Engineering
Specification-First Convergence with an AI Coding Agent
This case study reports on using an AI coding agent to carry out a large-scale architectural refactor of a 717,000-line…
Engineering
How Can Rhetoric Reward-Hack AI Reviewers? Dissecting Rhetorical Sensitivity in AI-Based Peer Review
This study investigates whether purely rhetorical changes to a scientific manuscript — with the underlying content held constant — can…
Engineering
Intern-S2-Preview: Scientific Agentic Foundation Model
Intern-S2-Preview is a family of foundation models built for multimodal scientific reasoning and long-horizon agentic tasks. Its training pipeline combines…
Engineering
Extreme Overtraining in Tiny Language Models
This write-up documents a training experiment pushing a 0.9-million-parameter language model to a token-per-parameter ratio of roughly 222,000:1 — far…
Opinions
New Book Argues AI Adoption Is Accelerating Journalism’s Broken Business Model
A new book, “Journalism in the Age of AI” by researchers Rodrigo Zamith, Tomás Dodds, and Seth C. Lewis, examines…
Opinions
UC Berkeley Researchers: Bigger Data Centers Aren’t the Answer for Better AI
UC Berkeley researchers argue in a Nature commentary that the industry’s push to build ever-larger AI data centers is unnecessary,…
News
xAI Raises $20 Billion in Nvidia-Backed Funding Round
Elon Musk’s xAI raised $20 billion in an oversubscribed funding round that exceeded its initial $15 billion target, with backers…
News
Anthropic Signs $9.1 Billion Data Center Deal With Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms
Anthropic has finalized a $9.1 billion, 20-year data center lease with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms, securing 191 megawatts of power…
News
Google’s Gemini App Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Active Users
Google announced that its Gemini app has reached 1 billion monthly active users, making it the company’s fastest-growing product and…
Opinions
Palantir’s Alex Karp Warns AI Could Become America’s Biggest Driver of Wealth Inequality
Palantir CEO Alex Karp warned that artificial intelligence could become the biggest driver of wealth inequality in America, describing a…
Opinions
AI in the Classroom Needs Locked-Screen Exams, Not Just Good Intentions
Eric Smith, a taxation professor at Weber State University, argues in an opinion piece that AI’s integration into education must…
Opinions
Does AI Pose an Existential Risk? Five Experts Weigh In
The Conversation asked five AI and ethics experts whether artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity, and three of…