Academic papers, technical breakthroughs, and scientific progress in artificial intelligence.
Language models can't spark scientific revolutions, but world models might
Google DeepMind researcher Tom Zahavy argues language models fundamentally cannot drive scientific breakthroughs. In a position paper titled "LLMs can…
PwC has allegedly published AI-generated reports containing false or fabricated sources
PwC joins three other Big Four accounting firms in publishing reports containing AI-generated content with fabricated sources and false claims, accord…
Deepmind dismantles its AlphaFold team as key authors leave for Anthropic
Google DeepMind has largely dismantled its AlphaFold team, with most researchers transitioning to other projects and nearly 25 percent departing the c…
Nvidia invests in Ilya Sutskever's AI lab, shifting SSI away from Google chips
Nvidia is making a major financial bet on Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab founded by Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist. The chi…
College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure
A college microbiology lab class exposed 32 students to a dangerous pathogen when an identification exercise went wrong. Students were tasked with ide…
Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact
A new study reveals the catastrophic speed at which the Chicxulub asteroid impact incinerated Earth's biosphere. Researchers analyzing impact models f…
METR introduces a new metric to calculate exactly when AI agents become more expensive than humans
METR has introduced the "expenditure horizon," a metric designed to quantify the cost-effectiveness threshold where AI agents become more expensive th…
The path to artificial superintelligence
Coordinating multiple AI systems remains fundamentally unsolved. Today's AI agents operate in silos, even when they share data. A healthcare system il…
Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Hermes Social Media Agent with Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt, founder of Castos, demonstrated building a functional social media agent in 30 minutes using Hermes. The agent automates content creatio…
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) has emerged from stealth mode with a major partnership from Nvidia. The deal represents a long-term…
Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?
Physical AI researchers are moving beyond traditional video training to incorporate brain wave data as a training signal for robots and embodied AI sy…
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Researchers have leveraged Google's AlphaFold AI system to identify and eliminate error-prone regions in gene-editing proteins, potentially making CRI…
The AI coding tutor paradox grows as educators scramble to rethink how they test real skills
Computer science educators face a fundamental challenge: AI coding assistants have made traditional exams obsolete, forcing a wholesale rethink of how…
AI Weekly Issue #506: Washington Blocked One AI Lab. China Blacklisted 56 Companies.
Washington's export restrictions on advanced AI models triggered swift retaliation from Beijing this week. The U.S. blocked Anthropic from selling its…
VentureBeat Research: Where enterprise AI agent governance hasn't caught up
Enterprises deployed AI agents faster than they built safeguards to control them, and they're now spending heavily to fix the gap. VentureBeat Resear…
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus are co-founding Prentis, a new AI lab in early-stage discussions to raise $100 million. The startup centers on automating…
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