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Wayve, a developer of Embodied AI technology founded in 2017, is hiring a Roboticist for its Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team in Sunnyvale, with a salary of $184k–240k/yr. The role involves building and oper…
Saskatchewan mining company Max Power is using proprietary AI software called Maxx Lemi to expand and commercialize Canada's first natural hydrogen well at the Lawson Natural Hydrogen Complex, after raising nearly $50 mi…
Giles Thomas, a developer, tested the Chinchilla scaling rule by comparing overtrained GPT-2 style models (trained on 40 tokens per parameter) against a model scaled up in parameters and tokens equally. The Chinchilla he…
Microsoft Elevate Training Center has enabled two young Indonesians, Muhammad Yusuf Fadhel Marwiji from Makassar and Emejleano Rusmin Nggepo from Tangerang Regency, to build digital careers through AI and cloud technolog…
A 2026 study by Daeyoung Roh and Donghee Han of 12,000 paired agent trajectories across HotpotQA, 2WikiMultiHopQA, and MuSiQue found that agentic RAG failures often stem from procedural errors: on MuSiQue, 617 of 1,000 t…
AMD's RDNA 4m integrated graphics have been merged into the Mesa 26.3 open-source driver stack under the GFX1171 GPU target, marking its official support in the open-source ecosystem. The RDNA 4m, which sits between RDNA…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of Autonomous Embedding Generation and AI.SEARCH in BigQuery, along with the public preview of Hybrid Search, to simplify unstructured data analysis. AI.SEARCH now delivers…
Anthropic is recruiting a custom-silicon team for Claude, with a Silicon Engineer listing updated August 4, 2026 and a chip-design reinforcement-learning role updated August 3, offering US base salaries of $320,000–$485,…
Roboflow published a tutorial for building an AI video car damage inspector that uses an RF-DETR model, ByteTrack tracking, and Gemini to generate digitally signed PDF reports. The system timestamps video fingerprints be…
A Stanford- and Arc Institute-led team reported in Science on August 6 that genome language models generated complete bacteriophage genomes, 16 of which proved viable in laboratory tests. The researchers synthesized and …
Perforated AI released a perforated version of ResNet-18 on Hugging Face that matches ResNet-34's performance while maintaining ResNet-18's smaller size and compute efficiency, using dendritic optimization technology. Th…
A study by French economists, including Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion, found that a predictive machine-learning model for aeration control in French wastewater treatment plants reduced electricity consumption by 5.4%, c…
Teams running Spot-heavy Kubernetes configurations save 77% on compute on average, compared to 59% for mixed fleets, according to the 2025 Cast AI Kubernetes Cost Benchmark. AWS gives a 2-minute interruption notice, whil…
JetBrains Academy's July digest announces new learning resources, including a Gen AI Engineer Bootcamp by Ardit Sulce for building AI applications and agents, a pandas course with portfolio projects, and free access to K…
In a benchmark of 27 trials with a frozen coding task, the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell appliance in the ASUS Ascent GX10 served an 80B coding model 1.71 times faster per token than the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 in the HP…
Vector quantization and product quantization offer an alternative to scaling-based neural network quantization, achieving high compression ratios by mapping high-dimensional vectors to a finite codebook. For example, wit…
Microsoft has open sourced code-testing-generator, a polyglot unit-test agent in the MIT-licensed dotnet/skills repository that reads a repository to detect language, test framework, conventions, and build/test commands …
Researchers at Apple trained a 1.7B-parameter categorical flow model on 2.1T tokens and self-distilled it into a Categorical Flow Map (CFM) that generates text in as few as 4 inference steps while maintaining near-data-l…
UC Berkeley, ICSI, and LBNL researchers introduced ARBITRAGE, a step-level speculative decoding framework that uses a lightweight router to dynamically choose between draft and target model steps, reducing inference late…
NOAA is moving its weather forecasting operations from traditional supercomputers to Google Cloud, a transition expected to cut forecast generation time from hours to seconds and be completed by December 2027. Google Dee…