Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Google’s New AI Certification Teaches Prompts, Research, and App Building

Google introduces an AI Professional Certificate with six courses and a capstone, plus 20+ hands-on activities, and free access for small businesses.
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SynStitch: A Self-Supervised Learning Network for Ultrasound Image Stitching Using Synthetic Training Pairs and Indirect Supervision

Abstract: Ultrasound (US) image stitching can expand the field-of-view (FOV) by combining multiple US images from varied probe positions. However, registering US images with only partially overlapping ...
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VAKY: Scheduling In-network Aggregation for Distributed Deep Training Acceleration

Abstract: Distributed machine learning (DML) has recently experienced widespread application. A major performance bottleneck is the costly communication for gradients synchronization. Recently, ...

Smart TV apps are quietly scraping web data for AI training

Bright Data operates a global proxy network designed to collect publicly available web content, and customers are voluntarily joining the network so that they can spare ...