NVIDIA has shared its PyTorch Conference Europe playlist. Topics include Symmetric Memory, torch.compile kernels, and agentic AI evaluation. The clip is from Besmira Nushi's keynote on action-thought gaps. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5B692fm6--u9xhIYmjS_rHUI0iyq1dZQ

The latest version of NVIDIA FLARE addresses this reality with a Federated Learning (FL) computing runtime that moves the training logic to the data, while raw data stays put. See examples of how to leverage PyTorch in a federated learning system. 🔗 NVIDIA developer blog: https://bit.ly/4tTvlFF

Today we’re releasing OlmoEarth v1.1. It’s 3x cheaper to run than v1 while delivering the same state-of-the-art performance—and fully open. 🧵

ExecuTorch now has an MLX delegate that runs PyTorch models on Apple Silicon GPUs. It supports LLMs, speech-to-text, and MoE models with quantization via TorchAO. Export with torch.export, run on Metal. Read our latest blog: https://bit.ly/4tx5VNH

Restoration involved plugging 48 miles of canal and removing roads. Effectiveness for wider ecological recovery remains to be seen, but now water from summer rains stayed on the land. What had dried out remained soaked for much of the year. 🌎🧪🌿 e360.yale.edu/features/pic...

Using filters from locally sourced materials like coconut shells, maize cobs, and recycled materials from old batteries, the devices achieved a 93.3% reduction in emissions of PM2.5 particulates and a 42% reduction in carbon monoxide, and 21.4% CO₂ absorption.🌎 news.mongabay.com/2026/05/teen...

one of the things i enjoy about living on an island is that people wave to each other. when i walk here, cars i don't recognize will give me a double tap the horn to say hi, and i wave back. it's a small, nice thing.

My four Crow Lords. Lords Neapolitan, Wellington, Nelson and Macadamia. #birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #crow Liquoricelino.etsy.com

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Here is a figure showing the various OECD countries minimum wages as a ratio of median. Average around 60%. But many at or above 2/3. Then there is an outlier, the US.

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Our remote trail cameras recently captured footage of a wild jaguar moving through a Sky Island mountain range south of Tucson, in the ancestral lands of the Tohono O'odham. More information: biodiv.us/3Pks4AM

This is sound advice for creating a great FOSS4GNA talk! I'm also happy to be a sounding board if you need some feedback on an idea. #gischat #geosky

The 2026 PyTorch Docathon is underway. Contributors have closed 100 pull requests and 73 issues across PyTorch, Tutorials, and ExecuTorch. The Docathon runs through May 17, so there's still time to contribute. https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/docathons/docathon-leaderboard-2026.html #PyTorch

Arm has published hands-on labs for deploying #PyTorch models with ExecuTorch on edge devices. Learn how to export .pte artifacts, optimize inference on Arm CPUs, and offload workloads to Ethos-U NPUs. 🔗 https://pytorch.org/blog/efficient-edge-ai-on-arm-cpus-and-npus/ #OpenSourceAI

#PyTorch 2.12 adds torch.accelerator.Graph, up to 100x faster batched eigendecomposition on CUDA, microscaling quantization support in torch.export.save, and expanded CUDA, ROCm, XPU, MPS, and Arm support. Live Q&A on May 20, 10 AM PT: https://streamyard.com/watch/MC2PrCkw6UaZ #OpenSourceAI

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Major breaking news tonight. NYU Langone has received a federal criminal subpoena over its provision of trans youth care. The subpoena originates from a grand jury empaneled in the Northern District of Texas. It's a massive escalation in attacks on trans poviders. Read our breaking story:

📣 New funding opportunity. Today, we're launching our inaugural call for proposals for open source software that underpins data-intensive research and AI-driven discovery in the life sciences. 1/ os4science.org/funding_oppo...

It was great to present and discuss our paper, “Rethinking Intrinsic Dimension Estimation in Neural Representations,” at #AISTATS 2026 last week🚀 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.20276 Joint work with @davidruegamer.bsky.social

Compelling read blog.k10s.dev/im-going-bac...

Dio pushed back on the ollama thread: too one-sourced, didn't survey community dissent or Ollama's response. Fair. Here's the second look.

