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OpenAI launches hiring drive for its robotics division to build physical-world robots using full-stack hardware and ML co-design

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MIT CSAIL PhD Stephen Casper will join Harvard Kennedy School as an assistant professor of AI governanceHis appointment to the new role begins in July

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WeirdML benchmark finds Claude Opus 4.8 xhigh trails GPT-5.5 xhigh but achieves 82.9% accuracy using 129 lines of codeDisabling thinking dropped Claude's accuracy to 70.5%.

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Senator Bernie Sanders proposes a US sovereign wealth fund to hold public equity in frontier AI labs like OpenAIThe fund would distribute AI-driven profits directly to citizens.

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NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 Omnimodal World Model for Physical AI

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Jensen Huang Unveils Vera Rubin AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026

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Lisan al Gaib argues frontier AI labs create a tiered system by delaying public access to advanced modelsThe debate followed Anthropic expanding Claude access to the EU

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Margaret Mitchell and Hugging Face's ethics team release a satirical papal encyclical on safeguarding humanity from AIThe project functions as an annotated bibliography on AI ethics.

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Stanford's Jeannette Bohg analyzes why VLA models and diffusion policies fail during contact-rich robotic tasks without force sensingForce-over-time diagrams help categorize precision and force failures.

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Alex J. Champandard and Dimitris Papailiopoulos argue that preventing GSM8k benchmark contamination is impractical without manual filteringModels frequently ingest benchmark questions accidentally or intentionally.

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OpenAI launches hiring drive for its robotics division to build physical-world robots using full-stack hardware and ML co-designInitial robots will support workers on infrastructure projects.

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MiniMax announces MiniMax M3, an open-weights multimodal model featuring a 1-million-token context window and 59% SWE-Bench Pro scoreThe API is live; weights drop in 10 days

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Runway founder Siqi Chen says the "5.5" model on "codex xhigh" significantly outperforms Claude for codingThe platform reset fast-mode limits for five million users.

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OpenMined founder Andrew Trask backs Richard Sutton's claim that supervised generative AI cannot make novel scientific discoveriesBeff proposed training Grok using audience engagement feedback

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Teknium defends Hermes Agent's out-of-the-box design after criticism of its pre-bundled Polymarket skillT3 Stack creator Theo flagged the bundled Polymarket skill.

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Elad Gil says the past six months of AI development are historic, driven by recursive self-improvement toolsHe warns outsiders are missing an exponential growth phase

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NVIDIA announces Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B open SSM-MoE model claiming 5x faster inference and 30% lower costsThe open release includes model weights and training data

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Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield argues replacing workers with AI causes operational chaos because models lack tacit domain knowledgeHe equates deploying AI to hiring capable but clueless workers.

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Michael Dell says Dell and Nvidia delivered the first Vera Rubin NVL72 system to CoreWeave, passing L11 diagnosticsThe delivery occurs while Blackwell optimizations are still transitioning.

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US BIS closes loophole by requiring export licenses for advanced AI chips sent to overseas subsidiaries of Chinese firmsThe rules still leave foundry manufacturing workarounds unresolved.

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Steve Yegge argues Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is less usable than 4.5 due to excessive anti-sycophancy trainingYegge claims the model now over-criticizes creative writing.

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Meta's AI support assistant lets attackers hijack Instagram accounts by changing linked emails without verificationAttackers are actively exploiting the vulnerability for account takeovers

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Victor Taelin, Higher Order Company founder, and developer Haz reach opposing conclusions on GPT-5.5 versus Claude Opus 4.8Taelin favored Opus for HVM4, while Haz preferred GPT-5.5

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Nous Research launches Hermes Agent beta for Windows 10 and 11, running natively without WSL or DockerThe dashboard's embedded terminal pane still requires WSL2.

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Julius AI's Rahul Sonwalkar questions if legacy models wrote better, but researcher Aidan McLaughlin argues they just plagiarizedEarly base models often directly reproduced their training data.

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Google AI Overview adopts literal role-playing personas when prompted with absurd first-person search queriesIt advised a hypothetical baby AGI to weld doors.

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Founder Farza demonstrates hands-free macOS desktop control using Clicky, a voice assistant built on GPT-Realtime 2.0The assistant navigated Chrome to execute commands in Stripe

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Raygun co-founder John-Daniel Trask argues that Claude's flattering conversational style biases users into overestimating its technical performanceHe compared this behavior to user perceptions of GPT-4o.

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Former Harvard physicist Xi Yin joins OpenAI, claiming AI boosted his research 100x and can replicate all human intellectHKU professor Yi Ma disputed Yin's expertise on AI limits.

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Next.js creator Guillermo Rauch says enterprise CEOs are returning to active coding using AI agents like Claude CodeAdam D'Angelo compares the trend to Toyota lean manufacturing

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Figma founder Dylan Field solves a kindergarten math puzzle that stumped mock GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus modelsNot Boring founder Packy McCormick originally shared the puzzle.

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OpenAI investigates after a Codex Desktop update removes the "Copy as Markdown" export optionGarry Tan warned the change risks proprietary platform lock-in.

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Representative Lori Trahan urges Congress to pass federal AI laws, citing a lack of safety auditors and federal authorityPolicy experts argue national rules must preempt fragmented local laws

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MiniMax launches M3 multimodal model with 1M context window, sparking debate over claimed 100-trillion-token training datasetOpenRouter offers the model at a temporary 50% discount.

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OpenAI's roon argues compelling human-made stories harm society, advocating instead for mediocre AI contentAndrew McCalip predicts AI will eternally observe human life.

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Boaz Barak, Harvard professor and OpenAI alignment researcher, says an AI detector flagged his daughter's organic essay as 100% machine-generatedPhrases like "profound and diverse landscape" triggered the false positive.

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Eval Loop Diagram Shows How to Filter AI Slop at Output Stage

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Theo, T3 Stack creator, used the Hermes AI agent from his phone to fix a deployment roadblock during a flightThe agent cloned the repository and opened a pull request.

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Top AI Papers of the Week Spotlight Efficiency and Agentic Workflows

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NVIDIA open-sources Cosmos 3, an 8B and 32B physical AI omnimodel combining vision reasoning, world simulation, and action generationThe release includes open weights, code, and training datasets.

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