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MiniMax launches M2.7, proprietary software "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to create, monitor and optimize the model’s own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 20, 2026

Carl Franzen / BusinessBeat: MiniMax launches M2.7, a proprietary “self-evolving” LLM that the company has used to create, monitor and…

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Preply, a language learning marketplace founded in Ukraine, raised a $150 million Series D led by WestCap at a valuation of $1.2 billion; the startup has an office of 150 people in kyiv (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 21, 2026

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Preply, a language learning marketplace founded in Ukraine, raised a $150 million Series D led by…

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Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to reduce development time, raised a $100 million Series C round, bringing its total funding to $130 million (Chris Metinko/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 19, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Why Roomba is Dead + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Christmas Song The…

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To create more powerful AI systems, some AI leaders are focusing on pursuing an approach called continuous learning, which mimics the way people learn over time (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 13, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Priority 2026, Disney’s AI Play, Data Center Construction Issues The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Google Launches Titans, an Architecture Combining RNN Speed with Transformer Performance for Real-Time Learning, Able to Efficiently Scale to a Popup of Over 2 Million (Google Research)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 5, 2025

Featured Podcasts Access: Does Roblox make the internet better or worse? We asked the CEO A show about the inside…

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Thoughts on AI advances and why the actions of AI labs suggest a worldview in which AI models will continue to perform poorly in terms of generalization and field learning (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 4, 2025

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Thoughts on advances in AI and why the actions of AI labs suggest a worldview…

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Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI that’s still a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 17, 2025

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI that’s still a decade away, why reinforcement learning is…

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An interview with Sam Altman and the president of Openai, Greg Brockman, during the initial lukewarm reception, the scale, learning to strengthen GPT-5, AGE, and more (Steven Levy / Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 4, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: The Sora 2 breakthrough, the death of the creator’s economy ?, Apple glassworks roadmap The…

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[Thread] Cluelley unveils an AI assistant from office which, according to users, can help users to deceive meetings, sales, conferences, interviews, learning new software, and more (roy / @ im_roy_lee)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 28, 2025

Featured podcasts Techmeme comes home: The death of the blue screen of death The news of the day, every day…

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Inside the Vera C. Rubin observatory, whose 3.2 Gigapixel camera will produce 60% of spatial image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and in -depth learning (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 22, 2025

New York Times:: Inside the Vera C. Rubin observatory, whose 3.2 Gigapixel camera will produce 60% of space image data…

ASEAN, China unlikely to finalize South China Sea Code of Conduct at next summit – Radio Free Asia

Heat maps show North Korea’s largest greenhouse at less than half capacity – Radio Free Asia

Balikatan 2026 exercises will highlight Manila’s ‘more active defense posture’ – Radio Free Asia

North Korean agents use fake identities to apply for tech jobs – Radio Free Asia

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

New York pied-à-terre tax sparks legal fight over values

FDA Speeds Up Research on Psychedelic Drugs Following Trump Order

Spirit Airlines’ money ‘won’t last very long’

Nike cuts 1,400 jobs in second round of layoffs this year

Trump administration decides to reclassify cannabis

Trump falls asleep during Oval Office event as his decline deepens

Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump the stupidest president in history

Republicans attempt to overturn election after Virginia backfires Trump’s Gerrymander

RFK Jr. looked completely crazy during Senate hearing

Investigation opened into Kash Patel’s alleged drinking

French forecast office refers suspicion of tampering with weather sensors at Paris airport to police after detecting unusual values alongside Polymarket betting (Joe Wertz/Bloomberg)

Meta announces deal to use “tens of millions” of Amazon’s Graviton chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models, amid Nvidia chip shortage (Ina Fried/Axios)

Norway plans to ban children from using social media until age 16; government says it will present bill to parliament by end of 2026 (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)

EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: Around 49% of consumers have used AI in the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

Trump threatens to “impose significant tariffs on the UK” if he does not scrap his digital services tax, which he sees as unfairly targeting US tech companies (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Browsing: learning

MiniMax launches M2.7, proprietary software "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to create, monitor and optimize the model’s own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Preply, a language learning marketplace founded in Ukraine, raised a $150 million Series D led by WestCap at a valuation of $1.2 billion; the startup has an office of 150 people in kyiv (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to reduce development time, raised a $100 million Series C round, bringing its total funding to $130 million (Chris Metinko/Axios)

To create more powerful AI systems, some AI leaders are focusing on pursuing an approach called continuous learning, which mimics the way people learn over time (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Google Launches Titans, an Architecture Combining RNN Speed with Transformer Performance for Real-Time Learning, Able to Efficiently Scale to a Popup of Over 2 Million (Google Research)

Thoughts on AI advances and why the actions of AI labs suggest a worldview in which AI models will continue to perform poorly in terms of generalization and field learning (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI that’s still a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

An interview with Sam Altman and the president of Openai, Greg Brockman, during the initial lukewarm reception, the scale, learning to strengthen GPT-5, AGE, and more (Steven Levy / Wired)

[Thread] Cluelley unveils an AI assistant from office which, according to users, can help users to deceive meetings, sales, conferences, interviews, learning new software, and more (roy / @ im_roy_lee)

Inside the Vera C. Rubin observatory, whose 3.2 Gigapixel camera will produce 60% of spatial image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and in -depth learning (New York Times)