Decrypt

Google's DiffusionGemma AI Hits 1,000 Tokens Per Second—And It's Free

DiffusionGemma hits 1,000 tokens per second by ditching word-by-word generation entirely. It just doesn't run on most ...
The Age

The law is the law, there are no gradients

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The law is the law We will apply the “The full force of the law”, as quoted by Anthony Albanese and ...
Android

Google's New Gemini UI Rolling Out with Gradient Vibes, Pulsing Animations and a New Font

Google has begun deploying a major user interface redesign for Gemini. The refresh introduces a sleek, minimalist overlay panel that consolidates file uploads, Google Drive exploration, image ...
Thurrott

Anthropic Engineer Debates Use of Markdown vs. HTML in AI Agent Output

Markdown has emerged as the lingua franca of AI, especially with the proliferation of AI agents. But an Anthropic engineer argues that HTML is a better choice for output. And despite my love of ...
Drexel University

Educational gradients in health care access and use among Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and U.S.-Mexico migrants

Background: Educational attainment is an important social determinant of health, but emerging research suggests that U.S. and foreign-born Mexican Americans demonstrate an unusually weak relationship ...
ConsumerAffairs

That 'expiring points' text might be a scam

Scammers are using AI to send convincing “expiring rewards points” texts that impersonate major brands like telecom companies and retailers These messages create urgency and often link to fake ...
9to5google

Google’s new gradient icons for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and other apps are radical redesigns

So far, five Google icons have undergone gradient updates. 9to5Google can now report on a complete gradient redesign for Gmail and other Google Workspace apps. Google is addressing a major criticism ...
Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...
The New York Times

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Forbes

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. For anyone versed in the technical underpinnings of LLMs, this ...