Best Ai For Autonomous Systems Podcasts (2025)

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Metal–Organic Frameworks: Rooms for Chemistry — The 2025 Nobel Prize and the Design of Porous Crystals 6:49

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A primer on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs): crystalline, porous networks built from metal clusters (SBUs) and organic linkers. We unpack the idea of 'reticular chemistry'—designing molecular 'rooms' atom by atom—and trace the milestones from early four-arm structures to stable, highly porous MOFs. We explore why MOFs offer tunable pores, shapes, a…

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Faroe Odyssey: From Gaelic Roots to Autonomous Seas 5:48

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We trace the Faroe Islands’ thousand-year journey—from early Gaelic settlement and Norse-era connections to Danish rule, the suppression and revival of the Faroese language, and the rebirth of the Løgting. Explore how WWII’s de facto self-government and the pivotal 1948 Home Rule reshaped modern autonomy, and why the 1973 decision to stay out of th…

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ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones; also, North Korean hackers stole over $2 billion in crypto 8:37

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement paid eight hundred twenty five thousand dollars earlier this year to a company that manufactures vehicles equipped with various technologies for law enforcement, including fake cellphone towers known as “cell-site simulators,” which can be used to spy on nearby phones. Also, hackers working for the North Kor…

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From Data to Delivery: Real-world solutions transforming our road network 30:01

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This week on Highways Voices we talk to both the public and private sector about the challenges facing, and the solutions helping, our industry today. We're at the LCRIG Strictly Highways event in Blackpool to hear fresh insights into how collaboration between local authorities, government, and the supply chain is unlocking new efficiencies and inn…

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Quantum Tunneling: From Nuclei to Qubits 5:21

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Deloitte goes all in on AI — despite having to issue a hefty refund for use of AI; plus Taylor Swift fans accuse singer of using AI in her Google scavenger hunt videos 6:40

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Recurrence and Attention for Long-Context Transformers with Jacob Buckman - #750 57:23

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The Amplituhedron: Geometry at the Heart of Quantum Scattering 5:28

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FOXP3 and the Peacekeepers: Unraveling Peripheral Immune Tolerance 5:53

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Regulatory T Cells: The Immune System's Peacekeepers 6:47

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AMD to supply 6GW of compute capacity to OpenAI in chip deal worth tens of billions 6:37

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Waffles eat Bluesky, plus Suspect arrested after threats against TikTok’s Culver City headquarters 7:12

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X-Rays: The Accident That Changed Medicine 5:47

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Tesla’s insurance arm accused of ‘egregious delays’ and ‘systemic failures’ by CA regulator; also, Bezos predicts that millions will live in space in ‘couple of decades’ 6:33

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California's Department of Insurance has been warning Tesla to fix its claims process since 2022, but consumer complaints have skyrocketed anyways. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a rare public appearance at Italian Tech Week in Turin on Friday and used the opportunity to predict that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of…

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The Role of AI in Reducing Revenue Risk and Improving Accuracy - with Andy Byrne at Clari 19:14

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Today’s guest is Andy Byrne, Founder and CEO of Clari, returns to share early findings from Clari’s upcoming report on AI in revenue operations. The headline: 2024 was tough — only 33% of revenue leaders hit plan — yet 91% expect to hit 2025 targets, largely due to AI. Andy breaks down how leaders are using predictive AI to surface risk and momentu…

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The Venus Flytrap Unplugged: How a Plant Counts, Catches, and Feeds 6:26

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A deep-dive into the Venus flytrap’s bioelectric engine: a 0.1-second snap driven by action potentials, a two-trigger rule to avoid false alarms, and a counting mechanism that gates digestion. Learn how endocytotic uptake and jasmonic acid signals, repurposed from plant defense, fuel rapid digestion, while sodium helps maintain turgor. We’ll explor…

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Ubicomp and the Invisible Computer 4:33

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We trace Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing—the third wave where one person is surrounded by many computers. From sensors and IoT to AI and cloud, we explore how context-aware systems learn and adapt, making technology disappear into everyday life. We’ll also tackle the privacy and governance questions that arise when the environment beco…

