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The collaboration will produce a Crisis Counselor Training Curriculum and a statewide AI Harms Reporting Form targeting dangerous AI companion applications
AI is reshaping global power, from chip manufacturing and computing power to AI governance and US-China relations. In this episode, Ben Buchanan, Assistant Professor at The Johns Hopkins University and former White House Special Advisor for AI, explores how AI policy, geopolitics, and international cooperation intersect with AI innovation and AI safety. We discuss the strategic importance of computing power, the future of AI governance, and what it will take for democracies to lead responsibly in the age of AI. Featuring: Ben Buchanan – LinkedIn Chris Benson – Website , LinkedIn , Bluesky , GitHub , X Links: The AI Grand Bargain Upcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here !
If Ukraine is the first major drone war, when will there be the first major AI war?
SLR, a global sustainability consultancy, has acquired Geobiota, a 200-person Chilean environmental consulting firm specializing in the mining and energy sectors. Founded in 1995, Geobiota provides consulting services and solutions in environmental engineering and natural resources.
Professor Rebecca Eynon, Professor of Education, the Internet and Society, is among the outstanding social scientists elected to the fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences today.
Anthropic officially told by DOD that it’s a supply chain risk, ‘cancel ChatGPT’ trend is growing after OpenAI signs a deal with the US military, and more!
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Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6, Google Rolls Out Gemini 3.1 Pro, Anthropic CEO Amodei says Pentagon’s threats ‘do not change our position’ on AI
Amid a rising backlash to Silicon Valley overreach, a remarkably diverse group from across the political spectrum announced a set of AI principles to clearly define the goals of the emerging pro-human movement.
Typo in the year: " According to Karpathy, AI agents barely worked before December 2026"
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA 3rd March – South African AI Association (SAAIA) SAAIA operated on a funded basis for the second time from 1st March 2025 to 28th February 2026. This was achieved via the amazing sponsorship from Google, Huawei and other vendors who contributed to the years funding tranche for which we are very grateful. […]
This month, OpenMined is heading back to Arlington, VA, for the NAIRR’s second annual meeting. A lot has changed since last year’s inaugural gathering. The program is transitioning from a proof-of-concept to permanent national infrastructure, NSF has put $35 million on the table to establish a permanent operations center, and OpenMined just received approval to […] The post Two Years In: OpenMined Deep Partnerships under the NAIRR appeared first on OpenMined .
Here's how we made the search experience better, faster, and more resilient for GHES customers. The post How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Dive into the realities of AI-assisted coding, the origins of modern fine-tuning, and the cognitive science behind machine learning with fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard. In this episode, we unpack why AI might be turning software engineering into a slot machine and how to maintain true technical intuition in the age of large language models. GTC is coming, the premier AI conference, great opportunity to learn about AI. NVIDIA and partners will showcase breakthroughs in physical AI, AI factories, agentic AI, and inference, exploring the next wave of AI innovation for developers and researchers. Register for virtual GTC for free, using my link and win NVIDIA DGX Spark (https://nvda.ws/4qQ0LMg) Jeremy Howard is a renowned data scientist, researcher, entrepreneur, and educator. As the co-founder of fast.ai, former President of Kaggle, and the creator of ULMFiT, Jeremy has spent decades democratizing deep learning. His pioneering work laid the foundation for modern transfer learning and the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm that powers today's language models. Key Topics and Main Insights Discussed: - The Origins of ULMFiT and Fine-Tuning - The Vibe Coding Illusion and Software Engineering - Cognitive Science, Friction, and Learning - The Future of Developers RESCRIPT: https://app.rescript.info/public/share/BhX5zP3b0m63srLOQDKBTFTooSzEMh_ARwmDG_h_izk https://app.rescript.info/api/public/sessions/62d06c0336c567d6/pdf Jeremy Howard: https://x.com/jeremyphoward https://www.answer.…
Update 7/27/2026: I recently investigated the Slay the Spire deliverable deeper. This revealed some moderate problems that weren’t obvious back when I initially scored it. The problems I found are mostly the type that might take a while to surface, or might take close examination or an experienced player to notice. This has been generally in-line with my impression that models often create deliverables that look good initially, but look worse and worse upon deeper examination (unlike human deliverables, which often leave much more informative first impressions). The rest of the post remains the same as it was on March 3 2026. Summary: Opus 4.6 can, with a simple agent scaffold, create mostly-playable but somewhat broken CLI versions of Slay the Spire and Balatro 1 . Intro Last weekend I was trying to think of really difficult tasks we could give to AI agents to upper-bound their capabilities. I thought of two examples: Recreating a basic version of the video game Slay the Spire in the CLI Recreating a basic version of the video game Balatro in the CLI Both of these video games have a few properties that make it especially easy for AI systems to implement them: They already exist, so the AI doesn’t have to come up with new game ideas and do the enormous amount of work necessary to make it a fun game to play. Most player-relevant information is conveyed through text. They have well-defined rules and interactions between game mechanics. They are turn-based and don’t rely on rea…
TL;DR: The three dominant responses to this problem – blocking scrapers, licensing content, charging for scraper access – share the same flaw: once content is copied to a model server, control and attribution are lost. Each treats distribution and control as mutually exclusive. They are not. A different architecture exists, one in which publishers retain […] The post Why Blocking, Licensing & Pay-to-Access Are Insufficient appeared first on OpenMined .
This release introduces HFresh vector index (Preview), and brings Server-side Batching, Object TTL, Async Replication Improvements, Drop Inverted Indices, and Backup Restoration Cancellation to general availability.
The initial findings from CodeScaleBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate coding agents against the true complexity of enterprise software development, including large codebases and multi-repository tasks.
OpenMined participated in the 2026 India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, demonstrating BioVault for privacy-preserving genomics research and contributing to policy discussions on data sovereignty, conditional openness, and the "Visit, Don't Move" paradigm for cross-border AI collaboration. The post Reflections on the 2026 India AI Impact Summit appeared first on OpenMined .
From Caracas to Tehran, U.S. power is no longer justified through a narrative of liberal internationalism. Matias Spektor examines the consequences of this shift.
What might a superintelligence arcology be like?
Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep492-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/rick-beato-transcript CONTACT LEX: Feedback – give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA – submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama Hiring – join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring Other – other ways to get in
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Nestled between the Irish Sea and the Wicklow Mountains, MongoDB’s Dublin office brings together people from around the world. It’s a place where you can build a meaningful career, contribute to leading global products, and feel part of a close-knit community. Located in Ballsbridge just south of Dublin city center, the office is a short walk from the Lansdowne DART station and is well-served by multiple bus routes, making it easy to plug into everything the city has to offer. Image of a wall in the MongoDB Dublin office that is painted with Dublin relevant illustrations and text that says "Build together" and "Make it matter" As MongoDB’s international headquarters, Dublin is a key hub where over 300 employees from more than 40 nationalities own critical parts of the company’s products and support customers running mission-critical systems across the globe. Established in 2012, MongoDB Dublin has long played a pivotal role in helping the company achieve its mission of empowering innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. In this spotlight, you’ll hear from people across MongoDB’s Product & Technology, Sales, and Technical Services teams about what it’s like to build your career—and your life—in Dublin with MongoDB. Image of CEO, CJ Desai, speaking in front of a group of employees in the Dublin office. CEO CJ Desai holds an “Ask Me Anything” session in a recent visit to Dublin. Life at MongoDB Dublin The MongoDB Dubl…
In our previous post, we talked about our process of specifying MongoDB’s distributed transactions protocol and how it enabled novel analysis of its performance characteristics. In this follow-up, we talk about how the modularity of our specification also enabled us to check that the underlying storage engine implementation actually conforms to the abstract behavior defined in our formal specification. That is, we are able to formalize the interface boundary between the sharded transaction protocol and WiredTiger, the underlying key-value storage engine, and develop an automated way to generate tests for checking conformance between the semantics of the underlying storage engine layer and this abstract model. As mentioned in the previous post, a deeper exploration of the concepts covered in this post is covered in our recently published VLDB ’25 paper, Design and Modular Verification of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB. Modular, Model-Based Verification As discussed in Part 1, we had developed a TLA+ specification of MongoDB’s distributed transactions protocol in a compositional manner, describing the high level protocol behavior while also formalizing the boundary between the distributed aspect of the transactions protocol and the underlying single-node WiredTiger storage engine component. As mentioned, the distributed transactions protocol can be viewed as running atop the lower level storage layer. When considering the correctness guarantees of the distributed transact…
Here is what happened in AI in Africa this week: 1. UniPodsAI Solutions for Africa Program 2026 — Fully […]
Here is what happened in AI in Africa this week: 1. $10 B AI Initiative Launched to Boost Jobs […]
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"Our safety and basic rights must not be at the mercy of a company's internal policy; lawmakers must work to codify these overwhelmingly popular red lines into law."
