Implementing Softmax From Scratch: Avoiding the Numerical Stability Trap
In deep learning, classification models don’t just need to make predictions—they need to express confidence. That’s where the Softmax activation function comes in. Softmax takes the raw, unbounded scores produced by a neural network and transforms them into a well-defined probability distribution, m...
NVIDIA AI Released Nemotron Speech ASR: A New Open Source Transcription Model Designed from the Ground Up for Low-Latency Use Cases like Voice Agents
NVIDIA has just released its new streaming English transcription model (Nemotron Speech ASR) built specifically for low latency voice agents and live captioning. The checkpoint nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b on Hugging Face combines a cache aware FastConformer encoder with an RNNT decoder,...
California lawmaker proposes a four-year ban on AI chatbots in kid’s toys
“Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on,” Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill to ban AI chatbots in toys until safety regulations are developed.
Nvidia to accelerate Siemens chip-design tools using its GPUs
Nvidia announced today at CES 2026 that it would help Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) software run on its GPUs in an attempt to speed up the chip-design process. Nearly all computer chips today are designed using EDA tools, and as chip features get smaller and transistors more numerous, ...
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5: A Compact AI Model Family For Real On Device Agents
Liquid AI has introduced LFM2.5, a new generation of small foundation models built on the LFM2 architecture and focused at on device and edge deployments. The model family includes LFM2.5-1.2B-Base and LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct and extends to Japanese, vision language, and audio language variants. It is ...
Commonwealth Fusion Systems installs reactor magnet, lands deal with Nvidia
The fusion power frontrunner said that construction on its Sparc reactor was proceeding as planned. Meanwhile, it's building a digital twin to help dial it in.
The Rise of Hyper‑Local AI: How Asia Is Building the Next Generation of Culturally‑Aware Robots and Intelligent Systems
Asia is redefining intelligent systems with hyper‑local AI that understands culture, language, and urban complexity. Learn how robotics, ML, data science, and automation are evolving across the region.
VAST Data Redesigns AI Inference Architecture for the Agentic Era with NVIDIA
VAST AI Operating System running natively on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs collapses legacy storage tiers to deliver shared, pod-scale KV cache with deterministic access for long-context, multi-turn and multi-agent inference VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced a new inference archi...
Clonell™ Launches the Ultimate Regenerative Medicine Platform
Clonell Therapeutics, Inc., a leading biotechnology company dedicated to curing intractable and incurable diseases, announced today the official launch of the world’s first ‘Patient-Specific Embryonic Stem Cell (Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer-derived Embryonic Stem Cell, hereinafter SCNT-ESC)’ therap...
MulticoreWare Showcases Cloud-to-Car AI Workflow at CES 2026
MulticoreWare, Inc., a global technology company and software partner for Qualcomm Incorporated, today announced a new demonstration highlighting the seamless implementation of ADAS workloads using Qualcomm AI toolchains and QCR100 cloud-based instances. The demo highlights a complete ‘Cloud-to-Car’...
Clipto.AI Announces New Funding to Accelerate On‑Device AI Innovation
Clipto.AI, a global AI company building the next-generation On-Device Multimodal Content OS, today announced that it has raised a new funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to over $250 million. Since July 2025, Clipto.AI has closed a series of back-to-back funding rounds — Pre-A, Pre-A+, a...
Withings Redefines Preventive Health with Body Scan 2
After inventing the world’s first connected scale in 2009, Withings is redefining preventive health once again with Body Scan 2, the most advanced home longevity station ever built. A CES Innovation Award Honoree, and developed in collaboration with leading cardiometabolic research centers, Body Sca...
Validic Powers Scalable AI-Driven Remote Care at CES 2026
AI-powered infrastructure supports CMS ACCESS programs with EHR-integrated insights for health systems and chronic care organizations Validic, the connected health data platform, today announced its participation at CES 2026, where it will highlight how its AI-enabled platform transforms continuous ...
New marketplace delivers ready-to-deploy SDV applications spanning diagnostics, compliance, battery intelligence, cybersecurity, and AI-powered consumer experiences—powered by the Sibros Deep Connected Platform CES 2026– Sibros, a global leader in Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) management solutions,...
SENA Health Sees 300% YoY Growth as Healthcare Adopts Practical AI
As pressure on the US healthcare system intensifies, provider organizations face a growing gap between patient demand and operational capacity. Reimbursement continues to decline, while the cost and complexity of running a practice increases. Patients struggle to access timely care as providers cont...
Marktechpost Releases ‘AI2025Dev’: A Structured Intelligence Layer for AI Models, Benchmarks, and Ecosystem Signals
Marktechpost has released AI2025Dev, its 2025 analytics platform (available to AI Devs and Researchers without any signup or login) designed to convert the year’s AI activity into a queryable dataset spanning model releases, openness, training scale, benchmark performance, and ecosystem participants...
Keyfactor Appoints Michael Volanoski as President and Chief Revenue Officer
Veteran enterprise technology leader joins Keyfactor as the company builds on its strongest year and scales global execution Keyfactor, the industry leader in digital trust for modern enterprises, today announced the appointment of Michael Volanoski as President & Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In thi...
Deepen AI Brings Safety-First AV Data Infrastructure to CES 2026
CES demos include targetless calibration and an exclusive preview of Deepen AI’s Vision-Language-Action framework Deepen AI, a leading full-stack data lifecycle platform for autonomous vehicles (AV) and robotics, today announced it will showcase new platform advancements at CES 2026 designed to help...
Nvidia wants to be the Android of generalist robotics
Nvidia unveiled a full-stack robotics ecosystem at CES 2026, including foundation models, simulation tools, and hardware. It wants to be the default platform for robotics.
Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’
Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, which includes a reasoning vision language action model that allows an autonomous vehicle to think more like a human and provide chain-of-thought reasoning.