News and Reviews

Electric vehicles could be economically competitive in Africa sooner than expected. Just 1% of new cars sold across the continent in 2025 were electric, but a new analysis finds that with solar off-grid charging, EVs could be cheaper to own than gas vehicles by 2040. There are major barriers to ...

Another month, another AI-powered trend taking over the internet, and this one is all about turning yourself into a caricature using ChatGPT Image. From LinkedIn feeds to group chats, people are sharing playful versions of themselves that capture not just their faces, but also their profession, ...

Alibaba’s Qwen has been on a roll lately, launching model after model for various use cases. For instance, it recently introduced the Qwen3-Coder-Next as an AI coding assistant for developers. This time, the AI giant is in the news yet again for its latest release – the Qwen-2.0-Image. As the name ...

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

Google Research is proposing a new way to build accessible software with Natively Adaptive Interfaces (NAI), an agentic framework where a multimodal AI agent becomes the primary user interface and adapts the application in real time to each user’s abilities and context. Instead of shipping a fixed ...

In this tutorial, we walk through advanced usage of Einops to express complex tensor transformations in a clear, readable, and mathematically precise way. We demonstrate how rearrange, reduce, repeat, einsum, and pack/unpack let us reshape, aggregate, and combine tensors without relying on ...

In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his work. But he grew frustrated with the chatbot’s coding abilities and its gushing, meandering replies. ...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A first look at Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s new AI newsletter Are you interested in learning more about the ways in which AI is actually being used? ...

Text autocompletion and chat queries are no longer the only roles for AI agents. They now refactor repositories, generate documentation, review codebases, and run unattended workflows, creating new challenges in coordinating multiple agents without losing context, control, or code quality. Maestro, ...

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to federate fine-tuning of a large language model using LoRA without ever centralizing private text data. We simulate multiple organizations as virtual clients and show how each client adapts a shared base model locally while exchanging only lightweight LoRA ...