Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town

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Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson.

Quantum mechanics once baffled scientists. Now it’s changing the world

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Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced technologies.…

AI-powered social media can subtly manipulate opinion at scale

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AI tools used to generate, edit or contextualize social media posts can introduce hidden biases that spread through online networks…

Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams

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The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán will join Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.

3 Nuclear Startups Hit a Big Milestone. Why It Matters—and Why It Doesn’t

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The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to…

Context vs. Memory Engineering in Agentic AI Systems

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Compression on Arrival Tool outputs should be compressed after a call returns, not after the window fills.

Why I disappeared for 3 Months & What’s Next

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I’ve been quiet since November because I’ve been building.Over the past few months, AI has moved so quickly that the…

Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back

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Multi-agent LLM systems are increasingly deployed as autonomous collaborators, where agents interact freely rather than execute fixed, pre-specified workflows. In…

Managing Elasticsearch Reindex at Scale: Performance, Reliability, and Observability

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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a series exploring how Palantir customizes infrastructure software for reliable operation at scale.The…

GenPage: Towards End-to-End Generative Homepage Construction at Netflix

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Authors: Lequn Wang, Jiangwei Pan, and Linas BaltrunasFigure 1. Autoregressive homepage generation. GenPage builds a Netflix homepage one row or…