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Perplexity AI Open-Sources Unigram Tokenizer That Achieves 5x Lower p50 Latency Than Hugging Face tokenizers Crate
Perplexity AI open-sources a rewritten Unigram tokenizer that reduces reranker latency and cuts production CPU utilization by 5-6x.
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A Coding Guide to Implement a pgvector-Powered Semantic, Hybrid, Sparse, and Quantized Vector Search System
In this tutorial, we build a complete pgvector playground inside Google Colab and explore how PostgreSQL can work as a powerful vector database for modern AI applications. We start by installing PostgreSQL, compiling the pgvector extension, connecting through Psycopg, and registering vector types fo...
Payroll startup Remote says it grew revenue 50% per employee without adding headcount
Payroll service provider Remote recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and became cash-flow positive, thanks to a 50% increase in revenue per employee resulting from AI adoption.
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
AI Reality Check: The New Moat - Why Data Quality Beats Data Quantity
As synthetic content rises and the open web degrades, clean, verified, domain specific data becomes the defining advantage in AI. The next decade belongs to those who curate better, not scrape more.
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YouTube will now automatically label videos that use significant photorealistic AI, instead of relying solely on creators to disclose AI-generated content themselves. It's also making AI labels more prominent.
Design a High-Precision Retrieve-and-Rerank Pipeline with ZeroEntropy Zerank-2 Reranker
In this tutorial, we use zeroentropy/zerank-2-reranker, a 4B Qwen3-based cross-encoder reranker, to improve retrieval quality. We start by setting up the runtime, loading the reranker, and understanding how it scores query-document pairs. Then, we move from simple pairwise scoring to a practical two...
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AI agents keep breaking in production. Here's why nobody's fixed it yet.
The gap between what agentic AI promises and what it actually delivers in live environments is now one of the most consequential engineering problems in the industry. It is also, frustratingly, one that the field has been slow to name precisely, let alone fix...
Design a Complete Multimodal RLVR Pipeline with Open-MM-RL, Vision-Language Prompting, Reward Scoring, and GRPO Export
In this tutorial, we explore the TuringEnterprises/Open-MM-RL dataset as a practical foundation for multimodal reasoning and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. We load the dataset, inspect its schema, analyze domains, formats, question lengths, answer types, and image distributions, and...
Step by Step Guide to Build and Compare FedAvg and FedProx Federated Learning on Non-IID CIFAR-10 with NVIDIA FLARE
In this tutorial, we build an advanced federated learning experiment with NVIDIA FLARE. We compare FedAvg and FedProx on a non-IID CIFAR-10 setup, where client data is split using a Dirichlet distribution to simulate realistic label imbalance across federated sites. We use the NVFlare Job API to def...
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in days: Apply before May 27
The deadline to apply or nominate for Startup Battlefield 200 is May 27. This is your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000. Apply now.
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.
Best Authentication Platforms for AI Agents and MCP Servers in 2026
As MCP crosses 97 million monthly SDK downloads and AI agents move into production workflows, authentication has become the most critical infrastructure decision teams face. This guide ranks the eight leading platforms — WorkOS, Stytch, Auth0 by Okta, Composio, Nango, Arcade, TrueFoundry, and Cloudf...