Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.
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Fusion power startup Zap Energy pulls a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix
Surprise! Fusion startup Zap Energy says it will be developing fission reactors alongside its fusion devices.
Top 10 KV Cache Compression Techniques for LLM Inference: Reducing Memory Overhead Across Eviction, Quantization, and Low-Rank Methods
As large language models scale to longer context windows and serve more concurrent users, the key-value (KV) cache has emerged as a primary memory bottleneck in production inference systems. For…
Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise
The AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has raised $100 million, led by Sequoia, months after raising a previous $100 million.
Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.
Qwen Team Releases FlashQLA: a High-Performance Linear Attention Kernel Library That Achieves Up to 3× Speedup on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs
The race to make large language models faster and cheaper to run has largely been fought at two levels: the model architecture and the hardware. But there is a third,…
Forecasting accuracy improves 5.9% at North Carolina Education Lottery
Every lottery ticket printed is a forecast – and when that forecast is wrong, the consequences are immediate. “If the ticket’s there, you buy it. If the display is empty,…
Step by Step Guide to Build a Complete PII Detection and Redaction Pipeline with OpenAI Privacy Filter
In this tutorial, we build a complete, production-style pipeline for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information using the OpenAI Privacy Filter. We begin by setting up the environment and loading…
Google Photos uses AI to make the iconic closet from ‘Clueless’ a reality
Google recreates Cher’s closet from “Clueless” with AI.
More Gemini features are coming to Google TV
Google TV just got more Gemini features, including the ability to transform photos and videos with tools Nano Banana and Veo.