Onton Releases Ontology 1: A Neurosymbolic Search Model That is 2.7x More Accurate than the World’s Best E-commerce Search Engines
Onton, a San Francisco-based search and discovery company, has released Ontology 1, a neurosymbolic model for complex, conversational, multimodal product search. On a 90-query benchmark scored by three independent LLM judges, Ontology 1 reached a mean precision@10 of 0.630, against 0.543 for Google ...
A Tutorial on GeoAI: Designing Footprint Extraction from NAIP Imagery Using U-Net, Grounding DINO, SAM, and Mask R-CNN
In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin by configuring the geospatial deep learning environment, downloading raster imagery and vector labels, and inspecting their spatial properties before generating...
LingBot-Map Tutorial: GPU-Aware Inference and Point Cloud Export
Discover how to implement a streaming 3D reconstruction pipeline using LingBot-Map. From GPU-aware configuration and preprocessing to GCTStream model inference and point cloud generation, this guide walks you through the steps to convert image or video sequences into consistent 3D scenes with export...
Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content
Snapchat has adjusted it recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.
AI Quantum Intelligence - Pic of the week (2026-07-31)
An interpretive fine art painting exploring the stark societal dichotomy surrounding artificial intelligence. The composition contrasts a shadowy, monolithic realm of systemic anxiety and loss of agency against a luminous, geometric landscape of human augmentation and creative possibility.
Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI technology.
LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession
A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.
In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against HuggingFace has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.
Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
Prompt Engineering vs Loop Engineering vs Graph Engineering: What Changes at Each Layer
Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one. Loop engineering entered the AI vocabulary in late 2025 and dominated developer discussion through June 2026. Graph engineering followed roughly six weeks later. They get used int...
It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some,...