Author: Vidya Saras
The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and kicking the can for that transformational moment to 2026 or maybe later. But what if the answer to the question “When will our lives be fully automated by generative AI robots that perform our tasks for us and basically run the world?” is, like that New Yorker cartoon, “How about never?”That was basically the message of a paper published without much fanfare some months ago, smack in the middle of the…
The Minnesota chapter of White Coats for Black Lives, a medical student group, greeted the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel by saying that Palestinians should "free themselves from their oppressors by any means necessary."
StepFun has introduced Step-DeepResearch, a 32B parameter end to end deep research agent that aims to turn web search into actual research workflows with long horizon reasoning, tool use and structured reporting. The model is built on Qwen2.5 32B-Base and is trained to act as a single agent that plans, explores sources, verifies evidence and writes reports with citations, while keeping inference cost low. From Search to Deep Research Most existing web agents are tuned for multi-hop question-answering benchmarks. They try to match ground truth answers for short questions. This is closer to targeted retrieval than to real research. Deep…
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On the other hand, there is still a gap between the complexity of the environment (hybrid, SaaS, multi-cloud) and the maturity of identity controls. Likewise, many organizations still do not consistently apply intelligent privilege controls, while the need to automate the identity and permission lifecycle indicates that current investment is not always sufficient or well targeted. And not only does this gap exist, but there is also a cultural gap, as Salvador Sánchez Taboada points out. “Many management teams see cybersecurity as an expense, not as a lifesaver,” he acknowledges. In Spain and Latin America, we are working to change…
By Jordan Avery Jordan Avery is a seasoned entertainment journalist with five years of experience, currently serving as a staff writer for Nerdspin. He specializes in covering all things Marvel, Star Wars, and… Jordan Avery is a seasoned entertainment journalist with five years of experience, currently serving as a staff writer… Marvel Studios may be quietly laying the groundwork for one of its most emotionally charged solo films yet. According to scooper, Daniel Richtman (@DanielRPK), a new Scarlet Witch project is reportedly in development as part of the MCU’s upcoming Mutant Saga. While Marvel has not confirmed anything officially, the…
Poundland has closed 149 stores and cut 2,200 jobs as part of a sweeping turnaround plan aimed at stabilising the business after a period of heavy losses and declining sales. The discount retailer said the closures mark the final phase of a restructuring programme launched last year, following a collapse into the red that was blamed on weak trading conditions and an unpopular overhaul of its clothing ranges. Poundland was bought for £1 from Pepco Group in June last year by US restructuring specialist Gordon Brothers, which has since pledged up to £80 million to revive the business. As part…
The Bitcoin price action has been muted over the past few days, trading within the $90,000 and $88,000 levels. Classically, consolidation periods often precede major moves either to the upside or downside of the market. As such, questions on the next trajectory of the flagship cryptocurrency are being asked. A latest on-chain evaluation has offered a positive prognosis on the next direction for the Bitcoin price. Accumulation Demand Metric Surges To All-Time-High In a Quicktake post on CryptoQuant, on-chain analyst CoinNiel hypothesized that the Bitcoin price could be at the beginning of a bullish trend. The market quant based this…
One of the important issues that has been brought up over the course of the Olympic stress-net release is the large amount of data that clients are required to store; over little more than three months of operation, and particularly during the last month, the amount of data in each Ethereum client’s blockchain folder has ballooned to an impressive 10-40 gigabytes, depending on which client you are using and whether or not compression is enabled. Although it is important to note that this is indeed a stress test scenario where users are incentivized to dump transactions on the blockchain paying…
The NFT community is bidding a heavy-hearted farewell to Nifty Gateway, one of the pioneering platforms of the digital art revolution. In an official statement, the team announced that Nifty Gateway will shut down on February 23, 2026, and as of today (January 24, 2026) the platform has entered a withdrawal-only mode. For artists, collectors, and enthusiasts who rode the NFT wave on Nifty Gateway, this news feels like the end of an era – one filled with groundbreaking art, frenzied drops, and a transformative cultural movement. Yet amid the sadness and nostalgia, there’s a flicker of optimism: the end…