Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town
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
Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced technologies. Now researchers are pushing its boundaries even further, with potential breakthroughs in energy, medicine, computing, and our understanding of the universe.
AI-powered social media can subtly manipulate opinion at scale
AI tools used to generate, edit or contextualize social media posts can introduce hidden biases that spread through online networks and shape public opinion, according to new research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam.
Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams
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
The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to go before they deliver energy at a meaningful scale.
Context vs. Memory Engineering in Agentic AI Systems
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
I’ve been quiet since November because I’ve been building. Over the past few months, AI has moved so quickly that the barrier between an idea and a high-powered system has essentially vanished. Even as a non-developer, I’ve found that working with AI is like having a small team of A-level developers who work for $40 …
Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back
Multi-agent LLM systems are increasingly deployed as autonomous collaborators, where agents interact freely rather than execute fixed, pre-specified workflows. In such settings, effective coordination cannot be fully designed in advance and must instead emerge through interaction. However, most prior work enforces coordination through fixed roles, workflows, or aggregation rules, leaving open the question of how …
Managing Elasticsearch Reindex at Scale: Performance, Reliability, and Observability
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a series exploring how Palantir customizes infrastructure software for reliable operation at scale. The following is a guest contribution to the Foundations series from the Gotham Core Platform organization, which builds and maintains the bedrock for mission-critical applications within the Gotham ecosystem. This blog post by Kevin Liang, …
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GenPage: Towards End-to-End Generative Homepage Construction at Netflix
Authors: Lequn Wang, Jiangwei Pan, and Linas Baltrunas Figure 1. Autoregressive homepage generation. GenPage builds a Netflix homepage one row or entity at a time, each one conditioned on what’s already on the page and the user’s context. Introduction The Netflix homepage is the first thing users see when they open the app and the primary …
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