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Google’s Gemini App Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Active Users
Google announced that its Gemini app has reached 1 billion monthly active users, making it the company’s fastest-growing product and…
Opinions
Palantir’s Alex Karp Warns AI Could Become America’s Biggest Driver of Wealth Inequality
Palantir CEO Alex Karp warned that artificial intelligence could become the biggest driver of wealth inequality in America, describing a…
Opinions
AI in the Classroom Needs Locked-Screen Exams, Not Just Good Intentions
Eric Smith, a taxation professor at Weber State University, argues in an opinion piece that AI’s integration into education must…
Opinions
Does AI Pose an Existential Risk? Five Experts Weigh In
The Conversation asked five AI and ethics experts whether artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity, and three of…
Opinions
AI’s Impact on the Labor Market Remains Too Early to Call, Economist Argues
Economist Jed Kolko of the Peterson Institute for International Economics argues that research into AI’s effect on labor markets remains…
Opinions
AI Companions May Deepen Loneliness for Vulnerable Users, Stanford Study Finds
A Stanford University study published in Nature Human Behaviour found that AI companion chatbots may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users.…
Engineering
Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf, an Agent-First Browser That Runs Inside Workers
Cloudflare introduced Kitesurf, a browser engine built from scratch in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly to run entirely inside Cloudflare…
Engineering
How Cloudflare Built Its Internal AI Engineering Stack on Its Own Platform
Cloudflare detailed the internal AI engineering infrastructure it built for its own workforce of 3,683 employees, using its own products…
Engineering
Circuit Tracing for the Rest of Us: From Probes to Attribution Graphs
Engineer Subhadip Mitra lays out a hierarchical framework for understanding AI model internals, moving from behavioral output analysis through attention…
Engineering
Meta Introduces Muse Glimmer, a 30B-Parameter On-Device Agentic Model
Meta introduced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open agentic model trained through a three-phase pipeline: pre-training via logit distillation from the…
Engineering
FP8 Training on AMD GPUs with TorchTitan and TorchAO: Upstreaming Performance Improvements
PyTorch engineers and AMD collaborators upstreamed FP8 training optimizations for AMD Instinct GPUs into TorchAO and TorchTitan, building on techniques…
Engineering
Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence
Researchers introduced Mechanist, an agentic system designed to autonomously discover the mechanisms underlying AI intelligence by combining an interpretability-focused knowledge…