cowboy space raises $275m to build rockets for orbital data centers
cowboy space corporation raised $275 million to develop its own rockets for launching data centers into orbit, aiming to bypass a shortage of launch capacity.
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gm cuts it staff to hire ai builders
general motors laid off 600 it workers to replace them with hires skilled in ai-native development, data engineering, and model building.
aikernel selection as model selection for two-sample tests
a new method treats kernel choice in mmd tests as a model selection problem, using a complexity penalty to avoid overfitting and scale to deep kernels.
aiai writing is breaking my brain
jason koebler describes the zombie internet where ai-generated content blends with human writing, making it exhausting to filter and distorting communication.
aismarter json alternative for llm pipelines
toon reduces token waste in llm prompts by compacting repeated json structure into a tabular format.
aiaws foundation model building blocks
aws infrastructure for foundation model training and inference integrates accelerated compute, high-bandwidth networking, and distributed storage with open-source orchestration and ml frameworks.
aibuild vector search from scratch in python
a step-by-step guide to creating a vector search engine using only numpy, covering embeddings, normalization, cosine similarity, and visualization.
aiai guides chemists to design molecules with plain language
a new ai system called synthegy lets chemists describe synthesis goals in everyday language, then scores and explains the best reaction pathways.
aiin-kernel broadcast optimization for recsys inference
meta's ikbo eliminates redundant user embedding replication in recommendation models by fusing broadcast logic directly into gpu kernels, cutting latency by up to two-thirds.
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hugging face fights benchmark gaming, reasoning models show more bias with longer thinking, and google deepmind's alphaevolve scales algorithm design across fields.
aimore thinking, more bias: length-driven position bias in reasoning models
a study finds that longer chain-of-thought reasoning in ai models correlates with increased position bias in multiple-choice questions, challenging the assumption that more thinking reduces shallow biases.
ai newsadding benchmaxxer repellant to the open asr leaderboard
hugging face adds private speech datasets to its asr leaderboard to reduce benchmark gaming and provide a more realistic view of model performance across accents and speaking styles.
ai newsvllm v0 to v1: correctness before corrections in rl
migrating from vllm v0 to v1 for online reinforcement learning required fixing logprob semantics, runtime defaults, weight updates, and fp32 head precision to match training dynamics.
ai newslkv trims llm memory with learned cache budgets
a new method learns optimal key-value cache compression directly from task objectives, improving long-context llm efficiency without heuristic rules.
ai newsratequant tunes kv cache precision for llms
a new method allocates different bit-widths to attention heads in kv cache quantization, avoiding distortion model mismatch to improve large language model serving efficiency.
ai newsemo: pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity
emo is a mixture-of-experts model trained so that experts self-organize into task-specific groups, allowing strong performance with only a small subset of experts.
ai newsalphaevolve brings gemini into algorithm design
google deepmind's alphaevolve, a gemini-powered coding agent, is now optimizing algorithms across genomics, grid optimization, quantum physics, and commercial applications, showing broad real-world impact.
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