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In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a certain prediction, so they can determine whether to trust its output. Concept ...

Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small adjustments to make sure it doesn’t fall over. It ...

The Atlas will expand known evolutionary genetic diversity by 100x, collecting novel genomic data from over 100 million new ...

In a groundbreaking study, mice and AI agents independently learned to cooperate on tasks, revealing shared principles of ...

Ronke Okeremi, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Arit of Africa Limited, one of the leading & oldest IT companies in Nigeria founded in May, 1974. Over the years Mrs Okeremi has ...

Meta’s recently acquired AI startup Manus has launched a desktop app for Mac and Windows. It features an agentic tool called ...

First look: Perplexity AI aims to transform how artificial intelligence handles complex, multi-step tasks. Its new platform, called Computer, serves as a coordination layer for multiple large language ...

The AI assistant can do things like turn emails, attachments, and images from your inbox into a slide deck, or offer rundowns on nearby apartment listings. The AI assistant can do things like turn ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

Manus is moving beyond the cloud with a new desktop app that lets its My Computer agent handle tasks directly on your computer, from organizing files to running apps.