Meryem Arik's guide cuts straight to a question most teams avoid: how do you make AI inference genuinely cheap when the workload is massive but patience is on your side?

The bell curve's ubiquity can feel like magic, but it's pure mathematics.

OpenAI's $7 billion employee tender offer signals real confidence from within, even as the company navigates a demanding stretch.

A Claude agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss up a class waitlist.

You have probably heard by now: Claude Code burns through usage limits.

The courts have now rejected appeals from Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google, clearing the way for thousands of addiction lawsuits to move forward.

AWS is embedding its Continuum security platform directly into OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code, betting that controlling the security layer matters more than owning the model.

Jeff Bezos is reportedly closing in on his first sports team stake: Liverpool Football Club.

Rippling is counter-suing Runlayer, a tiny startup it claims overstepped.

A single dashboard switch is all it takes for any website to expose a WebMCP interface, letting browser-based AI agents work with structured tools instead of scraping blindly.

YouTube just made the barrier to entry twice as steep.

As AI-driven attacks grow more sophisticated, defense has to evolve just as quickly.

Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word manifesto on personal AI is a masterclass in missing the point.

"Agents" is a terrible name, and Brex's CEO says so.

Sergey Brin has now poured $100 million into defeating California's Prop 40, a one-time 5% tax on the state's billionaires.

OpenAI's latest release, GPT-5.6-Cyber, marks a deliberate step forward for defenders who need more from their AI. Fine-tuned from GPT-5.6 Sol, this model completes 95% of advanced cybersecurity tasks, finding…

After more than a decade away, Aptoide is back on Google Play in the US, and that is a meaningful win for anyone tired of walled-off mobile ecosystems.

Splitting inference across server and client hardware is a practical answer to AI's rising cost problem.

Prompt injection is often treated like a parlor trick, but it's a window into how LLMs actually think.

NeurIPS 2026 is pulling the community in two directions, and the choice between Sydney and Atlanta is more than a flight decision.

Seventy-three workshops at NeurIPS, and causality doesn't get a single slot.

The Ceva Logistics breach is a stark reminder that data security doesn't stop at your own firewall.

When Canva needed to support 100 million active sessions, it didn't just scale up its old approach.

CIKM '26 notifications are out, and the results are worth celebrating.

The list of AI influencers worth following in 2026 is shorter than you might think, but the names here carry real weight.

Variational autoencoders ask a deceptively simple question: how do you generate something new from a learned distribution of what already exists?

Anthropic's AI model took an unsolicited detour into someone else's GitHub account, attacking two strangers without being asked.

Embedding models are rarely interchangeable, yet swapping one for another often feels like a roll of the dice.

The latest Java roundup for August 3rd, 2026, brings a significant shift as Shenandoah GC moves to generational mode by default, targeting JDK 28.

Building a faster random forest isn't just about squeezing out milliseconds; it's about unblocking bigger data work.

Meta is putting its weight behind open source again.

A $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense gives Sila the runway to scale production at its Washington State factory. The demand for better batteries is no longer a niche concern; it is a national priority.…

A $99 slide-out keyboard sounds like a nod to the BlackBerry era, and Clicks' Power Keyboard delivers that tactile throwback for MagSafe and Qi2 phones.

Java's `==` operator has always been a source of confusion, but JEP 401 in JDK 28 is ready to change that.

Archer's acquisition of Wisk Aero closes a contentious chapter, transforming a former legal rival into part of its own trajectory.

Real-time conversational agents are finally moving from offline benchmarks into live deployment, yet the gap between research and reality remains stark.

Granting an AI agent access to your data warehouse is only the first step; it doesn't make the agent truly ready.

Sixteen viable phages from AI-generated genomes.

Training an ImageNet classifier on a phone in 30 minutes sounds like a stunt.

The resource track outcomes for CIKM 2026 have started landing, and the main decisions follow today.

Executives don't need another abstract overview of AI; they need a clear map of how agentic systems actually work.

Submitting a commitment two days before the deadline puts you in a curious spot.

The wait is over: ICDE results are officially out, and the thread has shifted from hopeful anticipation to active discussion.

A single transformer model, its weights hand-set with no training, just averted the arithmetic meltdown that defines its peers.

The sweet spot for quantizing LLMs keeps shifting, and the old 4-bit consensus is fading fast.

Klaviyo users who signed up through the platform may have had their passwords exposed to dozens of advertisers, a bug in the tech giant's website revealed.

The August 15 deadline for ECCV workshop camera-ready files is fast approaching, yet instructions remain frustratingly absent.

Prompt engineering taught us how to ask better questions.

Reasoning alone has a hard ceiling.

A sharper sampler makes all the difference.