B, a 3-billion-parameter AI model, is challenging OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek on math and coding benchmarks while reigniting the debate over AI scaling, benchmark gaming and small-model reasoning.

Today, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers releases MagenticLite (opens in new tab), an experimental agentic application designed for small models. As the next generation of Magentic-UI, it works across ...

For consumers, insurance products are a safeguard against calamity; a resource to call on when things go wrong. Too often, the actions of insurers cause those relying on them unnecessary distress, ...

This article is not about ethics, privacy, security, ownership, or corporate governance — I am going to circumvent all of this here by using some made-up data relating to supermarket sales: Here, I ...

Many are longing for oblivion these days, and the cleansing fire of any sort of apocalypse presumably sounds great, including one brought on by malevolent forms of machine intelligence. This sort of ...

The vibe coding tool Cursor, from startup Anysphere, has introduced Composer, its first in-house, proprietary coding large language model (LLM) as part of its Cursor 2.0 platform update. Composer is ...

The first time I used ChatGPT to code, back in early 2023, I was reminded of “The Monkey’s Paw,” a classic horror story about an accursed talisman that grants wishes, but always by the most malevolent ...

Rather than relying on abstract benchmarks or marketing claims, I decided to conduct my own comprehensive evaluation. I tested five of the most prominent large language models – Claude, Gemini, ...

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