Over the weekend, Andrej Karpathy—the influential former Tesla AI lead and co-founder and former member of OpenAI who coined the term "vibe coding"— posted on X about his new open source project, autoresearch . It wasn't a finished model or a massive corporate product: it was by his own admission a simple, 630-line script made available on Github under a permissive, enterprise-friendly MIT License...
Over the weekend, Andrej Karpathy—the influential former Tesla AI lead and co-founder and former member of OpenAI who coined the term "vibe coding"— posted on X about his new open source project, autoresearch . It wasn't a finished model or a massive corporate product: it was by his own admission a simple, 630-line script made available on Github under a permissive, enterprise-friendly MIT License. But the ambition was massive: automating the scientific method with AI agents while us humans sleep. "The goal is to engineer your agents to make the fastest research progress indefinitely and without any of your own involvement," he stated on X. The system functions as an autonomous optimization loop. An AI agent is given a training script and a fixed compute budget (typically 5 minutes on a GPU). It reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results. If the validation loss—measured in bits per byte ( val_bpb )—improves, it keeps the change; if not, it reverts and tries again. In one overnight run, Karpathy’s agent completed 126 experiments , driving loss down from 0.9979 to 0.9697. Today, Karpathy reported that after leaving the agent to tune a "depth=12" model for two days, it successfully processed approximately 700 autonomous changes. The agent found roughly 20 additive improvements that transferred perfectly to larger models. Stacking these changes dropped the "Time to GPT-2" metric on the leaderboard from 2.02 hours to 1.80 hours—an 11% efficiency gain on a project Karpathy believed was already well-tuned. "Seeing the agent do this entire workflow end-to-end and all by itself... is wild," Karpathy remarked, noting that the agent caught oversights in attention scaling and regularization that he had missed manually over two decades of work. This is more than just a productivity hack; it is a fundamental shift in how intelligence is...
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, March 10 (Reuters) - Apple's proposed changes to its app tracking rules do not resolve antitrust issues in the mobile advertising market, associations representing German publishers and advertisers said on Tuesday as they urged the country's antitrust authority to slap a fine on the U.S. tech giant. The call by the groups which included media agencies and the German As...
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, March 10 (Reuters) - Apple's proposed changes to its app tracking rules do not resolve antitrust issues in the mobile advertising market, associations representing German publishers and advertisers said on Tuesday as they urged the country's antitrust authority to slap a fine on the U.S. tech giant. The call by the groups which included media agencies and the German Association of the Branded Goods Industry came three months after the German antitrust authority sought their feedback to Apple's changes to its App Tracking Transparency tool. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the statement. The Cupertino, California-based company has said the tool, which allows users to block advertisers from tracking them across different applications, is designed to allow users to control their privacy. However, it triggered criticism from Facebook-owner Meta Platforms, publishers, advertisers and app developers whose business models rely on advertising tracking, prompting the German competition enforcer to charge Apple with abusing its market power in February last year. To address the German concerns, Apple last December proposed to introduce neutral consent prompts for both its services and third-party apps and to align the wording, content and visual design of these messages. It also offered to simplify the consent process so developers can obtain user permission for advertising-related data processing in a way that complies with data protection law. The associations said the proposed changes do not fix the issues outlined by the German watchdog. "The proposed commitments would not change the negative effects of the App Tracking Transparency Framework," Bernd Nauen, chief executive of the German Advertising Federation, said in a joint letter signed by the trade bodies. "Apple would remain the data gatekeeper and would continue to decide who gets access to advertising-relevant data and how companies can communi...
In this article XOM COP CVX USO Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A currency dealer monitors exchange rates in front of a big screen showing South Korea's benchmark stock index (C) and the Korean won/USD exchange rate (R) in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on April 9, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea's Kospi opened more than 5...
In this article XOM COP CVX USO Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A currency dealer monitors exchange rates in front of a big screen showing South Korea's benchmark stock index (C) and the Korean won/USD exchange rate (R) in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on April 9, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea's Kospi opened more than 5% higher Tuesday, leading a rebound in the region, after oil prices fell and Wall Street bounced back as U.S. President Donald Trump signaled the conflict with Iran could be nearing its end. The small-cap Kosdaq added over 4%. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 1.35% in early trade. Japan's Nikkei 225 jumped 1.66%, while the Topix gained 1.3%. Hong Kong Hang Seng index futures were at 25,370, compared with the index's last close of 25,408.46. Stock Chart Icon Stock chart icon Oil prices fell after Trump said he was considering seizing control of the Strait of Hormuz, the most important chokepoint in world for the crude market. Trump also told a CBS News reporter , who shared the comments in a post on X , that "the war is very complete, pretty much." U.S. crude oil was down 6.49% at $88.66 per barrel at 7.28 p.m. ET Monday. The decline came after oil surged past $100 . "With 20% of world oil supply stopped, we have the largest interruption ever," said Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, in reference to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The biggest disruption before the current war was during the Suez Crisis of 1956 when Britain, France and Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the energy consulting firm told clients in a Sunday note . At that time, roughly 10% of global oil supply was disrupted. Overnight in U.S. stocks advanced. The S&P 500 rose 0.83% to close at 6,795.99, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 239.25 points, or 0.5%, and ended at 47,740.80. The blue-chip index is coming off its biggest weekly slide in nearly a year. The Nasdaq Composite ju...
