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Smart wearables enable continuous tracking of established biomarkers such as heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood oxygen saturation via photoplethysmography (PPG). Beyond these metrics, PPG waveforms contain richer physiological information, as recent deep learning (DL) studies demonstrate....

Recent advances in test-time alignment methods, such as Best-of-N sampling, offer a simple and effective way to steer language models (LMs) toward preferred behaviors using reward models (RM). However, these approaches can be computationally expensive, especially when applied uniformly across prompt...

Jan 9, 2026AlignmentNext-generation Constitutional Classifiers: More efficient protection against universal jailbreaks

A clear-eyed look at the difference between AI‑native products built with intelligence at the core and traditional tools that bolt on AI features. This article breaks down performance, cost, efficiency, and the growing risk of AI becoming a marketing gimmick. The real question: does the tool deliver...

CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and reporters on the ground to cover the news, scout out the interesting, weird, and relevant (and some not so relevant) tech, and of course the people working on it. AI has been a...

Nvidia is now requiring its customers in China to pay upfront in full for its H200 AI chips even as approval Stateside and from Beijing remains uncertain.

Don't miss our most popular articles of the previous month The post TDS Newsletter: December Must-Reads on GraphRAG, Data Contracts, and More appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Detailed comparison of NVIDIA H100 vs GH200, covering architecture, memory design, performance trade-offs, and best use cases for AI and HPC workloads.

Discover the top 10 open-source reasoning LLMs of 2026: DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, Kimi K2, GPT-OSS-120B & more. Complete guide with benchmarks, specs

Most RAG demos stop at “upload a PDF and ask a question.” That proves the pipeline works. It doesn’t prove you understand it. These projects are designed to break in interesting ways. They surface bias, contradictions, forgotten context, and overconfident answers. That’s where real RAG learning star...

AI adoption in enterprise is stalling as companies don't know where to start. Vanessa Larco of Premise VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer.

The post AI that drives change: Wayve rewrites self-driving playbook with deep learning in Azure appeared first on Source.

Envoc, a leading provider of custom software development and SaaS Product solutions, today announced the appointment of James (Jim) DuBos as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this role, DuBos will oversee company operations, enterprise software strategy, and organizational execution as...

Arcfra, a leading provider of full-stack enterprise cloud infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with Netfos, one of Taiwan’s most trusted value-added distributors. This collaboration marks Arcfra’s official entry into the Taiwan regional market, following the Singapore-based compan...

DryRun Security, the industry’s first AI-native, code security intelligence company, has completed its first year out of stealth with strong corporate momentum. Over the past twelve months, the company delivered major product innovations, industry-leading vulnerability research and laid the groundwo...

Apply the best methods from academia to get the most out of practical applications The post How to Improve the Performance of Visual Anomaly Detection Models appeared first on Towards Data Science.

iScribeHealth, a leading healthcare technology company specializing in ambient AI and mobile-first documentation solutions, today announced a partnership with Lifepoint Health to provide AI scribing services for the company’s providers. Lifepoint Health is a leading healthcare provider that serves p...

Prophecy recognized for leadership and innovation in the “Data management: pipelines” space Foundry’s InfoWorld (https://www.infoworld.com/) announces Prophecy as a 2025 Technology of the Year winner in the “Data management: pipelines” category. The InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards recognize ...

AI Modernization enables secure, scalable intelligence by integrating analytics, vector search, and self-service access across enterprise data. Artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed the hype threshold. Today, organizations no longer ask whether to adopt AI — they ask how to do it responsibly, eff...

Spangle has raised $15 million in a Series A round to expand its AI-generated shopping experiences.

Gmail is also bringing several AI features that were previously available only to paid users to all users.

There’s an open secret in the world of DevOps: Nobody trusts the CMDB. The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is supposed to be the “source of truth”—the central map of every server, service, and application in your enterprise. In theory, it’s the foundation for security audits, cost analysis,...

Cameron D’Ambrosi named Head of Strategic Partnerships for NA and EU FaceTec, the global leader in 3D Face Verification software, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Cameron D’Ambrosi as Head of Strategic Partnerships for North America and the European Union as an important addition to its ex...

Running AI models on your machine unlocks privacy, customization, and independence. In this in‑depth guide, you’ll learn why local AI is important, the tools and models you need, how to overcome challenges, and how Clarifai’s platform can help you orchestrate and scale your workloads.