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Andy Konwinski is concerned that the U.S. is losing its dominance in AI research to China, calling the shift an “existential” threat to democracy. Konwinski is a Databricks co-founder and the co-founder of the AI research and venture capital firm Laude. “If you talk to PhD students at Berkeley and Stanford in AI right now, they’ll tell you that they’ve …

After a year of frenzied dealmaking and rumors of an upcoming IPO, the financial scrutiny into OpenAI is intensifying. Leaked documents obtained by tech blogger Ed Zitron provide more of a glimpse into OpenAI’s financials — specifically its revenue and compute costs over the past couple of years.   Zitron reported this week that in 2024, Microsoft received $493.8 million in …

[Submitted on 10 Jun 2025 (v1), last revised 12 Nov 2025 (this version, v4)] View a PDF of the paper titled Understanding Human-AI Trust in Education, by Griffin Pitts and 1 other authors View PDF Abstract:As AI chatbots become integrated in education, students are turning to these systems for guidance, feedback, and information. However, the anthropomorphic characteristics of these chatbots …

Google DeepMind shared on Thursday a research preview of SIMA 2, the next generation of its generalist AI agent that integrates the language and reasoning powers of Gemini, Google’s large language model, to move beyond simply following instructions to understanding and interacting with its environment.  Like many of DeepMind’s projects, including AlphaFold, the first version of SIMA was trained on …

[Submitted on 10 Nov 2025 (v1), last revised 11 Nov 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Green AI: A systematic review and meta-analysis of its definitions, lifecycle models, hardware and measurement attempts, by Marcel Rojahn and Marcus Grum View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Across the Artificial Intelligence (AI) lifecycle – from hardware to development, deployment, and …

[Submitted on 31 Jan 2024 (v1), last revised 9 Nov 2025 (this version, v3)] View a PDF of the paper titled Deeper or Wider: A Perspective from Optimal Generalization Error with Sobolev Loss, by Yahong Yang and Juncai He View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Constructing the architecture of a neural network is a challenging pursuit for the machine learning community, and …

[Submitted on 24 Oct 2025 (v1), last revised 7 Nov 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled String Seed of Thought: Prompting LLMs for Distribution-Faithful and Diverse Generation, by Kou Misaki and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We introduce String Seed of Thought (SSoT), a novel prompting method for LLMs that improves Probabilistic Instruction …

AI coding, vibe coding and agentic swarm have made a dramatic and astonishing recent market entrance, with the AI Code Tools market valued at $4.8 billion and expected to grow at a 23% annual rate.  Enterprises are grappling with AI coding agents and what do about expensive human coders.  They don’t lack for advice.  OpenAI’s CEO estimates that AI can …

The developers of Terminal-Bench, a benchmark suite for evaluating the performance of autonomous AI agents on real-world terminal-based tasks, have released version 2.0 alongside Harbor, a new framework for testing, improving and optimizing AI agents in containerized environments. The dual release aims to address long-standing pain points in testing and optimizing AI agents, particularly those built to operate autonomously in …

On Thursday, the Laude Institute announced its first batch of Slingshots grants, aimed at “advancing the science and practice of artificial intelligence.” Designed as an accelerator for researchers, the Slingshots program is meant to provide resources that would be unavailable in most academic settings, whether it’s funding, compute power, or product and engineering support. In exchange, the recipients pledge to …