It was my pleasure to host @Masdar CEO Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi and his team at @Caltech We talked about physical AI and its role for next-generation energy systems
COMPUTING
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Gemini API Caching Infrastructure Major Updates Shipped
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We just shipped major updates to the Gemini API caching infrastructure – Video's that hit the cache are 3x faster TTFT
– PDF's that hit the cache are 4x faster TTFT
– Closed the speed gap on implicit vs explicit cache
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Google Gemini API Launches Caching Feature for Developers
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Learn more about caching in the Gemini API: https://
ai.google.dev/gemini-api/doc
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Challenge: o3 identifies street from Lorde’s ‘Hammer’ lyrics via SHA1 hashes
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o3 names street x mentioned in the lyrics of song y by solo female artist z, given the last four chars of the SHA1 hashes of x, y, and z. Note the answer for y — Lorde’s “Hammer” — was just released yesterday.
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Software Innovation Plateau: Lack of Recent Changes
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this is a fair way of looking at things imo the software hasn’t changed much in a while
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Smart Health Agent: GPU-Accelerated Multi-Agent System for Real-Time Monitoring
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Smart Health Agent A GPU-accelerated multi-agent system providing real-time health monitoring with personalized insights. Built with LangGraph to orchestrate agents that process health metrics and environmental data. Check it out here https://
github.com/jayrodge/ai-ag
ents/tree/main/smart_health_agent
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Technology Outsources Our Cognitive Processing Abilities
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Every new form of information technology makes us dumber in very specific ways, as we outsource some of our processing to the technology. People seemed to think cellphones might make us dumber as we didn’t have to remember numbers (but that remembering passwords would save us)
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Europe’s First Industrial AI Cloud Launches with Siemens NVIDIA
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Europe’s First Industrial AI Cloud Is Live @Siemens + NVIDIA are launching it in Germany, powered by 10K+ GPUs. Why it matters: Helps Europe’s manufacturers simulate, automate and optimize at scale.
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PyTorch Training Resilience During Infrastructure Failures
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the model keeps on training even when the underlying infra keeps failing….out-of-the-box PyTorch
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WSDM 2009 Talk Slides on Google Search System Evolution
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A set of slides from a talk I gave at WSDM 2009 describes some aspects of our search system evolution up to then: https://
static.googleusercontent.com/media/research
.google.com/en//people/jeff/WSDM09-keynote.pdf
… of talk: