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Astromech, a Dallas startup founded by Colossal Biosciences founders Ben Lamm and George Church, raised $20 million in a funding round led by biotech investor Bob Nelsen, with participation from Peak 6, NeoGenesis Capita…
An engineer explains how AI headshot generators work under the hood, detailing the use of LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) to fine-tune diffusion models on a user's selfies. The post highlights the overfitting problem that occ…
Merck and Moderna announced positive topline Phase 3 results for their personalized cancer treatment INTerpath-001, which uses AI to identify up to 34 neoantigens per patient and an mRNA vaccine to target them. The treat…
A developer proposes an opinionated approach to learning reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) by framing a familiar supervised learning problem, such as MNIST classification, as an RL problem and …
Robotics startup Generalist AI unveiled GEN-1.5, an AI model that teaches robots new tasks from a single demonstration, achieving an average success rate of 59 percent across ten tests like opening a jar or pulling money…
Researchers at Google developed PhotoScan, a deep learning method that estimates body composition from smartphone selfies, achieving a mean absolute error of 2.15% for total body fat percentage against DXA in a validatio…
Neon AI Gateway, powered by Databricks Foundation Model APIs, achieves fast open-weight model inference through optimizations like continuous batching, KV-cache paging, and prompt caching, which boosted per-replica input…
Vizuara AI Labs trained a miniature version of the Kimi K3 model from scratch, using 1.02 billion parameters with 145 million active, on 5 billion tokens, for a total cost of $252.35 on a single Nvidia H200 GPU. The proj…
A developer building a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline discovered an accidental prompt injection triggered by retrieved text from a book about large language models. The developer fixed a retrieval bug with…
California's Labor Commissioner opened an inquiry within 48 hours after an AI system fired a San Francisco cashier, and Assembly Bill 2930, which would require employers to disclose automated decision logic, allow human …
Kubeflow, the open source machine learning platform on Kubernetes, has graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), cementing its role as a mature standard for enterprise AI workloads. The project, which …
Samruk-Energy JSC is implementing an AI and machine learning-based project to digitalize power generation planning at renewable energy facilities in Kazakhstan, with launch planned for the end of 2026. The system, which …
Pine AI's 1.2B-parameter speech recognition model tops the τ³-Voice leaderboard with a score of 75, achieving significant gains on accented speech, medical dictation, and code-switching, but only marginal improvement on …
A new measurement study across four models finds that the default LoRA target_modules of q_proj and v_proj underperforms a data-driven placement for capability retention: on Llama-3-8B fine-tuning code to prose, HumanEva…
Quarkslab has released pcode_graph, a Python library for building semantic graphs from binary code, and demonstrated its use in training a neural network to detect function similarities across architectures and compilers…
Fetcherr, a company specializing in generative AI market models, is helping airlines like Virgin Atlantic optimize pricing and revenue management in real time. Dominic Kennedy, senior vice president of revenue management…
Unsloth released Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs, a quantization package that enables running the Qwen3.8-27B vision-reasoning model on 17GB of RAM, and it has been downloaded five million times in five days on Hugging Face. The compa…
MarkTechPost published a tutorial on August 20, 2026, detailing an end-to-end workflow for fine-tuning language models with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), including auditing the Anthropic HH-RLHF dataset for struc…
A developer argues that local retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) projects should start with retrieval, not infrastructure, using a small set of real documents and hybrid search to test the idea before scaling. The deve…
Fox's $22 billion agreement to acquire Roku highlights a surge in demand for streaming software from first-time free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) operators, as US viewers streamed 1.8 billion hours of FAST co…