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The New York TimesThe New York Times

Developing an Internal Tool for Our Puzzle Editor

A detailed overview of designing and implementing the Connections Reference Dashboard, a Vue.js and Flask-based internal tool enhancing puzzle editor workflow through efficient data caching, dynamic search capabilities, and an intuitive UI.

6/2/2025
StripeStripe

Global Payouts: A new way to send money directly to third parties

Global Payouts by Stripe streamlines and secures cross-border money transfers to third parties with multi-currency support, no-code integrations, and fraud protection.

6/2/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

3 Questions: How to help students recognize potential bias in their AI datasets

Strategies to educate students on identifying and addressing biases in AI training datasets, emphasizing critical thinking and diverse perspectives for more equitable healthcare models.

6/2/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Teaching AI models the broad strokes to sketch more like humans do

SketchAgent leverages multimodal language models to mimic human-like, stroke-by-stroke sketching, enabling collaborative and natural visual communication between AI and users.

6/2/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study

MIT researchers leverage AI and large language models to identify sustainable cement alternatives in concrete, enabling reduced emissions and cost savings through efficient material selection and circular economy principles.

6/2/2025
Fly.ioFly.io

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

A candid exploration of the transformative impact of large language models and AI agents on software development, addressing skepticism, practical benefits, and the evolving role of developers.

6/2/2025
PinterestPinterest

Healthier Personalization with Surveys

Pinterest leverages user surveys to enable healthier personalization that balances engagement and wellbeing, creating more relevant and inspiring content while avoiding pitfalls of depersonalized or purely engagement-based feeds.

5/30/2025
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Product Key Memory Sparse Coders

Product Key Memory (PKM) sparse coders offer a faster training alternative to traditional TopK skip transcoders with comparable reconstruction error and improved interpretability through natural latent grouping.

5/30/2025
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Building the Data Development Platform for Specialized AI

Snorkel AI unveils two new products—Snorkel Evaluate and Expert Data-as-a-Service—offering enterprises a unified platform to develop, evaluate, and deploy specialized, expert-level agentic AI systems with scalable, trustable data solutions.

5/29/2025
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Data-Centric Development of an Enterprise AI Agent with Snorkel

Leveraging Snorkel's AI Data Development Platform, this post details the data-centric creation, evaluation, and tuning of a specialized enterprise AI underwriting agent using benchmark datasets, custom evaluators, and reinforcement learning.

5/29/2025
PinterestPinterest

Modernizing Home Feed Pre-Ranking Stage

A comprehensive overview of enhancing the Pinterest home feed pre-ranking stage through advanced model architectures, efficient system design, and unbiased training data pipelines to significantly improve user engagement and recommendation quality.

5/29/2025
Lambda LabsLambda Labs

Qwen3 32B is available on Lambda's Inference API

Qwen3 32B, a 32-billion parameter dense LLM with hybrid reasoning, multilingual support, and agentic capabilities, is now accessible via Lambda's cost-efficient Inference API for advanced coding, reasoning, and multi-task applications.

5/29/2025