Faster Is Not Always Better: Choosing the Right PostgreSQL Insert Strategy in Python (+Benchmarks)
PostgreSQL is fast. Whether your Python code can or should keep up depends on context. This article compares and benchmarks various insert strategies, focusing not on micro-benchmarks but on trade-offs between safety, abstraction, and throughput — and choosing the right tool for the job.
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OpenAI for Healthcare enables secure, enterprise-grade AI that supports HIPAA compliance—reducing administrative burden and supporting clinical workflows.
Alpha Omega Appoints David Walls Chief Financial Officer
Experienced federal finance leader brings private equity insight and operational discipline to drive Alpha Omega’s next stage of growth. Alpha Omega, a leading provider of AI-driven modernization and digital transformation solutions to the federal government, today announced the appointment of David...
Cynomi Appoints Veteran Cybersecurity Channel Leader Shane Deegan as CRO
Former ThreatLocker CRO brings proven growth expertise and a deep MSP track record to help service providers turn cybersecurity into a scalable profit center. Cynomi, the leading agentic vCISO and cybersecurity management platform for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Pro...
New certification empowers U.S. government agencies to modernize data governance with confidence and expands Precisely’s presence within the sector Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced that the Precisely Data Integrity Suite has achieved FedRAMP® Moderate Impact Level auth...
RingCentral Appoints Mahmoud ElAssir to Board of Directors
Board appointment reinforces RingCentral’s leadership in AI-native cloud communications RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a global leader in agentic voice AI-powered cloud communications, today announced the appointment of Mahmoud ElAssir to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. ElAssir is a h...
KnowBe4 Ranked #1 in G2 Winter Grid for Security Awareness Training
For six consecutive years, KnowBe4 has been named the #1 Security Awareness Training vendor and recognized their Incident Response as ‘Best Results’, ‘Best Usability’ and ‘Best Relationship’ KnowBe4, the world-renowned platform that comprehensively addresses human and agentic AI risk management, tod...
Jumpmind Names New CFO and Chief Information Security Officer
Executive leadership team expands as Jumpmind scales operations following recent investment from Lone View Capital Jumpmind, Inc., a leading provider of innovative retail technology solutions, today announced the appointment of two new executive leadership team members to support its next phase of g...
Horizon3.ai Appoints Andres Botero as Chief Marketing Officer
Horizon3.ai, the leader in offensive security, today announced the appointment of Andres Botero as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). A seasoned public company executive with more than twenty years of experience driving category-defining growth, Botero will lead Horizon3.ai’s global marketing strategy, ...
HawkSoft and Sonant Integrate Voice AI for Independent Insurance Agencies
Partnership delivers conversational AI that logs calls and creates tasks directly in HawkSoft HawkSoft, a leading agency management system provider for independent agencies, and Sonant, a voice AI platform built exclusively for insurance, today announced a new integration that delivers 24/7 call log...
Skylight Health, a mission-driven healthcare company committed to Making Specialty Care Better for All, today announced the acquisition of Stellation Care. Stellation is a provider analytics company that leverages AI-augmented datasets and advanced algorithms to deliver provider intelligence and ref...
PaXini Unveils the “Tactile Infrastructure” for Embodied AI at CES 2026
At CES 2026, a live robotic tactile interaction demonstration at the ENTERPRISE AI Zone in the North Hall drew industry experts and media. Through a complete ice-cream making process—including lever manipulation, ingredient handling, and cup handover—the humanoid robot TORA-ONE showcased its autonom...
Lightweight Transformer Architectures for Edge Devices in Real-Time Applications
arXiv:2601.03290v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The deployment of transformer-based models on resource-constrained edge devices represents a critical challenge in enabling real-time artificial intelligence applications. This comprehensive survey examines lightweight transformer architectures specif...
Ratio-Variance Regularized Policy Optimization for Efficient LLM Fine-tuning
arXiv:2601.03320v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: On-policy reinforcement learning (RL), particularly Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), has become the dominant paradigm for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). While policy ratio clipping stabilizes...
Mastering the Game of Go with Self-play Experience Replay
arXiv:2601.03306v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The game of Go has long served as a benchmark for artificial intelligence, demanding sophisticated strategic reasoning and long-term planning. Previous approaches such as AlphaGo and its successors, have predominantly relied on model-based Monte-Carlo...
Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
arXiv:2601.03335v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to evolve solutions to problems in many domains, in a process inspired by biological evolution. However, unlike biological evolution, most LLM-evolution frameworks are formulated as static optim...
Enhancing LLM Instruction Following: An Evaluation-Driven Multi-Agentic Workflow for Prompt Instructions Optimization
arXiv:2601.03359v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate substantively relevant content but fail to adhere to formal constraints, leading to outputs that are conceptually correct but procedurally flawed. Traditional prompt refinement approaches focus on rephrasing...
Exploration Through Introspection: A Self-Aware Reward Model
arXiv:2601.03389v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Understanding how artificial agents model internal mental states is central to advancing Theory of Mind in AI. Evidence points to a unified system for self- and other-awareness. We explore this self-awareness by having reinforcement learning agents in...
Toward Maturity-Based Certification of Embodied AI: Quantifying Trustworthiness Through Measurement Mechanisms
arXiv:2601.03470v2 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a maturity-based framework for certifying embodied AI systems through explicit measurement mechanisms. We argue that certifiable embodied AI requires structured assessment frameworks, quantitative scoring mechanisms, and methods for navigat...
Less than a trillionth of a second: Ultrafast UV light could transform communications and imaging
Researchers have built a new platform that produces ultrashort UV-C laser pulses and detects them at room temperature using atom-thin materials. The light flashes last just femtoseconds and can be used to send encoded messages through open space. The system relies on efficient laser generation and h...