Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit
Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.
Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok
The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.
Steve Yegge’s article about programmer burnout (“The AI Vampire”) along with Margaret Storey’s article about Cognitive Debt started an ongoing conversation about programmer fatigue and software quality—two topics that should be linked, but often aren’t. Steve argues that programming constantly with ...
Q&A: Expanding MIT’s global reach through Universal Learning
Dimitris Bertsimas and Megan Mitchell discuss the motivation behind Universal Learning, and what sets the new MIT Open Learning educational initiative apart.
How to Build Technical Analysis and Backtesting Workflow with pandas-ta-classic, Strategy Signals, and Performance Metrics
In this tutorial, we implement how to use pandas-ta-classic to build a complete technical analysis and trading strategy workflow. We start by installing the required libraries, downloading historical OHLCV stock data with yfinance, cleaning the returned data structure, and inspecting the available i...
Meta and Stanford Researchers Propose Fast Byte Latent Transformer That Reduces Inference Memory Bandwidth by Over 50% Without Tokenization
Researchers from Meta FAIR and Stanford propose three inference methods for the Byte Latent Transformer that reduce memory-bandwidth cost by over 50% without subword tokenization.
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Best Vector Databases in 2026: Pricing, Scale Limits, and Architecture Tradeoffs Across Nine Leading Systems
Vector databases are now core retrieval infrastructure for RAG and agentic AI. This guide compares nine production options on architecture, pricing, and scale.
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Europe Hits Pause on Its Toughest AI Rules – and the Backlash Has Already Begun
EU officials have agreed to water down certain aspects of the AI Act, including delaying the implementation of rules covering a number of high-risk applications until December 2027, instead of the originally set deadline of August 2026, according to the latest update of EU lawmakers watering down AI...
The Oscars just drew a hard line in the sand: You’re allowed to use AI to help make a movie, but you’re not allowed to use AI actors or writers
Now actors and writers are supposed to be human. As the Academy released its rules for the 99th Academy Awards, the organization declared that any movies with “AI generated actors” or “AI written screenplays” would be ineligible for acting or writing prizes (but otherwise still eligible). So what do...
OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent: Why Nous Research’s Self-Improving Agent Now Leads OpenRouter’s Global Rankings
Hermes Agent, the open-source self-improving AI agent from Nous Research, has overtaken OpenClaw to claim the #1 position on OpenRouter's global daily token rankings as of May 10, 2026 — generating 224 billion daily tokens versus OpenClaw's 186 billion. The milestone places a Nous Research project a...
How to Build a Cost-Aware LLM Routing System with NadirClaw Using Local Prompt Classification and Gemini Model Switching
In this tutorial, we explore NadirClaw as an intelligent routing layer that classifies prompts into simple and complex tiers before sending them to the most suitable model. We start by installing the required packages, setting up an optional Gemini API key, and testing the local classifier through t...
A Coding Implementation to Recover Hidden Malware IOCs with FLARE-FLOSS Beyond Classic Strings Analysis
In this tutorial, we explore how FLARE-FLOSS helps us recover hidden and obfuscated strings from a Windows PE file. We begin by setting up FLOSS and the MinGW-w64 cross-compiler. We synthesize a small malware-like executable that hides strings using multiple techniques, including static strings, sta...
So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
9 Best AI Tools for Spec-Driven Development in 2026: Kiro, BMAD, GSD, and More Compare
Vibe coding gets you to a prototype. Spec-driven development gets you to production. As AI coding agents grow more powerful, the engineering community has quietly split into two camps: developers who prompt iteratively and hope for the best, and developers who write structured specifications first a...