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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A Windows zero-day vulnerability recently patched by Microsoft was exploited by hackers working on behalf of the North Korean government so they could install custom malware…

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Hugging Face’s LeRobot tutorial revolutionizes DIY robotics, empowering developers to build and train their own AI-powered robots, democratizing access to cutting-edge technology and fostering innovation in the field.Read More

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Salesforce releases xGen-MM, a groundbreaking suite of open-source multimodal AI models that combine text and image understanding, potentially revolutionizing AI research and applications.Read More

Researchers at Meta have released Self-Taught Evaluator, a technique that enables LLMs to automatically label their training data.Read More

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