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Prefill Is Compute-Bound. Decode Is Memory-Bound. Why Your GPU Shouldn’t Do Both.

Inside disaggregated LLM inference — the architecture shift behind 2-4x cost reduction that most ML teams haven't adopted yet. The post Prefill Is Compute-Bound. Decode Is Memory-Bound. Why Your GPU Shouldn’t Do Both. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

5 Practical Tips for Transforming Your Batch Data Pipeline into Real-Time: Upcoming Webinar

Bringing your batch pipeline to real-time requires careful consideration. This post brings you five practical tips to make the most of your modernization efforts. Join us for an upcoming webinar to learn even more. The post 5 Practical Tips for Transforming Your Batch Data Pipeline into Real-Time...

Citizen developers now have their own Wingman

A vibe-coding application creation company, Emergent, has released Wingman, an autonomous agent that can address and take control of the applications used to manage daily tasks. The company’s press release states: “The best technology should be accessible to everyone”, and cites the difficulty th...

Funding Lays Groundwork for Orbital’s AI Data Centers in Space

The 2026 startup is among a host of new companies looking to turn the space vision into reality.

After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI

Allbirds is ditching wool sneakers for AI servers, rebranding as NewBird AI after locking in a $50M convertible financing facility.

What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?

For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a blind alley.

Blue Origin has a new employee stock plan, but not everyone is happy

"We are being intentional about creating liquidity events."

From Pixels to DNA: Why the Future of Compression Is About Every Kind of Data

It’s not about audio and video anymore The post From Pixels to DNA: Why the Future of Compression Is About Every Kind of Data appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Emails Reveal Space Force’s Hardest Mission Is Writing a Song

Internal Space Force emails obtained by 404 Media show the work it takes to have a government agency make a new theme song. A general even wanted to start the whole thing over again.

It's Tax Day, and no one knows how to file for prediction market winnings

It's time for Americans to pay taxes on prediction market winnings, but no one knows how.

Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind Partner on Industrial AI

The vendors are using Google Gemini to bring more autonomous capabilities to Boston Dynamics’ industrial inspection systems.

Reid Hoffman weighs in on the ‘tokenmaxxing’ debate

Reid Hoffman says tracking AI token use can gauge adoption, but cautions it should be paired with context and not treated as a direct productivity metric.

Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant can use Creative Cloud apps to complete tasks

Adobe says the assistant can work across apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and its other apps to do tasks for you.

Gitar, a startup that uses agents to secure code, emerges from stealth with $9 million

The company uses AI to review code that, more often than not these days, has also been generated by AI.

This startup is betting tokenmaxxing will create the next compute giant

Parasail raised $32 million in a Series A, signaling a fractured future of models and compute.

Podcast: How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages

How a phone's notification database can store messages deleted elsewhere; the continued data center pushback; and Marathon, Marathon, Marathon.

Inside VAKRA: Reasoning, Tool Use, and Failure Modes of Agents

From OpenStreetMap to Power BI: Visualizing Wild Swimming Locations

How to turn OpenStreetMap data into an interactive map of wild swimming spots using Overpass API and Power BI. The post From OpenStreetMap to Power BI: Visualizing Wild Swimming Locations appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Drones get smarter for large farm holdings

Singapore-based DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to be called GEODASH Aerosystems, to build an agricultural spraying drone for large industrial farms. The companies say the near-production drone technology is designed to remove the need to map a field to be treated b...

The US-China AI gap closed. The responsible AI gap didn’t

The assumption that the US holds a durable lead in AI model performance is not well-supported by the data, and that is just one of the uncomfortable findings in Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index Report, published this week. The report, produced by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centred Artifici...