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📊 Using MemAlign to Improve Evaluation of Traditional Machine Learning in Genie Code

Recently announced Genie Code is Databricks’ autonomous AI partner purpose built for data work. ...

📰 Source: Databricks
🔗 Link: https://www.databricks.com/blog/using-memalign-improve-evaluation-traditional-machine-learning-genie-code

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Using MemAlign to Improve Evaluation of Traditional Machine Learning in Genie Code

We built LLM judges to evaluate Genie Code's ML notebooks, found they disagreed with human experts, and used MemAlign to cut judge error by 74-89%.

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📊 How Superhuman and Databricks built a 200K QPS inference platform together

From analytics partners to real-time inference partnersSuperhuman, the productivity...

📰 Source: Databricks
🔗 Link: https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-superhuman-and-databricks-built-200k-qps-inference-platform-together

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How Superhuman and Databricks built a 200K QPS inference platform together

Superhuman began serving its grammar correction model via Databricks’ Foundation Model API, handling>200K QPS with p99 latency under 1s. Through a close engineering partnership with Databricks, both teams optimized runtime performance to deliver a 60% throughput gain, while maintaining 4 9’s of availability

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📰 Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Security researcher Dor Zvi and his team at the cybersecurity firm he cofounded, RedAccess, analyzed thousands of vibe-coded web applications created...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/08/1731257/thousands-of-vibe-coded-apps-expose-corporate-and-personal-data-on-the-open-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Security researcher Dor Zvi and his team at the cybersecurity firm he cofounded, RedAccess, analyzed thousands of vibe-coded web applications created using the AI software development tools Lovable, Replit, Base44, and Netlify and found more than 5,000...

🤖 AI tooling is starting to feel like PC modding culture

I think local AI setups are about to split into two completely different communities. One side cares about actual production workflows: agents automation APIs inference efficiency data quality repr...

📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1t7gfud/ai_tooling_is_starting_to_feel_like_pc_modding/

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📰 AI Hard Drive Shortage Makes Archiving the Internet Harder

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivist...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/05/08/1619212/ai-hard-drive-shortage-makes-archiving-the-internet-harder?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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AI Hard Drive Shortage Makes Archiving the Internet Harder - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives...