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Inflect-Micro-v2, a complete local text-to-waveform speech synthesis model with under 10M parameters, has been released, offering fixed-voice English TTS with deterministic seeds, long-text handling, and CPU or CUDA infe…
Artificial intelligence now powers over 80% of digital advertising decisions, with the AI-driven ad tech market projected to reach $370 billion by 2028 and 40% of ad creative AI-assisted. The systems use collaborative fi…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2 and Gemini Robotics ER 2, a suite of models that decouple physical control from reasoning for general-purpose robots. The architecture splits tasks across three specialized mo…
A new paper from researchers evaluating frontier large language models on tabular prediction finds that LLM accuracy declines as input dimensionality grows, while classical baselines remain stable or improve. The study, …
Cursor Research has open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), a deterministic mixture-of-experts training megakernel that reports up to 2.37x higher throughput than the strongest public baseline and powers Composer training…
EdotEnv (YC S26), founded by Rui and Michael, launched self-improving reinforcement learning environments derived from quant trading workflows to train LLMs in research skills. The environments evaluate models on out-of-…
Cursor Research released Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), a CUDA kernel that fuses mixture-of-experts computation and communication, delivering a 41% training throughput increase on Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems. The kernel, now o…
Microsoft Research on August 4th spotlighted PRISM2, a multimodal pathology model developed by Paige and Microsoft researchers, trained on 2,350,518 whole-slide images from 685,507 specimens and about 200,000 patients. T…
Visa Inc. agreed to acquire BioCatch, an Israeli fraud-prevention firm that uses artificial intelligence to detect fraud, for $2.4 billion in cash from Permira and other shareholders, with the deal expected to close in t…
Mistral AI released Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter open-weights multimodal moderation model that outputs toxicity and safety scores across multiple axes, trained on ~600K human-judged examples covering harassment, hate spee…
Lyft is hiring a Data Scientist for its Safety and Customer Care team in Toronto, Canada, to apply causal inference and machine learning to optimize AI-powered support interactions, which handle over 1.7 million monthly …
Sierra, an AI customer experience company, launched Context Engine, a product that powers long-running Horizon agents to turn customer relationships into competitive advantage by learning which context matters for decisi…
Cursor, the AI coding company, open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK) on August 4th, a GPU kernel that it claims increased end-to-end training throughput for its Composer models by 41% against its previous production stac…
May Mobility, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based autonomous vehicle company, is hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer for Localization with a salary of $235k–285k/yr for a remote position in the USA. The role involves archit…
Torc Robotics, a Daimler subsidiary, is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Scene Generation team, offering a salary of $250k–300k per year for a remote position based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The role involv…
DiffusionGemma, a text diffusion model, achieves a 2.2× step-speedup and 31-point GPU compute efficiency gain over autoregressive decoding, according to a performance review by an ML engineer. The comparison shows diffus…
A systematic study of 60 language model benchmarks found that nearly half exhibit saturation, with rates increasing with age, and that resilience to saturation is impacted by expert-curation, not by public test data. The…
A production-focused playbook from the WildOctopus team outlines when to use transfer learning, full fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, continued pretraining, and knowledge distillation for large language models, recommending LoR…
Flyte 2, the durable AI runtime from the Linux Foundation, is now generally available, offering a ground-up rebuild that is faster, more scalable, and supports durable distributed AI workflows using regular Python. The n…
Cursor, the AI coding company, open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), a deterministic MoE training megakernel for NVL72s that fuses communication and computation into a single kernel, achieving a 1.41x increase in end-to…