Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while ...

Why OpenAI's 'goblin' problem matters — and how you can release the goblins on your own

If OpenAI can accidentally train its flagship model to obsess over goblins, what other more subtle and potentially harmful ...
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How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Excel and Business Computing in 2026

If you are a university student preparing for a career in finance or data analytics, the skills you are learning in your business computing and Excel courses are undergoing a radical transformation.
DATAQUEST

Best AI Careers in India 2026: High-Paying Jobs, Skills & Roadmap

Want to start a career in AI? Explore the top AI jobs in India for 2026, including ML Engineer salaries, required skills like ...
Futurism

Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age, whose influence supposedly extends to the White House on ...
Inc

Want to Learn to Vibe Code? Start by Making the Video Game of Your Dreams

Vibe coding has sparked a technological revolution, and has produced some of the fastest-growing products in the history of tech, including Claude Code, Codex, Lovable, and Replit. Vibe coding is the ...
IEEE

Reinforcement Learning for Jointly Optimal Coding and Control Policies for a Controlled Markovian System over a Communication Channel

Abstract: We study the problem of joint optimization involving coding and control policies for a controlled Markovian system over a finite-rate noiseless communication channel. While structural ...
Bloomberg L.P.

OpenAI to Acquire Startup Astral, Expanding Push Into Coding

OpenAI plans to acquire Astral, a startup that makes Python tools for developers, marking the ChatGPT maker’s latest investment in the fast-growing market for coding and developer services. The deal, ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
Android Police

I'm finally learning to code, and I have NotebookLM to thank for it

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...
marktechpost

A Coding Implementation to Train Safety-Critical Reinforcement Learning Agents Offline Using Conservative Q-Learning with d3rlpy and Fixed Historical Data

In this tutorial, we build a safety-critical reinforcement learning pipeline that learns entirely from fixed, offline data rather than live exploration. We design a custom environment, generate a ...
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Watch an AI learn to balance a stick — reinforcement learning in action

Watch an AI agent learn how to balance a stick—completely from scratch—using reinforcement learning! This project walks you through how an algorithm interacts with an environment, learns through trial ...