Shane Shoemaker began his career as an editorial writer for ClutchPoints, covering college football, the NFL and MLB. His love for sports took off at age 5, when his dad began taking him all over the country to watch the Atlanta Braves and later, the Miami Hurricanes football team — fueling his passion for experiencing… Read More »
These diffusion models maintain performance faster than or comparable to similarly sized conventional models. LLaDA’s researchers report their 8 billion parameter model performs similarly to LLaMA3 8B across various benchmarks, with competitive results on tasks like MMLU, ARC, and GSM8K. However, Mercury claims dramatic speed improvements. Their Mercury Coder Mini scores 88.0 percent on HumanEval… Read More »
The Baltimore Ravens must bolster the wide receiver room this offseason, as the team lacked consistent and reliable options in the position group in 2024 outside of Zay Flowers. Baltimore could look to address the pressing need in April’s draft, but Bleacher Report’s Gary Davenport predicts the Ravens will sign Chicago Bears wide receiver Keenan Allen.… Read More »
The Pittsburgh Steelers are casting a wide net when it comes to their search for a new quarterback. The most likely scenario has the team bringing back Russell Wilson or Justin Fields, or signing another veteran quarterback. But the Steelers should also have their eye on the future at the position, which is why the… Read More »
Under-desk sensors, in particular, have received high-profile backlash, perhaps because they are such an obvious piece of surveillance hardware rather than simply software designed to record work done on company machines. In the fall of 2022, students at Northeastern University hacked and removed under-desk sensors produced by EnOcean, offering “presence detection” and “people counting,” that… Read More »
The 2025 PGA Tour heads to the Sunshine State, for the first of its Florida Swing events, the Cognizant Classic, beginning Thursday. World No. 18 Shane Lowry is one of the favorites, given his record at the course — he has finished in the top five on his last three visits here — and form… Read More »
For the first time in six years, the United States failed to win the SheBelieves Cup on home soil as Japan take the 2025 crown with a deserved 2-1 victory in San Diego on Wednesday night. Thanks to goal difference, the United States needed to win the match to secure the trophy, but goals by… Read More »
The researchers observed this “emergent misalignment” phenomenon most prominently in GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct models, though it appeared across multiple model families. The paper, “Emergent Misalignment: Narrow fine-tuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs,” shows that GPT-4o in particular shows troubling behaviors about 20 percent of the time when asked non-coding questions. What makes the experiment notable… Read More »
Former Iowa State cyclones star Brock Purdy just completed his third NFL season, and while it wasn’t exactly his best year, the San Francisco 49ers seem inclined to give him a new contract. Purdy becomes eligible for an extension this offseason and could ultimately reset the market for quarterbacks, and 49ers general manager John Lynch… Read More »
With a comfortable 11-point lead atop the Premier League table and their competitors failing to capitalize on recent mistakes, Liverpool host top-four contenders Newcastle United at Anfield on Wednesday hoping to maintain their domestic cruise control. The Reds have lost just once in the league this season, back in mid-September, but six draws since the start… Read More »