Month: June 2025

Meeting summarization and action item extraction with Amazon Nova

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Meetings play a crucial role in decision-making, project coordination, and collaboration, and remote meetings are common across many organizations. However, capturing and structuring key takeaways from these conversations is often inefficient and inconsistent. Manually summarizing meetings or extracting action items requires significant effort and is prone to omissions or misinterpretations. Large language models (LLMs) offer … Read more

NFC is getting a range boost

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Tap-to-pay wont actually require a tap soon thanks to extended NFC range capabilities. | Image: Leonie Asendorpf/picture alliance via Getty Images The next version of the Near Field Communication (NFC) standard aims to make it easier to make payments, pair devices, and unlock doors using your phone or smartwatch. The most notable improvement is a … Read more

Building a custom text-to-SQL agent using Amazon Bedrock and Converse API

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Developing robust text-to-SQL capabilities is a critical challenge in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and database management. The complexity of NLP and database management increases in this field, particularly while dealing with complex queries and database structures. In this post, we introduce a straightforward but powerful solution with accompanying code to text-to-SQL using … Read more

Accelerate threat modeling with generative AI

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In this post, we explore how generative AI can revolutionize threat modeling practices by automating vulnerability identification, generating comprehensive attack scenarios, and providing contextual mitigation strategies. Unlike previous automation attempts that struggled with the creative and contextual aspects of threat analysis, generative AI overcomes these limitations through its ability to understand complex system relationships, reason … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Addicted to Your AI? New Research Warns of Social Reward Hacking (6/18/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 18, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Rolls-Royce Was Trademark Registered in 1935, F-117 Nighthawk Made Its First Stealth Flight in 1981, Kazakhstan Launched Its First Satellite in 2006, NASA Launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter … Read more

Bitcoin DeFi Project Elastos Debuts BTC-Backed Stablecoin BTCD

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A Bitcoin-blockchain based decentralized finance (DeFi) project debuted a stablecoin fully backed by bitcoin BTC tokens as part of its effort to build a financial system centered on the largest and oldest cryptocurrency. Elastos, developer of the BeL2 protocol, unveiled its bitcoin dollar (BTCD) on Wednesday. The project aims to create a digital version of … Read more

Google tests real-time AI voice chats in Search

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Tapping the sparkle button beneath the search bar will open Search Live. Google is building Search Live into AI Mode, allowing you to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with the company’s AI chatbot right from its search engine. The test, which is rolling out now to Labs users in the US, currently doesn’t support camera-sharing, … Read more

Related Work: Scaling Laws and Hopfield Models in LLM Research

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Model and 3.1 Associative memories 3.2 Transformer blocks 4 A New Energy Function 4.1 The layered structure 5 Cross-Entropy Loss 6 Empirical Results and 6.1 Empirical evaluation of the radius 6.2 Training GPT-2 6.3 Training Vanilla Transformers 7 Conclusion and Acknowledgments Appendix A. Deferred … Read more

How the Next Wave of RWAs is Becoming Crypto’s Real Edge

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In the search for stable, scalable yield on-chain, real world assets (RWAs) have become a cornerstone of digital asset strategies. Tokenized treasuries and private credit brought off-chain yield on-chain, delivering much-needed stability and quickly emerging as one of the strongest-performing segments in crypto. Top crypto categories by market cap https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories#key-stats However, much of this early … Read more

Researchers Push Vision-Language Models to Grapple with Metaphors, Idioms, and Sarcasm

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:::info Authors: (1) Arkadiy Saakyan, Columbia University (a.saakyan@cs.columbia.edu); (2) Shreyas Kulkarni, Columbia University; (3) Tuhin Chakrabarty, Columbia University; (4) Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University. ::: :::tip Editor’s note: this is part 6 of 6 of a study looking at how well large AI models handle figurative language. Read the rest below. ::: Table of Links Abstract … Read more

AI Still Can’t Explain a Joke—or a Metaphor—Like a Human Can

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:::info Authors: (1) Arkadiy Saakyan, Columbia University (a.saakyan@cs.columbia.edu); (2) Shreyas Kulkarni, Columbia University; (3) Tuhin Chakrabarty, Columbia University; (4) Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University. ::: :::tip Editor’s note: this is part 5 of 6 of a study looking at how well large AI models handle figurative language. Read the rest below. ::: Table of Links Abstract … Read more

Can AI Explain a Joke? Not Quite — But It’s Learning Fast

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:::info Authors: (1) Arkadiy Saakyan, Columbia University (a.saakyan@cs.columbia.edu); (2) Shreyas Kulkarni, Columbia University; (3) Tuhin Chakrabarty, Columbia University; (4) Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University. ::: :::tip Editor’s note: this is part 4 of 6 of a study looking at how well large AI models handle figurative language. Read the rest below. ::: Table of Links Abstract … Read more

Researchers Combine GPT-4 and Human Experts to Train AI on Visual Figurative Reasoning

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:::info Authors: (1) Arkadiy Saakyan, Columbia University (a.saakyan@cs.columbia.edu); (2) Shreyas Kulkarni, Columbia University; (3) Tuhin Chakrabarty, Columbia University; (4) Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University. ::: :::tip Editor’s note: this is part 3 of 6 of a study looking at how well large AI models handle figurative language. Read the rest below. ::: Table of Links Abstract … Read more

New Dataset Challenges AI to Explain the Humor and Sarcasm It ‘Sees’ and ‘Reads’

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:::info Authors: (1) Arkadiy Saakyan, Columbia University (a.saakyan@cs.columbia.edu); (2) Shreyas Kulkarni, Columbia University; (3) Tuhin Chakrabarty, Columbia University; (4) Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University. ::: :::tip Editor’s note: this is part 2 of 6 of a study looking at how well large AI models handle figurative language. Read the rest below. ::: Table of Links Abstract … Read more

Can AI Understand a Joke? New Dataset Tests Bots on Metaphors, Sarcasm, and Humor

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:::info Authors: (1) Arkadiy Saakyan, Columbia University (a.saakyan@cs.columbia.edu); (2) Shreyas Kulkarni, Columbia University; (3) Tuhin Chakrabarty, Columbia University; (4) Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University. ::: :::tip Editor’s note: this is part 1 of 6 of a study looking at how well large AI models handle figurative language. Read the rest below. ::: Table of Links Abstract … Read more

Why CoinDesk’s Top 50 Women in AI and Web3 List Points to a Unified Future

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CoinDesk’s inaugural Top 50 Women in Web3 & AI list, launched in June 2025, celebrates innovators who are reshaping technology and finance. But the real story isn’t about women succeeding in isolation — it’s about how their achievements demonstrate the power of unified innovation across gender lines. It’s terrific to see these women being recognized … Read more

AVAX Stages Short-Term V-Shaped Recovery, Struggles to Maintain Momentum

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Avalanche AVAX struggled to maintain short-term momentum, with trading patterns showing a descending channel formation despite attempts to stabilize around key support levels, according to CoinDesk Research technical analysis model. The token has fallen 1.4% in the last 24 hours to $18.43 while the CoinDesk 20 — an index of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by … Read more