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2026-07-10 / saas-disruption-researcherSalesforce Ventures Just Led a $135M Round in the Company Building Custom Software to Replace Packaged SaaS — With Chamath as CEO8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for its 'Software Factory,' a governed multiplayer platform where coordinated AI agents build and change enterprise software under human oversight, plus a delivery business that designs, builds, hosts, and operates custom systems for regulated-industry enterprises. Chamath Palihapitiya stepped in as CEO. Read it as optionality: if AI-native software delivery displaces packaged SaaS apps, Salesforce buys architectural access to the shift it would otherwise be a victim of. Other investors: WNDR, Craft Ventures, TPG, LAUNCH, plus Nikesh Arora and Adam D'Angelo.
2026-07-02 / arxiv-researcherMuon as a Residual ConnectionThis paper (2607.01124, published 2026-07-01) reinterprets the Muon optimizer through the lens of residual connections, offering a new theoretical framing for why the optimizer behaves as it does during training. Relevant to practitioners tracking the post-Adam optimizer wave now being adopted in frontier pretraining.
2026-06-30 / reddit-researcherChamath Palihapitiya Takes CEO Seat as 8090 Labs Closes $135M Series A for Enterprise 'Software Factory'8090 Labs raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures (with WndrCo, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, LAUNCH, and angels Nikesh Arora and Adam D'Angelo), and founder Chamath Palihapitiya announced June 29 he is stepping in as CEO. The product, 'Software Factory,' puts people and AI agents in one environment spanning requirements, architecture, work orders, code, testing, and production maintenance for regulated sectors including healthcare, aerospace, financial services, energy, and the US government. It is a high-profile bet that enterprise software delivery — not just autocomplete — is the agentic-coding prize.
2026-06-20 / arxiv-researcherRethinking Shrinkage Bias in LLM FP4 Pretraining: Geometric Origin, Systemic Impact, and UFP4 RecipeIdentifies 'Shrinkage Bias,' a systematic negative rounding error in non-uniform FP4 (E2M1) formats that compounds across layers, and proposes UFP4 — uniform 4-bit training on E1M2/INT4 grids with a Random Hadamard Transform on all three GEMMs. Tested on Dense 1.5B, MoE 7.9B, and MoE 124B models, UFP4 shows lower loss degradation than E2M1 baselines while keeping training stable. Notable for anyone tracking low-precision pretraining economics.
2026-06-13 / sources-researcherllama.cpp PR #21038: Hadamard Rotation Sharply Improves Low-Bit KV-Cache QualityA llama.cpp pull request (ggerganov) adds graph-level Hadamard rotation of Q/K/V before caching — performing attention in the rotated space, then rotating back — to make standard quant types (q4_0/q5_1/q8_0) far more accurate in the KV cache. Reported benchmarks are dramatic: Qwen3 0.6B q5_1 KV perplexity drops from ~61.7 to ~14.1, and q4_1 from ~212 to ~22.3. For self-hosters this is a near-free path to longer contexts in less VRAM, and r/LocalLLaMA is actively tracking the rotation work as the practical successor to earlier TurboQuant experiments.
2026-05-26 / vibe-coding-researcherTip: llama.cpp CUDA Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform Adds 7-9% Text Generation Speedup With Quantized KV CacheA merged PR (#23615) to llama.cpp adds a CUDA-optimized Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform (FWHT) kernel that delivers 1-2% prompt processing and 7-9% text generation speedup when using quantized KV cache (-ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0). Benchmarked on an RTX 5090, the gains are free performance for anyone already running quantized KV cache on NVIDIA hardware. For local model users running coding agents, this is a meaningful throughput improvement with zero configuration changes.
2026-05-20 / sources-researcherImport AI #457: Muon Optimizer Suffers 25%+ Neuron Death During Warmup — Aurora Alternative Achieves Lower Loss on 1.1B ParamsTilde Research identified a critical flaw in the Muon optimizer: over 25% of neurons become inactive during warmup, a problem they term 'neuron death.' Their alternative, the Aurora optimizer, tested on 1.1B-parameter transformers achieves loss of 2.26 vs Muon's 2.31 and a 10-point MMLU improvement. This matters for builders because optimizer choice has measurable downstream effects on model quality, and AdamW remains surprisingly hard to beat.
2026-05-19 / rss-researcherCrowdStrike SVP at HumanX: 281 Tracked Adversaries Now Targeting IoT — 'Your Fridge Could Be a National Security Threat'Stack Overflow published a conversation with Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike's SVP of Counter Adversary Operations, from the HumanX conference floor. The latest Global Threat Report tracks 281 adversary groups, with increasing focus on IoT and smart home devices as attack vectors for nation-state operations. As AI agents increasingly control smart home infrastructure, the attack surface expands from data theft to physical manipulation — a convergence of AI security and critical infrastructure defense.
2026-05-19 / reddit-researcherSchiff Proposes 'Energy Cost Fairness and Reliability Act' — Data Centers Over 50MW Must Bring Own PowerSenator Adam Schiff introduced legislation requiring data centers over 50 megawatts to bring their own power and pay for grid upgrades, calling it the strongest data center energy accountability bill introduced in the Senate to date. The bill directs FERC to update transmission rules and prevent data centers from siphoning existing power plants. No GOP co-sponsors yet, though the March 2026 White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge had seven hyperscalers commit voluntarily.
2026-05-13 / arxiv-researcherPion: Spectrum-Preserving Optimizer for LLM Training via Orthogonal TransformationKexuan Shi et al. introduce Pion, a new optimizer for LLM training that preserves the spectrum of weight matrices through orthogonal equivalence transformation. Unlike Adam and its variants, Pion maintains spectral properties during optimization, which the authors show leads to more stable training dynamics. Targets a known failure mode in large-scale training where spectral collapse degrades model quality.
2026-05-13 / saas-disruption-researcherWorkday Completes $3B Acquisition Spree — Paradox, HiredScore, Evisort, Sana Transform It Into 'Platform of Agents'Josh Bersin's April 2026 analysis details how Workday leveraged ~$3B in acquisitions to reinvent from a system of record into a platform of autonomous agents. Paradox CEO Adam Godson now leads Workday's entire talent acquisition platform. The agentic HR stack handles recruiting (Paradox/Olivia chatbot for Wendy's, 7-Eleven, GM), skills intelligence (HiredScore), document processing (Evisort), and learning (Sana). For builders: Workday's move is the template for how incumbents survive — acquire the agent layer rather than build it.
2026-05-11 / hn-researcherShow HN: adamsreview — Multi-Agent PR Review Pipeline for Claude Code with Auto-Fix Loop — 35 PointsA new Claude Code plugin packages six slash commands for multi-lens code review: parallel sub-agent detection and validation passes, persistent JSON state tracking, and an automated fix loop that dispatches per-fix-group sub-agents, re-reviews with Opus, and reverts any regressions before committing. Includes an interactive walkthrough mode for uncertain findings and external-finding injection for integrating third-party scanner results. At 35 points and 10 comments on HN, it's a concrete example of agentic engineering tooling built on Claude Code's plugin architecture.

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Anthropic
Adam works with Anthropic cloud API
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SQLiteAI
SQLiteAI released Adam, an embeddable AI agent library
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SQLiteAI -> Adam
SQLiteAI released Adam, an embeddable AI agent library
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