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Researchers introduced SPADE (Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments), a self-play reinforcement learning framework in which a single large language model acts as both an Environment Designer and a Reaso…
Wayve, a developer of Embodied AI technology for autonomous driving, is hiring a Senior Data Scientist in Sunnyvale, CA, with a salary range of $209,700 to $266,800 plus equity. The role involves partnering with AI engin…
DeepSeek V4 Flash, a 284B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 256 routed experts and FP4 expert weights, was successfully deployed on eight AMD Radeon AI PRO R9600D GPUs (32 GB each, 256 GB total) using tensor parall…
Mem0, a startup building long-term memory for AI agents, is hiring a Research Engineer for Agent Memory in San Francisco with a salary of $175k–250k/yr. The role involves fine-tuning models for memory extraction, updates…
Instacart is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Digital Twin Platform team, offering a salary of $206k–218k/yr for remote work in Canada (ON, AB, BC, or NS). The role involves developing and deploying ML m…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B mixture-of-experts model, and NeMo Switchyard, an open-source routing library, on August 11 to cut AI agent costs by routing tasks to cheaper models. LangChain's benchmark on…
Microsoft's productivity research projects that by 2030, AI will automate 80% of routine administrative tasks, and technical project management is shifting from manual coordination to strategic, AI-augmented roles. The i…
NVIDIA's DGX Spark, powered by the GB10 superchip with 128 GB of unified LPDDR5X memory, achieves only 11.5 tokens per second running Qwen3.8-27B at Q4_K_XL quantization, limited by 273 GB/s memory bandwidth rather than …
San Diego biotech firm Craif raised $33 million in a series D funding round to advance development of its at-home urine test for early pancreatic cancer detection. The company's miSignal kit, already available in Japan a…
Liquid AI released DSpark draft model checkpoints for three LFM2.5 models, delivering up to 3.18x faster decoding on an H100 and up to 2.87x on an M4 Max MacBook Pro without changing model outputs. The drafters, roughly …
Gex.live has launched an MCP server that lets AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT access its dealer-positioning archive and drive its backtesting Lab. The server provides free tools for reading finished SPX se…
The ESP32-P4 now runs a full Neural Amp Modeler A2-Full capture natively in real time on the same chip that hosts USB audio and the pedal's touch interface, using an integer engine with a 16-bit path and a 24-bit wide pa…
AMD presented a lightweight attention-based indirect illumination model at SIGGRAPH 2026 that augments screen-space G-buffers with reflective shadow maps to capture off-screen light, improving indirect shadow quality. Th…
Meta Superintelligence Labs reported on August 20 that its Muse Spark 1.2 model scored 72.0 across 10 multimodal evaluations when given access to tools, up from 59.8 without them, a 12.2-point increase that surpasses the…
Nexla published a critique of context-layer benchmarks, arguing that pass rates on token counts and tool calls fail to distinguish correct answers from lucky guesses. The company's analysis of two MCP servers answering t…
A developer's attempt to fine-tune Mistral-7B-v0.1 on Google Colab's free tier failed due to out-of-memory errors and a 2-hour session limit, with the runtime disconnecting at step 200 and a MemoryError at step 800. The …
Hugging Face hosts over 500,000 open-source models and 100,000 datasets as of Q1 2025, making it the central hub for open-source model collaboration. Reddit's r/MachineLearning has over 3.2 million members and serves as …
Monte, a tool by runmonte.ai, mapped the failure boundary of a frozen Unitree Go1 locomotion policy by testing 6,400 combinations of floor friction and lateral push, revealing a broad, variable failure band rather than a…
Liquid AI released DSpark draft model checkpoints for its LFM2.5 family, claiming up to 3.18x throughput improvement on GPU and up to 2.87x on-device, with day-one support for llama.cpp and SGLang. The draft models, each…
In a YC Paper Club session focused on data, experts from Snorkel AI, Inception AI, and Anthropic discussed the evolving challenges of training data, benchmarks, and multilingual pre-training. Francois Chaubard of Y Combi…