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MIT AIMIT AI

This “smart coach” helps LLMs switch between text and code

CodeSteer, a lightweight LLM developed by MIT, enhances larger LLMs' problem-solving accuracy by intelligently steering them to alternate between text reasoning and code generation for complex symbolic tasks.

7/17/2025
DuolingoDuolingo

8 baseball idioms in everyday English

Explore 8 common baseball idioms used in everyday American English to enhance your language skills and cultural understanding.

7/17/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Quicksilver v2: evolution of a globally distributed key-value store (Part 2)

Quicksilver V2 introduces a tiered caching architecture with local, sharded, and storage-level caches to efficiently scale a global key-value store while minimizing disk usage and maximizing cache hit rates.

7/17/2025
InstacartInstacart

Introducing PIXEL: Instacart’s Unified Image Generation Platform

PIXEL is Instacart's unified AI-powered image generation platform that streamlines producing high-quality, customized food product visuals at scale by integrating multiple models, prompt engineering, automated quality evaluation, and seamless infrastructure integration.

7/17/2025
PinterestPinterest

Debugging the One-in-a-Million Failure: Migrating Pinterest’s Search Infrastructure to Kubernetes

Pinterest's migration of its Manas search infrastructure to Kubernetes uncovered rare but severe latency spikes caused by cAdvisor's memory tracking overhead, leading to a targeted fix disabling a costly metric to restore stable performance.

7/16/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

How to more efficiently study complex treatment interactions

MIT researchers developed a probabilistic, multiround experimental framework that optimizes treatment dosages to efficiently and unbiasedly study complex combinatorial treatment interactions with minimal error rates.

7/16/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering

A comprehensive study highlights the current challenges and future research directions for advancing AI-driven autonomous software engineering beyond code generation to tackle real-world complexities and human-AI collaboration.

7/16/2025
MetaMeta

Using AI to make lower-carbon, faster-curing concrete

Meta's open-source AI tool uses Bayesian optimization to design stronger, faster-curing, and low-carbon concrete mixes, accelerating sustainable construction in data centers.

7/16/2025
Lambda LabsLambda Labs

Accelerate Your AI Workflow with FP4 Quantization on Lambda

Leverage FP4 quantization on Lambda's NVIDIA HGX B200 clusters to dramatically enhance AI model efficiency, throughput, and scalability while reducing memory and energy consumption.

7/16/2025
DuolingoDuolingo

Duolingo enters licensing world to bring Duo & friends to real life

Duolingo is launching a licensing division led by industry veteran Elena Vrska to bring its characters like Duo into real-world products and experiences, expanding beyond the app.

7/16/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Explore your Cloudflare data with Python notebooks, powered by marimo

Leverage marimo's reactive Python notebooks integrated with Cloudflare for seamless data exploration, authentication, and scalable deployment via Containers and WebAssembly.

7/16/2025
Modular AIModular AI

Modular: AI Agents for AWS Marketplace

Modular Inc. introduces MAX High-Performance GenAI Serving and MAX Code Repo Agent in AWS Marketplace, offering cutting-edge AI infrastructure and productivity tools with 10x inference speed improvements and cross-platform GPU support.

7/16/2025