In this episode, Sebastian Raschka, independent LLM researcher and author, joins us to break down how the LLM landscape has changed over the past year and what is likely to matter most in 2026. We discuss the shift from raw model scaling to reasoning-focused post-training, inference-time techniques, and better tool integration. Sebastian explains why methods like self-consistency, self-refinement, and verifiable-reward reinforcement learning have become central to progress in domains like math and coding, and where those approaches still fall short. We also explore agentic workflows in practice, including where multi-agent systems add real value and where reliability constraints still dominate system design. The conversation covers architecture trends such as mixture-of-experts, attention efficiency strategies, and the practical impact of long-context models, alongside persistent challenges like continual learning. We close with Sebastian’s perspective on maintaining strong coding fundamentals in the age of AI assistants and a preview of his new book, Build A Reasoning Model (From Scratch). The complete show notes for this episode can be found at https://twimlai.com/go/762.
Key Contributors: Moein Hasani, Hamidreza Shahidi, Trace Levinson, Guanghua Shu Introduction At Instacart, we are laser-focused on improving the user experience by making shopping feel easy, engaging, and personalized. Our discovery surfaces play a central role in bringing this to life. Alongside explicit Search intents, discovery is our opportunity to meet customers’ implicit needs, presenting them with the most relevant and inspiring content we have to offer. The main discovery surface within the Instacart app, referred to here as the “Shopping Hub”, is one of the most critical in this regard. This is the surface a customer lands on within the Instacart app after selecting their desired retailer, guiding them along their entire journey. What users see here shapes not just what they buy, but how intuitive and enjoyable their experience feels. Given its importance, our team runs dozens of Shopping Hub experiments per year, constantly evaluating new ways to enrich the discovery experience. Historically, these experiments have been constrained by static content libraries feeding our recommendation systems. With the rapid advancement of generative AI, a critical opportunity began to emerge: rather than incrementally improving a swath of legacy systems, could we leverage LLMs to rethink how content shows up for a user from the ground up? Which new primitives could we build to uplevel quality, personalization, and cohesion across the page? This blog post walks through our early j…
First results in a project developing next-generation open-source language models to advance European AI capabilities.
Learn how we built a production-ready, end-to-end RAG application in just 36 hours using the Query Agent and the new Weaviate Agent Skills library.
Vector Institute’s third annual Remarkable 2026 conference brought together over 1,500 researchers and industry leaders in person and online on February 19-20 to explore how AI research translates into real-world […] The post Remarkable 2026 Poster Session: 60 research projects shaping AI’s future appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Albagli Zaliasnik, a law firm in Chile, has joined Alliott Global Alliance as its legal representative in the country. Founded in 1991, and headquartered in Santiago, Albagli Zaliasnik is a one of Chile’s leading law firms.
Who says that winter is when things slow down? MongoDB has had a busy start to the year, with a steady stream of announcements and product features—all against the backdrop of an industry moving at warp speed. It's been a lot, and it's been a blast! For example, the energy at January’s MongoDB.local San Francisco—where we announced capabilities to help teams ship production AI faster—was infectious. MongoDB isn’t just starting a new chapter in AI; we’re rewriting the book in real time. The next generation of AI companies isn't just looking for a temporary place to store data; they’re looking to build on a generational modern data platform. Indeed, the most innovative founders are moving away from rigid, legacy systems and embracing a single, fluid foundation that can grow with them. At MongoDB.local SF, our message was clear: Choose your data platform strategically in order to ship faster. From our new Voyage 4 models to the general availability of our Intelligent Assistant, we are obsessed with anticipating what developers need next. This assistant is particularly impactful because it embeds MongoDB-specific expertise directly into Compass and MongoDB Atlas, allowing developers to troubleshoot performance without the "context-switching" that traditionally slows them down. In this issue, I’m thrilled to spotlight four startups who are building the future on the right foundation. You’ll see how Modelence and Thesys are using our flexible document model to eliminate 'operation…
A Round Up And Comparison of 10 Open-Weight LLM Releases in Spring 2026
Today, we're announcing Sourcegraph 7.0, a release that marks the beginning of a new chapter for our company and product.
