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Tell me when: Building agents that can wait, monitor, and act
SentinelStep enables AI agents to handle monitoring tasks that run for hours or days, like watching for emails or tracking prices. It works by managing when agents should check and their context, avoiding wasted resources…
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Distant conversational speech recognition: Challenges and Opportunities
State-of-the-art ASR systems excel on close-talk benchmarks but struggle with far-field conversational speech, where error rates remain above 20%. Current benchmark datasets inadequately assess generalization across domains and real-world conditions, often relying on oracle segmentation…
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Ultra Ethernet for next-generation AI and HPC workloads
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium set out to redefine Ethernet-based interconnects for AI and high-performance computing (HPC), culminating in the recent release of its first specification (version 1.0). This talk will highlight key innovations that distinguish…
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What does it mean to paraphrase a protein?
This explainer video unpacks the science behind paraphrasing a protein—a defining technique of Microsoft’s Paraphrase Project. Researchers discovered it is possible to use advanced open-source AI tools to reformulate toxic proteins, potentially preserving their function…
