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A developer released Microcrad, a reimplementation of Andrej Karpathy's Micrograd automatic differentiation engine in C, designed for educational purposes to demonstrate backpropagation on scalars. The library uses refer…
Nvidia demonstrated an agentic robotics system called ENPIRE that taught fleets of robots to perform dexterous tasks, including handing a GPU to another arm and positioning it over a motherboard. The system, which uses 8…
A developer built an evaluation pipeline for LLM-based RAG systems that runs on every deploy to detect drift and hallucinations. The pipeline uses RAGAS with LLM-as-judge to measure faithfulness and answer relevance on p…
A senior developer working locally in Central and Eastern Europe earns €2,800–€5,000 per month in 2026, while the same developer working remotely for a US or UK company earns €5,000–€10,000. Romania's tech market is spli…
A developer published a practical guide for benchmarking large language models on coding tasks in 2026, using the OpenAI Eval suite to compare models like Claude-Opus-2026, Gemini-Flash-Pro, and Mistral-7B-Instruct acros…
Databricks announced five new additions to its Free Edition, including Genie Code, serverless GPUs, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, and Lakeflow Designer, giving users a complete toolkit for building end-to-end data and AI proje…
Databricks announced expansions to Genie Code at Data + AI Summit 2026, introducing a full-page command center, upgrades for production data and ML engineering, and scheduled tasks. The updates aim to help data and ML te…
BareMetal OS now runs inside Firecracker microVMs with a cold start time under 1 millisecond, achieving ~700µs with network and disk enabled on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395. The project enables near-instant-on, hardware-isol…
A developer is building BetLogic, an AI-powered football intelligence platform that provides match previews, risk-aware predictions, and automated content. The platform includes an AI Bet Slip Check tool that analyzes ri…
A new empirical study comparing Python, C, C++, Rust, Go, and Julia for AI algorithms found that C and C++ are the fastest, with Rust trailing by 9%, while Python runs 315x slower. Memory usage varied widely, with Julia …
German translation startup DeepL acquired Mixhalo, a real-time audio platform for live events, to enhance its voice translation capabilities and expand into the live event space. Mixhalo, founded by Incubus guitarist Mik…
Researchers released IndexCache, a patch for SGLang and vLLM that accelerates sparse attention in DeepSeek-V3.2 and GLM-5 models by reusing index computations across layers, achieving up to 1.82× prefill and 1.48× decode…
A mathematician created 11 AI models to predict the World Cup winner, with Spain, Argentina, France, and the Netherlands each being chosen by at least one model, but none picked England. Averaged across models, Spain has…
MEV has published a comparison of healthcare data management service providers, emphasizing the need for engineering discipline in data mappings, lineage, and audit logs before AI models can be deployed. The article prov…
Stanford University researchers have developed an AI tool to analyze millions of hours of police body-camera footage, starting with a study of nearly 1,800 NYPD stops that revealed officers often failed to properly seek …
Researchers introduced Next-Latent Prediction (NextLat), a training method that extends next-token prediction with self-supervised latent state predictions, enabling transformers to learn compact world models with improv…
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology developed an AI charging algorithm that, in simulation, extended lithium-ion battery life by 23% compared to standard methods, though it has only been tested on a single s…
Aditya Kumarakrishnan, a technical fellow at Walmart Global Tech, presented at a conference on building AI agents, arguing that the industry is in an 'amnesia phase' and repeating mistakes from past cycles. He outlined f…
Neuroscientists in Italy discovered that autobiographical memories are organized in the brain by temporal distance, with the right hippocampus encoding event identity and temporal distance, while frontopolar and retrospl…
A developer built an AI-native trading engine for Bybit futures, evolving from a simple Bollinger Bands scanner to a system with machine learning scoring, backtesting, partial take-profit, and a Telegram bot. After five …