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As AI systems began acing traditional tests, researchers realized those benchmarks were no longer tough enough. In response, ...

Perplexity is bringing its AI closer to its users, with a new Personal Computer that combines its agentic AI platform with a Mac mini's local applications. This may be too much AI for some people. At ...

Learn the difference between CPU vs GPU and RAM vs storage in this simple guide. Get computer components explained clearly to help you choose better performance. Pixabay, thalienano In today's world ...

AI agents speed up tasks while allowing people to focus on other complicated tasks. Perplexity, for instance, has caught up in this game by unveiling its newest AI agent named "Computer." The ...

The AI assistant can do things like turn emails, attachments, and images from your inbox into a slide deck, or offer rundowns on nearby apartment listings. The AI assistant can do things like turn ...

Perplexity just launched a feature that lets different AI models collaborate on the same task. Called Perplexity Computer, it taps Gemini, Grok, and ChatGPT 5.2 depending on what you need. The tool is ...

Scientists at HKUST have unveiled a major leap forward in calcium-ion battery technology, potentially opening the door to safer, more sustainable energy storage for everything from renewable power ...

Anthropic today updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6, and the company says it is the most capable Sonnet model to date with upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says AI will reach "human-level performance" in white-collar work. He predicts most tasks in that field can be automated within the next 12 to 18 months. Several ...

MIT researchers unveil a new fine-tuning method that lets enterprises consolidate their "model zoos" into a single, continuously learning agent.