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Last updated: August 10, 2026, 9:21 AM ET

Next-Gen LLMs

A growing number of startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs, exploring novel architectures beyond the dominant transformer.

AI for Science

Eric Schmidt argues that AI for science needs reasoning, not just data, in a piece critiquing the current data-centric approach. Separately, The Download covers AI agents for science and the rise of a "censorship-industrial complex."

ML Engineering

A detailed walkthrough of SPP-Net explains how Spatial Pyramid Pooling breaks the fixed-size constraint in CNNs, complete with a from-scratch PyTorch implementation. Meanwhile, a data engineer reflects on building dbt models, discovering that loading data was only the starting point for achieving truly analysis-ready datasets.