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DropboxDropbox

Driving AI adoption at Dropbox: a conversation with CTO Ali Dasdan

Dropbox’s AI adoption journey highlights strategic leadership, tailored tooling, and a culture of collaboration to achieve over 90% AI integration across engineering workflows, transforming productivity and software development.

8/19/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Q&A with DoorDash’s CPO, Mariana Garavaglia

Mariana Garavaglia, DoorDash’s CPO, discusses how AI is transforming workforce productivity, literacy, and personalized employee development within the company's operator culture.

8/18/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models

MIT researchers employed sparse autoencoders and AI analysis to interpret the inner mechanisms of protein language models, revealing specific protein features they encode and enhancing model explainability for biological applications.

8/18/2025
Fly.ioFly.io

Trust Calibration for AI Software Builders

Effective trust calibration in AI software requires aligning user trust with system capabilities through adaptive mechanisms, timing strategies, transparency balance, and clear distinction between cooperative and delegative systems to enhance safety and usability.

8/18/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

How AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies

MIT researchers utilize AI-driven machine learning models to optimize lipid nanoparticle formulations, accelerating the development and efficacy of RNA vaccines and therapies for diverse medical applications.

8/15/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria

MIT researchers leveraged generative AI to design novel antibiotic compounds effective against drug-resistant bacteria like Neisseria gonorrhoeae and MRSA by exploring unprecedented chemical spaces and mechanisms.

8/14/2025
LyftLyft

Intern Experience at Lyft

Insights from Lyft data scientist interns reveal impactful projects on EV adoption and driver loyalty, emphasizing practical data science applications, collaborative culture, and career growth within Lyft's dynamic rideshare marketplace.

8/14/2025
AirbnbAirbnb

Migrating Airbnb’s JVM Monorepo to Bazel

Airbnb migrated their extensive JVM monorepo from Gradle to Bazel over 4.5 years, significantly improving build speed, reliability, and developer experience through automated build file generation, remote build execution, and sophisticated dependency management.

8/13/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Scaling accounting capacity with OpenAI

Basis leverages advanced OpenAI models, including GPT-5, to build AI agents that automate and enhance accounting workflows, enabling firms to save time and expand advisory capacity through improved reasoning, task delegation, and transparency.

8/12/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI’s letter to Governor Newsom on harmonized regulation

OpenAI urges Governor Newsom to lead harmonized AI regulations aligning state, federal, and global standards to foster innovation, ensure safety, and maintain US leadership in democratic AI development.

8/12/2025
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Pretraining Data Filtering for Open-Weight AI Safety

A comprehensive study demonstrating that scalable, multi-stage pretraining data filtering effectively reduces dangerous knowledge in open-weight large language models with minimal performance tradeoffs and tamper-resistant safeguards.

8/12/2025
Fly.ioFly.io

Games as Model Eval: 1-Click Deploy AI Town on Fly.io

Exploring gamified AI model evaluation through a one-click deploy of AI Town on Fly.io, highlighting dynamic behavioral insights beyond traditional benchmarks.

8/11/2025