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Perplexity AI’s Deep Research Tool Is Almost as Good as OpenAI’s, and It’s Free
After OpenAI, Perplexity AI is joining the “deep research” bandwagon. And it’s doing it in a fairly interesting way. Following in the footsteps of DeepSeek’s “reasoning” model, Perplexity is the first major AI provider that’s offering a Deep Research feature for free users, too. By comparison, OpenAI’s Deep Research feature is only available in the $200/month Pro subscription. Deep Research…
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Data Centres Can Cut Energy Use By Up To 30% With Just About 30 Lines of Code, Research Shows
Research has found that data centres can reduce their energy usage by up to 30% simply by altering around 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel’s network stack. Scientists from the University of Waterloo in Canada identified inefficiencies in the way servers process incoming network traffic. The breakthrough comes from interrupt request suspension, a technique that optimises CPU power…
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OpenAI launches deep research agent for multi-step research tasks – Computerworld
“I think what we are starting to see is a maturation of generative AI in the real world,” said Jason Andersen, vice president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategies. “Initially, generative AI was trying to get some degree of momentum with the common user with diverse needs and questions. As internet users, we expect everything to be fast…
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ChatGPT’s agent can now do deep research for you
OpenAI has revealed another new agentic feature for ChatGPT called deep research, which it says can operate autonomously to “plan and execute a multi-step trajectory to find the data it needs, backtracking and reacting to real-time information where necessary.” Instead of simply generating text, it shows a summary of its process in a sidebar, with citations and a summary showing…
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New research network launched to bolster UK’s cybersecurity
A new cyber security network led by Oxford University’s Department of Computer Science will open early next year, with £6 million in funding from the UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The aim of the Cyber Security Research and Networking Environment (CRANE) NetworkPlus is to improve cyber security in the UK and beyond, make the most of emerging…
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Microsoft’s AI research VP joins OpenAI amid fight for top AI talent – Computerworld
Earlier in the year, Jan Leike, another leading OpenAI researcher, also left to join Anthropic, publicly expressing concerns that OpenAI’s “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat.” This wave of exits has raised questions about the company’s internal dynamics as it navigates the highly competitive AI landscape. Despite these setbacks, OpenAI and its key collaborator, Microsoft, remain steadfast in…
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How I Use OneNote to Easily Organize My Research
OneNote is journal-creating software designed by Microsoft to be a space where you can jot down ideas, conduct research, and create a highly interactive canvas-style map of “pieces” that will help you organize all those pieces. Here’s how I use it with my research materials, and how you can too. I have used OneNote through the years both personally and…
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11 FREE Keyword Research Templates to Streamline SEO
Keyword research is the backbone of organic growth. While you can certainly create content for purposes other than ranking in search engines, it’s one of the best long-term ways to generate traffic to your website. Like other forms of marketing, ensuring your research is usable and organized is an ongoing challenge. And it only gets more difficult the more data…
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OpenAI was a research lab — now it’s just another tech company
Here’s the thing about asking investors for money: they want to see returns. OpenAI launched with a famously altruistic mission: to help humanity by developing artificial general intelligence. But along the way, it became one of the best-funded companies in Silicon Valley. Now, the tension between those two facts is coming to a head. Weeks after releasing a new model…
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UK, US, and Canadian defense agencies team up to drive cybersecurity research
The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is teaming up with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Canadian Department of National Defence to work together on cybersecurity. The idea is to jointly research, develop, test and evaluate technologies for AI, cyber, resilient systems, and information-related technologies in the defense sector, all based on real-world challenges. “Our international research…
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