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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.