A quiet day — some candidates were dropped before publishing. 3 today.
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Spotify Builds External Index to Enable Low Latency Point Queries on Its Data Lake
Spotify built Random Access Parquet (RAP), an external indexing layer over Apache Parquet files in its data lake that lets services look up individual records without replicating data into operational databases. The index maps lookup keys to specific Parquet files and row locations, letting Spotify serve some point queries with a single ranged read of just a few kilobytes instead of scanning thousands of files.
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Your AI agent remembers everything. Here’s what happens when its owner changes.
Manus is becoming an independent company again after Chinese regulators ordered Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition of
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The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
The White House is expected to expand its voluntary AI safety framework, which currently requires prerelease government testing only for closed models from labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, to also cover open models once they reach the same frontier capabilities. Officials are weighing that move against concerns it could create a two-tier system or, via a potential 30-day testing requirement, slow development.
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