Neural Networks, Explained for Beginners: Start Here If They’ve Confused You
The intuition behind neural networks and why they need activation functions.
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Claude’s Hidden Art Skill: Making Illustrations With Code
Everyone says Claude can’t make pictures. That’s partly true. Here is the kind of art it makes on its own, with no plugins and no connectors: Drawn by Claude in SVG, no image model anywhere near it. Not pixels but code: shapes and coordinates that stay sharp at any size and redraw themselves when yo...
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead. A loop here can be thought of as a recursive goal where you...
Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers
OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.
Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world
OpenAI introduces new Daybreak tools, including Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber, to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities at scale.
MoonMath AI Open-Sources a HIP Attention Kernel for AMD MI300X That Beats AITER v3 on Every Shape and Rounding Mode
The HIP kernel uses one-instruction asm wrappers and an eight-wave pipeline to outperform AMD's AITER v3 on MI300X.
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Hotter Than a Hot Tub: The 45°C Breakthrough to Cool AI’s Biggest Machines
Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA’s newest AI servers can run their cooling liquid even hotter — up to 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees Fahrenheit. That higher temperature limit is precisely what makes them more ...
AI Weekly Issue #506: Washington Blocked One AI Lab. China Blacklisted 56 Companies.
Ten days after Washington pulled Anthropic's top models from foreign hands, the bill came due. This week Beijing blacklisted 56 American firms, Anthropic's own filing admitted the trigger was a routine coding request rival models can run, and Microsoft's CEO warned that letting "a few models eat eve...
Tool Calling, Explained: How AI Agents Decide What to Do Next
Understanding ow LLMs interact with the world around them, from returning data to taking action
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When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
What Are the Possibilities to Build Date Tables in Self-Service Environments?
For years, I created date tables with DAX code whenever I didn’t have a way to create them upstream of the data flow. Now I've realised there's another way to do it. Let’s see what the alternatives are and how they compare.
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Crawlee for Python: Build a Web Crawling Pipeline with Robots Handling, Link Graphs, and RAG Chunk Export
In this tutorial, we build a complete Crawlee for Python workflow from setup to AI-ready output. We generate a local demo website, then crawl it with BeautifulSoupCrawler, ParselCrawler, and PlaywrightCrawler. We extract titles, metadata, product fields, and JavaScript-rendered cards, and capture fu...
Cisco AI Introduces FAPO: Pipeline-Aware Prompt Optimization With Step-Level Failure Attribution and Claude Code Orchestration
Cisco Foundation AI has open-sourced FAPO (Fully Automated Prompt Optimization), a Claude Code-driven system that autonomously optimizes multi-step LLM pipelines from baseline prompts to target accuracy. FAPO evaluates a chain, attributes failures at the step level, proposes variants across prompt, ...
Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via platform_toolsets.cli and disabled_toolsets
Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent. It starts an agent with everything off except provider, model, File Operations, and Terminal. You opt in to the rest.
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7 Crucial Barriers Between Data Teams and Self-Healing Data Architecture
What data teams need to build with AI to make self-healing data architecture a practical reality
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The Data Canary: How Netflix Validates Catalog Metadata
By Celina AmadosAt Netflix, our catalog metadata is crucial to our member experience, and a single corrupted data state can impact millions of viewers immediately. To protect streaming reliability, we built an automated data canary system that validates data transformations using production traffic....
Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale
By Amer Hesson, Marcelo Mayworm, James Mulcahy, and Brittany TruongThe Problem: Managing Assets at Netflix ScaleNetflix’s Data Platform is vast. We have millions of tables in our data warehouse and tens of thousands of scheduled workloads running across our orchestration systems. Behind each of thes...
Predicting Risk in Content Launches: How Data-Driven Insights can Transform Launch Planning
by Emily GillEach year, we bring the Analytics Engineering community together for an Analytics Summit — a multi-day internal conference to share analytical deliverables across Netflix, discuss analytic practice, and build relationships within the community. This post is one of several topics present...
The Evolution of Cassandra Data Movement at Netflix
By Guil Pires, Jennifer Prince, Jose Camacho, Ken Kurzweil, Phanindra ChunduruBackgroundIn a previous post, we introduced Data Bridge, a unified management plane for batch Data Movement at Netflix. Historically, several bespoke Data Movement connectors were developed across different engineering org...
Thinking Fast & Slow for a Personalized Notification System
by Matthew Wood, Ishan Gupta, Kevin Mercurio, Devon Bryant, and Claire DormanIn his seminal book “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” Daniel Kahneman describes two systems that drive human cognition: System 1, which operates automatically and quickly with little effort, and System 2, which allocates attention...
NVIDIA AI Introduce SpatialClaw: A Training-Free Agent That Treats Code as the Action Interface for Spatial Reasoning
SpatialClaw is a training-free agent that writes Python in a persistent kernel, composing perception tools for 3D spatial reasoning
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VibeThinker-3B: A 3B Dense Reasoning Model Built on Qwen2.5-Coder-3B With the Spectrum-to-Signal Post-Training Pipeline
VibeThinker-3B, a 3B MIT-licensed reasoning model matching DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on verifiable benchmarks.
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