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βHere, we present a novel framework for measuring AI usage patterns across the economy. We leverage a recent privacy-preserving system to analyze over four million Claude.ai conversations through the lβ¦β
βData, Data Everywhere, but Not an Insight to Drink (Myths vs. Reality) https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ynJOlemqEVxRβ
βactually John Schulman's theme had already published this thing called Web GPT at the time so I was pretty aware of itβ
βMy thoughts on China, export controls and two possible futures https://darioamodei.com/post/on-deepseek-and-export-controlsβ
βMedAgentBench establishes this and is publicly available at https://github.com/stanfordmlgroup/MedAgentBench , offering a valuable framework for model developers to track progress and drive continuousβ¦β
βWe adapt Microsoft's QuantumKatas -- a well-established quantum computing curriculum -- from Q# to Qiskit, the most widely-adopted quantum computing frameworkβ
βwe promote 2PI as a robust framework for connecting microscopic correlations to macroscopic nonequilibrium phenomena.β
βData and code are available at: https://github.com/MAHI-Group/BIRDNetβ
βThe code will be open-sourced in https://github.com/zjunlp/LightMem.β
βCode is available at https://github.com/LAMDA-CL/ICML2026-AREA.β
βThis finding was enabled by SafeContract, a training-free, black-box action monitoring toolkit with conformal calibration.β
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βso what I mean by that is say our model at Google V2 came out in December what really stood out to people was how it really had amazing physics you could pour a glass of water and it was perfect for tβ¦β
βI i i i selftaught myself all the endrewing lectures and um did all the Stanford materials went back to campusβ
βCode: https://github.com/krishnam94/vla-edgeβ
βI think the thing we're doing that I'm really excited about we have a project in Google Labs called whisk and the idea is you set like a subject a scene and a style and those can be things that maybe β¦β
βCode will be released at https://github.com/zjunlp/MemTrace.β
βI i i i selftaught myself all the endrewing lectures and um did all the Stanford materials went back to campusβ
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βyields, as a special case, tight Lipschitz estimates comparable to state-of-the-art method such as ECLipsE and ECLipsE-fast.β
βyields, as a special case, tight Lipschitz estimates comparable to state-of-the-art method such as ECLipsE and ECLipsE-fast.β
βCode is available at https://github.com/vitryt/label-free-bias-identification.β
βCode is available at https://github.com/UCMP13753/Omega-QVLA.β
βOur results show that graph-based models outperform well-known foundation-model such as scGPT and scFoundation, suggesting that explicitly modeling evolving regulatory structure provides useful informβ¦β
βI think the Gemini models are the bestβ
βOur results show that graph-based models outperform well-known foundation-model such as scGPT and scFoundation, suggesting that explicitly modeling evolving regulatory structure provides useful informβ¦β
βRecent work RAT+, introduces a recurrence-augmented attention backbone that enables flexible dilated attention at inference time.β
βI had helped start this company called Gro with a former coworker of yours Jonathan Rossβ
βUsing representative methods including Quest, MoBA, and SnapKV, we show that RAT+ consistently improves accuracy over standard attention across sparse budgets on eight needle-in-a-haystack tasks.β
βUsing representative methods including Quest, MoBA, and SnapKV, we show that RAT+ consistently improves accuracy over standard attention across sparse budgets on eight needle-in-a-haystack tasks.β
βAgentic AI: Whatβs Actually Happening (and What Comes Next) https://t.co/XXfAo3BCQdβ
βUsing representative methods including Quest, MoBA, and SnapKV, we show that RAT+ consistently improves accuracy over standard attention across sparse budgets on eight needle-in-a-haystack tasks.β
βOur code is available at https://github.com/HaonanWen/Under-Cali.β
βso if you're going to ENT the contest uh go to ar.org uh and uh good luck good luck see you on the leaderboardβ
βWe release all our models to the community.β
βOur teams new work using AI for quantum circuit transpilation Is even better. The team has extended their earlier work on RL-based synthesis of Clifford circuits to general Pauli Networks.β
βAnd if I can just give a quick book recommendation this book Boyd by Robert korm about John Boyd the Air Force Colonel who you know was part of the reformist uh movement I feel like everyone in Silicoβ¦β
βthere are other others like versel augment um um um uh cognition uh several several others and so this is happening very fast and you know coders across the industry are using it and the quality of coβ¦β
βOnce the requirements are met, our computational pipeline FreeQuantum is able to make efficient use of the quantum computed energies, thereby enabling quantum computing enhanced modeling of biochemicaβ¦β
βCode and skills are available at https://github.com/fujiwaranoM0kou/OptSkills.β
βOur code is anonymously released at https://github.com/XMUDeepLIT/SAAS.β
βOur code is available at https://github.com/Leyi-Qi/Cert-LAS.β
βI started sort of like last year with the obvious ones like repet and cursorβ
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βI just go to the Phil's coffee here every day morning i would go wake up at 5:30 a.m i would be there i be the first person in Phil's coffeeβ
βSo simple. How soon until one of your engineers is an agent engineer, an AI Engineer, do you have a sense?β
βthereby closing a substantial gap left by prior work (Erez et al., 2024, 2025), which incurred an additional Ξ(|A|^9) dependence.β
βthe real reason computers took off personal computers took off is the software called Vissical uh which essentially uh spreadsheet and calculatorβ
βI am going to try pairβ
βWe've been using them for several years now. And itβs been a fantastic company and they've been great partners.β
βafter pair I'm moving to idxβ
βthe induced model class admits a sharp DEC bound that scales with s and directly yields the optimal rate.β
βI use clad as wellβ
βif you know people who have read the book and are inspired and need some help, have them apply. Yeah. All right, folks.β
βyou can use voice, text to voice. I use WhisperFlow. It's a really cool program for this. And I have a foot pedal to do it.β
βDario wrote this blog post called Machines of Loving Grace... We should put a link to the poem. It's quite short.β
βtried it already yeah vzer is greatβ
βI would just encourage people to read, you know, as much as they can about anthropic. Chris Ola, work on the! I wrote on this thing called the constitution. It's about 80 pages.β
βAmanda Askell, who is the chief philosopher, has started doing podcasts. I would encourage you to listen to them and listen to her language.β
βthe FBI and CISA just published a Medusa Ransomware joint cybersecurity advisory. We'll post it in the comment section below the YouTube stream here for anybody who wants to review it.β
βthe single most marketable skill in the economy right now has got to be proficiency in Claude.β
βremembering the life, times and writings of Jonathan Clements in anticipation of his final book, Money and Me, coming out May 26th, 2026.β
βJason and I, and Jonathan, put together a list of his columns... we Self-published it through Amazon. And it has raised a substantial amount of money for the initiative.β
βyeah, Born B born to run. I mean it's it's an inspiring book. If people haven't read it, they should they should check it out. Very good narrative book.β
βAbsolutely. And I've never been a gamer. My only game experiences with the Game Boy Tetris. Only Tetris. I didn't play any other games. Well, and you'll notice with mod retro chromatic, we bundled it β¦β
βwe're very excited about vo um Google's imagery model and sort of video model and where those kind of come together so we've got really interesting products coming along in this space I think maybe weβ¦β
βget in touch with Benjamin cruser go to tabs. and uh see what happensβ
βcan you talk to us about Google Mariner yeah yeah so Mariners one we put out in December last year this is a fun one actually because we started seeing this capability developing in the model we're trβ¦β
βGo abacus.co. They're just basically saying and organizations cannot get enough of this product. It is crazy how savvy these organizations are getting.β
βOh my god. So, there's kind of a fictionalized but largely correct version you should check out. I think it's called Tetris. It's a movie about it.β
βhe founds Humble Dollar, which, you know, continues publishing even after, after he's gone. So he's created something that it's still providing a service.β
βhe must have written 2 or 300 columns telling people that they should buy index funds.β
βthe Jonathan Clements getting going on savings initiative funding, Roth IRA contributions for young adults from low income households.β
βWe open-source SpecReason at https://github.com/ruipeterpan/specreason.β
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βthere was a story in Wired by Zoe Schiffer, I think it was, I have it open right here, November, where she said that didn't mention that she was in Los Angeles most of the time, but that she did work β¦β
βI think the one that that sort of blew my mind this past week was that when you compare AI Alone to doctors alone of course AI wins but AI also beats doctor AI teamsβ
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βRivian's Chief Software Officer, Wasim Vazir, Binsed, joined the Verge's Decoder podcast this weekβ
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βmy company that I started before is called The Climate Corporation making software for Farmers helping Farmers make better decisions on the farm that will optimize outcomes relative to inputsβ
βWe had a great Ted Talk this year from a guy called hiroi Koga his his um company o Oishi um makes strawberries in indoor facilities but using Precision using all this dataβ
βwe introduce AMA-Bench (Agent Memory with Any length), a benchmark for evaluating long-horizon memory in realistic agentic settings.β
βthe company ohalo is named after a site discovered next to the Sea of Galilee called ohalo 2 it's an archaeological site 23,000 years ago the villagers that lived in this little little site they were β¦β
βWe further propose AMA-Agent, a memory system based on causality-graph construction and tool-augmented retrieval. AMA-Agent achieves 57.22% accuracy on AMA-Bench, outperforming the strongest baseline β¦β
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βRich Dad drilled this into me when I was a boy. He'd sit me down with a Monopoly board, not to play the game, just to teach.β
βWe encourage the community to explore new scientific questions that are made possible through the archival datasets.β
βThe dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/rui-research/DenseUIS.β
βwe present ldmppr, an R package for estimating, evaluating, simulating from, and visualizing location-dependent marked spatial point processes.β
βCode, task generators, and scorers are released at https://github.com/Luab/ABRAβ
βOur code is available at https://github.com/generaldi/NaRA.β
βwe present minWM, a full-stack open-source framework for building real-time interactive video world models... Project Page: https://github.com/shengshu-ai/minWMβ
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βSo probably like many people here I I read with great interest uh Steve Jay's blog post a couple months ago uh revenge of the junior developer.β
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βAnd so here weβre going to move to the second Amadeus, which came out recently called the adolescence of technology. That is about what you see as the most serious A.I. risks.β