"Our most capable agent autonomously resolved 9 of 353 open Erdős problems at the per-problem cost of a few hundred dollars, proved 44/492 OEIS conjectures, and is being deployed in combinatorics, optimization, graph theory, algebraic geometry, and quantum optics research." Nice paper by folk at GDM

I worry that heavy Claude use could lead to unintended consequences in how we treat other people (especially students, mentees, employees)

Claude: Tomorrow's first move when you're back: kill running task Me: "Kill running task?" What running task? What?? Claude: Sorry — typo / brain fart on my part. I meant "check on the running tasks"

A general purpose (nothing special) internal OpenAI model solved one of the most famous previously unsolved problems in discrete geometry The solution involved far too many decisions for a human to feasibly explore openai.com/index/model-...

This is pretty funny. “We showed Claude.ai the story and asked whether it was AI-generated…” 🙈

By Jane Fisher Medium Oil painting

Bezos on Trump: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due."

🍊 #oilpainting #art

Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained go.nature.com/3RiE5HN

Read more here arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... With gratitude to my amazing coauthors @storitu.org, @willie-agnew.bsky.social, @harshp.com, @bmitra.bsky.social, Roel Dobbe, and @zeerak.bsky.social

As government agencies increasingly rely on software and algorithms to make decisions, these tools may shape outcomes through their architecture in ways the public never sees and courts can’t review, writes Eli Talbert. Accountability thus requires that design choices be visible and transparent.

Looking forward to reading this! mitpress.mit.edu/978026204994...

Finally, some good news for once. ArXiV will no longer tolerate hallucinated content in submitted works, with real, enforceable consequences.

I see lots of people complaining but I think this is the right move. Authors should be responsible for what is in the paper.

WTF Claude. I'm not doing anything cyber related!

quivers is a functional probabilistic programming language that compiles to pytorch.

“The old world was ‘still quivering on its ruins…slowly dying, while the promise of a brighter future was endlessly postponed” Sounds like today.

Once upon a time, a President of the United States saying "fuck you" and raising his middle finger to an American factory worker would be front page news around the world. Now it's a "colour lede" on a business analysis. www.ft.com/content/36ab...

Hemos usado Aristotle y estoy flipando. Le pasas un paper (PDF) con definiciones formales, reglas de transición, lemmas y teoremas y extrae una especificación formal con todo y demuestra automáticamente todos los resultados usando el demostrador de teoremas Lean. Me cuesta creerlo...

Writing has been independently invented maybe four times in human history. Radiocarbon dating has found evidence that the original inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) invented writing independently. buff.ly/PS5nm5j #ShareGoodNewsToo

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I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

“The protocol is open. The tools are available. Blacksky is right there as the working example. Stop trying to renovate someone else's house. Build your own, and let your friends visit, wherever they happen to live.” YES!

The one who controls the medium, controls the message

current uchicago philosophy undergrad laments AI. I read with great interest

Off to Paris for the Software Heritage exhibition www.unesco.org/en/articles/... at UNESCO. Here's a short program in Rivulet, one of the featured languages

1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out @nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output. nature.com/articles/s41...

Excellent survey on causal interpretability by @amuuueller.bsky.social and many BauLab members, don't miss it!

"When totalitarian dictatorship triumphs in the modern world, truly 'liberal' education is the first object of attack, since it is one of the most obvious bulwarks against the brutalization and atomization of the individual." Gen Ed in School and College, a report that led to AP, 1953

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

"we’re looking at the degradation of a skilled trade in realtime...Here’s a technology product, after all, that’s been trained on their work without their consent, and is now producing subpar output that’s driving down their wages and rendering work less rewarding"

"Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An LLM can reproduce the appearance of that activity, but it can’t replace it, because

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Computational approaches to media narrative analysis either miss nuanced storytelling patterns through coarse-grained analysis, or require domain-specific taxonomies that limit scalability. We show joint event and character modeling can address this gap. Details in our #ACL2026 (Main) paper. 🧵1/10

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Should all our resources go towards building chatbots? What if we built systems that actually give people meaningful agency? Finally out as an accepted @facct.bsky.social paper! Joint work with my past collaborators Sourojit, Pranav and Sanjana. huggingface.co/papers/2605....

This IS amazing. www.epicfurious.com

Wondering how relevant Hasok Chang’s “Inventing Temperature” is to LLMs

The most baroque registration system I've ever seen for a conference: 2026.aclweb.org/registration/

Right now an important branch of mathematics is finding useful-for-people math in the growing, complex corpus of human-produced results, and explaining why these key theorems are important for our needs. Unfortunately its importance is under-recognized by tenure committees.

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

“We’ve lost the moral compass for what we invest into,” Blank told me, sitting in a courtyard in the shadow of the business school. “We’ve lost the sense of shame and the sense of purpose.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Aunque todavía no ha sido publicado oficialmente, tiene un paper sobre el tema: "AI for software engineering: from probable to provable", que se puede encontrar ya en el arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2511.23159

While regular Americans struggle with the price of gas, groceries, car payments, utilities, and mortgages, Cracky the Clown is posting gold statues of himself. Calling him out of touch is the understatement of the decade.

Marco Rubio: Operation Epic Fury is over. Our preference is to return to the pre-war status for the Strait of Hormuz. 🇺🇸US Senator: But the SOH was already open before the war? So what was the point of whole war? You have created a Global Crisis OUT OF NOTHING” #cdnpoli

"Lagrimas Negras (Black Tears)", 1984. Oil on Canvas, 140 × 100 cm. By Oswaldo Guayasamín (Ecuadorian, 1919–1999). If you don't know his work, give a look, you will not be disappointed. oswaldoguayasamin [IG] Private Collection #art #painting #illustration

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