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My Conversation With ELIZA
I vaguely recall first trying some version of ELIZA back in the 1990s. I never found it all that impressive nor understood its stature in the AI literature. It’s better than a bunch of if/then statements but not by much. There’s some natural language grammar parsing that is somew…
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The ELIZA Archaeology Project
The ELIZA Archaeology Project: ELIZA is the original and highly influential chatbot that launched the genre of human-computer interactions using text-based agents. It was created at MIT in the 1960s as part of Project MAC by it’s [sic] designer and programmer, Joseph Weizenbaum. …
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EmTech AI 2026: The Rise of the AI Platform
MIT Technology Review
Your SaaS Metrics Are A Result, Not A Strategy
SaaS metrics like LTV/CAC, NRR, GRR, ARR growth, and the Rule of 40 are valuable indicators of business performance, writes guest author Itay Sagie, but leaders and boards should look beyond the numbers to understand the underlying drivers to assess the company's long-term health…
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The New ‘Dune: Part Three’ Trailer Takes Things to Another Level
Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi trilogy comes to an end this December with Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, and more.
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Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.
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DeepSeek and Zhipu AI Begin Self-Developing AI Chips — The Endgame Is No Longer Just Models
DeepSeek and Zhipu AI join OpenAI and Anthropic in developing custom inference chips, signaling a structural shift where leading AI labs pursue in-house silicon to cut costs and reduce GPU dependency.
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Cult.fit DRHP: A Look At Shareholding Pattern & Key Executives
Gym franchise operator Cult.fit has filed its draft IPO papers with the SEBI, aiming to net up to ₹4,000 Cr…
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China’s AI boom isn’t producing the next Jack Ma — it’s producing a generation of one-person businesses running on generative agents, and Silicon Valley is misreading what that actually means
In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video dramas from a repurposed industrial park where the…
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Elevate Education Bags ₹170 Cr To Scale AI-Led Higher Education Platform
Edtech startup Elevate Education, formerly known as Sunstone, has raised ₹170 Cr ($17.7 Mn) in its Series D funding round…
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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first AI model built with Cursor, featuring advanced legal and finance capabilities
SpaceXAI has introduced Grok 4.5, its most advanced AI model to date… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Psychology says people who struggle in classrooms but excel at reading a room, fixing an engine, or sensing what someone needs aren’t slow learners, they’re often operating in a form of intelligence the traditional school system was never designed to measure
There’s a particular word that gets stapled to certain kids early and never fully peels off. Slow. It shows up in report cards, in that lowered voice at parent evening, in the little sigh a teacher lets out before saying your name. For a lot of the people wearing that label, it w…
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The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
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Linux Fu: The Local Phonebook
I’ll admit it: I miss the simplicity of /etc/hosts. There was something elegant about it. You wanted laserprinter to mean 192.168.1.40, so you opened a text file and wrote: 192.168.1.40 …read more
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Good Judgment Beats Good Prompts
2026.04 - "Judgement is the last human skill AI can't replace". Everyone is saying it. I am trying to understand it. I want you to get good at it. Let's get philosophical and practical.
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ESP32 Keeps Tabs on Your Local Airspace
We know, we know. Despite being called ESP32-Plane-Radar, this project from [Mateusz Juszczyk] isn’t actually using radar. But thanks to the round LCD this desktop gadget does a fantastic job …read more
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Hacking Amazon Echo Show 8 3rd Gen via UART and eMMC
Even with Amazon’s Echo Show devices running Linux in the form of the Android-derived FireOS, using them for non-Amazon approved purposes can be a chore at best. In the case …read more
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in less than a week. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: How They Differ
In this article, we will look at the various architectural forks the teams building these models encountered and the decisions they took.
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This DIY Time Server is More Accurate Than You Need
You almost certainly don’t have an application for the sort of accurate timekeeping that’s made possible by this enhanced version of [Cristiano Monteiro]’s satellite-backed time server. By his own admission, …read more
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 874: Really, We Do PDFs
This week Jonathan chats with Andrea Gallo about RISC-V! What does it mean for RISC-V to be an Open ISA? Where is RISC-V popping up, and what’s the new frontier? …read more
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