· 24 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures
Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."
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· 24 days ago· Towards Data Science
KV Cache Is Eating Your VRAM. Here’s How Google Fixed It With TurboQuant.
Explore the end-to-end pipeline of TurboQuant, a novel KV cache quantization framework. This overview breaks down how multi-stage compression achieves near-lossless storage through PolarQuant and QJL residuals, enabling massive context windows with minimal memory overhead The post KV Cache Is Eating
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch AI
OpenAI’s existential questions
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they address "two big existential problems" for the company.
· 24 days ago· Towards Data Science
Proxy-Pointer RAG: Structure Meets Scale at 100% Accuracy with Smarter Retrieval
Open source. 5-minute setup. Vector RAG done right—try it yourself. The post Proxy-Pointer RAG: Structure Meets Scale at 100% Accuracy with Smarter Retrieval appeared first on Towards Data Science.
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch AI
CEO and CFO suddenly depart AI nuclear power upstart Fermi
The startup, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has faced headwinds with its AI campus in Texas.
· 24 days ago· Towards Data Science
From Risk to Asset: Designing a Practical Data Strategy That Actually Works
How to turn data into a strategic asset that enables faster decisions, reduces uncertainty, and helps the organization move toward its goals. The post From Risk to Asset: Designing a Practical Data Strategy That Actually Works appeared first on Towards Data Science.
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch AI
NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos, despite Pentagon feud
NSA is said to be using Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model.
· 24 days ago· MIT Technology Review
Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back
Tech workers in China are being instructed by their bosses to train AI agents to replace them—and it’s prompting a wave of soul-searching among otherwise enthusiastic early adopters. Earlier this month a GitHub project called Colleague Skill, which claimed workers could use it to “distill” their col
· 24 days ago· Towards Data Science
Context Payload Optimization for ICL-Based Tabular Foundation Models
Conceptual overview and practical guidance The post Context Payload Optimization for ICL-Based Tabular Foundation Models appeared first on Towards Data Science.
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch AI
It’s not just one thing — it’s another thing
This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guarantee.
· 24 days ago· MIT Technology Review
Colossal Biosciences said it cloned red wolves. Is it for real?
If you want to capture something wolflike, it’s best to embark before dawn. So on a morning this January, with the eastern horizon still pink-hued, I drove with two young scientists into a blanket of fog. Forty miles to the west, the industrial sprawl of Houston spawned a golden glow. Tanner Broussa
· 24 days ago· Towards Data Science
What Does the p-value Even Mean?
And what does it tell us? The post What Does the p-value Even Mean? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in 7 new countries
Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The company is rolling this feature out to both desktop and iOS in all of these countries except Japan.
· 24 days ago· MIT Technology Review
The Download: murderous ‘mirror’ bacteria, and Chinese workers fighting AI doubles
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all In February 2019, a group of scientists proposed a high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting idea tha
· 24 days ago· Towards Data Science
Your RAG Gets Confidently Wrong as Memory Grows – I Built the Memory Layer That Stops It
As memory grows in RAG systems, accuracy quietly drops while confidence rises — creating a failure that most monitoring systems never detect. This article walks through a reproducible experiment showing why this happens and how a simple memory architecture fix restores reliability. The post Your RAG
· 24 days ago· MIT Technology Review
Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past
In the past, even with an icebreaker and during peak melt season, getting to the North Pole wasn’t a sure bet. It took favorable winds to crack the frozen ocean surface, and ships had to fight through ice that had grown many meters thick over several winters. In the summer of 2025, though, Jochen Kn
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.
· 24 days ago· Towards Data Science
I Replaced GPT-4 with a Local SLM and My CI/CD Pipeline Stopped Failing
The hidden cost of probabilistic outputs in systems that demand reliability The post I Replaced GPT-4 with a Local SLM and My CI/CD Pipeline Stopped Failing appeared first on Towards Data Science.
· 24 days ago· MIT Technology Review
The Download: turning down human noise, and LA’s stunning subway upgrade
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? As human society has expanded, animals have started struggling to hear one another. For many birds,
· 24 days ago· TechCrunch AI
GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists
AI music startup GRAI says fans want to remix tracks, not generate songs from scratch.