May 2026

Meta and Stanford Researchers Propose Fast Byte Latent Transformer That Reduces Inference Memory Bandwidth by Over 50% Without Tokenization

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A team of researchers from Meta, Stanford University, and the University of Washington have introduced three new methods that substantially accelerate generation in the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT) — a language model architecture that operates directly on raw bytes instead of tokens. Byte-Level Models Are Slow at Inference To understand what this new research solves, you need to understand the tradeoff at the center of byte-level language modeling. Most language models today work on tokens — chunks of […]

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Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices

Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices

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A new method developed by MIT researchers can accelerate a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence training method by about 81 percent. This advance could enable a wider array of resource-constrained edge devices, like sensors and smartwatches, to deploy more accurate AI models while keeping user data secure. The MIT researchers boosted the efficiency of a technique known as federated learning, which involves a network of connected devices that work together to train a shared AI model. In federated learning, the […]

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Building web search-enabled agents with Strands and Exa

Building web search-enabled agents with Strands and Exa

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This post is co written by Ishan Goswami and Nitya Sridhar from Exa. If you are building web search-enabled AI agents for research, fact-checking, or competitive intelligence, access to current and reliable information is critical. Most general-purpose search APIs are not designed for agent workflows. They return HTML-heavy pages and short snippets optimized for human browsing, not structured data that an agent can directly consume. As a result, developers often need to build additional layers, custom crawlers, parsers, […]

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After banning foreign routers, FCC says existing ones can get updates until 2029

After banning foreign routers, FCC says existing ones can get updates until 2029

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The Federal Communications Commission is relenting a bit on its restrictive router rules, saying it will allow foreign-made routers to receive software and firmware updates until at least January 1, 2029. The FCC also expanded the waiver to cover more types of software updates. Previously, the FCC said routers currently on the market or already sold to consumers could receive security patches and other updates only until March 1, 2027. On Friday, the agency announced a waiver extension […]

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Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months

Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months

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A curious case in Georgia serves as a warning for many parts of the US hastily approving data center developments without first updating their water systems to better monitor for severe upticks in usage. On Friday, Politico reported that one of the country’s biggest data center developments had guzzled nearly 30 million gallons of water without paying for it. Even worse, the water grab came at a time when nearby drought-stricken residents were warned to restrict their personal […]

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Understanding LLM Distillation Techniques 

Understanding LLM Distillation Techniques 

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Modern large language models are no longer trained only on raw internet text. Increasingly, companies are using powerful “teacher” models to help train smaller or more efficient “student” models. This process, broadly known as LLM distillation or model-to-model training, has become a key technique for building high-performing models at lower computational cost. Meta used its massive Llama 4 Behemoth model to help train Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, while Google leveraged Gemini models during the development of Gemma […]

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How to Build Technical Analysis and Backtesting Workflow with pandas-ta-classic, Strategy Signals, and Performance Metrics

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In this tutorial, we implement how to use pandas-ta-classic to build a complete technical analysis and trading strategy workflow. We start by installing the required libraries, downloading historical OHLCV stock data with yfinance, cleaning the returned data structure, and inspecting the available indicator categories inside the library. We then calculate popular indicators such as SMA, EMA, RSI, ATR, MACD, Bollinger Bands, candlestick patterns, and a custom distance-from-EMA feature. Also, we combine daily and weekly signals, create entry and […]

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Quoting James Shore

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Your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance costs. Three times as productive? One third the maintenance costs. Otherwise, you’re screwed. You’re trading a temporary speed boost for permanent indenture. […] The math only works if the LLM decreases your maintenance costs, and by exactly the inverse of the rate […]

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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain Excellent, angry piece by Jason Koebler on how AI writing online is becoming impossible to avoid, filtering it is mentally exhausting and it’s even starting to distort regular human writing styles. I particularly liked his use of the term “Zombie Internet” to define a different, more insidious alternative to the “Dead Internet” (which is just bots talking to each other): I called it the Zombie Internet because the truth is that […]

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Using LLM in the shebang line of a script

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TIL: Using LLM in the shebang line of a script Kim_Bruning on Hacker News: But seriously, you can put a shebang on an english text file now (if you’re sufficiently brave) […] This inspired me to look at patterns for doing exactly that with LLM. Here’s the simplest, which takes advantage of LLM fragments: #!/usr/bin/env -S llm -f Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle But you can also incorporate tool calls using the -T name_of_tool […]

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