Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data
WASHINGTON (AP) — A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials of the government-backed lending giant who warned it could expose the company to claims that it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates. Emails […]
Copyright Winter Is Coming (To Wikipedia?)
This is a guest post by Matthew Sag, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School. It was originally posted here, addressing Judge Stein’s Order Denying OpenAI’s Motion to Dismiss in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, Inc., No. 25-md-3143 (SHS) (OTW) (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 27, 2025). A […]
Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun Are Both Betting on ”World Models”
AI has finally reached the “we need to model the whole world” phase. In the same season, Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs shipped Marble, a “multimodal world model” that turns prompts into walkable 3D scenes in your browser, and reports emerged that Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to build a world-model startup of […]
HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
Team: William Hu, Drew Wadsworth, Sean Siddens, Stanley Winata, Daniel Fu, Ryan Swann, Muhammad Osama, Christopher Ré, Simran AroraLinks: Arxiv | Code AI is gated by hardware. We think that opening up AI’s compute landscape is one of the most important problems to be working on right now. Building towards this goal, we present HipKittens: […]
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How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS
This article is currently an experimental machine translation and may contain errors. If anything is unclear, please refer to the original Chinese version. I am continuously working to improve the translation. Introduction This blog post should be the final part of the “Running Your Own ISP at Home” series, and we’re going to talk about […]
Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Centuries
A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has confused Western readers for centuries, but a pair of researchers may have finally cracked how it’s really meant to work. Indigenous civilizations in Mexico and Guatemala kept calendars for more than two millennia before Europeans invaded the Americas, helping them to predict the timing of important […]
Apple Mini Apps Partner Program
How it works This program is designed for developers who host mini apps and games, which are experiences that are built using web technologies like HTML5 or JavaScript and distributed within a larger, native app. Participating apps are required to support certain App Store technologies, including the Declared Age Range API and the Advanced Commerce API […]
Spectral rendering, part 2: Real-time rendering
Published 2025-11-13 Based on the insights from part 1, we have the means to define illuminant and reflectance spectra for our scene data. Then the color of a pixel arises from an integral over a product of spectra. The main goal of this blog post is to find efficient ways to evaluate such integrals using […]
What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
Peter Matthiessen in New York City, 1961. Photograph by Ben Martin/Getty Images. When Peter Matthiessen’s name comes up in conjunction with The Paris Review, two facts are sure to emerge. The first is that Matthiessen was one of the magazine’s founders, and that his enchantingly shabby Paris apartment provided a bumptious gathering place in its […]