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How Reddit Scans 1M+ Images a Day to Flag NSFW Content Using Deep Learning
A behind-the-scenes look at the ML pipeline that cut moderation latency from seconds to milliseconds without blowing the budget.
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Gemini Builds, Claude Browses and ChatGPT Reads Your GitHub
Google drops I/O goodies early, OpenAI adds repo-reading functionality and Anthropic makes Claude internet-smart.
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When the Metric Becomes the Monster
A dive into Goodhart’s Law and how smart teams accidentally optimize for the wrong thing.
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Bots That Overshare, Suck Up Less and Sync Mouths Like Pros
Meta launches a new Facebook-flavored chatbot, ChatGPT dials down the flattery and Tavus animates mouths better than most humans
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How Canva Rebuilt Its Data Pipelines for Billions of Events per Month
What it takes to track usage, pay creators fairly and not drown in incident recovery hell.
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April 2025

One AI to Paint, One to File, One to ... Burn Your House Down (Maybe)
Adobe flexes Firefly, Microsoft builds an Agent army, and a robot that can do the laundry
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How Walmart Automated 400+ Forecasts and Cut Runtime by Half
Their Autotuning Framework slashed errors, halved processing time, and scaled across thousands of time series without manual tuning.
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The Dashboard Fallacy: When Seeing Everything Means Understanding Nothing
Dashboards promise clarity. What they often deliver is noise, confusion, and a false sense of confidence.
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AI Agents "Chat", Copilot Remembers Your Personal Stuff and Another Vibe-Coding App
Google’s agents are chatting, Microsoft Copilot remembers you love tacos and Firebase has a vibe-coding app now
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How Airtable Made Archive Validation Work at Petabyte Scale
They handled billions of rows using joins, hashes and a lot of buckets.
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Zuck is Watching You, Agents Get Smarter and AI Videos Get Less Weird
10M-token prompts, multitasking agents, and smooth AI-generated short films, all in one week.
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Inside the Mind of an LLM
The strange and structured world of Claude’s internal "thoughts"
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