STEM News | Issue 23, 1-2-2025
Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector?
Published in Reuters — 28 Jan. 2025 — by Eduardo Baptista
How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
Published in MIT Technology Review — 24 Jan. 2025 — by Caiwei Chen
AI’s energy obsession just got a reality check
Published in MIT Technology Review — 28 Jan. 2025 — by James O'Donnell
How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who made it happen
Published in The Conversation — 8 Jan. 2025 — by Peter T. Kirstein
AI Agents — A Practical Implementation
Published in The Medium — 9 Jan. 2025 — by Open Data Science (ODSC)
Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way
Published in Quanta Magazine — 13 Jan. 2025 — by Ben Brubaker
Small language models: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025
Published in MIT Technology Review — 3 Jan. 2025 — by Will Douglas Heaven
Generative AI search: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025
Published in MIT Technology Review — 3 Jan. 2025 — by Scott J Mulligan
Published in The Conversation — 24 Dec. 2024 - by Michael Timothy Bennett, Elija Perrier
10 Breakthrough Technologies (2025)
Published in MIT Technology Review — 6 Jan. 2025 — by MIT Tech. Rev. (editorial)
What is an AI agent? A computer scientist explains the next wave of artificial intelligence tools
Published in The Conversation — 18 Dec. 2024 — by Brian O'Neill
Published in The Conversation — 11 Dec. 2024 — by Brody H. Foy
Language AIs in 2024: Size, guardrails and steps toward AI agents
Published in The Conversation — 20 Dec. 2024 — by John Licato
Will AI revolutionize drug development? Researchers explain why it depends on how it’s used
Published in The Conversation — 3 Jan. 2025 — by Duxin Sun, Christian Macedonia