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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…
President Donald Trump's 'American Energy Dominance' plan, which supports biomass alongside fossil fuels, is benefiting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects, including the Montana Renewables facility in Great Falls, …
A new dissertation from an unnamed researcher introduces bio-inspired active vision systems that use foveal-peripheral sampling and learned saccades to improve efficiency and robustness in deep neural networks. The syste…
A dissertation from a researcher at an unnamed institution proposes modular parameter-efficient continual learning for Vision Transformers, organizing adaptation into small role-matched corrections rather than full-model…
A new dissertation from an unnamed researcher proposes methods for multi-agent reinforcement learning under information and experience constraints, introducing BAMS and BEPAL for belief-based coordination and EC-HFRL for…
Upstart Holdings Inc. facilitated $4.2 billion in loan originations in the second quarter, a 50% increase year over year, and reiterated its 2026 outlook of about $1.4 billion in revenue and $294 million in adjusted EBIT…
A developer building an entity-matching pipeline across multiple data sources is seeking community input on their dual T4 GPU setup, which uses embeddings for candidate generation and an LLM (Ollama Cloud) for verificati…
Knowledge distillation, a method where a smaller 'student' model is trained to mimic a larger 'teacher' model, can produce a student that matches or beats the teacher on specific tasks, according to an article explaining…