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Although visitors to an event like TechEx North America will always want to see the cutting edge front and centre stage, the nuance and detail brought to the show by the speakers and exhibitors mean that it’s sometimes the smaller considerations that need to play big – at least, in the minds of enterprise decision-makers. Across the different tracks of Edge Computing, IoT, Data Centre Congress, and Cyber Security, the question was about what needs to be built […]

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I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, attempting to summarize the last six months of developments in LLMs in five minutes. # Six months is a pretty convenient time period to cover, because it captures what I’ve been calling the November 2025 inflection point. November was a critical month in […]

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The following is a joint announcement by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and IBM. IBM and MIT today announced the launch of the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, advancing their long-standing collaboration to shape the next era of computing. The new lab expands its scope to include quantum computing, alongside foundational artificial intelligence research, with the goal of unlocking new computational approaches that go beyond the limits of today’s classical systems. The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab builds on […]

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As LLM-powered agents move from research to production, one design tension is becoming harder to ignore: the more useful cloud-hosted memory becomes, the more private user data it exposes. Researchers from MemTensor (Shanghai), HONOR Device and Tongji University have introduced MemPrivacy, a framework that attempts to resolve this tension without sacrificing the utility that makes personalized memory worthwhile in the first place. The Core Problem With Cloud Memory When you interact with an AI agent, your conversation often […]

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The Ebola outbreak first reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday has seemingly escalated quickly into a large, uncontrolled multinational outbreak. As of May 17, there were 10 confirmed cases, 336 suspected cases, and 88 deaths in the DRC, as well as two confirmed cases and one death in neighboring Uganda, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has offices in the region. The numbers already put […]

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An attempt to pressure Meta into removing a critical post from a Chicago Facebook group called “Are We Dating the Same Guy” may end in sanctions for lawyers whose takedown arguments appeared to rely on fake AI citations to support doxing claims. The case had already been dismissed with prejudice by a district court, which ruled there was no way to amend the complaint to possibly save it. But Nikko D’Ambrosio—who accused more than two dozen women of […]

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Modern language models are trained on data with extremely uneven token distributions. A small number of words appear in almost every sentence, while many rare but meaningful tokens occur only occasionally. This creates a hidden optimization challenge: parameters associated with common tokens receive constant gradient updates, while parameters tied to rare tokens may go hundreds or thousands of steps without receiving any meaningful signal. Under standard Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), every parameter uses the same learning rate, so […]

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