Research
Google Research Introduces ME-POIs: A Mobility-Informed Framework that Adds “How a Place Is Used” to Text-Based POI Embeddings
framework that folds aggregate human movement into text-based place embeddings. Language models describe what a place is; they miss how it is used. ME-POIs encodes each visit as a…
The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents
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. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know …
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human l…
Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power
The five largest GPU neoclouds now run on very different models. CoreWeave and Nebius report to the SEC; Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs; Groq rebuilt itself…
Scientific Data Analysis with LabPlot in Python: Signal Processing, Spectral Peak Fitting, Visualization, and Batch Automation
In this tutorial, we explore a LabPlot-inspired scientific data analysis workflow in Python while preserving the structure and terminology of LabPlot’s aspect tree, analysis kerne…
Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet: A Kimi K3 Base Post-Trained with Fireworks for Long-Horizon Legal Agent Work
Harvey's first post-trained model nearly doubles LAB task completion, but only one benchmark number survives independent verification today The post Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet…
Meet FreeToken: An Edge-Native MoE Serving Engine that Runs 753B GLM-5.2 on a Single Workstation GPU
FreeToken splits MoE cache misses between PCIe fills and CPU execution using measured bandwidths, unlocking frontier models locally The post Meet FreeToken: An Edge-Native MoE Ser…
Building an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with deepDoctection
Build an end-to-end document intelligence pipeline with deepDoctection. This tutorial covers configuring layout analysis, DocTR OCR, and table extraction, while demonstrating how …
Vercel Introduces ‘Is Agentic’, a Free Agent-Readiness Scoring Tool That Audits Public Websites Using Ora’s 100+ Checks
Vercel and Ora launched Is Agentic, a free audit scoring website readiness for AI agents across 118 checks. The post Vercel Introduces ‘Is Agentic’, a Free Agent-Readiness Scoring…
The Developer’s Guide to NeMo Guardrails for Enterprise AI Safety
In this tutorial, we explore how to design production-grade safety for LLM-based applications using the NeMo Guardrails framework. We move beyond simple prompt filtering to implem…
Decoding AI’s Open-Source Course Maps Three Ways to Run an Agent Loop and the Provider Economics Behind Each
Most teams treat ‘which model’ as the important decision. The harness engineering literature keeps pointing somewhere else. In LangChain’s Terminal-Bench experiment, changing only…
Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power
The five largest GPU neoclouds now run on very different models. CoreWeave and Nebius report to the SEC; Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs; Groq rebuilt itself…
Building Agentic Document Intelligence Pipelines: Creating Scientific Figures with AutoFigure
This tutorial explores AutoFigure, a practical toolkit for generating professional scientific figures directly from text descriptions and research papers. We walk through setting …
Anthropic Brings Claude Mythos 5 to Claude Security: Enterprise Teams Get Frontier Vulnerability Scanning Without Direct Model Access
Anthropic has moved its most cyber-capable model into a product security teams can switch on themselves. Claude Security scans now run on Claude Mythos 5, in public beta for Claud…
The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
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. This company’s plans to deploy space mirr…
Mother tongue
“Daddy?” Theo curled against my side in bed. “Where do words go when they die?” I’d orchestrated the bedtime routine flawlessly: bath (taken), teeth (brushed), potty (tinkled), bo…
This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than intended, according to a new study. Late…
When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the mol…
Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text
S1-mini is a 462 MB open-weights normalizer that sits after ASR, removing fillers and resolving self-corrections locally. The post Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights…
Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era
PDFs are easy to read and hard to change. AI can now summarize a 90-page contract in seconds, but it still won't rewrite the source file cleanly. UPDF is built for that second hal…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Models That Deliver Up to 3.18x Faster Decoding Without Changing Model Outputs
Three ~300M drafters bring speculative decoding to LFM2.5, delivering up to 3.18x faster decoding with identical greedy output. The post Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Mod…
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Promine…
The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush
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. Support networks aim to help kids through…
The next big thing in hydrogen could be underground
There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet. Hydrogen can be used as a fuel in everythin…