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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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Making Every Supermarket in America Autonomous

Making Every Supermarket in America Autonomous

Brandon Hill, co-founder and CEO of Vori, discusses how his company is digitizing the $1.5 trillion grocery industry with an all-in-one OS. He covers their journey from a simple ordering app to a full-stack platform, the use of AI agents to automate pricing and inventory, and their vision for the 'self-driving' grocery store.

The Golden Age Thesis | Marc Andreessen on MTS

The Golden Age Thesis | Marc Andreessen on MTS

Marc Andreessen discusses the current state of AI, arguing that real-world usage and productivity gains tell a story of euphoria and empowerment, directly contradicting the fear-based narratives prevalent in media and misleading polls. He explores how AI is creating hyper-productive “builders” and expanding work rather than eliminating it, while also touching on the breakdown of institutional trust and the stark generational divides in how technology and truth are perceived.

Stop AI Agents From SQL Injecting Your Database

Stop AI Agents From SQL Injecting Your Database

Averi Kitsch, Staff Software Engineer at Google, outlines a four-step evolution for securing AI agents that access databases, moving from dangerous, model-controlled tools to a zero-trust architecture. Drawing on insights from over 20 million monthly tool calls, the talk provides a practical roadmap for preventing data leaks by separating identities, constraining actions, and removing credentials and PII from the agent's control.

Why AI Agents Shouldn't Replace Your Fraud Models

Why AI Agents Shouldn't Replace Your Fraud Models

Varant Zanoyan, original author of the Chronon feature platform, introduces 'agentic experimentation'—a pattern where AI agents improve high-stakes ML systems without making live decisions. He explains how Chronon solves key challenges like infrastructure sprawl, safety, and reproducibility through a semantic API, branch-based isolation, and compute reuse, enabling agents to safely create production-ready pipelines for human review.

MLX Genmedia — Prince Canuma, Arcee

MLX Genmedia — Prince Canuma, Arcee

A tour of MLX, the on-device AI framework for Apple Silicon. This talk explores real-world applications from real-time vision and multimodal omni models to sub-100ms speech synthesis and video generation, all running locally. It highlights breakthrough techniques like Turbo Quant for 1M context and showcases community projects in robotics and native apps, arguing for a future where powerful AI runs without the cloud.

Predictive vs Generative AI: How They Work and When to Use Each

Predictive vs Generative AI: How They Work and When to Use Each

Predictive AI forecasts what will happen next based on historical data, while Generative AI creates new content by asking what something could look like. This summary explores their fundamental differences in outputs, data types, underlying models like transformers and diffusion systems, and how they can be used together in enterprise applications.

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