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Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dictionary

This Modal blog post describes a performance optimization technique for multimodal AI inference that achieves over 10% improvement through a simple Python dictionary-based approach. The article likely

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Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to 26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise 3.5B by selling 28M shares at 115 to 125 apiece in its second attempt to go public (Reuters)

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Reuters: Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to 26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise 3.5B by selling 28M shares at 115 to 125 apiece in its second attempt to go public — Nvidia-rival Cerebras is seeking

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4 May 2026

Down payment on a EUV machine!

Dylan Patel likely announced or commented on a significant financial commitment or investment milestone related to an EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) lithography machine, which are critical semiconductor ma

Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for $1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)

Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for 1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI — Hillsboro-bas

Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs (Pieter Haeck/Politico)

Pieter Haeck / Politico: Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs — Critics argue

MiniVLA-Nav v1: A Multi-Scene Simulation Dataset for Language-Conditioned Robot Navigation

arXiv:2605.00397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present MiniVLA-Nav v1, a simulation dataset for Language-Conditioned Object Approach (LCOA) navigation: given a short natural-language instruction,

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Optimize Supply Chain Decision Systems Using NVIDIA cuOpt Agent Skills

NVIDIA cuOpt Agent Skills integrate LLM reasoning with GPU-accelerated solvers to enable AI agents to translate natural language supply chain problems into optimized mathematical models, with skills e

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The case against OpenAI is getting markedly stronger now that Musk is off the stand. Why? Musk’s lawyer is interrogating OpenAI founder Greg…

The case against OpenAI is getting markedly stronger now that Musk is off the stand. Why? Musk’s lawyer is interrogating OpenAI founder Greg Brockman, making clear that OpenAI sold its mission as a no

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Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg)

Abhishek Vishnoi / Bloomberg: Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI — The list

Are babies and relationships measured on the same time scale? After 18-24 months you start measuring in years.

This post draws a comparison between how parents measure their babies' development and relationship milestones, noting that both shift from month-based to year-based metrics around the 18-24 month mar

NVIDIA's New AI Turns One Photo Into A World That Never Breaks

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NVIDIA's Instant Splat is a breakthrough AI technique that synthesizes missing information from a few images to create immersive 3D models of virtual worlds. The method produces high-quality 3D models

People hate on SF men for group think, but every girl in SF has Tabi's now It's an epidemic

This post humorously critiques conformity in San Francisco by observing that while men in the tech scene are often stereotyped as groupthink followers, women in SF have similarly adopted Tabis (Japane

Model Releases

Qwen3.6 vs gpt-oss:120b on Apple Silicon — three Qwen variants benchmarked, plus what works and where it does not

This post benchmarks three Qwen3.6 model variants against gpt-oss:120b when running on Apple Silicon hardware, evaluating their performance characteristics and practical usability. It documents both t

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The number of jobs in the future is endless because the problems to solve are endless. Jobs multiply as we get more complex. No AI or human …

The number of jobs in the future is endless because the problems to solve are endless. Jobs multiply as we get more complex. No AI or human can solve all problems and all the work to do in the Univers

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Whenever I make a group chat green, I now get to proudly proclaim it as goblin mode

The post humorously references Apple's iMessage feature that displays group chats in green when they include non-iPhone users, joking that activating 'goblin mode' (a playful term for behaving mischie

CUDA V.13?

Ollama's MLX engine runs on NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA v13 on Windows and Linux. Users have reported that Ollama crashes on RTX 3060 with cuda_v13 in versions 0.13.0 through 0.15.6, while deleting the cuda_

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2 May 2026

Intel Inside the Micro Revolution: 8008 Origins

This article explores the origins and development of Intel's 8008 microprocessor, a pioneering chip that played a crucial role in the early microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. It likely examines th

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2 May 2026

Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 — As Anthropic's sales explode, straining the servers it uses,

2 May 2026

AI Value Capture - The Shift To Model Labs Vera Rubin VR NVL72: V for Value - Rubin delivers a step jump in performance per TCO. ROI accruin…

AI Value Capture - The Shift To Model Labs Vera Rubin VR NVL72: V for Value - Rubin delivers a step jump in performance per TCO. ROI accruing to users, Neoclouds, Hyperscalers, AI Labs, Memory Vendors

Benchmarking Deep Learning Models for Object Detection on Edge Computing Devices

arXiv:2409.16808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern applications, such as autonomous vehicles, require deploying deep learning algorithms on resource-constrained edge devices for real-time image

By popular request, YOLO-mode has landed on ml-intern https://smolagents-ml-intern.hf.space This enables the intern to execute long-running …

By popular request, YOLO-mode has landed on ml-intern https://smolagents-ml-intern.hf.space This enables the intern to execute long-running tasks like launching parallel ablations to determine the opt

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First Silicon Valley captured the US Government, and now it is capturing “independent” media.

First Silicon Valley captured the US Government, and now it is capturing “independent” media. 🟡 Semafor is launching a new initiative: Silicon Valley & The World, bringing together leaders building ar

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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

arXiv:2604.28156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a p

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GraphMend: Code Transformations for Fixing Graph Breaks in PyTorch 2

arXiv:2509.16248v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents GRAPHMEND, a high-level compiler technique that eliminates FX graph breaks in PyTorch 2 programs. Although PyTorch 2 intro

Marketing Architects Scales Real-Time CTV Advertising with Vultr Infrastructure

Discover how Marketing Architects scaled real-time CTV advertising with Vultr, doubling throughput, reducing latency by 50%, and cutting cloud costs by up to 50% with high-performance Kubernetes and c

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MARS: Efficient, Adaptive Co-Scheduling for Heterogeneous Agentic Systems

arXiv:2604.26963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as the execution core of autonomous agents rather than as standalone text generators. Agentic w

More money for worse work that you have to fix, good stuff this AI thing, thanks Nvidia.

Gary Marcus critiques AI systems (particularly Nvidia's offerings) for producing lower-quality outputs that require significant correction and refinement despite increased computational investment. Th

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Pentagon inks AI procurement deals with seven companies, leaves out Anthropic

The U.S. Defense Department today announced that it has inked artificial intelligence procurement contracts with seven tech firms. The group includes Amazon Web Service Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Cor

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Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according t

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Safety

Performance-Driven QUBO for Recommender Systems on Quantum Annealers

arXiv:2410.15272v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum annealers offer a promising hardware platform for solving combinatorial optimization problems, especially those formulated as Quadrati

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Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~12B in 2026, up 60% from 7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~12B in 2026, up 60% from 7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China — Chinese tech

Sources: the US DOD strikes agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and AWS to use their AI tools on classified military networks for 'lawful' use (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: the US DOD strikes agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and AWS to use their AI tools on classified military networks for “lawful” use — The Pentagon

Strait: Perceiving Priority and Interference in ML Inference Serving

arXiv:2604.28175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning (ML) inference serving systems host deep neural network (DNN) models and schedule incoming inference requests across deployed GPUs. How

ZipCCL: Efficient Lossless Data Compression of Communication Collectives for Accelerating LLM Training

arXiv:2604.27844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication has emerged as a critical bottleneck in the distributed training of large language models (LLMs). While numerous approaches have been pr

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10 years ago I took Justin's C++ 11 class at Google. He is a gifted teacher. Watch this talk where he explains the 500B AI build out from 1s…

10 years ago I took Justin's C++ 11 class at Google. He is a gifted teacher. Watch this talk where he explains the 500B AI build out from 1st principles. One gpu to world wide racks and why some of th

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A projection-based framework for gradient-free and parallel learning

arXiv:2506.05878v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a feasibility-seeking approach to neural network training. This mathematical optimization framework is distinct from conventional gradien

AdaFRUGAL: Adaptive Memory-Efficient Training with Dynamic Control

arXiv:2601.11568v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training Large Language Models (LLMs) is highly memory-intensive due to optimizer state overhead. The FRUGAL framework mitigates this with gra

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Automating GPU Kernel Translation with AI Agents: cuTile Python to cuTile.jl

The TileGym project developed an AI-driven skill-based workflow that encodes 17 critical translation rules, static validation scripts, and example kernels, enabling automated conversion of cuTile Pyth

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Build AI-Powered Games with NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, RTX, and Unreal Engine 5

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 introduces Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and a second-generation transformer model, improving game image quality and frame rates while maintaining responsiveness. A new TensorRT for R

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Edge AI for Automotive Vulnerable Road User Safety: Deployable Detection via Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2604.26857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying accurate object detection for Vulnerable Road User (VRU) safety on edge hardware requires balancing model capacity against computational const

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How Vultr Enables Agentic AI Experiences with AMD

Vultr partnered with AMD to provide infrastructure and computing capabilities that support autonomous AI agents and agentic AI applications. The content likely discusses how Vultr's cloud platform, en

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Intel shares jumped 114% in April, hitting a record on April 24 and lifting its market cap past $470B, closing out the chipmaker's best month on record (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Intel shares jumped 114% in April, hitting a record on April 24 and lifting its market cap past $470B, closing out the chipmaker's best month on record — Intel is on a winning st

It’s Gonna Be May: 16 Games Hit the Cloud This Month, With More NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Power

[Editor’s note] The blog has been updated to note that GeForce RTX 5080-power expansion also extends to the Install-to-Play library. It’s gonna be May — and the cloud’s in full festival mode. 16 games

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MesonGS++: Post-training Compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting with Hyperparameter Searching

arXiv:2604.26799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves high-quality novel view synthesis with real-time rendering, but its storage cost remains prohibitive for practical

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ml-intern is fully on mobile now you can launch 8 A100s from your phone. while on the couch. while commuting. wherever I just did this while…

ml-intern is fully on mobile now you can launch 8 A100s from your phone. while on the couch. while commuting. wherever I just did this while biking. same sessions as your desktop too — start a run on

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Nvidia’s NVentures backs $150M round for medical AI startup Aidoc

Aidoc Medical Ltd., a startup with an artificial intelligence platform that helps doctors diagnose patients faster, has secured 150 million in funding. Goldman Sachs led the Series C round. Aidoc stat

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Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply — Strong demand for AI computing

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it

It's been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there's no group

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