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Those building or operating AI projects can hardly keep up with the rapid developments. The conference Mastering AI, organized by iX-Magazin, helps with orientation on 28th and 29th April 2027 in Karlsruhe. The Call for Proposals is open until 19th November 2026. Read more after the ad Mastering AI covers current topics such as Agentic AI, LLMs, multimodal models, computing infrastructure, and more. Equally important are safety, data protection, and regula

Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaGenome 2. The AI model predicts how DNA changes affect gene activity in different cell types and states. Google hopes to gain insights into disease causes and potential targets for new drugs. Read more after the ad Almost all body cells possess the same DNA. Depending on their function, different genes are active within them. This applies, for example, to heart muscle cells or immune cells that fight infections. How smal

American companies that also supply OpenAI, Anthropic & Co. likely also sell their training data to Chinese AI companies. This often involves Reinforcement Learning Environments, which play a major role in determining how well an AI performs a task. Read more after the ad Reinforcement Learning (RL) occurs after the pre-training of the model and ensures that an AI model becomes really good at a task – for example, "operating Slack" – through repeated pract

Layers are a successful model in software architecture, or at least they are commonly used. But in reality, this approach often has its own challenges. Read more after the ad In this episode, we discuss the basic ideas behind the layer model and various uses: for example, the three-layer architecture or the Anticorruption Layer from Domain-driven Design. The focus is particularly on the question of when layers actually decouple and when they merely cause a

On November 12, 2026, IC China was held in Beijing. Luo Xiaodong, Vice President of CXL Technology, pointed out in his speech that the AI computing power wave is reshaping the storage industry landscape, with the industry super cycle entering the "layered" phase; whether enterprises can cover layered demands with full-stack capabilities has become the key to competition.In his view, the first layer of stratification is reflected in the market structure: se

On the evening of November 9, Chen Lin, former senior vice president of ByteDance and former CEO of Toutiao and Dali Education, officially launched his re-startup project "Galaxy Smart Learning" with an article titled "Why Do I Still Want to Do Education?" which attracted widespread attention in the industry: In today's era where large model capabilities are becoming increasingly general, what kind of AI education product does Chen Lin's team intend to cre

ComfyUI's main use cases are image and video generation, but it also supports text generation using LLMs or VLMs to improve prompt quality and create video stories. From version 0.40.0 to 0.45.0, ComfyUI has been optimizing text generation processes, achieving more than double the generation speed compared to previous versions. Doubling LLM token rates in ComfyUI - by rattus128 https://blog.comfy.org/p/doubling-llm-token-rates-in-comfyui While the performa

TV manufacturers are collecting users' viewing information using a feature called "Automatic Content Recognition (ACR)" and there are survey results indicating that data collection continues even when ACR is disabled. In response to this situation, overseas media outlet The Verge sent a questionnaire to TV manufacturers regarding data collection and published the answers. I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you | The Verge http

In today's era, where all data and systems that a company possesses are digitized and the use of AI is advancing, data centers that store massive amounts of data have become the core of the company.Michael Bacarella, who worked at the financial trading company Jane Street, recounts a near-miss incident where the data center was almost flooded due to a "false alarm" from the sprinkler system. How a false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street’s only NYC dat

November 11th is "Caregiver's Day." In the face of an aging population, the caregiving industry is confronting a serious shortage of personnel. The younger workforce that is supposed to take on caregiving services is decreasing, and dissatisfaction with the workload and wage levels is accelerating turnover. In an effort to address these issues, new technologies that support the caregiving frontline are being developed and introduced. Enactic, a start-up co

On November 11, prefectures and designated cities across the country selling lottery tickets announced that it is possible that a third party logged in to some members' accounts on the temporarily suspended "Lottery Official Website" and viewed member information including the results of purchased tickets. They mentioned the possibility of a "list-based attack," where a third party attempts to log in using email addresses and passwords obtained from outsid

Zhi东西（WeChat official account: zhidxcom） Author | Cheng Qian Editor | Xin Yuan Zhi东西 11月11日消息，今日，Baidu released its first post-training version of the base model ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, named ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview. The model has a total of 280B parameters and 14B activation parameters, supports million-context, and generates at a speed exceeding 200 tokens per second. According to the benchmark test results released by Baidu, ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview outper

Zhi东西（WeChat official account: zhidxcom） compiled | Sun Xiaowen edited | Cheng Xi Zhi东西 reported on November 12, that yesterday, the UK AI inference chip unicorn Fractile announced that it has completed a $720 million C round of financing. This round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Google's CapitalG and the UK National AI Venture Fund Sovereign AI. The company's post-money valuation reached $7 billion,

▲Image generated by AI @zhidxcom@zhidxcom Author | Li Shuiqing Editor | Xin Yuan Zhidx.com reported on November 12, 2026, that on November 11, the Beijing Bureau of Industry and Information Technology released the "Action Plan for High-Quality Development of Embodied Intelligent Robotics Industry (2026-2028)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"). ▲Announcement of the "Action Plan" The "Action Plan" proposes that by 2028, Beijing aims to cultivate

Zhi东西（WeChat official account: zhidxcom） Author | Sanbei Editor | Mo Ying Recently, a staff member from a company providing intelligent computing cloud services told Zhi东西 that in the past half year, customer demand points have changed significantly: previously, they asked "how much is one card, how long can it be rented", but now the questions have become "how much does one million Tokens cost, can the task run stably?" The change in questions reflects an

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Dr. Deng Shujun, Chief Scientist of Galaxy Smart Learning, delivers a keynote speech On the evening of November 9th, Chen Lin, former senior vice president of ByteDance and former CEO of Toutiao and Dali Education, officially launched his new venture "Galaxy Smart Learning" with a speech titled "Why Do I Still Want to Do Education?" which sparked widespread industry attention: In today's era where large models' capabilities are becoming increasingly genera

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Small town politicians are learning the hard way that when Americans say no to data centers, they mean it. In Festus, Missouri — a sleepy town of roughly 12,700 residents — the backlash was so great that residents ousted half their city council after they approved a $6 billion data center development against the public will. According to Politico, the uproar caused by the data center appr