Bootcamps, work trials, token burn: Inside the recruiting practices at the hottest AI coding startups

At Replit, X profiles have become the "main medium" for recruiting, said the company's chief people officer.
Center for Strategic and International Studies

What to Know About Chinese AI Models

Chinese AI models are rapidly closing the gap with U.S. frontier systems. This analysis examines what their growing ...
Scientific American

Resistance training may boost longevity. But how much do you need?

Science shows that regular strength training—whether it be weight lifting or other forms of resistance work—can boost mental health, stave off disease and increase bone and muscle mass, all of which ...
Wired

Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...
VentureBeat

Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 AI that can see and understand what's happening in a video — especially a live feed — is understandably an attractive product to lots of ...
Business Wire

Perceptron AI Launches Physical AI Model That Matches Frontier Labs at a Fraction of the Cost

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perceptron AI today announced the launch of its model purpose-built for video understanding and embodied reasoning. It delivers performance competitive with leading ...
TechCrunch

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
The Washington Post

Strength training is hot right now. Here’s how to do it properly.

Strengthmaxxing, like spring, is in the air right now. Everywhere you look, someone’s lifting. Celebrities, influencers, scientists, aging, shirtless rock stars and Cabinet secretaries all seem to be ...
The Washington Post

Schools are teaching AI — and making a massive mistake

Jenny Anderson, a journalist, is author of the Substack “How to Be Brave.” Rebecca Winthrop is director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and author of the newsletter ...
Self

‘Adult Sleep Training’ Is on the Rise. Here’s Who It’s for—and How to Do It

Veronica Smith couldn’t sleep. As a freshman in college, she found herself tossing and turning all night, every night. “I would feel just drained, low energy, hard time concentrating,” she tells SELF.