Beyond The Hype: The Messy Reality Of Training AI

There are variations of these roles, but the deluge on job boards means one thing: training AI models is a real business. One ...
Labroots

Standardize tumor classification and variant annotation for reproducible cohort building with COSMIC

Accurate interpretation of cancer genomics depends on standardized disease classification, tumor characterization, and ...
Communications of the ACM

Formal Reasoning Meets LLMs: Toward AI for Mathematics and Verification

A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.
InfoQ

Google Supercharges Gemini 3 Flash with Agentic Vision

Google has added agentic vision to Gemini 3 Flash, combining visual reasoning with code execution to "ground answers in visual evidence". According to Google, this not only improves accuracy, but more ...
VentureBeat

AI coding transforms data engineering: How dltHub's open-source Python library helps developers create data pipelines for AI in minutes

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro-1.1-ultra A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in minutes using ...
GitHub

BOLT issue with Android: annotation value out of range

A third party has an Android NDK for arm64 linux, so I configured it into an Android chroot container. In order to run pgo (--enable-optimizations), I configured Android's linker64 into the container, ...
Business Insider

Elon Musk's xAI put a college student in charge of the team training Grok amid sweeping layoffs

XAI tapped a recent high school graduate to lead its data annotation team. Diego Pasini began leading the team in early September amid leadership changes and deep layoffs. Pasini's LinkedIn says he's ...
Observer

Elon Musk’s xAI Is Redefining Data Annotation—an Unglamorous But Vital Job in A.I.

Elon Musk’s A.I. firm is scaling back on “generalist A.I. tutors.” Allison Robbert/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Data annotation may not be the most glamorous job in Silicon Valley, but it’s indispensable ...
techtimes

xAI Reportedly Lays Off 500 Data Annotation Employees to Shift Focus to Specialists

A purge has taken place over at xAI, according to the latest reports, as the company laid off 500 employees under data annotation roles. The company is set to deliver new developments to its ...
TechCrunch

xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data-annotation team

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI laid off 500 team members on Friday night, according to internal messages viewed by Business Insider. These emails reportedly announce an immediate “strategic pivot,” with ...
Reuters

Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of data annotators, Business Insider reports

Sept 12 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's xAI has laid off at least 500 workers from its data annotation team, which helps develop the company's Grok chatbot, Business Insider reported on Friday. The company ...
Business Insider

Elon Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok

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