Local models are trained on tool calling these days, and they can be pretty good at it, too.

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Strava’s latest API and access changes add new subscription, compliance, and data-use questions for developers building apps on top of the fitness platform. Strava is locking down more of its data ...

AI companies have grown into data-hungry entities as their models require ever-larger datasets to train on. To meet that need, many AI startups defy long-standing internet conventions — like ...

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But some of those data owners, also known as content creators or IP holders, are now fighting back. They are doing this by using tools known as “tarpits.” Their aim? To poison the chatbot’s underlying ...

Huffman said LLMs "would not exist as we know them" without Reddit and called the platform's content "modern oil" for the modern internet. On new data licensing deals, he said the company is "open for ...

Spider is a Rust-based, AI-friendly web scraping and crawling cloud. Point it at a URL and get back clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, or links — at up to 100K pages per second — with ...

In order for a chatbot to become more intelligent, and thus more useful to the end-user, it needs to assimilate data continuously. This process is known as “training.” The problem is that many AI ...

Whether you’re cooking for vegetarians, flexitarians, or anyone burger-curious, these are the plant-based patties worth buying — just in time for summer. Andee Gosnell is a San Francisco born, ...

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Traditional software is predictable: Input A plus function B always equals output C. This determinism allows engineers to develop robust tests. On the other hand, generative AI is stochastic and ...