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Three conditions that must hold before splitting prefill from decode pays off, and why chunked prefill is the right default below that threshold. The post Disaggregation Is a Thousand-GPU Problem appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Being a small marketing team in a large international organization can sometimes feel like the old stories of a small group of soldiers fending off the invading army. Instead of being “The 300” standing against the Persian horde, we are the half-dozen facing down a tidal wave of PowerPoints and RFPs. Our greatest weapon in this battle is AI, and it has enabled our rag-tag little squad to function as a full-service marketing agency for our many regions and departments. To start with, this is NOT…

A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra. The finding adds to intensifying concern surrounding oversight at frontier AI […]

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Power BI Premium is gone. Microsoft Fabric took its place. Here's what actually changed for you, what didn't, and where to start — without the panic. The post The Power BI Developer's Survival Guide to Microsoft Fabric appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Aisle found six Curl flaws after Mythos and Codex reported none.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace —Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the…

For years, artificial intelligence dominated insurance conference agendas and boardroom conversations. Every company claimed to have an AI strategy; every startup promised to reinvent underwriting; and every incumbent insurer spoke of digital transformation. But for much of that time, the industry was experimenting more than it was transforming. This is what has changed in 2026. This year, AI has shifted from innovation initiative to an integral aspect of the everyday operating model of…

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Instagram's visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone haywire. They say Meta has been automatically applying an "AI Content" label to images that they didn't create or edit using generative AI […]

AI evaluations are structured tests that measure whether a model or system demonstrates defined capabilities, limitations, safety properties, and operational performance. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.

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It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools. Nearly four years since the original vulnerability was disclosed, I was still able to use it to analyze voter behavior in Georgia (one of the 21 states that uses affected scanners) in the recent May 2026 primary. Notably, I never touched a voting machine, exploited a network, examined source code, or accessed anything non-public. After pointing a coding agent to the original vulnerabilit

Finance teams are under immense pressure to adopt AI, mostly driven by boards seeking efficiency gains, CFOs chasing faster closes, and vendors promising unprecedented automation. The prevailing assumption is that more AI will naturally lead to better results, since it can efficiently analyze data within seconds. But speed alone is not the only factor that ensures success, especially if the underlying process is flawed or underdeveloped. As organizations rush to embed AI into financial…

Your next star AI hire is stuck in the immigration system. Here's how to get them before your competitor does. Some companies view immigration as a compliance headache. The next unicorn companies will use it as a competitive advantage. Right now, in AI, data science, biotech, and every other technical field where the talent war is hottest, it's one of the few real competitive advantages left — and almost nobody is using it. Most founders aren’t taking into account that nearly half of the STEM…

Learn how to run a lot of parallel coding agents without expensive, powerful hardware at home The post How to Run 10+ Claude Code Sessions Without a Powerful Computer appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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There is a torrent of unappetizing slop coming from restaurants, cafes, and brands that are increasingly turning to AI to generate images promoting their food. The resulting horror show includes donut shrimp, Reubens from the deep, wormlike noodles, and noodle-like pastries and stringy chicken. There's also construction material masquerading as ice cream, ice cream masquerading […]

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Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting. The company hailed the model as a "generational leap in capability" on Thursday and described it as the start of "the […]

We cannot forget that AI coding agents are not yet trustworthy : Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500, and Big Tech companies. Of the 8,265 llms.txt and llms-full.txt files they found (many sites hosted both an llms.txt and an llms-full.txt file), 120 of them, each on a different site, pointed to one or more code packages or domain names that weren’t registered. To test what happens when an AI agent processes such fil

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

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Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.

Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart home platform that combines security camera storage, on-device AI, and smart home control in one system, managed by a […]

Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment

Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense

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OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model." The development comes days after the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the model had reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework. "Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering,

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While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.

How the Next.js team used an agent to research old reports and work through the issue backlog.

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