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Ion Channels: The Tiny Gates Powering Life 6:34

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A clear, fast-paced tour of ion channels—the membrane gates that make nerves fire, hearts beat, and hormones release. We’ll unpack the electrochemical gradient, the selectivity filter that distinguishes potassium from sodium, and how voltage- and ligand-gated signals open or close these channels. Explore pharmacology and diseases like cystic fibros…

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Bone Breakers of the Sky: The Bearded Vulture's Bone-Eating Mastery 6:36

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Discover how the bearded vulture survives on bones alone. We explore its bone-breaking drop technique, ultra-acid digestion, and iron-dyed plumage, and see how myth and modern conservation intertwine to keep this remarkable specialist thriving. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical…

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OEIS A000375: Topswops and the Quest for the Maximum Steps 5:30

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We explore A000375, the maximum number of topswaps needed to bring the card 1 to the top in any n-card deck under Conway's Topswaps. We explain the simple rules, the termination proof via the Wilf number, and the sharp Fibonacci upper bound φ(n) ≤ F_{n+1} proved by Murray Klamkin. We also cover the Morales–Sudborough quadratic lower bound, the open…

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Apple removes ICEBlock and similar tracking apps from the App Store; also, Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases 6:10

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A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims, threatening to release about a billion records stolen from companies who store their customers’ data in cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. Apple has removed ICEBlock and other apps from its App Store that allow users to anonymously report sight…

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ECO Carbon Concrete: A Fractal Nanogrid Powers the Building 5:15

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What if the concrete that holds up our cities could also store energy? MIT's ECO carbon concrete embeds a fractal network of carbon at the nanoscale that turns cement into a supercapacitor. In this episode we explain how hydration wires the network together, how researchers mapped it with FIB-SEM tomography, and how electrolyte choice—from organic …

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Hackers are sending extortion emails to executives after claiming Oracle apps’ data breach; also, OpenAI is the world’s most valuable private company 5:38

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Google says hackers associated with a prolific ransomware group are sending extortion emails to executives at “numerous” large organizations after claiming to have stolen their sensitive information from a suite of business software products developed by Oracle. Also, OpenAI has sold 6.6 billion dollars in shares held by current and former employee…

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Black Hole Thermodynamics: Entropy on the Horizon 5:35

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We trace the birth of black hole thermodynamics: Bekenstein’s area-entropy conjecture, Hawking’s discovery of black hole radiation, and the four laws of black hole mechanics. We’ll unpack the generalized second law, the deep link between surface gravity and temperature, area and entropy, and how these insights underlie the holographic principle and…

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Hollywood is not taking kindly to the AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, plus, Apple is shelving Vision Pro overhaul to focus on AI glasses 4:24

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London-based actress Tilly Norwood has about 40 thousand Instagram followers. One thing to know though is she’s not real. She is an AI-generated character created by Xicoia, the AI division of the production company Particle6. Also, Apple is sidelining plans to overhaul its Vision Pro VR glasses to focus on developing AI smart glasses that can comp…

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OEIS A000373: The Free Commutative Moufang Loop, Exponent 3, and the Identity That Determines Its Dimension 5:04

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We explore A000373, the conjectured dimensions of a module tied to the free commutative Moufang loop (CML) with exponent 3. From Yuminin’s question about the free CML’s order to Smith’s early formula, and from Grishkov–Shestakov’s 2011 counterexamples to the triple-argument hypothesis, the landscape shifted: higher-term values aren’t fixed by a sin…

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The Z-Pinch Renaissance: From Bennett Pinch to Fusion’s Comeback 6:49

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We trace how driving a huge electric current through plasma creates its own magnetic squeeze, leading from early Z-pinch experiments and the stabilized pinch to the rise of the tokamak. Then we dive into the modern revival—sheared-flow stabilization, ZAP Energy’s progress, and the prospects for pulsed fusion and even space propulsion. A concise, ac…

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OpenAI staff grapples with the company’s social media push 7:08

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Current and former OpenAI researchers seem torn over how the company's Sora app fits in with its broader mission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Epic Games says Apple’s new install process cuts user drop-offs by 60%, also, Wikipedia data more accessible to AI and U.S. government takes stake in Canadian lithium miner 8:43

