Just checked and the final Anthropic status update is in place with # of claims received. 440,490 claims received means roughly something like $2678 per work ($1339 when split between publisher and author).

My back deck grill is covered in baby praying mantises

It's like a new-model Prius and a Cybertruck had a baby

Sunday at the ICLR Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness Across Alignment Procedures and Agentic Systems (www.afciworkshop.org/afaa-2026), I will speak on a framework for how to reconcile alignment, fairness, and bias. Long-term and near-term perspectives on "AI safety" are reconcilable.

In a world where "AI" submissions are a plague, human-written stories are the cure for an editor's breaking heart. Don't let the flood discourage you from sending your work out there. You are better, no what the hype of the moment says. We want your stories. Not the slop-infested noise.

I've heard it from middle-schoolers too. There is hope

Fantastic (long) piece on what AU means to mathematics (and what mathematics is) So many insights. The first begins why so may people in AI research are getting obsessed with “taste”. davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...

Anthropic builds the arguably most powerful cybersecurity coding system ever, gets hacked. Hackers use the arguably most powerful coding system ever to build websites. This is funny.

Okay went from “I’m not sure I have 30 minutes worth of relevant content to talk about” to “my talk will probably take 60 minutes and I need to cut it to 30”

I want to be paid $2,000 per hour to hallucinate www.ft.com/content/657d...

That’s not normal

You're welcome

Congratulations to @upolehsan.bsky.social, who won the Georgia Tech College of Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award. The impact of his work on human-centered explainable AI (XAI) cannot be understated. The last chapter of Upol's dissertation also just won an Honorable Mention at CHI. #ProudAdvisor

Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents (Erin Woo/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Can an AI run a retail store with a 3-year lease? andonlabs.com/blog/andon-m...

A living document trying to make sense of all the research on adoption and usage of AI aleximas.substack.com/p/who-uses-a...

Let 👏 claude 👏 listen 👏 to 👏 tunes

LLM benchmarking is my passion

My colleagues in the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Policy are mentioned in this piece on Claude Mythos

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI https://gizmodo.com/failed-companies-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-email-archives-to-train-ai-2000747916

Claude seems to have been updated and is fixated on malware

Apropos nothing, Sir Ben Kingsley is a living treasure who also happened to sign in to some epically bad movies like Species.

The person who attacked Altman’s home referenced AI doomer philosophies as motivation for the attack

I hope @bsky.app gets their rogue “reginos” under control (whatever a “regino” is, I cannot keep up with all these new fancy tech terms)

On my way to give a talk at CNN’s NYC headquarters. Taking the opportunity to wear a niche AI humor t-shirt that probably only made sense in 2016

Huh?

Hey computer science faculty peeps! Are we prepared for the near future where every high school student and incoming college freshman has vibe-coded an AI agent as high school “research”? Exciting. And scary. We are going to need to update our priors.

Excited to launch the accompanying free RLHF Course for my book. To kick it off, I've released: - Welcome video - Lecture 1: Overview of RLHF & Post-training - Lecture 2: IFT, Reward Models, Rejection Sampling - Lecture 3: RL Math - Lecture 4: RL Implementation Landing page: rlhfbook.com/course

1. Your goal is to retrieve your treasure from a monstrous entity. 2. All you need is a pen and paper, but expensive software makes it much easier. 3. The rules are constantly being updated, but they’re still shackled to a system from the 1970s.

Learn about the "AI-as-Amplifier Paradox" at #CHI2026. Skill amplification? Or skill erosion? Or both? (CHI Honorable Mention Paper)

Would watch

CHI 2026 is right around the corner. Here is some cool stuff from my lab. 1. Counterfactual Explanations for Agentic Workflows (github.com/eilab-gt/eil...) . A new API for making AI pipelines that automatically makes your pipeline explainable. Counterfactuals let you explore what *could* happen. 1/

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Gloves are off

Where are all the Computing Science undergraduates going? Adjacent fields such as data science, robotics, cybersecurity, etc www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

📢 The workshop on Insights from negative results will be back at EMNLP'26! Your most-insightful failures can be submitted in 4 pages by June 25. It's also possible to commit short papers reviewed through ARR. insights-workshop.github.io/2026/cfp

Regardless of one’s personal beliefs about AI or Mr Altman, this is not appropriate

Fortunately, I speak fluent LLM, and... no, dear emailer, I do not have bandwidth to mentor a high school student at this time, sorry.

CHI 2026 is right around the corner. Here is some cool stuff from my lab. 1. Counterfactual Explanations for Agentic Workflows (github.com/eilab-gt/eil...) . A new API for making AI pipelines that automatically makes your pipeline explainable. Counterfactuals let you explore what *could* happen. 1/

I am?

Reach out, touch faith

Now that Integrity is safely down, I’m hoping the first astronaut out says “Moon’s haunted”, grabs a gun from a navy officer and steps back into the capsule

studying the vulnerabilities in vibe-coded software www.cc.gatech.edu/news/bad-vib...

Chatbots in local government are having their Air Canada moment

Having too many transformers is a problem because we don't have enough transformers

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Food generally tastes less flavorful in space, hence the prime importance of hot sauce!

Just so you know what kind of dork I am: I was looking at the Artemis II mission stuff and said to @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social, “The cutaway in those letters in the bottom left corner definitely means something super specific…”

Final results from the AI NCAA bracket tournament (got distracted by Artemis II flyby of the moon). The non-LLM baseline using Bayesian and Monte Carlo techniques wins (again). It was 99th percentile and ranked 53,036th best bracket overall. Claude came in second (80th percentile).