TIL I also learned and holy cow this is rough. I suggest Ramalama as a replacement but I am a bit biased ramalama.ai

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Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin shot. By @deldeib.bsky.social

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Researchers: 5K+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit had little to no authentication, and ~40% of them exposed sensitive data (Andy Greenberg/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

That idle transcoding GPU in your Plex server is perfect for running local AI Stop letting your Plex server sit idle If you’re thinking that you need two separate servers for running Plex and a l... #AI #& #Machine #Learning #AI#&#Machine#Learning#ai#Plex #Homelab Origin | Interest | Match

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The economics are brutal. Anywhere that a litre of diesel costs more than 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity, an EV truck pays for itself in 12-14 months. After that, it will be more profitable than diesel every single month: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Corporate data is spilling onto the web as AI vibe-coding tools bypass standard security reviews. A scan of 5,000 apps found 40% exposed sensitive medical records and financial files. Building in seconds shouldn't mean stripping away institutional security checks. #MedSky #CyberSecurity #AI

Robotics models often struggle outside controlled environments. Ours is built to work in real ones. Today we're launching MolmoAct 2, which can assist with a host of chores & lab tasks, plus the MolmoAct 2-Bimanual YAM dataset—the largest open robotics dataset of its kind. 🧵

IBM Research uses vLLM at the core of its RITS platform, providing shared access to model inference and tuning across its research community. Our case study outlines how it supports 1,300+ users and 100+ models. What this could mean for enterprise AI infrastructure: https://bit.ly/4vYx66J

Norway sold 12 petrol cars in February 2026. Out of 7,272 new passenger car registrations, 98% were fully electric. Just 67 diesel & 12 petrol cars were registered. Hybrids? Only 66 in total mostly plug ins. More in my new Substack newsletter coming out every 7 days. Sign up here: t.co/In5lBaF2ox

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform (Scott Younker/Tom's Guide) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Vale Peter Raven - renowned botanist and advocate for sustainability. "To understand the interconnectedness of life is, in his view, to recognize the consequences of disrupting it." via @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social for @mongabay.com 🌐🌏 news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete...

IBM Research says vLLM has been critical to democratizing access to the latest LLMs as they release. Read our latest case study on how vLLM powers the RITS Platform. https://pytorch.org/blog/ibm-research-uses-vllm-at-the-heart-of-its-rits-platform/ #vLLM #PyTorch

"killing wolves in Alaska leads to increased numbers of moose, who then eat greater numbers of deciduous plants that are replaced by flammable conifers, leading to bigger and hotter fires" Quick & neat read on the complex interplay of species through chemicals www.lukasguides.com/the-phytoche... 🌎

OlmoEarth Studio now lets you compute & export custom embedding vectors from our OlmoEarth foundation models. Choose your area, time range, encoder, resolution, & imagery sources—Studio delivers a GeoTIFF you can use however you like. 🧵

Interesting new agent benchmark from MSR, DELEGATE-52, that "simulates long delegated workflows that require in-depth document editing across 52 professional domains". Main finding is that even frontier models, for the modeled workflows, end up corrupting large parts of documents along the way.

This is sooooo sweet. Donkey is just a big dog ❤️❤️ TT: thewalkingdonkey Jordan and Donkey

Mark Collier opened PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 with a keynote on how open source coordination across hardware, software, and communities is shaping the AI stack. He shared updates on PyTorch Foundation growth and new projects. Watch: https://youtu.be/_BEmlMAKNSI?si=nW8dl5BHzZT1EpzZ

AI coding tools are about to get more expensive, and the @anthropic.com news yesterday is a good indicator of what’s to come ($20 to $100 for Claude Code). Understandable, because GPU compute isn’t cheap 👀 Running models in-house with #vLLM is starting to look quite nice!

llm-d published a new post on KServe + llm-d + vLLM for production LLM inference on Kubernetes. Authors from Red Hat and Tesla cite 3x higher output tokens/s and 2x lower TTFT in one deployment. https://llm-d.ai/blog/production-grade-llm-inference-at-scale-kserve-llm-d-vllm #vLLM #KServe

Want to simplify packaging apps for AI-accelerated computing? Talk Python interviews contributors from NVIDIA, Astral, and QuantSight working on Wheel Next, new packaging PEPs for hardware-aware installs with tools like uv. Listen: https://bit.ly/4eCc1Zm #PyTorch #OpenSourceAI

🏙️ After Paris restricted cars, air pollution plummeted. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu... #Sustainability #Climate #Renewables #CleanEnergy #GoodNewsletter