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Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper departs Google DeepMind to join rival AI lab Anthropic

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Miles Brundage and Susan Zhang argue against nationality-based restrictions on AI talent, urging a focus on basic securityThe debate focused on national security and corporate espionage.

Meta FAIR's François Fleuret argues speculative decoding is a nearly free lunch, prompting debate over token volume versus deeper reasoningResearch engineer kache argued systems should focus on deeper thought.

Lux Capital co-founder Josh Wolfe questions Elizabeth Warren's proposal to tax Elon Musk to fund free community collegeOpponents argue SpaceX and Tesla yield greater public utility.

Midjourney launches a medical hardware division and unveils an AI-powered, radiation-free full-body ultrasonic scanner prototype for in-home careIt delivers 0.5mm 3D anatomy maps in 60 seconds

Representative Ro Khanna defends proposed 2% California billionaire tax against VC warnings of capital flightKhanna cited California's 85% share of Q1 venture funding.

Meta's Lucas Beyer and François Fleuret joke that AI writing CUDA kernels is like an eager dogEngineer kache called AI-assisted GPU programming a daily routine

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Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper departs Google DeepMind to join rival AI lab Anthropic

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Nabeel S. Qureshi says a Harper’s Bazaar prize-winning short story was flagged as 100% AI-generated by PangramHe urged contests to verify submissions or permit AI.

Parody website InTheWeights.com launches to rank tech figures on their hypothetical presence in fictional future AI model weightsAlexis Ohanian and Shawn Wang shared their mock profiles.

THUDM open-sources Slime, an LLM post-training framework for reinforcement learning scaling and online preference optimizationIt completed GLM-5.2 post-training in two days.

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Miles Brundage and Susan Zhang argue against nationality-based restrictions on AI talent, urging a focus on basic securityThe debate focused on national security and corporate espionage.

Meta FAIR's François Fleuret argues speculative decoding is a nearly free lunch, prompting debate over token volume versus deeper reasoningResearch engineer kache argued systems should focus on deeper thought.

Lux Capital co-founder Josh Wolfe questions Elizabeth Warren's proposal to tax Elon Musk to fund free community collegeOpponents argue SpaceX and Tesla yield greater public utility.

Midjourney launches a medical hardware division and unveils an AI-powered, radiation-free full-body ultrasonic scanner prototype for in-home careIt delivers 0.5mm 3D anatomy maps in 60 seconds

Representative Ro Khanna defends proposed 2% California billionaire tax against VC warnings of capital flightKhanna cited California's 85% share of Q1 venture funding.

Meta's Lucas Beyer and François Fleuret joke that AI writing CUDA kernels is like an eager dogEngineer kache called AI-assisted GPU programming a daily routine

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Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper departs Google DeepMind to join rival AI lab AnthropicDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis praised Jumper's historic contributions.

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Former OpenAI engineer Will Depue claims China has full access to OpenAI and Anthropic's internal systemsHe warns stolen architectures could power Chinese open-source models

US Commerce Department orders Anthropic to get approval before letting foreign nationals access its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 modelsTrump no longer considers Anthropic a national security threat.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick alleges an ASML EUV lithography machine reached China, which ASML deniesChinese research teams are actively developing domestic EUV prototypes

Thomas Dimson launches In The Weights, a retro site visualizing how strongly a name is represented in AI training dataThe search tool generates video game-style character profile cards

OpenAI's roon argues human-computer hybrids cannot compete with pure machine intelligence because biological brains are too slowCritics debated if mind uploading or consciousness validates hybrid systems.

Codex launches automatic session handoff to transfer active developer threads between local laptops and remote serversUsers can close local laptops without losing active progress

OpenHands co-founder Graham Neubig says GLM-5.2 is the first open model capable of replacing closed-source models in his coding workflowsThe 744B model features a one-million-token context window

Leaked Google DeepMind report reveals internal discontent as its AI models slip to fifth place on industry benchmarksEmployees worry leadership is conceding the race to AGI

Engineer Boris Cherny uses Claude Code to analyze and attempt to decipher the ancient script Linear ACherny requested academic peer review to validate the translation.

Dwarkesh Podcast host Dwarkesh Patel argues AI requires up to one million times more data than humans due to sample inefficiencyResearchers agree that improving sample efficiency is the next frontier.

Proponents claim Midjourney's low-cost whole-body scanner overcomes diagnostic limits, but critics argue hardware upgrades cannot solve clinical failuresProponents claim the technology cuts imaging costs by 99.9%.

Midjourney launches a medical division, unveiling a conceptual 60-second full-body ultrasonic scanner to replace MRIsMidjourney plans to deploy 50,000 scanner units globally.

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Figure AI founder Brett Adcock says the company's active humanoid robots now outnumber its human employeesRobot headcount will exceed 700 units by Q2 2026.

Helen Toner, Georgetown CSET interim director, says Anthropic builds advanced AI rapidly to act as a safety vanguardShe compared rival AI systems to dangerous forest entities.

THUDM open-sources Slime, the reinforcement learning scaling framework used to train Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 modelIt merged over ten expert models in two days

Jean Kaddour releases Sokoban Speedrun, an RL benchmark that fine-tunes Qwen3-4B-Instruct in 87 minutes using GRPOThe project modifies Andrej Karpathy's open-source nanochat pipeline

EU issues tenders for seven data centers with up to 40,000 GPUs, scaling back sovereign infrastructure plansObservers say the downsized footprint favors smaller AI models.

Ukraine launches TrophyLab, a secure platform for sharing vulnerability analyses and data on captured Russian military hardwareAuthorized partners can also request physical weapon samples

Mitchell Hashimoto, Ghostty creator, embeds prompt injections in codebases to detect and ban contributors submitting unreviewed AI-generated codeThe traps are placed in files like AGENTS.md.

Gabriel Petersson, who worked on OpenAI's Sora, confirms he left the company a month before the official announcementAn outside user leaked his departure weeks before the announcement.

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Noah Smith parodies formulaic tech career announcements, mocking rapid shifts between hyped sectorsAntonio García Martínez called these updates an insufferable trope.

White House and Anthropic collaborate on a standardized technical framework to benchmark AI jailbreak severityThe framework could restore access to Mythos and Fable.

Audit of Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma finds intermediate steps remain human-interpretable, enabling chain-of-thought safety monitoringThis restores transparency benefits previously restricted to autoregressive LLMs.

Systems engineer Yacine argues tech companies should stop hiring from NeurIPS and CVPR and recruit from SIGGRAPH insteadHeinrich Kuttler noted DeepMind's original team relied on gaming.