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-Fortnite maker Epic Games said that Apple’s new installation workflow, implemented in iOS 18.6, has had a positive impact on its user growth, with a 60 percent decrease in drop-offs. On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models. The U.S. Department of Energ…

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SE Radio 688: Daniel Stenberg on Removing Rust from Curl 57:14

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Daniel Stenberg, Swedish Internet protocol expert and founder and lead developer of the Curl project, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about removing Rust from Curl. They discuss why Hyper was removed from curl, why the last five percent of making it a success was difficult, what the project gained from the 5-year attempt to tackle bringing Ru…

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Order Theory Unveiled: From Chains to Lattices and Duality 6:07

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We explore the core ideas of order theory—total vs partial orders, posets, Hasse diagrams, and the language of least/greatest versus minimal/maximal elements. Through simple examples like subset containment and divisibility, we see how infima, suprema, and lattices organize mathematics and intuition alike. We’ll also unpack the ubiquitous idea of d…

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OEIS A000372: Dedekind numbers 5:24

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We explore Dedekind numbers, also known as M2, and their surprising equivalences to monotone Boolean functions, antichains and Sperner families. We'll trace the history of exact values (known up to n = 9), the computational hurdles that make n = 10 intractable, and the sharp asymptotic picture in which most antichains cluster around the middle laye…

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Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans, plus Fubo shareholders approve Hulu Live TV deal 4:56

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Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, has blocked an effort to pass legislation that would have extended data privacy protections for federal lawmakers and public officials to everyone in the United States. On Monday night, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, asked the U.S. Senate for unanimous consent from fellow senators to pass his legis…

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DoorDash unveils its autonomous robot; and Adobe’s video editing app Premiere arrives on iPhones 8:36

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On Tuesday, DoorDash unveiled Dot, a small robot it built in-house that can autonomously drive on roads, bike lanes, and sidewalks to deliver food and small packages at speeds up to 20 miles per hour. Dot is designed to look friendly and even cartoonish — painted bright red, with big LED eyes and a mouth that swings open to reveal where it holds yo…

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The Decentralized Future of Private AI with Illia Polosukhin - #749 1:05:03

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In this episode, Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and co-founder of Near AI, joins us to discuss his vision for building private, decentralized, and user-owned AI. Illia shares his unique journey from developing the Transformer architecture at Google to building the NEAR Protocol blockchain to solve glo…

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The Nile: Gift of the Flood, Engine of Civilization, and Global Water Politics 5:05

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From Herodotus’s phrase about the Nile as a gift, through the river’s predictable floods that renewed soils and shaped calendars and beliefs, to the modern era of dams and diplomacy, this episode traces the Nile’s deep history and contemporary complexities. We explore the river’s geologic and geographic shifts—from eonile and the Khufu branch to th…

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OEIS A000370: NPN Equivalence Classes of Boolean Functions 6:51

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NPN equivalence groups functions that can be turned into one another by flipping inputs, permuting inputs, and possibly inverting the output. A000370 counts how many such equivalence classes remain for each n: 1 for n=0, 2 for n=1, 4 for n=2, 14 for n=3, 222 for n=4, and 616,126 for n=5, illustrating the dramatic compression. In practice, each clas…

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California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill; also, Explosion, vehicle fire rock Faraday Future’s LA headquarters 7:02

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 53, a first-in-the-nation bill that sets new transparency requirements on large AI companies. The bill, which passed the state legislature two weeks ago, requires large AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind, to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures whistleblow…

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Smarter tech, safer roads: Inside Westcotec’s collision-prevention mission on this week's Highways Voices 25:30

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We make another one of our trips to a leader in our industry to find out more about becoming a successful business on today's Highways Voices, and give you some ideas in your day-to-day job. We're at Westcotec in Norfolk talking talking road safety, too, discussing how the key to reducing road collisions isn’t just tougher enforcement, but smarter …

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Honda and Astrobotic team up to keep the lights on through the long lunar night; plus, the UK government bailed out Jaguar Land Rover 6:19

