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Liquid AI’s LFM2-2.6B-Exp Uses Pure Reinforcement Learning RL And Dynamic Hybrid Reasoning To Tighten Small Model Behavior

Liquid AI has introduced LFM2-2.6B-Exp, an experimental checkpoint of its LFM2-2.6B language model that is trained with pure reinforcement learning on top of the existing LFM2 stack. The goal is simple, improve instruction following, knowledge tasks, and math for a small 3B class model that still targets on device and edge deployment. Where LFM2-2.6B-Exp Fits […]

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From shrimp Jesus to erotic tractors: how viral AI slop took over the internet

Flood of unreality is an endpoint of algorithm-driven internet and product of an economy dependent on a few top tech firms In the algorithm-driven economy of 2025, one man’s shrimp Jesus is another man’s side hustle.AI slop – the low-quality, surreal content flooding social media platforms, designed to farm views – is a phenomenon, some

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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data showsMore than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels

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We combed the internet for the 25 best after-Christmas sales still available

Masterclass, Roku, Apple, Aritzia – we rounded up the best post-holiday sales for tech, fashion and more that you can snag before the end of the yearSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsThe eggnog’s kicked, the tree is dropping its needles and distant family members have vacated

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‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app

Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the worldWhen Natasha Walter first became curious about the birds around her, she recorded their songs on her phone and arduously tried to match each song with online recordings. After a friend recommended Merlin Bird ID, a free app, she

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Apple seeks to appeal against £1.5bn ruling it overcharged UK customers

If appeal fails, every person in UK who made App Store purchases between 2015 and 2024 could be entitled to compensationApple is seeking to overturn a landmark £1.5bn court ruling on behalf of millions of UK customers, which found the company overcharged them for years in its App Store.The iPhone maker has applied to the

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From Gemma 3 270M to FunctionGemma, How Google AI Built a Compact Function Calling Specialist for Edge Workloads

Google has released FunctionGemma, a specialized version of the Gemma 3 270M model that is trained specifically for function calling and designed to run as an edge agent that maps natural language to executable API actions. But, What is FunctionGemma? FunctionGemma is a 270M parameter text only transformer based on Gemma 3 270M. It keeps

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The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2025 | First Dog on the Moon

From the world’s first social media ban to the world’s richest Jeff, revisit five of the best strips by the Guardian Australia cartoonistSign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue

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AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025

Elon Musk’s net worth increased by nearly 50% to $645bn with founders of Google and Amazon also seeing huge wealth gainsA stock market boom in artificial intelligence companies has added more than half a trillion dollars to the wealth of America’s tech barons in the past year, data shows.The top 10 US founders and bosses

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A Coding Implementation on Building Self-Organizing Zettelkasten Knowledge Graphs and Sleep-Consolidation Mechanisms

In this tutorial, we dive into the cutting edge of Agentic AI by building a “Zettelkasten” memory system, a “living” architecture that organizes information much like the human brain. We move beyond standard retrieval methods to construct a dynamic knowledge graph where an agent autonomously decomposes inputs into atomic facts, links them semantically, and even

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