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...
Autonomous Observability at Pinterest (Part 1 of 2)
Marcel Mateos Salles | Software Engineer Intern; Jorge Chavez | Sr. Software Engineer; Khashayar Kamran | Software Engineer II; Andres Almeida | Software Engineer; Peter Kim | Manager II; Ajay Jha | Sr. ManagerAt Pinterest, inspiration isn’t just for our users — it shapes how we build and care for o...
The Weaviate Java client v6 is now generally available! This release brings a completely redesigned API that embraces modern Java patterns, simplifies common operations, and makes working with vector databases more intuitive than ever.
Ideas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AI
As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on WiML’s evolution, navigating the field of ML, and their work in responsible AI.
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Reducing Privacy leaks in AI: Two approaches to contextual integrity
New research explores two ways to give AI agents stronger privacy safeguards grounded in contextual integrity. One adds lightweight, inference-time checks; the other builds contextual awareness directly into models through reasoning and RL.
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As AI rapidly reshapes white-collar work, early data already shows rising
unemployment in the most exposed industries, raising the provocative
question of whether certain knowledge-worker roles are ultimately destined
for 100 percent automation as AI accelerates toward AGI.