Vector researchers developed CRISPNAM-FG, a trustworthy AI model that predicts the risk of developing diabetes-related foot complications for patients discharged from hospitals while providing complete transparency in how each decision […] The post CRISPNAM-FG: An interpretable Fine-Gray deep survival model for competing risks in health care appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Quantifying the capability-reliability gap
Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6, Google Rolls Out Latest AI Model Gemini 3.1 Pro, Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
METR previously published a paper which found the use of AI tools caused a 20% slowdown in completing tasks among experienced open-source developers, using data from February to June 2025. To understand how AI is impacting developer productivity over time, we started a new experiment in August 2025 with a larger pool of developers using the latest AI tools. Unfortunately, given participant feedback and surveys, we believe that the data from our new experiment gives us an unreliable signal of the current productivity effect of AI tools. The primary reason is that we have observed a significant increase in developers choosing not to participate in the study because they do not wish to work without AI, which likely biases downwards our estimate of AI-assisted speedup. We additionally believe there have been selection effects due to a lower pay rate (we reduced the pay from $150/hr to $50/hr), and that our measurements of time-spent on each task are unreliable for the fraction of developers who use multiple AI agents concurrently. Based on conversations with study participants, we believe it is likely that developers are more sped up from AI tools now — in early 2026 — compared to our estimates from early 2025. However, because of the selection effects in our experiment, our data is only very weak evidence for the size of this increase. Our raw results show some evidence for speedup. Our early 2025 study found the use of AI causes tasks to take 19% longer, with a confidence inte…
By Daniel Kitts “Where were those 10 years ago in AI?” said Stephen Southin to the crowd at Vector’s first Demo Day. The AI industry veteran was energized after hearing […] The post Demo Day: How the Vector Institute helps Canadian startups turn innovative ideas into commercial reality appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Will AIs be jealous of one another?
Written by Stefan Zier For years, Lyft’s localization infrastructure relied exclusively on human translation. While this model usually ensured excellent quality, it was bound by multi-day turnarounds and costs that scaled linearly with every new language. For the few languages Lyft initially supported (Spanish, Portuguese, and French), these limits were acceptable. However, Lyft’s expansion goals quickly outpaced what traditional workflows could support. Lyft’s recent Québec launch required compliance with Bill 96 (legislation mandating French-first user experiences) which demanded faster turnaround than multi-day cycles allowed. Simultaneously, the Lyft Urban Solutions (“LUS”: Bikes & Scooters) division sought to expand into European markets, requiring six new languages. The business need had changed as we now needed to move faster without sacrificing quality. This post explores how we re-architected Lyft’s Translation Pipeline to leverage AI alongside linguist oversight and ultimately unlock new market launches. We will walk through context injection, decoupling content generation from evaluation, implementing guardrails, and treating prompts as version-controlled production code. The new pipeline reduces translation latency from days to minutes while maintaining the fidelity required for legal compliance and brand integrity. Note : We will walk through our batch translation pipeline — used for 99% of app and web content — which targets a 30-minute SLA for 95% of translati…
Multinational telemedicine company Teladoc Health has appointed Daniel Murgueitio as its new Country Manager for Peru. Daniel Murgueitio joins the company from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he demonstrated a rapid professional ascent over the last several years.
Evidence-based AI policy is important but hard. We need more in-depth studies – which often don’t fit into commercial release cycles. NOTE: This post reflects my personal meta takeaways about the role of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in AI safety testing. If you have not yet read the Active Site RCT study itself, consider doing so first: see the main results and forecasts . In early 2025, AI systems began outperforming biology experts on biology benchmarks – OpenAI’s o3 outperformed 94% of virology experts on troubleshooting questions in their own specialties. However, it remained unclear how much this translated to real-world novice “uplift” : Could a novice actually use AI to perform wet-lab tasks they could not otherwise perform? Over the summer, I tested this question directly with Active Site (formerly called Panoplia Laboratories). We recruited 153 novices and randomly divided them into an LLM group and an Internet-only group. Over 8 weeks, participants performed fundamental wet-lab tasks involved in molecular biology workflows like reconstructing a virus from a genetic sequence. We found that, while AI showed signs of helpfulness at individual steps, it did not produce a significant effect on end-to-end success across the three core tasks together – a result that surprised many experts . The result provided a mid-2025 snapshot of how well AIs assist novices at molecular biology. I think there are at least two reasons why this result is very informative: It surpr…
Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices [1] : networks of actions, action-dispositions, action-evaluation criteria,
As AI accelerates innovation and adoption, leaders are facing rising cognitive load, shifting systems, and new emotional realities inside their organizations. In this episode, Deloitte’s Chief Innovation Officer Deborah Golden joins us to explore how AI is reshaping leadership, why vulnerability and empathy are critical in this moment, and how anti-fragility, not just resilience, will define the future of work. Featuring: Deborah Golden – LinkedIn Chris Benson – Website , LinkedIn , Bluesky , GitHub , X Daniel Whitenack – Website , GitHub , X Links: Deloitte Sponsor: Framer - The website builder that turns your dot com from a formality into a tool for growth. Check it out at framer.com/PRACTICALAI Upcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here !