Martínez López 
This week, we’re getting a stark reminder of what legislation has looked like under President Donald Trump — and the turmoil we can soon expect in his new term. Trump, along with his ally Tesla CEO and Elon Musk, scrapped a bipartisan spending deal on Wednesday, just days before government funding was set to … Read more
Support independent journalism that matters – become a Vox member today. President-elect Donald Trump didn’t even wait to begin his second term before throwing Congress into disarray, scuttling a bipartisan spending deal and making demands of his own as a government shutdown looms at midnight. In a sense, it’s just the latest installment in … Read more
Networks programmed directly into the hardware of a computer chip can identify images faster and consume much less power than the traditional neural networks that underlie most modern artificial intelligence systems. That’s according to work presented last week at a leading machine learning conference in Vancouver. Neural networks, from GPT-4 to Stable Diffusion, are created … Read more
Vaccines have averted an estimated 154 million deaths since EPI was triggered. This figure includes 146 million children under the age of five. It is estimated that vaccination efforts have reduced child mortality by 40% and contributed to an additional 10 billion years of healthy life for the global population. Childhood vaccination is a success … Read more
When Hurricanes Helene and Milton struck the southeastern United States in September and October 2024, their winds—up to 180 miles per hour—destroyed homes and buildings, uprooted trees, downed power lines, and damaged roads. The storms also led to massive flooding across the region. Damage to basic services such as electricity meant survivors could not keep … Read more
Scientific literature reviews are a critical part of advancing fields of study: They provide the current state of the union through a comprehensive analysis of existing research and identify gaps in knowledge that future studies might focus on. However, writing a well-done review article is a great thing. Researchers often comb through stacks of scientific … Read more
A record number of pre-university educators gathered at the annual IEEE STEM Summit in October; IEEE Volunteers; and science, technology, engineering and math enthusiasts. They shared resources and ideas and participated in sessions to learn how to inspire the next generation of aspiring engineers and technologists. The free virtual summit, held October 23-25, attracted more … Read more
Like everyone else, we were impressed by NotebookLM’s ability to generate podcasts: Two virtual people having a discussion. You can give it some links and it will generate a podcast based on the links. The podcasts were interesting and engaging. But they also had certain limitations. The problem with NotebookLM is that while you can … Read more
It’s the end of the year for Radar! We hope all our readers enjoy the holidays. Here is one prediction for 2025: Is this the end of the road to improving LLM performance by scaling either the number of parameters or the training data? Nobody knows that yet. Regardless of the answer, we expect interest … Read more