Salmon in the Loop
One of the most fascinating problems that a computer scientist may be lucky enough to encounter is a complex sociotechnical problem in a field going through the process of digital…
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Microplastic risk in Zyn pouches: Scientist questions FDA approval
Four years into the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s review of Zyn nicotine pouches, and not long before the agency approved them for sale, an FDA toxicologist ran some informal…
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PitchBook: US venture funding hits $412.7B in first half as AI deals dominate
U.S. venture capital deal value hit $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year — and a…
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SAM 2: Meta’s Next-Gen Model for Video and Image Segmentation
The era has arrived where your phone or computer can understand the objects of an image, thanks to technologies like YOLO and SAM. Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) can instantly…
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Featuring Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model Pages
Every Eval Ever (EEE) and Hugging Face Community Evals are now intercompatible. We enable cross-posting and interpreting evaluation results, while linking to open models, leaderboards, and a unified standardized metadata…
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Extreme Event Likelihoods with Guided Generative Models
Across science, engineering, and finance, many of the most important risks come from low-likelihood, high-impact events. Estimating the probability of these events with brute-force Monte Carlo sampling—running a model repeatedly…
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Soon-to-expire ACO REACH generates more savings for Medicare
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The savings generated by a value-based care pilot in traditional…
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TSMC Posts Record Q2 Revenue
The AI chip boom just handed TSMC another record-breaking quarter. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, reported record second-quarter revenue as demand for artificial intelligence chips…
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Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own
Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched the startup Oak Lab in Toronto with Khurram Javed. Both previously worked at John Carmack’s AI company…
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When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility
AI as accessibility: what happened when a neurodivergent solutions architect stopped fighting his brain and started building. In this post, I share how AI serves as an accessibility tool for…
