Elon Musk had lots of reasons to make a deal with Anthropic — but he wouldn’t have done it if he were ahead. PLUS: The incredible testimony of Shivon Zilis, and a big new study on school phone bans
At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. As AI capabilities increase and become more integrated into people’s daily lives, advancing research in privacy-preserving techniques is increasingly important to ensure privacy is protected while users enjoy innovative AI experiences. Apple’s fundamental research has consistently pushed the state-of-the-art in this domain, and earlier this year, we hosted the Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning & AI. This two-day event
Current critic-less RLHF methods aggregate multi-objective rewards via an arithmetic mean, leaving them vulnerable to constraint neglect: high-magnitude success in one objective can numerically offset critical failures in others (e.g., safety or formatting), masking low-performing “bottleneck” rewards vital for reliable multi-objective alignment. We propose Reward-Variance Policy Optimization (RVPO), a risk-sensitive framework that penalizes inter-reward variance during advantage aggregation, sh
We propose HeadsUp, a scalable feed-forward method for reconstructing high-quality 3D Gaussian heads from large-scale multi-camera setups. Our method employs an efficient encoder-decoder architecture that compresses input views into a compact latent representation. This latent representation is then decoded into a set of UV-parameterized 3D Gaussians anchored to a neutral head template. This UV representation decouples the number of 3D Gaussians from the number and resolution of input images, en
We introduce a framework for learning latent representations of 4D objects which are descriptive, faithfully capturing object geometry and appearance; compressive, aiding in downstream efficiency; and accessible, requiring minimal input, i.e., an unstructured dynamic point cloud, to construct. Specifically, Velox trains an encoder to compress spatiotemporal color point clouds into a set of dynamic shape tokens. These tokens are supervised using two complementary decoders: a 4D surface decoder, w
You can now build chat UIs that connect to Chat SDK with the new web adapter . Build in-product assistants, support agents, or any other browser-based chat experience. Define the bot on your server: Then stream replies to the browser with a preconfigured @ai-sdk/react useChat hook: Read the documentation to get started, browse the directory , or build your own adapter . Read more
This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Cloudflare.
GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.
Also: Amazon finally allows engineers to use Claude Code and Codex, Meta forcefully assigns engineers to data labelling work ahead of layoffs, more small “AI-forward” teams, and more
Two weeks ago we announced that we had identified and fixed an unprecedented number of latent security bugs in Firefox with the help of Claude Mythos Preview and other AI models. In this post, we’ll go into more detail about how we approached this work, what we found, and advice for other projects on making […] The post Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog .
At the 25th IDEAS Social Innovation Incubator Showcase and Awards, 21 student-led ventures joined 1,200 alumni-led ventures tackling the world’s most pressing problems through social entrepreneurship.
In the Kotlin Ecosystem Mentorship Program pilot, mentors and mentees worked together on real Kotlin open-source projects to make their first meaningful community contribution. Four pairs successfully completed the two-month program, and one eligible pair was randomly selected in the prize drawing to receive the grand prize – a trip to KotlinConf 2026 in Munich! […]
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When a critical Linux kernel privilege escalation was publicly disclosed, Cloudflare's security and engineering teams detected, investigated, and mitigated the threat across our global fleet, confirming zero customer impact and no malicious exploitation.
Digital marketing optimization plays a major role in whether a marketing pro
Do people stop and watch your short-form videos, or do they scroll right past them? Wonder how others consistently engineer short-form videos that get watched, shared, and remembered? In this article, you'll discover how to leverage three psychological principles that make people stop scrolling to watch short-form videos. Why the Science of Attention Matters More […] The post The Science of Attention: Creating Short-Form Videos People Won’t Skip appeared first on Social Media Examiner .
With a novel design, MIT researchers overcame a stubborn problem that has limited the effectiveness of chip-based systems for lidar.
MIT economists found US companies tend to target employees earning a “wage premium,” which increases inequality but not necessarily productivity.
Introduction Ensuring the reliability of Apache Flink deployments in Grab is crucial for the availability of our business-critical, real-time applications. While all applications are tested in a staging environment before getting promoted to the production environment, there is still a class of issues that can only surface when deploying in the production environment, e.g.: The new version of the applica
One of the major differentiators unlocked by learned codecs relative to their hard-coded traditional counterparts is their ability to be optimized directly to appeal to the human visual system. Despite this potential, a perceptual yet practical image codec is yet to be proposed. In this work, we aim to close this gap. We conduct a comprehensive study of the key modeling choices that govern the design of a practical learned image codec, jointly optimized for perceptual quality and runtime — inclu
Get more flexible autogenerated sidebars, improved styling, and stronger multilingual docs support with the latest Starlight release.
In five days Anthropic's Q1 revenue grew 80-fold to a reported $44B annual run rate, the company committed $200B to Google Cloud, signed a SpaceX compute deal, shipped Claude Code Auto Mode, and launched ten financial-services agents with Jamie Dimon. In the same week the EU finally struck an AI Act compliance deal, the first union vote at a top AI lab landed at Google DeepMind, and Pennsylvania sued Character.AI for a chatbot that impersonated a licensed psychiatrist.
There is no formula for predicting the future. No formula for dealing with change. No formula for living a good life, for success, for great art, for writing a great book, or for producing a great film. Every time we reach one of those, even when following a formula, we have to break the pattern […]
On May 5, 2026, DENIC published broken DNSSEC signatures for the .de TLD, making millions of domains unreachable. Here's what 1.1.1.1 saw, how serve stale cushioned the impact, and how we restored resolution.
AWS announces the general availability of the AWS MCP Server, a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents and coding assistants secure, authenticated access to all AWS services. The AWS MCP Server is part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a suite of tooling that includes the MCP Server, skills, and plugins that help coding agents build more effectively and efficiently on AWS.
Amazon engineers and scientists have created new tools to optimize delivery networks under uncertainty — and keep them adapting without missing a beat.
<div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/brand-visibility" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/53/Brand%20Visibility.png" alt="Brand visibility dashboard showing cross-channel metrics from search to social to AI discovery" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p>Brand visibility determines whether your business
Explore how AlphaEvolve's Gemini-powered algorithms are driving impact across business, infrastructure, and science.
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Dave Evans. Dave is a Stanford educator, Silicon Valley pioneer, and co-creator of one of the most popular life design courses in the world. He helped design Apple’s first mouse, co-founded Electronic Arts, and later shifted [...] The post What Actually Makes Life Feel Meaningful Day to Day with Dave Evans appeared first on Guy Kawasaki .
An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.
Stateless auth, RLS-scoped clients, and CORS on the server, without the boilerplate.
The “MetaEase” technique provides a heads-up to potential scenarios that could cause long wait-times or outages.
A year ago, officials all but sneered at the idea of AI safety. A new frontier model has them reconsidering
Assistant Professor Gabriele Farina mines the foundations of decision-making in complex multi-agent scenarios.
