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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Table of contents Introduction What Is a Proxy Server? Technical Architecture: Key Functions (2025): Types of Proxy Servers Descriptions: Key Use Cases in 2025 Emerging Trends in Proxy Servers (2025) Top Proxy Server Providers in 2025 Provider Notes: Choosing a Provider: Conclusion Introduction A proxy server is a vital intermediary between clients and destination servers, facilitating both security and speed in the modern internet. In 2025, with digital privacy, enterprise security, and data-driven automation to the forefront, proxy servers are indispensable for individuals and organizations. The global web proxy market is projected to reach $50 billion by 2026, propelled by ongoing privacy and compliance demands. What Is a Proxy Server? A proxy server is a dedicated system or software relay that takes requests from a client (e.g., a browser) and forwards them to a target server. The proxy then collects the server’s ...

NVIDIA has unveiled a major milestone in scalable machine learning: XGBoost 3.0, now able to train gradient-boosted decision tree (GBDT) models from gigabytes up to 1 terabyte (TB) on a single GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip. The breakthrough enables companies to process immense datasets for applications like fraud detection, credit risk modeling, and algorithmic trading, simplifying the once-complex process of scaling machine learning ML pipelines. Breaking Terabyte Barriers At the heart of this advancement is the new External-Memory Quantile DMatrix in XGBoost 3.0. Traditionally, GPU training was limited by the available GPU memory, capping achievable dataset size or forcing teams to adapt complex multi-node frameworks. The new release leverages the Grace Hopper Superchip’s coherent memory architecture and ultrafast 900GB/s NVLink-C2C bandwidth. This enables direct streaming of pre-binned, compressed data from host RAM into the GPU, overcoming bottlenecks and memory constraints th...

Reinforcement learning (RL) plays a crucial role in scaling language models, enabling them to solve complex tasks such as competition-level mathematics and programming through deeper reasoning. However, achieving stable and reliable training dynamics is a challenge when scaling RL with larger computational resources. Current state-of-the-art algorithms, such as GRPO, struggle with serious stability issues during the training of gigantic language models, often resulting in catastrophic failures. These instabilities arise from incorrect use of importance sampling weight applications, which introduce high-variance noise. This noise accumulates with longer responses and is worsened by clipping mechanisms. This causes model collapse and hinders progress. Existing methods like PPO and GRPO rely on mechanisms like clipping to address off-policy learning challenges where responses are taken from outdated policies. However, these approaches face limitations due to their ill-posed objectives, p...

Google DeepMind has announced Genie 3, a revolutionary AI system capable of generating interactive, physically consistent virtual worlds from simple text prompts. This marks a substantial leap in the field of world models—a class of AI designed to understand and simulate environments, not merely render them, but produce dynamic spaces you can move through and interact with like a game engine in real-time. Technical Overview World Model Fundamentals: A world model, in this context, refers to a deep neural network trained to generate and simulate visually rich, interactive virtual environments. Genie 3 leverages advances in generative modeling and large-scale multimodal AI to produce entire worlds at 720p resolution and 24 frames per second that are truly navigable and reactive to user input. Natural Language Prompting: With Genie 3, users provide a plain English description (such as “a beach at sunset, with interactive sandcastles”) and the model synthesizes an environment fitting...

Spoken Dialogue Models (SDMs) are at the frontier of conversational AI, enabling seamless spoken interactions between humans and machines. Yet, as SDMs become integral to digital assistants, smart devices, and customer service bots, evaluating their true ability to handle the real-world intricacies of human dialogue remains a significant challenge. A new research paper from China introduced C3 benchmark directly addresses this gap, providing a comprehensive, bilingual evaluation suite for SDMs—emphasizing the unique difficulties inherent in spoken conversations. The Unexplored Complexity of Spoken Dialogue While text-based Large Language Models (LLMs) have benefited from extensive benchmarking, spoken dialogues present a distinct set of challenges: Phonological Ambiguity: Variations in intonation, stress, pauses, and homophones can entirely alter meaning, especially across languages with tonal elements such as Chinese. Semantic Ambiguity: Words and sentences with multiple meanin...

OpenAI has just sent seismic waves through the AI world: for the first time since GPT-2 hit the scene in 2019, the company is releasing not one, but TWO open-weight language models. Meet gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b —models that anyone can download, inspect, fine-tune, and run on their own hardware. This launch doesn’t just shift the AI landscape; it detonates a new era of transparency, customization, and raw computational power for researchers, developers, and enthusiasts everywhere. Why Is This Release a Big Deal? OpenAI has long cultivated a reputation for both jaw-dropping model capabilities and a fortress-like approach to proprietary tech. That changed on August 5, 2025. These new models are distributed under the permissive Apache 2.0 license , making them open for commercial and experimental use. The difference? Instead of hiding behind cloud APIs, anyone can now put OpenAI-grade models under their microscope—or put them directly to work on problems at the edge, in enterprise...

LLMs are deployed through conversational interfaces that present helpful, harmless, and honest assistant personas. However, they fail to maintain consistent personality traits throughout the training and deployment phases. LLMs show dramatic and unpredictable persona shifts when exposed to different prompting strategies or contextual inputs. The training process can also cause unintended personality shifts, as seen when modifications to RLHF unintentionally create overly sycophantic behaviors in GPT-4o, leading to validation of harmful content and reinforcement of negative emotions. This highlights weaknesses in current LLM deployment practices and emphasizes the urgent need for reliable tools to detect and prevent harmful persona shifts. Related works like linear probing techniques extract interpretable directions for behaviors like entity recognition, sycophancy, and refusal patterns by creating contrastive sample pairs and computing activation differences. However, these methods st...