Perplexity’s Carbon integration will make it easier for enterprises to connect their data to AI search
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More 2024 has been a banner year for Perplexity. The AI search startup, founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI researcher Aravind Srinivas, raised hundreds of millions of dollars — its latest funding round reportedly valuing the company…
Fallout 76 playable ghoul hands-on preview – a rad expansion, especially if you’re keen for an undead dip
I emerge from the dodgy pool filled with dodgy barrels, geiger counter screaming like a white noise machine, and take it all in. My skin and clothes are literally pulsating with a rather cartoonish lime green glow. My health bar has a sheathe of built-up radioactive energy instead of being 90% red. I pull out…
Lexar Play 4TB SSD review: Another good SSD for your PS5
Lexar decided to expand on the success of its NM790 with a second drive that has more PS5-friendly aesthetics with a capacity range that extends up to an whomping 8TB. The Play doesn’t chart a new course from the NM790 otherwise, but it does mean that it’s a great drive for a console or gaming…
Hugging Face shows how test-time scaling helps small language models punch above their weight
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a new case study, Hugging Face researchers have demonstrated how small language models (SLMs) can be configured to outperform much larger models. Their findings show that a Llama 3 model with 3B parameters can outperform…
CES 2025: The new tech we’re expecting to see in Las Vegas from AMD, NVIDIA, Hyundai and more
The holiday season has barely begun, but some of us are already getting ready for CES 2025. Shortly after New Year’s Day, many from the Engadget team will be packing our bags to fly to Las Vegas, where we’ll be covering tech’s biggest annual conference. As usual, our inboxes are already flooded with pitches from…
FACTS Grounding: A new benchmark for evaluating the factuality of large language models
Responsibility & Safety Published 17 December 2024 Authors FACTS team Our comprehensive benchmark and online leaderboard offer a much-needed measure of how accurately LLMs ground their responses in provided source material and avoid hallucinations Large language models (LLMs) are transforming how we access information, yet their grip on factual accuracy remains imperfect. They can “hallucinate”…
Voice Search Optimization At Scale: A Guide For Enterprise Marketers
Smartphones put the world at our fingertips. People have questions that need answering, as well as the services or products they need. All of these things are just a search away, and now, we’ve seen a cosmic shift from traditional search to voice search and voice assistants. Statistically, voice search and assistants are not something…
Our favorite Sony earbuds hit an all-time low, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals
We’re less than a week from Christmas, and if you haven’t finished your holiday shopping, well, you should probably get on that. While it’s likely too late to get most items shipped by Wednesday morning, there are still tons of decent tech deals available for those you’re seeing after the holiday — or if you…
A Cornucopia of New Products – RP2350, Quadband GNSS, Compute Modules, and More! – News
It’s a special Wednesday Product Post here at SparkFun and we have many new products to be thankful for! Favorited Favorite 0 No, your eyes aren’t lying to you, it’s a Special Wednesday Product Post here at SparkFun Electronics! Since it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow here in the US, we decided to push up our normal weekly…
I'm a Digital Nomad. These 8 Gadgets Make Laptop Life Easy
The travel bug bit me early on in life. I was 10 years old when my mother sent my brother and I to Mombasa, Kenya. She’s Kenyan and wanted us to experience our culture and meet family, but she couldn’t travel with us because of work, so my brother and I traveled from Milwaukee as…