Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: State Malware, State Hardware Bans, And Stuxnet Before Stuxnet Was Cool

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local ...
eLife

A spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of the mouse placenta reveals glycogen cell-mediated metabolic support essential for fetal viability

This valuable study reports a spatiotemporal atlas of mouse placental development and explores the role of glycogen trophoblast cells in fetal viability. Solid data are presented to support the main ...
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Microsoft expands Copilot’s agentic features across Office apps

Microsoft has rolled out enhanced "agentic" capabilities for Copilot across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, enabling it to take multi‑step actions directly within documents, spreadsheets, and ...
Slator

OpenAI Flexes Multilingual Muscles with New Image Generator Model

New ChatGPT Images 2.0 claims a step up in thinking capabilities, detailed instruction following, and improved rendering of ...