Gemini in Google Chrome Gets a Skills Library for Saving Custom AI Prompts

Chrome has been updated today with a Skills library that's designed to let Chrome users turn AI tasks into repeatable skills ...

‘Smash and grab’. Are China’s AI ‘distillers’ a security risk?

AI giants fear their models are being copied faster than they can build them. In defence circles, they’re worried about how ...
Food & Wine

How Distillation Shapes the Flavor of Whiskey, Tequila, Rum, and More

Distillation shapes a spirit’s flavor, aroma, and texture by removing unwanted compounds while concentrating ethanol and desirable characteristics. Different methods — such as pot still, column still, ...
Forbes

Akai Professional’s MPC Sample Is A New Way To Make Beats Almost Anywhere

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. You shall have music wherever you go. The new MPC Sample is a fully portable devices for ...
MusicRadar

"The closest thing Akai has released to a vintage MPC in decades": Akai MPC Sample review

Despite its slightly toy-like looks, the MPC Sample is a fast and fun machine that channels the spirit of its early-'90s predecessors. Fun, fast workflow reminiscent of classic MPCs. Chopping and ...
CNBC

Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging 'industrial-scale' distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms

Anthropic accused three Chinese AI firms of engaging in concerted "distillation attack" campaigns. U.S. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are concerned with ceding a competitive advantage to such ...
IEEE

Continual Adversarial Example Detection via Incremental Attack Configuration Within a Knowledge Distillation Framework

Abstract: Adversarial example detection has emerged as a prominent defense strategy owing to its efficiency in training and deployment. Nevertheless, existing detectors are typically developed under a ...
Reuters

OpenAI says China's DeepSeek trained its AI by distilling US models, memo shows

Feb 12 (Reuters) - OpenAI has warned U.S. lawmakers that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is targeting the ChatGPT maker and the nation's leading AI companies to replicate models and ...
Ars Technica

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...
GitHub

LawrenceRLiu/MoE_Factorize_Compress

Research implementation for compressing Mixture of Experts (MoE) language models using a novel Shared Core + Low-Rank Wrapper decomposition. MoE_Compress/ ├── src/ # Source code │ ├── models/ # ...
Scientific American

Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.