AI & Tech

In this tutorial, we explore FAIRChem v2 and the UMA universal machine-learning interatomic potential as a unified framework for atomistic simulation across molecular chemistry, catalysis, and inorganic materials. We configure an environment, authenticate with Hugging Face to access the gated UMA model weights, and initialize task-specific calculators for the omol, oc20, and omat domains. We…

Monday.com, the Tel Aviv-based work management software company known for its colorful, customizable project-tracking boards, this week became the latest tech company to cite AI as a factor in job cuts. On Wednesday, the company said in an SEC filing that it will lay off about 20% of its workforce, or just over 600 employees,…

Sakana AI has released Fugu-Cyber (model ID is fugu-cyber-v1.0), a cybersecurity-specialized addition to its Fugu orchestration family. It is not just a new frontier model. It is a third endpoint on the Fugu orchestrator, tuned for security reasoning. Sakana launched that orchestrator a month earlier. Sakana reports a success rate…

Prediction market Kalshi sent Netflix a cease-and-desist letter on Friday demanding that the streaming service take down the trailer for an upcoming documentary. In the letter, Kalshi claimed the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.” “Instadocs: The Prediction Games” is a documentary about the rise of prediction markets….

Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit this week accusing Amazon of interference with contractual relations, breach of contract, and unfair competition. As reported by Deadline, the lawsuit alleges Amazon has been “hurriedly seeking to pirate away a number of contracted employees,” including Pia Barlow, an HBO Max marketing executive who recently joined Amazon MGM Studios….

A small group of AI researchers (Reactor) have released Open Dreamer, an open implementation of the Dreamer 4 world-model pipeline written in JAX and Flax NNX. What actually shipped Two repositories were released. next-state/open-dreamer holds the training pipeline: a causal video tokenizer, an action-conditioned latent dynamics model, rollout generation, and FVD scoring. reactor-team/open-dreamer holds a…

Over the last few decades, several mysterious hackers have captured the public’s imagination, but none quite like Phineas Fisher. A decade after their most famous hack, Phineas remains, by most accounts, the most prolific and public hacker never to have been caught.  As part of our series on the biggest cybersecurity mysteries of all time,  we’re delving…

Elon Musk’s tunneling startup The Boring Company is in talks to raise a $4 billion funding round at a valuation of $20 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal hasn’t closed and the terms could change, the WSJ says. At $20 billion, the valuation would be a significant increase from The Boring Company’s…

@tilelang.jit(out_idx=[-1]) def make_matmul(M: int, N: int, K: int, block_M: int = 128, block_N: int = 128, block_K: int = 32, num_stages: int = 3, threads: int = 128, use_swizzle: bool = False, dtype: str = “float16”, accum_dtype: str = “float”): @T.prim_func def main(A: T.Tensor((M, K), dtype), B: T.Tensor((K, N), dtype), C: T.Tensor((M, N), dtype)): with…

Illinois has chosen to move before Washington. Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act on July 6, 2026, adding transparency, accountability and audit requirements for the largest artificial intelligence developers. The law applies to companies generating more than $500 million in annual revenue and building models trained with massive computing power. It…