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🧠A Gentle Introduction to Model Distillation
🤖Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
🛠️How to build with Jev
🧓 Warren Buffett Stepped Down as Berkshire's Chairman at 96
💡 AI Tutorial:Share an app window with Appshots
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In this article, you will learn what model distillation is, how it has evolved for large language models, and why it has become one of the most contested topics in the AI industry. How classical distillation works, including the concept of “dark knowledge” and temperature scaling. How modern distillation techniques have adapted for large language models, covering synthetic data, feature, and logit-based approaches.
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LLM evaluation tools help teams measure how a model performs across various tasks, including reasoning, summarization, retrieval, coding, and instruction-following. They analyze performance trends, detect hallucinations, validate outputs against ground truth, and benchmark improvements during fine-tuning or prompt engineering
It’s rare to work with an unlimited token budget, but at OpenAI, that’s what all engineers, researchers, finance colleagues, and marketing folks do. Recently, I visited one of the world’s leading frontier labs to find out how OpenAI operates today – and for a glimpse at where software engineering might be headed as a profession.
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Unlike standard LLMs that generate text, Jev scores possible outcomes in milliseconds. This tutorial shows you how to set up the API and build three projects: a voice-controlled browser, an AI memory system, and a YouTube idea scorer. It also covers when you still need a standard LLM to back it up.
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Father Time always wins, and Warren Buffett said so himself on the way out. The 96-year-old handed the Berkshire Hathaway chairmanship to his son Howard, a director since 1993, and took the title of chairman emeritus while staying on the board. Buffett had chaired the company since 1970 and gave up the CEO job to Greg Abel late last year. Sixty years, one desk.
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Anthropic reportedly has a new Bay Area biology lab that’ll be used to test AI-led experiments, with neglected diseases in view and no clinical trials planned for now. Startup aims for Claude AI to direct robots in lab environments, one source says. Company to stop short of clinical trials to avoid drugmaker competition, life sciences head say
If you’ve been typing back and forth with Grok Bot, the conversation is getting a voice. The feature is rolling out across desktop and mobile now, bringing spoken replies to both.
Helix 02 showed that a neural policy could coordinate a humanoid's whole body over long horizons, from unloading a dishwasher to running a logistics task autonomously for 200 hours. But those systems learned from data collected where the robots would operate.Helix 2.5 was built to answer a harder question: can a humanoid enter a home it has never seen and
Disney spent last September sending Character.AI a cease and desist over its characters, and has now hired that company's former chief executive. Karandeep Anand becomes Disney's first ever chief technology officer, picked by CEO Josh D'Amaro, who took over from Bob Iger in March. Anand ran Character.AI from May 2025 through a pile of lawsuits, and did stints at Facebook and Microsoft before that.
AI Tutorial
Share an app window with Appshots
The Appshots feature lets you send the frontmost app window to a chat in ChatGPT.
Open the ChatGPT desktop app.
Bring the app window you want to share to the front.
Press both Command keys on macOS or both Alt keys on Windows.
Complete the permission setup if ChatGPT asks.
Ask ChatGPT to perform a task with the Appshot.
Example: Take an Appshot of a Slack thread and ask, "What's going on here? What was decided, what's still open, and do I need to respond?"
An Appshot captures the frontmost window only. It can include:
An image of the visible window.
Available text from that window, including visible text and text the app makes available outside the visible scroll area.
The feature is especially useful when an error, spreadsheet, design, or settings screen is easier to share than describe.
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