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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the ...
The Verge

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...
PC World

LinkedIn is using your data to train its AI models. Here’s how to opt out

Microsoft-owned social networking site LinkedIn will soon start using the data of its users to train its AI models, reports Windows Latest. The platform has sent out emails to users about the change, ...
Search Engine Land

Schema and AI Overviews: Does structured data improve visibility?

A controlled test compared three nearly identical pages: one with strong schema, one with poor schema, and one with none. Only the page with well-implemented schema appeared in an AI Overview and ...
IEEE

TSTFL-CGAN: Fuzzy Logic-Based Two-Stage Training Federated Learning Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Under Non-IID Data

Abstract: With the proliferation of Internet of Things devices, federated Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have become an effective tool for handling data deficiencies in distributed ...
University of California

Pioneering a way to remove private data from AI models

A team of computer scientists at UC Riverside has developed a method to erase private and copyrighted data from artificial intelligence models—without needing access to the original training data.
Wall Street Journal

Global Markets Mostly Higher; U.S. ADP Jobs, Non-Farm Payrolls Data Eyed

U.S. futures and global markets were mostly higher following volatile sessions over the start of the month following a global bond selloff, and after the latest jobs report which raises hopes for a ...
GitHub

LogicOCR: Do Your Large Multimodal Models Excel at Logical Reasoning on Text-Rich Images?

We introduce LogicOCR, a benchmark comprising 1,100 multiple-choice questions designed to evaluate the logical reasoning abilities of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) on text-rich images, while ...
Ars Technica

LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a “chain of thought” process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the ...
Wired

A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control

A new kind of large language model, developed by researchers at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), makes it possible to control how training data is used even after a model has been built.
Microsoft

New methods boost reasoning in small and large language models

Artificial intelligence is advancing across a wide range of fields, with one of the most important developments being its growing capacity for reasoning. This capability could help AI becomes a ...