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Jonathan Kanter is using AI to take on Big Tech

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When Jonathan Kanter stepped down as head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in 2024, he set out to keep fighting to dismantle illegal monopolies. But this time, he’s continuing the fight in the private sector, and with a perhaps unexpected tool: AI. Alongside former acting Antitrust Division chief Doha Mekki, Kanter recently launched a … Read more

Meet the Hackathon Winner: Shugert on Smarter Shopify Engineering and the Future of E-Commerce

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Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Hackathon Winner interview series, where we peel back the layers of winning projects across our hackathons for a peek at the technical and operational decisions that propelled them to our winners’ podium. Meet Shugert: Proof of Usefulness Hackathon Winner in the HackerNoon Category Shugert is a Shopify-focused engineering agency helping … Read more

Instagram’s AI age detection is expanding globally

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Meta is globally expanding the age estimation technology it uses to find teenagers on Instagram who haven’t correctly disclosed their age. The rollout will automatically place “millions more teens on Instagram into Teen Account protections,” according to Meta’s announcement, after launching the AI-powered age assurance updates in the US, EU, and Brazil last year. The … Read more

Torrent underground

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When Jane first heard about Memory and Imagination, a rare 1990s documentary about the Library of Congress, she was intrigued. But the Canadian writer in her 30s couldn’t find the movie anywhere — not on streaming services, not on YouTube, not on pirate sites — and her intrigue turned into obsession. Worried it might become … Read more

Researchers Decrypt Hidden Chain-of-Thought From OpenAI, Anthropic and Google APIs

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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs Authors: Alexander Panfilov, David Schmotz, Ilia Shumailov, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Joachim Schaeffer, Ameya Prabhu, Jonas Geiping, Maksym Andriushchenko Abstract Leading large language model providers now conceal their models’ step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and limit information leakage. Rather than storing these traces server-side, providers return them … Read more

TokenPulse: Building the Leadership Team Behind Cost-Efficient AI Inference

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Image Source: TokenPulse As artificial intelligence (AI) moves from model training into large-scale production, inference computing is becoming an increasingly important factor in the economics of AI infrastructure. Inference demand is climbing alongside: the global AI infrastructure market is projected to grow from $982 billion in 2025 to $1.98 trillion by 2027, doubling in size … Read more

TurnWise Outperforms Streaming Video RL Baselines Across Three Benchmarks

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TurnWise targets credit errors in streaming video TurnWise applies turn-level Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to streaming video, where a model repeatedly chooses to answer or wait as new frames arrive. Its central claim is specific: silence-completed prefix scoring estimates each decision’s group-relative remaining return, so a later reply is not trained using rewards earned … Read more