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Researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child, according to a report from Science, which details efforts to model machine learning on human developmental processes. The approach aims to improve AI's ability to genera…
A new open-source Common Lisp library, docs-reference, provides a local RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) system for referencing URL documentation with local AI models. The library, available on GitHub, indexes docume…
BentoML's engineering team reports that most gains in image and video model performance since Stable Diffusion 3 come from data filtering, rebalancing, annotation, and synthetic data generation, not from architectural ch…
Physical Intelligence released S1, a robotic foundation model built for in-context learning that can execute unseen manipulation tasks from a single video prompt without fine-tuning, with horizons up to 10 minutes. The c…
A developer has created a Digital Twin Health Agent using LangGraph and the Oura Ring API to automate wellness decisions. The system reads recovery scores, reschedules workouts on Google Calendar, and can order supplemen…
GeoTessera 0.10.0 and 0.10.1 have been released, moving hosting to the Source Cooperative with CloudFlare edge caching for improved stability and lower latency. The release follows a year of adoption for TESSERA embeddin…
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), Amazon's crowdsourcing marketplace for microtasks and machine learning data annotation, will shut down on September 30, according to an announcement on its website. The platform, which has…
A developer measured a week of production inference traffic and found that routing requests by task difficulty cut cost per call roughly 48x, from $0.0052 to $0.00011. The analysis shows that using a frontier model for a…
Waymo, with more than 200 million miles driven fully autonomously, has identified ten fundamental truths for building AI, including the indispensability of multimodal sensors and the use of HD maps as a powerful prior. T…
ServiceNow, through its Moveworks subsidiary, is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Agent Eval Platform in Mountain View, California, to build the judgment layer that scores AI agent trajectories. The role …
Researchers at an undisclosed institution submitted a paper to arXiv on December 5, 2023, demonstrating that hypernetworks can generate interpretable neural networks whose underlying algorithms are not known in advance. …
Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled its MTIA 400 accelerator at the Hot Chips conference, designed for both LLM training and ad-serving inference, delivering 12 petaFLOPS of MXFP4 compute at 1.7 GHz, which is about 20 percent f…
The PyTorch Ecosystem Working Group welcomed 10 new projects to the PyTorch Ecosystem Landscape, including Perforated, AReaL, TorchJD, RLinf, Miles, SMG, FiftyOne, TokenSpeed, VisualTorch, and TorchSurv. Perforated, a da…
NVIDIA published a tutorial on training a cross-embodiment robot navigation policy using an agent-driven workflow based on its COMPASS framework, which reuses the pretrained NVIDIA X-Mobility policy and trains a residual…
On August 15, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI companies will earn trust by curing diseases, and the past week showcased advances in AI-driven medicine, including Moderna and Merck's INTerpath-001 trial, which e…
Researchers proposed FIBER, a thread-register decoupled GPU execution model that extends the SIMT architecture to improve tensor computation efficiency, achieving a 2.25x end-to-end speedup on Ampere, 1.8x on Hopper, and…
A developer built an in-memory explicit content filter for Node.js that classifies images without ever writing them to disk, achieving roughly 200ms latency. The solution uses multer's memoryStorage and the nsfwjs librar…
Northeastern University bioinformatics graduate student Megha Prasad used AI to analyze Eastern oyster genomics, identifying genes linked to climate adaptation and uncovering overlooked genetic changes. Her work at the C…
A new preprint analyzing 8 open Transformer models finds that internal representations show statistically significant structured progression across depth (p = 0.00019996, 8/8 leave-one-model-out checks) and a coherent cr…
Scale AI is hiring a Machine Learning Research Scientist for its evaluations pod within the GenAI Research Organization, offering a base salary of $180,600–$225,750 in San Francisco, New York, or Seattle. The role focuse…