How LinkedIn replaced five feed retrieval systems with one LLM model, at 1.3 billion-user scale

How LinkedIn replaced five feed retrieval systems with one LLM model — and what engineers building recommendation pipelines can learn from the redesign.

‘The Karpathy Loop’: Former OpenAI researcher’s autonomous agents ran 700 experiments in 2 days—and gave a glimpse of where AI is heading

Karpathy's 'autoresearch' agent did not improve its own code, but it points towards systems that could as well as towards way ...

13 fun, beginner-friendly strategies for filling out your March Madness bracket

Lance King / The Athletic has live coverage of the First Four from 2026 Men’s March Madness. Welcome, casual March Madness bandwagoners! Don’t know where Gonzaga is? Couldn’t name a single player on ...
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QCon London 2026: Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story

Jabez Eliezer Manuel, Senior Principal Engineer at Booking.com, presented “Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished ...

Oracle releases Java26, with new Java Verified Portfolio

At the JavaOne conference today, Oracle made a series of announcements related to a new Java Verified Portfolio (JVP) and new JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs).