Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while ...

How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute

The technique, called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards with Self-Distillation (RLSD), combines the reliable ...
Security Boulevard

Tropic Trooper Pivots to AdaptixC2 and Custom Beacon Listener

IntroductionOn March 12, 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a malicious ZIP archive containing military-themed document lures targeting Chinese-speaking individuals. Our analysis of this sample ...
Psychology Today

Navigating the Impacts of AI-Driven Social Media Algorithms

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most ...
The New York Times

NHL agent poll: Best and worst-run teams, biggest contract, future commissioner

Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; Photos: Dave Sandford / NHLI via Getty Images, Cameron Bartlett, Chris Gardner / Getty Images At The Athletic, we enjoy getting outside opinions. Whether it is our ...
Harvard Business Review

Competing in the Age of AI

How machine intelligence changes the rules of business by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani In 2019, just five years after the Ant Financial Services Group was launched, the number of consumers using ...
Hydrocarbon Processing

Innovations in hydrotreating: Process improvements for better hydrogen utilization

Hydrotreating is an essential refining process that removes sulfur, nitrogen and metal contaminants while saturating hydrocarbons to meet fuel quality standards. However, traditional fixed-bed ...