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Guardians of the State: An Air-Gapped AI Fortress for Consumer Data — Rachna Srivastava, DFPI

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Guardians of the State: An Air-Gapped AI Fortress for Consumer Data — Rachna Srivastava, DFPI

Guardians of the State: An Air-Gapped AI Fortress for Consumer Data — Rachna Srivastava, DFPI

Rachna Srivastava discusses building a legally defensible AI system for financial fraud detection, emphasizing that generative AI has eroded traditional trust. Her team at DFPI engineered an offline, hardware-secured data pipeline using Kafka, Spark, and semantic routing to ensure explainability, reproducibility, and auditability. They implemented a one-way data diode for secure learning and Apache Iceberg for time-travel queries, asserting that "trust is a physical property" built into the system's core.

Invited Research Talk: Measuring Generalization in EEG Foundation Models

Invited Research Talk: Measuring Generalization in EEG Foundation Models

This talk presents a multi-dimensional evaluation and interpretability framework for EEG foundation models. It reveals that current models often fail to outperform supervised baselines for BCI tasks, lack robustness to sparse channels, and exhibit an aperiodic low-frequency bias, making them better at capturing subject-specific rather than task-specific information. The analysis highlights critical deficiencies and suggests future directions for pre-training objectives and data collection to improve generalization.

Can LLMs Write Fast Multi-GPU Kernels? — Simran Arora, Together AI

Can LLMs Write Fast Multi-GPU Kernels? — Simran Arora, Together AI

Simran Arora discusses the critical bottleneck shift in large AI workloads from GPU compute to inter-GPU communication. Her team's solution, ParallelKittens, offers a set of primitives to optimize multi-GPU kernels by leveraging fundamental transfer mechanisms and compute-communication overlapping. They introduce ParallelKernelBench, a benchmark to evaluate AI models' ability to generate such kernels, revealing that while models can handle syntax, they struggle with deeper reasoning about communication patterns and hardware trade-offs.

Artificial Intelligence

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AI-Native Organisations Run on Skills: How to Structure and Scale Them — Imad Touil, QuantumBlack

AI-Native Organisations Run on Skills: How to Structure and Scale Them — Imad Touil, QuantumBlack

Imad Touil explores the critical need for governing AI skills within organizations, asserting that skills represent the true repository of enterprise know-how. He contrasts simplified coding agent loops with complex, real-world product lifecycles, demonstrating how ungoverned skills lead to technical debt—including duplication, quality degradation, security risks, and lack of discoverability. Proposing a microservices-inspired approach, Touil outlines a centralized skills platform and human-led governance model essential for achieving deterministic workflows, boosting productivity, and mitigating risks in AI-native enterprises.

Your Code Has Bugs. Lean4 Has Proofs: Formal Verification for Engineers — Varun Pant, AWS

Your Code Has Bugs. Lean4 Has Proofs: Formal Verification for Engineers — Varun Pant, AWS

Varun Pant introduces formal verification as the solution to reliably validate AI-generated code, proposing a division where humans define specifications and machines handle code and proof. He details Lean's role as a unified language for code and proof, exemplified by an AI rewriting zlib with 32,000 lines of proof, and AWS's Cedar using Lean specs with Rust production code reconciled by 100 million nightly tests. The talk also covers deductive verification with solvers and future cross-language verification with Strata, aiming for "provably correct" software.

How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage) — Eyal Blum, Figma

How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage) — Eyal Blum, Figma

Figma's internal AI agent adoption journey faces challenges like reduced developer agency, skepticism from senior engineers, and communication inefficiency. Solutions include investing in verification, using a testing pyramid for agent review, prioritizing detailed planning over prompting, engaging skeptics to build AI safety roadmaps, and implementing attention-aware communication by clearly marking AI-generated content.

