China’s double pressure on European industry intensifies

European manufacturers face a two-pronged attack from China that has German industry associations warning of deindustrialization: on the one hand, artificially cheap Chinese goods are flooding Europe and, on the other, Beijing has demonstrated its willingness to abruptly cut off access to critical inputs such as rare earths and semiconductors. Alarm intensified in October when…

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The Counterintuitive Path to AI Adoption – O’Reilly

The following article originally appeared in Gradient flow and is republished here with the author’s permission. We are experiencing a peculiar moment in the development of AI. On the one hand, the demonstrations are spectacular: agents who reason and plan with apparent ease, models that compose original songs from a text messageand research tools that…

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Researchers isolate memorization from problem solving in AI neural networks

Math operations and closed-book data retrieval shared paths with memorization, dropping from 66 to 86 percent of performance after editing. The researchers found that arithmetic was particularly fragile. Even when the models generated identical chains of reasoning, they failed in the calculation step after low-curvature components were removed. Figure 3 from the article “From memorization…

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