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Automotive giant Honda and lunar startup Astrobotic are teaming up to explore how a regenerative fuel cell system could help keep the lights on during long nights on the Moon. On Monday, the companies partnered up to study whether Honda’s regenerative fuel cell can be integrated into Astrobotic’s LunaGrid, a scalable power service built around sola…

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OEIS A000366: Genocchi numbers of the second kind and the unexpected integer 5:35

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Explore A000366, the integers you get by dividing the Genocchi numbers of the second kind by 2^(n-1). Despite the division, every term is a positive integer, a mystery that has driven a century of study starting with Delac and Marcel in 1901. We trace two complementary viewpoints: a concrete Delac grid counting problem (2n rows, n columns, two cell…

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Building Infra for Private, Sovereign, and User-aligned AI Systems w/ Will Preble (Covenant) 35:11

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In this episode, we dive into one of the most pressing conversations in technology today: the balance between innovation and security in artificial intelligence. The discussion with Will Preble of Covenant Labs unpacks why maintaining control over AI models is critical, the looming risks tied to data security, and the potential fallout of compromis…

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Do EA buyout talks hint at bigger industry troubles? plus, beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘work slop’, and AI startup Friend spent more than $1M on all those subway ads 4:36

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Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier noted that video game companies are moving towards consolidation and that the deal could reflect EA executives’ broader concerns over the future of the industry. Following a period of rapid growth in the 2010s and during the pandemic, Schreier said gamers in recent years have “tended to stick with old favorites rather tha…

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OEIS A000364: Euler numbers, secant numbers, and zigzag permutations 5:13

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We explore A000364, the even-indexed Euler numbers (secant numbers) that count alternating permutations of even size starting with a descent. Learn how the full Euler numbers split into secant and tangent parts via Andre’s generating function sec(x) + tan(x), so sec(x) yields the down-up-down-up permutations and tan(x) the up-down-starting ones (A0…

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The Gudermannian Bridge: From Maps to Machines 4:28

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We journey through the Gudermannian (often called Gutermannian) function, the elegant link that ties circular angles to hyperbolic angles without complex numbers. We explore how its antiderivative is the hyperbolic secant, while its inverse comes from the circular secant, and why this makes the function a natural bridge between two geometries. We'l…

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Ichthyosaurs: Titans of the Triassic Seas 5:00

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Dive into the Mesozoic oceans and meet the ichthyosaurs—air-breathing, warm-blooded reptiles that redefined life underwater with dolphin-like shapes, giant eyes, and live birth. We trace their 160-million-year reign from early Triassic pioneers to their abrupt decline near the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, and explore how climate upheaval and shift…

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Measuring the Infinite: A Deep Dive into Measure Theory 5:29

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We trace how measure theory unifies area, mass, and probability, and why three simple rules—empty set has zero, non-negativity, and countable additivity—hold the whole framework together. We’ll unpack monotonicity, continuity from above with its finiteness caveat, and classic infinite-set counterexamples. Then we glimpse into signed measures, finit…

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OEIS A000361: Fractal tilings with holes and positive measure 5:51

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We unpack the curious link behind sequence A000361: a self-replicating, holey tiling on the Mandelvyn triangle that nonetheless has positive Lebesgue measure. The story weaves a four-reptile tiling, inspired by Paul Lévy’s two-reptile, with counting of filled equilateral triangles along lines on the Mandelvyn triangle. It shows how infinite self-si…

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The Trump administration is going after semiconductor imports; also, More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal 4:10

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In its latest bid to boost semiconductor production in the U.S., the Trump administration is reportedly considering a ratio-based approach that would penalize domestic manufacturers with tariffs if they don’t produce enough chips. A wider leadership shake-up at Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal is underway just a few weeks after it pause…

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Modular Manifolds: Co-designing Stability for Large-Scale AI 6:31

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We explore Jeremy Bernstein's manifold-based approach to AI stability: constraining weight matrices to lie on a Stiefel manifold keeps singular values near one, making layers behave like rotations and improving predictability. Extending to modular manifolds, we treat each block as its own manifold with its own norm, and compose them so constraints …