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Platform Engineering for Developers, Architects & the Rest of Us • Daniel Bryant • GOTO 2025

Platform Engineering for Developers, Architects & the Rest of Us • Daniel Bryant • GOTO 2025

Daniel Bryant discusses platform engineering for software developers and architects, emphasizing treating platforms as internal products with developers as customers. He outlines a three-layered architecture, the evolution from monolithic systems to microservices, and the importance of 'golden bricks' over 'golden paths' for composability. Key takeaways include API-first design, minimizing cognitive load, avoiding leaky abstractions, and measuring success through frameworks like DORA and DevEx to achieve speed, safety, and scale.

Modern Enterprise Architecture: Architecting for Outcomes • Simon Rohrer • GOTO 2025

Modern Enterprise Architecture: Architecting for Outcomes • Simon Rohrer • GOTO 2025

Simon Rohrer challenges traditional Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles, proposing a modern approach focused on outcomes, continuous evolution, and socio-technical alignment. He outlines five key tenets: Aligning Value, People & Technology; achieving Better Value Sooner, Safer, Happier; implementing Continuous Conversational & Automated Governance; scaling DevOps across the enterprise; and fostering Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture.

Elon's Former Battery Chief on Making Transformers 100x Smaller | Drew Baglino, Heron Power

Elon's Former Battery Chief on Making Transformers 100x Smaller | Drew Baglino, Heron Power

Drew Baglino, former Tesla Powertrain & Energy head and now CEO of Heron Power, reveals why the current electricity grid is inadequate for the explosive growth of AI data centers. He explains how Heron Power's wideband gap power semiconductors will revolutionize grid-to-chip infrastructure, cutting power losses by half, shrinking massive transformers by 100x, and transforming data centers into grid-positive assets for a more efficient and sustainable energy future.

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Ideas: More AI-resilient biosecurity with the Paraphrase Project

Ideas: More AI-resilient biosecurity with the Paraphrase Project

Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz and guests discuss the Paraphrase Project, a two-year red-teaming effort that uncovered and patched a significant biosecurity vulnerability, demonstrating a model for responsibly managing the dual-use risks of generative AI in protein design.

The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?

The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?

A summary of the discussion with Dan Wang, author of "Breakneck", comparing the US and China through the lens of engineering versus legal mindsets. The conversation explores differences in infrastructure, industrial policy, manufacturing scale, and foreign policy, arguing for a nuanced view of a long-term competition rather than a short-term race.

Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

Albert Cheng, who has led growth at Duolingo, Grammarly, and Chess.com, shares his framework for finding and scaling growth opportunities. He discusses the explore-exploit model, the keys to consumer subscription success like retention and resurrected users, and how AI is accelerating the experimentation cycle.

Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

A reflection on Richard Sutton's "Bitter Lesson," arguing that while his critique of LLMs' inefficiency and lack of continual learning is valid, imitation learning is a complementary and necessary precursor to true reinforcement learning, much like fossil fuels were to renewable energy.

Ex-DeepMind: How To Actually Protect Your Data From AI

Ex-DeepMind: How To Actually Protect Your Data From AI

Dr. Ilia Shumailov, former DeepMind AI Security Researcher, explains why traditional security fails for AI agents. He details the unique threat model of agents, the dangers of supply chain attacks and architectural backdoors, and proposes a system-level solution called CAML to enforce security policies by design, separating model reasoning from data execution.

Human Neurons are 1M x Energy Efficient than Digital AI Processors | Dr. Ewelina Kurtys | FinalSpark

Human Neurons are 1M x Energy Efficient than Digital AI Processors | Dr. Ewelina Kurtys | FinalSpark

Dr. Ewelina Kurtys of FinalSpark explains their pioneering work in building biocomputers from living human neurons, which are up to one million times more energy-efficient than traditional silicon chips. The conversation covers the technology of reprogramming skin cells into neurons, the company's growth strategy, and the profound ethical and philosophical questions, such as potential 'Matrix' scenarios, that arise from merging biology with AI.

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