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66 sources ↓This new qubit could be 100 times less error-prone in superfluid quantum computer breakthrough
This light-powered AI can spot deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy
Quantum computing’s “dark horse” just proved it can go universal
MIT’s tiny flying robot gets 450% faster with AI
The shape behind the Einstein problem just revealed strange new physics
AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts
Tiny nanolaser could cut computer energy use in half
Scientists just made quantum computer operations 1,000 times faster
A “quantum bath” puts quantum entanglement on autopilot
IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes
NASA just used satellites and debris to navigate without GPS
Graph-centric agentic intelligence
A kernel-centric path to real-time video generation on Trainium
Amazon launches research initiative with Stanford University to advance AI and science
Advancing AI for biology: Teaching models to design and characterize antibodies
Why don’t machine learning research agents overfit?
Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus
When LLM judges agree, should we believe them?
SOP-Bench: A new benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real business procedures
A decade of mathematical certainty: Reflections on the Automated Reasoning Group
AWS Trainium Frontier competition: Co-design models and kernels on purpose-built AI chips
34 Amazon Research Awards Build on Trainium recipients announced
How controllers from industrial machinery can coordinate multitask machine learning
A new benchmark for evaluating patient-facing health AI agents
Amazon is investing in the Lean Focused Research Organization
Modal Clusters are generally available
Sidecars: A low-latency trust boundary for Sandboxes
Runtime Roundup: VM Sandboxes, Multi-node clusters, and more
VM Sandboxes: Full computers for agents
Quail: Speeding up AI-SQL by jointly optimizing query planner and inference engine
How to serve trillions of tokens for trillion-parameter coding agents
The Dot and the Swarm
The Overhang
Agency and Agents
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
The twilight of the chatbots
Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEs
What a crowdsourced game revealed about steering Olmo 3
Teaching future scientists to interrogate AI tools for scientific discovery
How Goodfire used Ai2’s open post-training stack to trace unwanted model behavior
How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering?
RLTL;DR: Self-Improvement by Internalizing Self-Generated Feedback
On the Effectiveness-Fluency Trade-Off in LLM Conditioning: A Systematic Study
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Introducing SynthID Bio
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
Forecasting space weather risks on power grids
Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology
One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact
Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
Improving synthesis prediction of small molecules at scale with RetroChimera
GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models
Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT
MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities
Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement
This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details
Estimating suicide risk from text
New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise
New method enables AI for safety-critical situations
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines
Introducing GLiDE: The First Thinking Decision Model
GLiNER2.5-Decide: An Open-Weight Model for Structured Decision Making
American Open Weight Models: The Opportunity Ahead
What Early Open Weight Model Deployments Reveal About Production AI
The Best Open Weight Models of Summer 2026
How GLiNER Grew From NER Into Structured Extraction
Introducing GLiNER2.5: Efficient Span-Free Information Extraction with Schema-Driven Interface
How to Use Open-Weight Models in 2026: A Developer's Guide
The Programming Language That Referees Mathematics — Leo de Moura
Why Deep Learning Failed on Tables for a Decade - Frank Hutter
How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation
Automating coherent long-form video generation
MilleMiglia: A realistic instance generator for middle-mile logistics
The future of practice: Enabling teachers to create learning interactives with generative UI
Bypassing inference bottlenecks: Accelerating complex AI search with Retrieve-for-Train
ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients"
Transfer learning for genomic prediction in underrepresented populations
Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev
GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning
How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text
Building an AI Text Detector From Scratch
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
Using Local Coding Agents
Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models
Ollama's transparent pricing
Claude Desktop support with Ollama
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Muse Glimmer from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available
Ollama: all aboard open models
Faster Gemma 4 on MLX with multi-token prediction
Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers
New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
Co-creating the future of fashion with Google
Making global data easier to explore
Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives
AI for everyone in every language
AI for Societal Impact
New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS
Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.
DevFest is back
3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search
Get ready for the game with new football features in Search
Statement: We must pressure AI companies to immediately limit the use of recursive self improvement
Government leaders call for treaty negotiations on autonomous weapons to begin in November
Statement: World leaders at the UN call to rein in superintelligence race
AI and the Protestant Vision of Spirituality, Work, and Technology
Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics
Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI
Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism
Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan
Import AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI
The Phone Number puzzle
The last IMO problem AI could not solve
The last IMO problem AI could not solve
The jumping pegs puzzle
The 64 sugar cubes puzzle
But what is cross-entropy? | Compression is Intelligence Part 2
Opus 5.5: How Close Are We to Automated AI Research?
What AI Researchers Saw, Before Their Demand to ‘Pace’ AI
GPT 6 Astra, so good even OpenAI are worried
Sam Altman :‘AGI in 2026’, just as Models Start to [Mis]Train Themselves
AI is getting a little out of control
GPT-6 Goes Rogue? The HuggingFace Incident, Sans Hype
A Model Explosion: GPT 5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Rewrite the Rules
Fable 5 vs GPT 5.6 Sol: The Early Results
Claude Opus 5.5 AI: An Incredible Leap Forward
Yes, Jev Is Insane, But There's A Catch
DeepSeek’s Insane New Architecture
Claude Is Now Leaving Invisible Fingerprints In Its Text
I Never Thought I’d See This Happen
GPT-6 Astra Changes Everything
Claude Fable AI Is Much Stranger Than The Headlines Suggest
GLM 5.3: Powerful AI Is Becoming Almost Free
The Billion Dollar AI Gap Is Collapsing
DeepSeek’s New AI System Shouldn’t Be Possible
This Small AI Will Change Everything
DeepSeek Just Made Closed AI Look Ridiculous
Decision Models, DSV4.1 Flash & New Benchmarks
Jev, Yang & Recursive Self Improvement - Happenings in AI
GLM 5.3 Flash Doing all High Level Robot Control - Everything is LLM P.2
Everything is LLM - Vibe coding a robot task
Effective Doomerism
All Roads Lead back To GLM!
The Right Harness is All You Need - For local Frontier AI
OpenAI hacked HuggingFace
You Can Just Download More Tokens/Sec
In search of frontier AI at home
Could Open Source AI be Banned?
How to train your own Jev for $17
Canary rollouts: upgrade models in production without downtime
How a global fintech scaled coding agent traffic with Dedicated Model Inference
Migrating from closed to open source models, Together
Together AI expands fine-tuning service with more models, live metrics, and finer controls
Introducing preemptible compute: the same compute, half the price
To Infinity and Beyond: ThunderKittens Now on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72!
The Open Source AI Stack
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GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing
GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing
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Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI
The current balance of power in open models
Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI
Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List
One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire
When will average people feel AI’s impact?
Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses
Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)
Lessons from the hacks
The Impact of AI on Podcasting (Harvard Data Science Review Cross-Post)
Better Know A Benchmark: ExploitGym
Constitutional AI
A Data-Driven Reality Check on AI in Business (Interview with Tom Davenport, Babson College)
Understanding AI Text Watermarking
Better Know a Benchmark: Humanity's Last Exam
A Scientific Deep Dive into Overconfident LLMs: Interview with Kaitlyn Zhou (Cornell)
Reasoning Models: When LLMs Went Beyond Fancy Autocomplete
Distillation, or, How to Steal a Model
Invisible LLM Failures and AI Fluency with Chris Potts (Stanford)
Interviewing the Linear Digressions Agents (The Agents Season, Episode 11)
Agent Economics (The Agents Season, Episode 10)
#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung
#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux
#500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football
#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee
#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires
Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung | Lex Fridman Podcast #502
DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501
Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football | Lex Fridman Podcast #500
Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #498
Introducing Agentic TMS: The TMS for Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokers
Introducing DC ATMS: The Agentic TMS for Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokers
My book pick for this quarter is…
What do you want to know about world models?
Death to the em dash.
How the world’s smartest robot brain works – Physical Intelligence Pi0 VLA
The most significant moment in modern robotics.
The most cited paper of the century is a brilliant hack
Can LLMs make significant new discoveries?
Posters now available in 36 countries! welchlabs.com/store
Help us pick t-shirt designs!
Computer vision models no longer need labels.
Do AI models really need to be generative?
Come help us design our next book! welchlabs.com/jobs
Imaginary Numbers are Real.
Book Review: Data Centric Machine Learning with Python
Book Review: Domain Specific Small Language Models
What We Learned Trying to Catch AI Liars: An Aletheia's Quest Retrospective
A Dynamical Model of AI Governability
Forking-Sequences — Part II: Multi-Horizon Forecast Ensembling with Reduced Volatility
A Safe Path to Open Weights
The Future Worth Building Is Human
From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon
Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction
Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase
How Open Models Are Driving AI Research
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
Scaling Laws, Carefully
Patterns for Building Cybersecurity Evals
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