Month: June 2025

WhatsApp’s rollout of ads will change the app forever

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This week, WhatsApp did something its founders said it would never do: it’s putting advertisements inside the app. It ends WhatsApp’s decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience. Meta, which acquired WhatsApp in 2014, attempted to justify the decision by saying ads will be sequestered to its “Update” tab, where you’ll see … Read more

U.S. Senate Passes GENIUS Act to Regulate Stablecoins, Marking Crypto Industry Win

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The overwhelming bipartisan passage of the U.S. Senate’s stablecoin bill, with a 68-30 final vote that saw a huge surge of Democrats joining their Republican counterparts on Tuesday, sets a new high-water mark of crypto policy efforts in the U.S. as the legislation now heads to the House of Representatives. The major Democratic backing for … Read more

Related Work: vAttention in LLM Inference Optimization Landscape

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 2.1 Large Language Models 2.2 Fragmentation and PagedAttention 3 Issues with the PagedAttention Model and 3.1 Requires re-writing the attention kernel 3.2 Adds redundancy in the serving framework and 3.3 Performance Overhead 4 Insights into LLM Serving Systems 5 vAttention: System Design and 5.1 Design Overview … Read more

Oblique Strategies for Vibe Coding: How to Break Creative Blocks in AI Programming

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Oblique Strategies is a set of cards created by musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt in 1975, designed as a creative tool to inspire and guide individuals through moments of artistic or decision-making difficulty. The cards serve as a creative catalyst, encouraging users to interpret the vague, poetic instructions in a way that sparks … Read more

Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

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AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes, they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind has written in a report that Gemini 2.5 … Read more

Fossil fuels are an insurance disaster  

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Heatwaves, mold, and plastic pollution pose new risks to businesses and insurance companies, a new report by reinsurer Swiss Re warns. What do these things have in common? Fossil fuels make matters worse.  They release the greenhouse gases warming our planet and are the primary ingredients for plastics, of course. Swiss Re’s annual report flags … Read more

The Growth of Space Electronics: Market Trends and Patent Landscape

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In recent years, the number of Earth satellites has been growing rapidly due to numerous practical applications, including television, mobile communications, and remote sensing of the Earth’s surface. Space electronics refers to instruments and electronic components specifically designed for use in spacecraft such as satellites, rockets, and space probes. These systems must be engineered and … Read more

vAttention: Highly Effective in Reducing LLM KV-Cache Fragmentation

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 2.1 Large Language Models 2.2 Fragmentation and PagedAttention 3 Issues with the PagedAttention Model and 3.1 Requires re-writing the attention kernel 3.2 Adds redundancy in the serving framework and 3.3 Performance Overhead 4 Insights into LLM Serving Systems 5 vAttention: System Design and 5.1 Design Overview … Read more

vAttention: Efficacy of Physical Memory Allocation for LLMs

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 2.1 Large Language Models 2.2 Fragmentation and PagedAttention 3 Issues with the PagedAttention Model and 3.1 Requires re-writing the attention kernel 3.2 Adds redundancy in the serving framework and 3.3 Performance Overhead 4 Insights into LLM Serving Systems 5 vAttention: System Design and 5.1 Design Overview … Read more