How Temporal Powers Reliable Cloud Operations at Netflix
By Jacob Meyers and Rob ZienertTemporal is a Durable Execution platform which allows you to write code “as if failures don’t exist”. It’s become increasingly critical to Netflix since its initial adoption in 2021, with users ranging from the operators of our Open Connect global CDN to our Live relia...
Xiaomei Liu, Joseph Lynch, Chris NewtonIntroductionBehind the Streams: Building a Reliable Cloud Live Streaming Pipeline for Netflix introduced the architecture of the streaming pipeline. This blog post looks at the custom Origin Server we built for Live — the Netflix Live Origin. It sits at the dem...
NVIDIA today announced it has acquired SchedMD — the leading developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI — to help strengthen the open-source software ecosystem and drive AI innovation for researchers, developers and enterprises. NVIDIA w...
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is genuinely useful. It gives people who develop AI tools a standardized way to call functions and access data from external systems. Instead of building custom integrations for each data source, you can expose databases, APIs, and internal tools through a common pro...
Most-Read: The Stanford HAI Stories that Defined AI in 2025
Readers wanted to know if their therapy chatbot could be trusted, whether their boss was automating the wrong job, and if their private conversations were training tomorrow's models.
8 Things To Do With Microsoft’s MarkItDown Library
Most AI projects start with one annoying chore: cleaning messy files. PDFs, Word docs, PPTs, images, audio, and spreadsheets all need to be converted into clean text before they become useful. Microsoft’s MarkItDown finally fixes this problem. In this guide, I will show you how to install it, conver...
Building AI Agents: Insights from the First Three Days of Kaggle’s Intensive Program
I’ve spent plenty of time building agentic systems. Our platform, Mentornaut, already runs on a multi-agent setup with vector stores, knowledge graphs, and user-memory features, so I thought I had the basics down. Out of curiosity, I checked out the whitepapers from Kaggle’s Agents Intensive, and th...
The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 13: LASSO and Ridge Regression in Excel
Ridge and Lasso regression are often perceived as more complex versions of linear regression. In reality, the prediction model remains exactly the same. What changes is the training objective. By adding a penalty on the coefficients, regularization forces the model to choose more stable solutions, e...
Following the publication of his new book, Building Applications with AI Agents, I chatted with author Michael Albada about his experience writing the book and his thoughts on the field of AI agents. Michael’s a machine learning engineer with nine years of experience designing, building, and deployi...
3 Actionable AI Recommendations for Businesses in 2026
In 2026, AI advantage will not come from tools but from focus. This piece
outlines three concrete, disruptive moves businesses can make to turn AI
into durable leverage, plus the contrarian and pessimistic views leaders
should confront head-on.
Agent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites
By decoupling how agents work from how they’re trained, Agent Lightning turns each step an agent takes into data for reinforcement learning. This makes it easy for developers to improve agent performance with almost zero code changes.
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LLM-Powered Relevance Assessment for Pinterest Search
Han Wang | Machine Learning Engineer; Alex Whitworth | Staff Data Scientist; Pak Ming Cheung | Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer; Zhenjie Zhang | Sr. Staff Machine Learning EngineerIntroductionSearch relevance measures how well search results align with a user’s search query. For personalized sear...
Debugging is the process of finding and fixing errors. This is a critical step in software engineering, and even more critical in agent engineering. One of the key capabilities of LangSmith is tooling to debug LLM applications.Today we are doubling down on solving that problem for the new wave
Introducing LangSmith Fetch: Debug agents from your terminal
Today, we're launching LangSmith Fetch, a CLI tool that brings the full power of LangSmith tracing directly into your terminal and IDE.If you're building agents with coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor, or if you simply prefer working in the command line, you'
Promptions helps make AI prompting more precise with dynamic UI controls
Promptions helps developers add dynamic, context-aware controls to chat interfaces so users can guide generative AI responses. It lets users shape outputs quickly without writing long instructions.
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Scientists reveal a tiny brain chip that streams thoughts in real time
BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports advanced AI models for decoding movement, perception, and intent. Initial clinical work shows it can be ins...
Using AI to analyze Google Street View images of damaged buildings across 16 states, Stanford researchers found that destroyed buildings in poor areas often remained empty lots for years, while those in wealthy areas were rebuilt bigger and better than before.
GigaTIME: Scaling tumor microenvironment modeling using virtual population generated by multimodal AI
Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer.
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How Pinterest Built a Real‑Time Radar for Violative Content using AI
Faisal Farooq | Sr. Director Trust Engineering; Aravindh Manickavasagam | Staff Technical Program Manager; Attila Dobi | Sr. Staff Data ScientistPeople come to Pinterest to find ideas they feel good about. To keep that experience safe, we need to know not just what gets reported, but what people act...
This tiny implant sends secret messages to the brain
Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to interpret these artificial patterns as meaningful signals, even without touch, sight, or sound. The system uses up to 64 micro-LEDs to create complex neural patterns that resemble...