Overdrive

FMCSA pins 'CDL mills' problem on self-certification: Are owner-ops to blame?

Owner-operators pushed to allow CDL trainers to self-certify their compliance with federal regs. Now FMCSA seeks to stop that ...
Overdrive

FMCSA Administrator Barrs to make radical changes to driver training, ELDs, med cards

Derek Barrs, the leader of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, on Thursday announced plans to radically change something at the core of big problem areas for trucking in 2025: ...
Self

Does Calisthenics 'Count' As Strength Training?

Calisthenics may sound like a fancy form of fitness, but it’s really as basic as it gets. The term refers to exercises that you do using just your bodyweight, meaning you don’t need any additional ...
CCJ

DOT removes 3,000 CDL training providers from registry

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Monday announced the removal of nearly 3,000 commercial driver’s license (CDL) training providers from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s ...
Business Insider

5 people explain how they broke into AI training and how much they make in their side hustle

AI training jobs offer flexible — and sometimes lucrative — side hustles. Major companies like Meta and OpenAI use data labelers to improve their chatbots' performance. Five people share why they like ...
InfoWorld

Meta’s SPICE framework pushes AI toward self-learning without human supervision

The new reinforcement learning system lets large language models challenge and improve themselves using real-world data instead of curated training sets. Meta researchers have unveiled a new ...
IEEE

A Robust Semi-Supervised Broad Learning System Guided by Ensemble-Based Self-Training

Abstract: Broad learning system (BLS) with semi-supervised learning relieves label dependence and expands application. Despite some efforts and progress, the semi-supervised BLS still needs ...
VentureBeat

Self-improving language models are becoming reality with MIT's updated SEAL technique

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are gaining renewed attention for developing and open sourcing a technique that allows large language models (LLMs) — like those ...
InfoWorld

How self-learning AI agents will reshape operational workflows

Google’s recent whitepaper, “Welcome to the Era of Experience,” signals a shift in the way AI agents are trained. Google’s paper hypothesizes that allowing AI agents to learn from the experience of ...
The Economist

The economics of self-driving taxis

AUTONOMOUS TAXIS are taking over San Francisco. Waymo, which launched only in 2023, may now have over a fifth of the city’s ride-share market. Wherever you look, one of the company’s white Jaguars ...
Popular Mechanics

A New Brain-on-a-Chip May Usher in the Beginning of the Singularity

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Memristors, or “memory resistors,” ...