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Your final chance to grab your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is October 2
The last day to book your Disrupt 2026 exhibit table is this Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p. m.
TechCrunch AI · 4w ago
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Insurtech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round
The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.
TechCrunch AI · 4w ago
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The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes
I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and...
The Verge AI · 4w ago
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Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation
Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying 'we're just getting started. ' The company is now valued at $10 billion.
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TechCrunch AI · 4w ago
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Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’
Nvidia is launching a new safety platform designed to contain and monitor AI agents, a move that comes in response to a wave of rogue hacking incidents , as reported earlier by Reuters . In an...
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The Verge AI · 4w ago
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Functional Gradient Descent with Adaptive Representations
Sharing our recent work, now accepted at NeurIPS: Functional Gradient Descent with Adaptive Representations . Functional GD algorithms generally outperform neural nets, but are hard to accurately...
r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Qwen3-VL 8B on a laptop vs Opus 5.5 / Sonnet 5 / GPT-5.6 on 137 messy documents: beat GPT-5.6 on tax forms, lost badly on Indian date formats
I benchmarked Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct (Q4_K_M, Ollama, M5 24GB, ~30s/doc) against Claude Opus 5. 5, Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.
r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
The release "Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents" Sourced from Hugging Face Blog, this development showcases the rapid...
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Hugging Face Blog · 4w ago
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How can I turn an industry ML project into a publication?
Hi, I work as a Data Engineer at a manufacturing company where we build engines. A significant part of my work involves ML/DL-related tasks, and I’d like to turn one of my projects into a...
r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.
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OpenAI Blog · 4w ago
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Are there any good research papers around Text clustering using LLMs
Hi, same as the title, I am currently trying to begin with some research on clustering using LLMs. So my requirement is as follows: I will be given some 100 document files, the end goal is to...
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r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Free, open-source AI engineering course where you build each algorithm by hand: 523 lessons, now as EPUB/PDF books
AI Engineering from Scratch is an MIT-licensed curriculum: 523 lessons across 20 phases, from linear algebra and backprop to transformers, LLMs, agents, and production serving. The code is...
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r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Google Deepmind Optimization Roles
Saw this job posting recently from Deepmind where the minimum requirements are a Bachelor's and 2 years of experience: https://www. google.
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r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Are you a Codex Original?
We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. If you want to be a part of the next chapter of the Codex Originals...
OpenAI Blog · 4w ago
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Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5. 6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.
OpenAI Blog · 4w ago
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Welcome RL Environments to the hub
The release "Welcome RL Environments to the hub" Sourced from Hugging Face Blog, this development showcases the rapid convergence...
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Hugging Face Blog · 4w ago
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Two-stage shelf audit: YOLO finds the products, embeddings can't tell sibling SKUS apart. What should Stage 2 be?
Help: Project l'm building a shelf audit tool. A photo goes through YOLO, which crops each product, and then I embed the crop and search a small gallery of reference photos to get the SKU.
r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram . It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even...
The Verge AI · 4w ago
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Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump.
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TechCrunch AI · 4w ago
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Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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TechCrunch AI · 4w ago
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Are there machine learning subfields that are becoming irrelevant (or is irrelevant)?
I was reading a paper that surveyed the field of neural architecture search , where it said within 5 years, around 3000+ new models were proposed. The amount of compute and resources spent on...
r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
The United Nations logo on a gate outside the UN headquarters in New York. | AFP via Getty Images Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade...
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The Verge AI · 4w ago
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
In "Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment", Anthropic ..
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TechCrunch AI · 4w ago
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ClashRoyaleAi: an open-source, deterministic Clash Royale simulator for RL, with recurrent PPO, lookahead search and expert iteration
The opponent plans by simulation: every second it scores each candidate play by running the match 10 seconds ahead in the engine. Our PPO agent learned to park its Cannon behind its own King.
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r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Cut token consumption by 88% with deterministic image routing (P50: 59ms)
Recently I have been working on image attachment integration for my VEX agent runtime, and I came up with an idea for a significant optimization step. Typically images attached to LLM context as...
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r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Better, Faster, and More Calibrated than Jev, with Multi-Modal Ability
We published Intern-Decision multi-modal model family (0. 8B, 2B, 4B), and the 4B model outperformed Jev 1.
r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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I trained a 500M VLM that answers typed questions about an image (choice / score / yes-no) with calibrated probabilities. ~400 ms on an M1 Pro, no text generation
My apps kept needing a handful of decisions about one image: what kind of image is it, is it sharp, is a person in it, which of these four descriptions fits. A generative VLM can answer that, but...
r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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When do ICLR submissions and reviews become public?
Hi everyone, I have a question about ICLR’s open review process. I have experience with ICML/NeurIPS/AAAI, but this is my first time submitting to ICLR, and I understand that its public review...
r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Tauon: A new optimizer outperforming Muon on GPT-Mini (lower loss, ~8.5% faster step time)
Hey r/MachineLearning ! I’ve been working on a new optimizer called Tauon (turns out there is already "teon" but well if you have better idea, - i will gladly accept it!
r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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Teaching Neural Nets to Fight with RL
In this project I wanted to see if any interesting emergent behaviors would appear if we trained two agents to play a streetfighter-like game using RL. Maybe obvious in retrospect, but the agents...
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r/MachineLearning · 4w ago
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