Cobalt Appoints Cybersecurity Pioneer Tony Spinelli to BOD
Veteran CIO, four-time CISO, and cloud security leader brings decades of enterprise expertise to support next phase of growth and continuous offensive security innovation Cobalt, the pioneer of penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) and a leading provider of human-led, AI-powered offensive securit...
GenScript, Mimulus Partner on DNA Data Storage for AI Era
The multi-year collaboration aims to scale molecular data storage infrastructure and unlock breakthrough cost efficiencies by 2030. GenScript Biotech Corporation, the world’s leading provider of CMOS-based DNA synthesis technologies, and Mimulus Corp, the pioneer in Molecular Archive Technology™, to...
Five AI Compute Architectures Every Engineer Should Know: CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, and LPUs Compared
Modern AI is no longer powered by a single type of processor—it runs on a diverse ecosystem of specialized compute architectures, each making deliberate tradeoffs between flexibility, parallelism, and memory efficiency. While traditional systems relied heavily on CPUs, today’s AI workloads are distr...
An End-to-End Coding Guide to NVIDIA KVPress for Long-Context LLM Inference, KV Cache Compression, and Memory-Efficient Generation
In this tutorial, we take a detailed, practical approach to exploring NVIDIA’s KVPress and understanding how it can make long-context language model inference more efficient. We begin by setting up the full environment, installing the required libraries, loading a compact Instruct model, and prepari...
OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for: a $100/month plan. Previously subscriptions jumped from $20 to $200 per month.
Florida AG announces investigation into OpenAI over shooting that allegedly involved ChatGPT
ChatGPT had reportedly been used to plan the attack that killed two and injured five at Florida State University last April. The family of one victim has said that they plan to sue OpenAI over the incident.
As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.
SoftServe Launches New Brand Identity: ‘Technology Elevated’
New brand reflects belief that technology can do more than just work, it can elevate anything SoftServe, a digital engineering and technology services company specializing in AI, data, and cloud solutions, today announced the launch of its new brand, “Technology Elevated,” reflecting SoftServe’s tra...
LabWare Teams with Phizzle to Automate Cleanroom Lab Data
-New integration approach simplifies multi-vendor instrument connectivity and strengthens data integrity in regulated environments- LabWare, a global provider of laboratory informatics, and Phizzle, an innovator in laboratory data integration, today announced a partnership to simplify how regulated ...
#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age
Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep495-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit ques...
Sigmoid vs ReLU Activation Functions: The Inference Cost of Losing Geometric Context
A deep neural network can be understood as a geometric system, where each layer reshapes the input space to form increasingly complex decision boundaries. For this to work effectively, layers must preserve meaningful spatial information — particularly how far a data point lies from these boundaries ...
A Coding Guide to Build Advanced Document Intelligence Pipelines with Google LangExtract, OpenAI Models, Structured Extraction, and Interactive Visualization
In this tutorial, we explore how to use Google’s LangExtract library to transform unstructured text into structured, machine-readable information. We begin by installing the required dependencies and securely configuring our OpenAI API key to leverage powerful language models for extraction tasks. A...
A Comprehensive Implementation Guide to ModelScope for Model Search, Inference, Fine-Tuning, Evaluation, and Export
In this tutorial, we explore ModelScope through a practical, end-to-end workflow that runs smoothly on Colab. We begin by setting up the environment, verifying dependencies, and confirming GPU availability so we can work with the framework reliably from the start. From there, we interact with the Mo...
Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’
Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.
AI Reality Check: Why “AI Replacing Jobs” Is the Wrong Conversation
A provocative look at why the “AI replacing jobs” narrative misses the real story. This edition of AI Reality Check reframes automation as transformation — exploring how AI reshapes work, amplifies human capability, and demands a new conversation about value and adaptation.
How to Combine Google Search, Google Maps, and Custom Functions in a Single Gemini API Call With Context Circulation, Parallel Tool IDs, and Multi-Step Agentic Chains
In this tutorial, we explore the latest Gemini API tooling updates Google announced in March 2026, specifically the ability to combine built-in tools like Google Search and Google Maps with custom function calls in a single API request. We walk through five hands-on demos that progressively build on...
How to Deploy Open WebUI with Secure OpenAI API Integration, Public Tunneling, and Browser-Based Chat Access
In this tutorial, we build a complete Open WebUI setup in Colab, in a practical, hands-on way, using Python. We begin by installing the required dependencies, then securely provide our OpenAI API key through terminal-based secret input so that sensitive credentials are not exposed directly in the no...