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Visa Inc. has agreed to acquire Israeli fraud detection company BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, a deal announced on Monday and reported by Anadolu Agency on Tuesday, August 4. BioCatch uses AI and machine learning to …
University of Queensland-led researchers reported a multimodal deep-learning model that reconstructed full static plantar-pressure maps from foot geometry and sparse pressure readings. In tests using data from 35 healthy…
A developer has implemented CoMem, a technique from a recent paper that reduces the memory footprint of long-context LLM inference by caching intermediate layer states instead of full KV caches. The approach exploits the…
A developer from Workstyle Tech shared tips for running background ML inference services on macOS, highlighting pitfalls such as missing GNU coreutils commands and locale-related errors. The post recommends using nohup a…
FFmpeg 9.0, the latest feature release of the open-source multimedia library, is now available with more Vulkan acceleration, including APV video decoding and Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan acceleration, plus animated WebP deco…
A developer at Workstyle encountered stalled downloads of large model files from Hugging Face using huggingface_hub, and devised a workaround using curl's stagnation detection and automatic resumption. The solution also …
Elastic N.V. announced the general availability of Elastic 9.5, the latest version of the Elasticsearch Platform, introducing Columnar Mode as a technical preview, VectorDB index mode with auto-calibration for vector sea…
AstraZeneca is hiring a Lead Consultant - Snowflake and Cortex AI Engineer in Bangalore, India, to build production-grade data and AI platforms for its US rare disease portfolio. The role involves defining Snowflake-nati…
AMD introduced VSA (Video Sparse Attention), a hardware-efficient sparse attention mechanism implemented with CK Tile, achieving a 3.31× attention kernel-time speedup at 70% sparsity over FlashAttention on AMD Instinct M…
State Street is hiring an AI Enablement/Orchestration Engineer - Senior Associate in Bangalore, India, to design and operationalize AI/ML solutions for anomaly detection in high-volume payment flows, using generative AI,…
A developer at an unnamed company migrated a 10,000-line Java codebase for a competitive coding game platform to Rust using AI tools, and documented techniques for ensuring confidence in AI-generated test code, including…
Comcast is hiring an Engineer 5 - Machine Learning at its Comcast India Engineering Center in Chennai, India, for an on-site role posted today. The position involves leading advanced machine learning initiatives, designi…
In 60 coding-agent runs across three inference routes, patch footprint—the number of files a change touches—was the strongest predictor of success, beating every model-side variable measured. Local DeepSeek V4 Flash quan…
Unsloth, an open-source AI startup, released Unsloth Studio (Beta), a platform that lets users run and train text, audio, embedding, and vision models locally on Windows, Linux, and macOS, with support for 500+ models, u…
Cloudflare published an engineering post detailing how it quantizes models on Workers AI, including Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 with FP8 KV cache and Z.ai's GLM 5.2 with INT4 weights, achieving up to 41% higher throughput and 3…
A developer building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in Python for Node.js apps outlines cost-control strategies for semantic search, emphasizing token estimation, chunking, and idempotent retries. The devel…
Researchers have developed a compiler-grounded hierarchical optimization framework for Triton kernels that achieves a geometric-mean speedup of 4.35× and a median speedup of 2.73× across 37 benchmark entries on Ascend NP…
A developer's guide demonstrates how to build deterministic multi-agent workflows using LangGraph, an orchestration framework that models agent interactions as graph-based state machines. The approach replaces unpredicta…
A developer has published a dependency-ordered glossary of large language model terminology, designed to be read sequentially so each concept builds on previously explained ones. The glossary covers tokens, embeddings, a…
Baseten, an AI infrastructure company, has raised a $13 billion Series F round, becoming one of the new AI infrastructure decacorns. In a recent episode of the Latent Space podcast, Baseten's Philip Kiely and Ali Taha di…