The term lasers is actually an acronym that stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The use of lasers has certainly grown since the technology arose in the 1960s, with lasers now commonly found in everything from consumer electronics like Blu-ray players and cat toys to military weapons. Lasers have different power capabilities, apertures,…
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Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon lead 10 major earnings reports next week, according to Opening Bell Daily’s week-ahead preview. Alphabet and Microsoft report on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, and Amazon follows on Thursday, October 29. For software engineers, the dates matter for a practical reason: each company sells a flagship AI coding product, and each will…
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This blog post is based on our recent work, “Can LLM Agents Discover? Evaluating Creativity on ML Engineering Tasks”, published at COLM 2026 and written with Yunxiang Zhang and Professor Lu Wang at the University of Michigan. Do check out the paper for a more detailed reading, while this blog post acts as a summarized…
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