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Judge a Transaction by the Company It Keeps — Somya Rai & MD Sharique, EXL

Judge a Transaction by the Company It Keeps — Somya Rai & MD Sharique, EXL

EXL developed an advanced fraud detection system that augments XGBoost with Graph Neural Network (GNN) embeddings. Traditional tabular models struggle to capture fraud signals residing in transaction neighborhoods. The system's innovative design includes meticulous sampling strategies, disjoint monthly graph construction for leakage control, and a GraphSAGE architecture that aggregates mean, max, and standard deviation of neighbor features to detect subtle fraud patterns. Emphasizing explainability for regulatory compliance and analyst trust, it also features a highly optimized serving architecture achieving 3ms P99 latency, pivoting to edge prediction to reduce cache footprint from 60GB to 2-3GB. This led to a 27-33% relative lift in true positive rates and a projected $65 million incremental fraud capture.

From 15% to 90% GPU Utilization: Fix the Data Pipeline, Not the Model

From 15% to 90% GPU Utilization: Fix the Data Pipeline, Not the Model

Tarun Sunkaraneni from Amazon AGI shows how a multimodal SFT pipeline that spent about 85% of its time waiting on data was brought to roughly 90% GPU utilization. He walks through concurrency with asyncio and Ray actors, prefetching, zero-copy transfer via Ray's object store, and a network-card bottleneck that appears only at scale, and argues that the hardest part of training throughput is often keeping GPUs fed rather than optimizing the model.

Small Models, Big Results: Training a Finance Agent for Under $500 — Charles Dickens, Snorkel AI

Small Models, Big Results: Training a Finance Agent for Under $500 — Charles Dickens, Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI and UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab show that a 4B Qwen3 model, trained with reinforcement learning for under $500 using the rLLM framework, beats its 235B sibling on expert-validated financial question answering built from SEC 10-K filings. The talk covers the FinQA dataset construction and verification, common failure modes of frontier models, transfer to multi-table and general tool-use tasks, and ablations showing that simple data and binary rewards outperform more elaborate setups, since the real bottleneck is disciplined tool use rather than reasoning depth.

Artificial Intelligence

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Our Smaller Model Beat Opus on Finance Tasks - Alexander Shevchenko, Ramp

Our Smaller Model Beat Opus on Finance Tasks - Alexander Shevchenko, Ramp

Alexander Shevchenko of Ramp Labs explains why an application company keeps running applied research rather than waiting for the next frontier model, and walks through three projects in production: a post-trained Qwen 3.5 specialist for financial question answering at Haiku-level latency, KV cache cartridges that prepare agents with far more context ahead of time, and a 10,000-agent swarm that pen-tested Ramp and found seven high-severity vulnerabilities using cheaper open-weight models.

AI Labs Will Trap You or Replace You - Dillon Rolnick, Nous Research

AI Labs Will Trap You or Replace You - Dillon Rolnick, Nous Research

Nous Research CEO Dillon Rolnick argues that as AI models commoditize, frontier labs will try to recoup their enormous investments by locking businesses into their platforms or competing directly in lucrative sectors like finance. He contends that proprietary software moats are disappearing, that agents behave more like operating systems than chatbots, and that companies should build on open foundations they own, such as Hermes Agent, so they can swap models and inherit new capabilities.

Robots Will Be Trained on Video Games - Pim de Witte, General Intuition

Robots Will Be Trained on Video Games - Pim de Witte, General Intuition

Pim de Witte of General Intuition argues that models acting in space and time should be built differently from turn-based LLMs. Their continuous frames-in, actions-out model is trained on Medal game recordings, since game controllers already drive most robots, and it can play games and control more than ten robot types. The talk covers world models, action density, applications such as accessibility and UX, the difference from JEPA, and upcoming early access and hackathons.

Technology

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What iPhone Packaging Reveals About the Robotics Opportunity

What iPhone Packaging Reveals About the Robotics Opportunity

Tutor Intelligence CEO Josh Gruenstein explains why robotics is a systems problem spanning AI, hardware, manufacturing, and customers, and how deploying robots into real factories and warehouses, with human tutors as backup, generates the data that makes them more capable. The discussion covers the company's own robot designs, its focus on small and mid-sized businesses, the economics of flexible robotic labor, and the implications for American manufacturing and supply chains.

Why Founders Are Betting Big on Factories, Mines, and Energy

Why Founders Are Betting Big on Factories, Mines, and Energy

Erin Price-Wright and Connor Love unpack the AD50 and the rebuilding of America's industrial base, covering how defense demand is financing manufacturing capacity for commercial markets, how AI is reshaping factory economics, how a new generation of founders applies lessons from SpaceX, Tesla, Anduril, and Palantir to mining, energy, and manufacturing, and why private capital is now willing to fund physical infrastructure before government demand is guaranteed.

Mark Cuban’s Plan to Make Healthcare Affordable

Mark Cuban’s Plan to Make Healthcare Affordable

Mark Cuban and Julie Yoo discuss how transparency, direct contracting, and AI could reshape healthcare economics, from Cost Plus Drugs and modular pod manufacturing to personalized medicine, the future of physicians, and advice for founders who want to use AI to learn rather than to stop thinking.

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Building Agentic AI systems with AWS Serverless • Uma Ramadoss • GOTO 2025

Building Agentic AI systems with AWS Serverless • Uma Ramadoss • GOTO 2025

Uma Ramadoss from AWS explains the core concepts of Agentic AI, differentiating it from standard AI workflows. The session covers how to build agentic systems on AWS using services like Bedrock and Step Functions, and open-source frameworks like Strands SDK, emphasizing practical architecture, context enrichment, and the importance of verification.

AlphaGenome author roundtable

AlphaGenome author roundtable

A summary of the Google DeepMind team's discussion on AlphaGenome, their unified DNA sequence-to-function model. It covers the scientific motivation, the engineering breakthroughs in processing long DNA sequences at high resolution, the addition of complex biological modalities like splicing and contact maps, and the future direction of the research.

The newest AI malware vs. 40 years of hacker culture

The newest AI malware vs. 40 years of hacker culture

A discussion on the diverging priorities of CEOs and CISOs, the emergence of AI-generated malware like VoidLink, the critical balance between data protection and service resilience, strategies for disrupting cybercrime supply chains, and a reflection on the 40-year-old "Hacker Manifesto".

Beyond AI implementation: Introducing JDLA's initiatives

Beyond AI implementation: Introducing JDLA's initiatives

This presentation by the Japan Deep Learning Association (JDLA) details Japan's strategy for accelerating AI adoption. It covers the government's strong pro-AI stance driven by demographic challenges, the critical need for corporate AI governance, and the rise of physical AI in robotics. JDLA's core initiatives are highlighted, including the G- and E-Certificate programs for talent development, which are increasingly becoming corporate standards, and the establishment of the AI Robot Association (AIROA) to build a foundational data infrastructure for robotics.

Making the Case for the Terminal as AI's Workbench: Warp’s Zach Lloyd

Making the Case for the Terminal as AI's Workbench: Warp’s Zach Lloyd

Zach Lloyd, founder of Warp, discusses how the terminal is becoming the central workbench for AI-powered development. He explores the convergence of IDEs and terminals, the rise of cloud-based agent swarms, and his thesis that coding will soon be a "solved" problem, making the clear expression of human intent the final bottleneck.

OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman

OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman

Sam Altman discusses the future of AI, covering the evolution of software engineering, the challenges for AI startups, the roadmap for model capabilities and costs, and the broader societal impacts on economics, security, and education.

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