Artificial Intelligence

Every week, I watch tutorials, save articles, bookmark tools, and collect ideas I want to come back to later. But a few days later, the problem shows up: I may remember the topic, but not the details. I know I saw something useful, but I cannot explain it clearly or apply it with confidence.

In this article, I would like to share my experience participating in the Agentic Legal RAG Challenge 2026 hackathon. Our team is called "Sparks of intelligence".
Original article in Russian: https://habr.com/ru/articles/1014520/

AI video generators in 2026 allow anyone to create high-quality videos from text prompts, images, or scripts in just minutes. 

This guide explains how the technology works, compares the leading tools on the market, and highlights their strengths, limitations, and best use cases to help you choose the right solution for your creative or business needs.

After the unexpected divorce between LeCun and Meta, there is a lot of talk that the dead-end in LLM progress will be overcome through the physics of the world. That is, having a neural network work with physical data from the surrounding environment will allow the model to acquire meaning and an understanding of its actions. LeCun has a foundational paper that nobody is going to read. So, I'll summarize it as best I can. Essentially, the idea is that the current trajectory of LLM development is doomed. As long as they are predicting the next token, real understanding — the emergence of real meaning — is impossible. LeCun proposes training neural networks on physical world data, assuming that building a model of it will allow the system to discard details and focus on meaning.

I agree with LeCun that using world data will partially solve the data scarcity problem. But here I see a problem that engineers might not understand. A physical model of the world is actually much poorer than human knowledge. Newton described the entire infinite number of possible falls with a few lines of formulas. I doubt LeCun wants to spend billions of dollars on this wonderful deduction.

Imagine having a personal AI agent running on your computer. It can read files, run commands, automate tasks, and remember your workflows. In this guide, you will learn how to run OpenClaw with Ollama locally and choose the best local LLM models.

LLMs fail at elementary math. Corporations spend billions, but ultimately are forced to attach calculators to computing machines of incredible power. All attempts to fix this via Chain-of-Thought, fine-tuning on arithmetic tasks, or context expansion have failed.

I conducted a series of experiments to understand why, and came to the conclusion that neural networks are simply not meant for discrete arithmetic. Their true purpose is continuous transformations.

This article describes the implementation of a novel neural network architecture that combines the precision of symbolic AI with the generalization capabilities of LLMs. As always, experiments and code are included.

Accessing Claude from Russia might seem like a daunting task due to the service's regional restrictions. In this article, I will explain in detail how to register for the web version and API of Claude, what tools are needed to bypass the restrictions, and how to use the service safely in the future. This guide is based on personal experience and includes registration methods that are current as of late 2024 and have been tested in practice.

After searching Russian-language resources, I realized that there is very little practically useful information, or it might not account for changes in the service's operation. Ordinary users have to gather information piece by piece - from various YouTube videos, forums, or superficial articles.

Therefore, I decided to create an up-to-date guide based on my personal experience and knowledge, taking into account all the pitfalls that an inexperienced Claude user might encounter.

DeepSeek is increasingly unavailable due to server overload. In this article, we will solve the problem in an original way – by installing Deepseek locally so that it works without any internet connection at all.

A quick guide on how to enable the new Google AI Mode and set it as the default search in Chrome. Now, queries from the address bar open directly in “AI Mode”.

Hi, I'm Dima and, like many, I've been using neural networks to create images for many years. But over the last year and a half, the market for generative models has changed so much and become so huge that it's impossible to try all the models. However, the question of which neural network is the best still remains. Benchmarks are poorly suited for a real assessment of creativity and cost, so I've gathered 10 models in one place, what they are best suited for, and what the price is (or rather, the free limit). I hope this helps you choose the most optimal neural network for your tasks.

Below is an honest rating based on quality, realism, convenience, and price.

In this article, we take a detailed look at Ollama — a tool for running large language models (LLMs) locally. You will learn how to install the program, choose a suitable model, understand formats and quantization, configure the system for your hardware, and work both via the CLI, and via the API. Practical tips, configuration examples, and VRAM recommendations will help you use Ollama as effectively as possible for dialogues, text generation, code, and other tasks.

In this article, we will not only install a local (and free) alternative to ChatGPT, but also review several open LLMs, delve into the advanced settings of LM Studio, connect the chatbot to Visual Studio Code, and teach it to assist us with programming. We will also look at how to fine-tune the model's behavior using system prompts.

I'll tell you about the ways you can install the Chinese model locally and use it without the internet. And do it in a way that you work not through the console, but through a user-friendly chatbot interface.

The most interesting finance and tech news from Russia and the world for the week: RKN blocked FaceTime, Snapchat, and Roblox, visa-free travel with China and Saudi Arabia, Russia was added to the EU's money laundering blacklist, home surveillance cameras were hacked in South Korea, Musk's Twitter was fined in Europe, and rumors of a 'garlic' model from OpenAI.

I'm sure many Habr readers are familiar with this method, as it's not new. To save you time, I'll just say two words: comss DNS.

Everyone else - welcome under the cut :-)

A collection for those who have tried using neural networks for their tasks but were disappointed: it's unclear how a chatbot can help with anything serious.

Many readers, especially those living in Russia, want to know the best way to use GPT chat. When I'm asked about this, I give a clear answer: if the volumes are not very large, it's better to use Telegram bots.

GPT chatbots on Telegram are analogous to applications that use GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) technology to dialogue with users. Here are the secrets to their popularity:

Now that Forbes Education is dispelling our fears that artificial intelligence will replace artists, and Gizmodo is exposing AI modelsfor simply copying training illustrations, we can relax and continue drawing cats riding dinosaurs. Which is what I'm going to do today!

I tested dozens of Telegram bots and chose the five best services for generating AI images. This will be useful for those who spend a lot of time in the messenger and want to create unique visual content right there.

In my previous Russian-language article on Machine Learning as Alchemy, I discussed the possibility of discovering novel solutions without relying on GPUs or expensive computing clusters. In this article, I will share my experiments with continual learning and the compositionality of thought using micro-neural networks, and explain what the philosopher Lev Vygotsky has to do with it all.