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From ‘BuddhaBot’ to $1.99 chats with AI Jesus, the faith-based tech boom is here

FOR SOME EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS, faith is about having a personal relationship with Jesus. At $1.99 per minute, the tech ...

Karpathy shares 'LLM Knowledge Base' architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI

Karpathy proposes something simpler and more loosely, messily elegant than the typical enterprise solution of a vector ...
AOL

'AI-pilled' engineers are working harder and burning out faster, Django co-creator says

AI agents are making software engineers more effective, Simon Willison said. They're also making him tired, and faster.Maskot/Getty Images Part of AI's core promise is to take over mind-numbing tasks ...
Scientific American

What happens when AI starts checking mathematicians’ work

A new era in mathematics may be on the horizon—one that some researchers have long desired. Mathematicians could soon use computers to verify proofs quickly and rigorously, ensuring published proofs ...
ZDNet

I built an app for work in 5 minutes with Tasklet - and watched my no-code dreams come true

Tasklet is billed as a chatbot-style AI agent authoring, hosting, and deployment tool. A knack for interfacing with any system, API or not, could be its unique superpower. Once your integrations are ...
NextBigFuture

Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch and the Self Improvement Loopy Era of AI

Andrej Karpathy is pioneering autonomous loop” AI systems—especially coding agents and self-improving research agents—while advancing AI-native education through Eureka Labs and ultra-minimal ...
The New York Times

Sorry, Mom. You’re Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son.

Silicon Valley’s young coders are getting creative with this new technology. They also worry they’re not spending enough time with it. Silicon Valley’s young coders are getting creative with this new ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Going Local (& a Bit Loco) with Open-Source AI in VS Code

Running open-source AI locally in VS Code proved possible, but the path was more complicated than the polished model catalogs initially suggested. On a modest company laptop with 12 GB of RAM and no ...
The Conversation

Is AI replacing the work of skilled radiologists? They give us their thoughts

Since the 2010s, breakthroughs in AI have prompted discussion about their implications for work, including a possible “workless” future. Those forecasted to face replacement are no longer only the ...
Engadget

NVIDIA is reportedly working on its own open-source AI agent platform

NVIDIA is reportedly working on its own open-source AI agent platform, according to Wired. The chipmaker has been pitching the product to enterprise software companies. Reporting indicates it's going ...
Ars Technica

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.