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Post-Transformer Model Systems Can Drive Change
New kinds of models will supercharge what we do with AI
Meta’s AI Talent War Had Reports of $100 Million Bonuses. Here’s Why it Matters
The race for AI dominance has Mark Zuckerberg’s company dangling eye-popping salaries to lure top performers from rivals such as OpenAI.
3 industries where agentic AI is poised to make its mark
Interest in autonomous agents is skyrocketing. Here, CIOs from finance, retail, and healthcare discuss how they see the technology impacting their organizations and sectors overall.
Wasm-agents: AI agents running in your browser
One of the main barriers to a wider adoption of open-source agents is the dependency on extra tools and frameworks that need to be installed before the agents can be...
Layered AI Defenses Have Holes: Vulnerabilities and Key Recommendations
Leading AI companies are increasingly using “defense-in-depth” strategies to prevent their models from being misused to generate harmful content, suc…
Sakana AI’s TreeQuest: Deploy multi-model teams that outperform individual LLMs by 30%
Sakana AI’s new inference-time scaling technique uses Monte-Carlo Tree Search to orchestrate multiple LLMs to collaborate on complex tasks.
Microsoft: We Need A Lot Less Employees. And a Lot More AI Infrastructure.
The tech giant’s massive workforce reductions coincide with record-breaking AI investments, signaling a fundamental shift in how Microsoft views its future workforce Microsoft’s strateg…
Thought Anchors: Which LLM Reasoning Steps Matter?
This post is adapted from our recent arXiv paper. Paul Bogdan and Uzay Macar are co-first authors on this work. …
Confronting the AI/energy conundrum
The MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research spring symposium explored artificial intelligence as both a problem and solution for the clean energy transition.
Snowflake CEO on AI’s Next Frontiers
Snowflake’s CEO shares where AI is headed: integrating structured and unstructured data, sovereign clouds, hyperscaler partnerships and model efficiency.
AI Task Length Horizons in Offensive Cybersecurity
This is a rough research note where the primary objective was my own learning. I am sharing it because I’d love feedback and I thought the results we…
Microsoft says AI system better than doctors at diagnosing complex health conditions
Firm says results of research create ‘path to medical superintelligence’ but plays down job implications
X is letting AI bots fact-check your tweets — what could possibly go wrong?
Here’s what it means for your feed
Race and Gender Bias As An Example of Unfaithful Chain of Thought in the Wild
Summary: We found that LLMs exhibit significant race and gender bias in realistic hiring scenarios, but their chain-of-thought reasoning shows zero e…
LLMs recognise bias but also reproduce harmful stereotypes: an analysis of bias in leading LLMs
A Blog post by David Berenstein on Hugging Face
The Seventh Wave: How AI Will Change The Technology Industry
My professional career has spanned six major tech changes: minicomputer, PC, internet, social, mobile, and cloud. Each of these revolutions brought a wave of new providers and destroyed swaths of...
Transcript: ‘Inside The Browser Company: Why They Killed Arc to Build Dia’
‘AI & I’ with The Browser Company’s Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal
Apple’s AI Research Has Failed So Spectacularly That It’s Considering Just Letting OpenAI Power Siri
One of the largest tech companies is blinking on the long-term viability of artificial intelligence development.
Bright Data beat Elon Musk and Meta in court — now its $100M AI platform is taking on Big Tech
Bright Data beat Elon Musk’s X and Meta in court, then launched $100M AI infrastructure suite with Deep Lookup and Browser.ai to challenge Big Tech data monopolies.
What The White House AI Education Plan Must Get Right
It’s a major policy shift, signaling the Trump administration’s move from regulating AI to fast-tracking it in the classroom.
What’s it like to work with an AI team of virtual scientists?
Nature – Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?
Mythbusting the supposed “1,000+ AI state bills that would hobble innovation”
A few days ago I wrote a shortform wondering if anyone had done a breakdown of the different state-level AI bills that had been proposed. …
U.S. Senate Votes to Strike Moratorium on AI Regulation
The One Big, Beautiful Bill budget legislation that cleared the U.S. Senate Tuesday no longer includes the moratorium on state-level AI regulatory efforts, after a bipartisan vote to amend the...
2025 Halftime: AI’s Four Forces – What Happened, What’s Coming
A recap of compute, data, algorithms & robots in the first six months of 2025 and what’s coming next
Defeat of a 10-year ban on state AI laws is a blow to tech industry
The vote was a win for consumer groups and Democrats, who had argued for weeks against the provision that they feared would remove any threat of oversight for the powerful...
How AI Could Transform the Real Estate Sector
Ron Kamdem, our U.S. Real Estate Investment Trusts & Commercial Real Estate Analyst, discusses how GenAI could save the real estate industry $34 billion and where the savings are most...
As Atlas V soars, ULA launches ‘RocketGPT’ to usher in a new era of aerospace AI
As United Launch Alliance rolled out its second Atlas V mission of the year on June 23, it wasn’t just…
Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent
The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.
Senate Kills 10-Year State-Level AI Ban Tucked In Trump’s Budget Bill
Consumer and child safety groups applaud Senate’s rare 99-1 vote to protect states’ right to police artificial intelligence.
AI Moratorium Stripped From BBB
The insane attempted AI moratorium has been stripped from the BBB. That doesn’t mean they won’t try again, but we are good for now. We should use thi…
Meta Restructures AI Division, Launches Superintelligence Labs
Meta has launched Meta Superintelligence Labs to develop AI beyond human capability.
Senate removes ban on state AI regulations from Trump’s tax bill
States will be able to enact AI legislation again – but a federal plan remains unclear, and the clock is ticking.
Ted Cruz gives up on AI law moratorium, joins 99-1 vote against his own plan
The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
Robotics Startup Raises $105 Million Seed From US, China VCs
Genesis AI, a startup working on software for robots, has raised $105 million in a funding round with both US and Chinese backers — a rarity in an industry split...
A Simple Explanation of AGI Risk
Could human-designed AI kill all humans? I spent my PhD on this and still worry.
Cloudflare to Block AI Crawlers From Scraping Websites Unless They Pay
As publishers grapple with declining traffic thanks to AI, Cloudflare changes the default to ‘block AI crawlers unless they pay creators’ via a new system it’s calling ‘pay per crawl.’
What 300 of The Highest Growth B2B Startups Are Actually Doing With AI: The Latest from ICONIQ
So ICONIQ Growth is back with their 2025 State of AI Report: Survey Overview It has some great data from 300 high growth software companies building AI products. Survey Methodology...
US Senate votes to strike controversial AI regulation moratorium from Trump agenda bill
The US Senate has voted nearly unanimously to remove a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state artificial intelligence regulations from Republicans’ sweeping domestic policy bill.
Mark Zuckerberg’s war chest is Apple’s newest AI hurdle
Meta’s agressively renewed push into AI is throwing the entire market off-balance, and Apple is particularly exposed.
Training and Finetuning Sparse Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers v5
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.