Q&A: How this St. Landry parish school is reviving French at Sunset high

When Sunset High was built in 1926, Louisiana was operating under policies that prohibited French from being spoken in public schools. Nearly 100 years later, the same building will serve students in ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Teacher Role Transformation in Technology-Enhanced Chinese Language Education: A Study on Adaptation ()

Teacher Role Transformation in Technology-Enhanced Chinese Language Education: A Study on Adaptation. Open Access Library Journal, 13, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1114866 . With the advent of the digital ...
The Robot Report

Vision-language-action models are the next leap in autonomous robotics

Explore how vision-language-action models like Helix, GR00T N1, and RT-1 are enabling robots to understand instructions and act autonomously.

Mercury 2 : World’s Fastest Reasoning AI Model Built for Production Applications

The new Mercury 2 AI model uses diffusion reasoning to generate 1,000 tokens per second; it runs about 5x faster than Haiku, speed limits are ...

AngelAi Announces “Roshni,” Advancing User Experience and Performance Across Its Transactional Intelligence Platform

The Latest Release Moves Beyond Traditional Interfaces to Deliver Unprecedented Transparency, Speed, and Human-Centric ...
SpaceNews

Boeing demonstrates large language model for space-grade hardware

In recent ground tests, Boeing engineers demonstrated that a large language model running on commercial off-the-shelf hardware could examine telemetry and report in natural language on the health of a ...

Trauma follows children into the classroom—a new teaching model is changing that

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...
PNAS

Protein language models trained on biophysical dynamics inform mutation effects

The sequence—structure (ensemble)—function relationship is central to biology. Protein dynamics in the structure ensemble determine function and mutation effects, and are widely used to study ...
InfoWorld

A small language model blueprint for automation in IT and HR

For IT and HR teams, SLMs can reduce the burden of repetitive tasks by automating ticket handling, routing, and approvals, while providing substantial cost savings versus LLMs. Large language models ...
Futurism

Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...
IEEE

Policy Learning from Large Vision-Language Model Feedback Without Reward Modeling

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable success across various decision-making domains, including games [1], [2], autonomous systems [3], [4], and robotics [5], [6], [7]. A key factor ...
Microsoft

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

In 2024, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers, starting with the release of Phi (opens in new tab) models on Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), as well as deploying Phi ...