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Curated daily papers, lab research blogs and national AI research programs across the US, China, EU, UK, Japan and beyond.
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Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably…
GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models
What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, o…
Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI
Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!…
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an O…
AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, deve…
Raised on AI
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her ph…
Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky …
AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR
Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization…
I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.
Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embeddin…
Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
Differential acceleration of cyber, math, and AI…
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that co…
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at thei…
Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT
Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the compu…
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate …
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they w…
What Flock’s defenders are missing
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Flock, the police-tech…
Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
Nvidia wants you building your own model, not buying from Anthropic/OpenAI.…
Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism
The new frontier of AI is developing capable autonomous researchers…
What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practic…
GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.…
Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort t…
How kids feel about AI, in their own words
When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a litt…
MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities
A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen s…
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the …
I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.…
Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement
Radiology AI is evolving beyond report generation. CARE-X explores a unified approach that combines flexible reasoning, calibrated predictions, and measurement-…
Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
Which galaxy will you choose?…
5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)
After a few long years of finding time to document my lessons from training open models, my post-training book is done!…
These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of th…
AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science…