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Tinygrad, the 17,000-line Python deep learning framework behind comma.ai's openpilot self-driving system, represents all tensor operations as UOps (universal operations) and uses lazy evaluation, deferring computation un…
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis will become Chief Scientist of Alphabet and Chair of Google DeepMind, while Chief Scientist Jeff Dean is leaving Google to found a new A…
Meta Platforms Inc. detailed a multi-stage architecture for its ads ranking system that models the order and timing of user actions across billions of daily interactions, building on its 2024 sequence learning work. The …
A 2026 comparison of Amazon Redshift alternatives finds ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks each optimized for different workloads, with ClickHouse leading in real-time, high-concurrency analytics and Snowfla…
Muse released Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model, which features async background agents, a replay-exact runtime, and bundled skills for planning and execution. Muse Spark 1…
A developer tested major AI models including GPT-5.5, Gemini 2.0, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and DeepSeek R1 on a Nifty options trading prediction task, finding that DeepSeek R1 achieved the highest accuracy among LLMs at 61%, w…
Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to become chairman of the unit and chief scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over daily operations as senior vice president, reporting to Alphabe…
A SpaceX Falcon rocket's upper stage slammed into the moon on Wednesday as predicted, after drifting off course for a year, scientists reported. A telescope in Chile spotted the debris plume, and Boston University's Carl…
The Ultimate Python and Artificial Intelligence Bundle, featuring 9 courses on data pre-processing, visualization, artificial neural networks, and the Keras framework, is on sale for $40 through the Techdirt Deals Store,…
The U.S. electrical grid is operating at its limit due to rapid industrial growth, extreme weather, and surging electricity demand, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The largest power transmission utility in Te…
Naomi Bashkansky, a former OpenAI alignment researcher, resigned on July 23rd and joined Conduit as a founding researcher on July 24th to work on non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that aim to decode thoughts into te…
Xiaomi released the code and weights for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a 5 billion-parameter vision-language-action model, on August 5th under the Apache 2.0 license, making it available for robotics teams to inspect and adapt. The…
A Coldcard wallet exploit that drained at least 1,816 bitcoin (about $114 million) from more than 5,200 addresses since July 30 could boost demand for regulated bitcoin exposure, according to analysts at Cantor and FRNT …
A developer explains that neural networks process text by converting words into token IDs, which are then transformed through matrix multiplication and non-linear activation functions. The post details how layers stack t…
Prior Labs' TabPFN, a pre-trained Transformer for tabular data, enables zero-shot machine learning predictions without traditional training, feature engineering, or hyperparameter tuning, according to a hands-on implemen…
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to co-found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning research, with Google as a founding investor and Clo…
A developer has introduced speculative tool execution, a technique that borrows branch prediction from CPUs to hide tool-call latency in AI agents. By guessing the next tool call and running it in parallel with the model…
Mistral published Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an Apache-2.0 model that classifies text and images against natural-language safety policies instead of a fixed category list. Its July 28 research paper reports 84.9% average F1 on …
Discovery Loop, a new AI research company founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, announced its mission to automate scientific and engineering discovery using frontier AI models and large-scale…
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a key figure in the development of TensorFlow and other AI technologies, announced he is leaving Google to co-found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation aimed at automating…