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Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment

Import AI newsletter covering multiple AI research topics including AI security vulnerabilities (Stuxnet analogy),...

Introducing Google Antigravity 2.0

A Coding Implementation to Compress and Benchmark Instruction-Tuned LLMs with FP8, GPTQ, and SmoothQuant Quantization using llmcompressor

In this tutorial, we explore how to apply post-training quantization to an instruction-tuned language model using...

Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited

We're expanding our tools to help you understand how content was created and edited across the web.

World Action Models give robots the ability to simulate consequences before they move

World Action Models enable robots to simulate and understand how their actions change the world, addressing a key...

A Coding Guide Implementing SHAP Explainability Workflows with Explainer Comparisons, Maskers, Interactions, Drift, and Black-Box Models

This tutorial provides a practical guide to implementing SHAP explainability workflows for interpreting machine...

Nous Research Proposes Lighthouse Attention: A Training-Only Selection-Based Hierarchical Attention That Delivers 1.4–1.7× Pretraining Speedup at Long Context

Nous Research introduces Lighthouse Attention, a hierarchical attention mechanism that reduces computational complexity...

New benchmark confirms AI video generators look stunning but still can't reason about the world

WorldReasonBench, a new benchmark, evaluates AI video generators on physical and logical plausibility rather than image...

Researchers train AI model that hits near-full performance with just 12.5 percent of its experts

Researchers at Allen Institute for AI and UC Berkeley developed EMO, a mixture-of-experts model that organizes experts...

NVIDIA Introduces SANA-WM: A 2.6B-Parameter Open-Source World Model That Generates Minute-Scale 720p Video on a Single GPU

NVIDIA introduces SANA-WM, a 2.6B-parameter open-source world model capable of generating 60-second 720p videos with...

AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists

AI-generated research papers are improving in quality, creating a problem for scientists as these papers are being...

A Coding Implementation to Master GPU Computing with CuPy, Custom CUDA Kernels, Streams, Sparse Matrices, and Profiling

This tutorial explores CuPy as a GPU-accelerated alternative to NumPy for high-performance numerical computing in...

Two from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

The prestigious fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.

Nous Research Releases Token Superposition Training to Speed Up LLM Pre-Training by Up to 2.5x Across 270M to 10B Parameter Models

Nous Research introduces Token Superposition Training (TST), a two-phase pre-training method that reduces wall-clock...

Bosch, Researchers Develop AI for Humanoid Dexterity

Bosch and research teams have developed a "touch dreaming" AI system that significantly improves humanoid robot...

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Interaction Models: A Native Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Human-AI Collaboration

Thinking Machines Lab introduced TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter multimodal model that processes audio, video,...

Universal AI is “a pathway to AI fluency that’s accessible and approachable to anyone, anywhere”

MIT Open Learning has launched Universal AI, a new educational program designed to make AI accessible to learners...

Q&A: Expanding MIT’s global reach through Universal Learning

Dimitris Bertsimas and Megan Mitchell discuss the motivation behind Universal Learning, and what sets the new MIT Open...

Tilde Research Introduces Aurora: A Leverage-Aware Optimizer That Fixes a Hidden Neuron Death Problem in Muon

Tilde Research has introduced Aurora, a new neural network optimizer that fixes a critical flaw in the Muon optimizer...