panel that paints a clearer picture of just how Yeoh’s Discovery character—the former Emperor of the Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe turned kind of good, Phillipa Georgiou—finds … Read more

Philadelphia Racing Products, a high-performance aftermarket automotive parts manufacturer, is continuously evolving to meet the rigorous standards of racing enthusiasts. Established in 1991, feeding the demand for street and performance racing, company founder Julius John Schonberger III saw an opportunity to shift the company’s focus from selling ready-made parts to designing and manufacturing automotive components for sale. Three decades later, Philadelphia Racing Products has grown to include a thriving performance engine division alongside its comprehensive racing parts manufacturing facility. Yet with increasing demand for custom projects, the company recognised the necessity for improving the efficiency of its product design workflow, … Read more

FLUX has been taking the internet by storm this past month, and for good reason. Their claims of superiority to models like DALLE 3, Ideogram, and Stable Diffusion 3 have proven well founded. With capability to use the models being added to more and more popular Image Generation tools like Stable Diffusion Web UI Forge and ComyUI, this expansion into the Stable Diffusion space will only continue. Since the model’s release, we have also seen a number of important advancements to the user workflow. These notably include the release of the first LoRA (Low Rank Adaptation models) and ControlNet models … Read more