Security Fears Suddenly Emerge Over Trump's Visit To China President Donald Trump’s forthcoming high-stakes visit to China will be restricted to Beijing alone due to both a demanding schedule and heightened security concerns, according to a report in the South China Morning Post . “Unfortunately, his schedule is very tight. There is no room to squeeze in a visit to a second city ,” one source told...
Security Fears Suddenly Emerge Over Trump's Visit To China President Donald Trump’s forthcoming high-stakes visit to China will be restricted to Beijing alone due to both a demanding schedule and heightened security concerns, according to a report in the South China Morning Post . “Unfortunately, his schedule is very tight. There is no room to squeeze in a visit to a second city ,” one source told the SCMP . “ While the schedule is tight, security is also a top concern, ” another source told the newspaper . “Adding a second destination will likely compromise security and create a logistical nightmare, so both sides agreed that the visit will be in Beijing only. There is a chance for Trump to visit Shenzhen during Apec [in November], so why hurry?” “Given the situation [in the Middle East], the visit’s security arrangements must be extremely careful but we are very confident that the summit will be a success,” another source told the newspaper . The White House has confirmed that Trump will travel to China from March 31 to April 2, marking the president's first visit to the country since 2017. Recent U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran, which resulted in the death of the regime's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, have had only a “very limited” effect on preparations for the summit, according to SCMP's sources. The visit will come as the U.S. and China seek to preserve a fragile trade truce . The pause in escalation stems from a meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 2025 APEC summit in Busan, South Korea. After months of rising tariffs, restrictions on rare-earth exports, and agricultural boycotts, the two leaders agreed to a one-year truce that eased pressures on the global economy’s two largest players . "There seems to be a really strong appetite to maintain that fragile trade truce that we saw struck in late 2025," Nick Marro, global trade lead at the Economist Intelligence Unit, told SCMP . " I think, at best, we could see th...
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Jarvis said: "Cornwall for example, is a very busy area with the volume of call-outs, but we also have other areas of the country where maybe we don't get many call-outs, but we also have very, very few volunteers.
"It's about the momentum as you get into that last leg and you see how the tea leaves are falling," Ritman says. "He was obviously a frontrunner for a very long time, and then when the all the different award ceremonies start happening back-to-back, you get a lay of the land."
"It's about the momentum as you get into that last leg and you see how the tea leaves are falling," Ritman says. "He was obviously a frontrunner for a very long time, and then when the all the different award ceremonies start happening back-to-back, you get a lay of the land."
Japanese stocks bounced back as a fall in oil prices eased some concerns around the Middle East conflict. Still, investors remained on alert as Donald Trump said the war will not end this week. In early trade, the Nikkei advanced as much as 3% while the broader Topix Index rose 2.3%. The climb comes after oil prices tumbled following Trump’s comments that the Iran conflict was nearly over. Prices ...
Japanese stocks bounced back as a fall in oil prices eased some concerns around the Middle East conflict. Still, investors remained on alert as Donald Trump said the war will not end this week. In early trade, the Nikkei advanced as much as 3% while the broader Topix Index rose 2.3%. The climb comes after oil prices tumbled following Trump’s comments that the Iran conflict was nearly over. Prices had spiked to nearly $120 a barrel on Monday, contributing to the Nikkei’s sharpest decline since April. Japan gets around 90% of its oil from the Middle East so is vulnerable to supply disruptions. Fear surrounding the Iran crisis seems to be retreating after oil’s decline and Trump’s comments, said Hideyuki Ishiguro , chief strategist at Nomura Asset Management. “Even during yesterday’s sharp drop, there was a fair amount of bargain hunting at the bottom and investors’ buying appetite still appeared strong,” he said. Purchases may support stocks in the morning but the upside could be limited, he said. However, with oil prices still elevated above $80 per barrel and no clear resolution to the Iran conflict in sight, the market will remain cautious, he added. Worries about credit risk also continue to weigh on financial stocks, “so it is premature to call for a general bullish outlook,” Ishiguro said.