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🧠Why Do Language Models Hallucinate?
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đź“š Types and Examples of NoSQL Databases
🚀Z.ai’s GLM 4.6 outperforms Sonnet 4 with 15% fewer tokens
🖥️ Cursor Can Now See and Test Code in Browser Instances
📊Learn From Cognition’s Experience with Claude Sonnet 4.5
📦 Amazon’s new Alexa+ integrated devices
🚀 Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia With 'Grokipedia'
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:How to use Notion AI agents to be more productive
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Hallucinations — the bane of the language model (LM) and its users — are the plausible-sounding but factually incorrect statements produced by LMs. These hallucinations are problematic because they can erode user trust, propagate misinformation, and mislead downstream decisions even when the output is expressed with high confidence.
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NoSQL databases are growing with very rapid speed because of their exciting features like more flexibility and scalability, schema-free architecture, easy replication support, simple API, consistent / BASE (not ACID), support for big data and more.
Another day, another open-source model from China. Z.ai has dropped GLM 4.6, an upgraded version of their GLM 4.5 with many improvements - an expanded context window from 128K to 200K tokens while improving its coding and reasoning capabilities.
Cursor can now control your browser.
Agent can take screenshots, improve UI, and debug client issues.
Try our early preview with Sonnet 4.5.
— Cursor (@cursor_ai)
9:41 PM • Sep 29, 2025
Cursor has introduced a beta feature that allows its AI agent to spin up and use a browser instance to interact with web applications you've built, like performing actions on UI elements, capturing screenshots, analyzing the interface, suggesting UI improvements, and debugging client-side issues like console logs or runtime errors.
The Devin team just dropped their field notes from rebuilding their AI agent for Claude Sonnet 4.5, and they're not what you'd expect. Instead of a simple model swap, they had to completely rearchitect Devin because the new model broke assumptions about how agents should work.
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OpenAI has unveiled Sora 2, its latest video generation model, alongside a new invite-only iPhone app called Sora. The app mimics TikTok’s style with a feed of short videos but centers on AI-created clips. Users can record short videos that others can transform into AI-generated remixes, provided they’ve shared consent through “cameos.”
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