Academic peer review in a nutshell 😅

Our companion validation paper to pypi package envisionhgdetector has been accepted for publication as Diamond Open Access book chapter in "Behavioromics" (Eds. Lucking & Mehler). Postprint here: wimpouw.com/files/gh_det...

Cohere to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha as it looks to expand in Europe

A new Boards of Canada album on the horizon and a fascist defeated in Europe. What a week!

Sure, it’s good for democracy — but also, good for EMNLP

Yeah. Milla Jovovich (actress) and Ben Sigman created AI memory system, called MemPalace. github.com/milla-jovovi...

This is actually such a simple but powerful concept. Imagine it being used for LowRes MT (ignoring the fact a lot of these tokens will be [IDK] XD) where LLMs hallucinate so much!

Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi stepped down after two and a half years because nonprofits can't compete at frontier-scale model development against tech giants spending billions on compute buff.ly/Xboe1nu #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews

The keynote recordings of our conference on reform in scholarly publishing www.horizondiamond.nl are online and posted on the website. First up, Mark Hanson who kicked off the event in a fabulous way @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy tilburguniversity.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

FlashAttention-4 I hope it is not pain to work with. It changes the algorithm & pipeline so that softmax & SMEM bandwidth no longer dictate speed. Attn reaches ~1600 TFLOPs, pretty much at matmul speed!

With AI, science will need different incentives. Scientific credit outdated given new role of humans in future. Publications are just synthetic data for human consumption! Jakob Uszkoreit w/ Lara Sophie Bothur, Yossi Matias, @fabiantheis.bsky.social, Klaus-Robert Müller, @alenabuyx.bsky.social

Should governments impose an LLM token tax? 💰💰 If AI gradually replaces important parts of human work, we'll need other forms of taxation. Important discussion by @akorinek.bsky.social, Anna Salomons, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social w/ @kncukier.bsky.social recently at #IASEAI2026 at UNESCO in Paris.

Lots of core team members of Alibaba Qwen are resigning publicly on X. The gaping hole that Qwen imploding would leave in the open research ecosystem will be hard to fill. The small models are irreplaceable. I’ll do my best to keep carrying that torch. Every bit matters.

We almost certainly won't make AI safe by making safe AI. Others are still going to create unsafe AI. – @scasper.bsky.social at #IASEAI2026 Open-Weight AI Risk Management Workshop I led one of the discussion groups and we had some nice new ideas of how to make open weight models safe 😊

Geoffrey Hinton: Proving safety of AI (Stuart Russell's goal) is not going to work for neural network-based AI. Pushing for non-agentic AI (@yoshuabengio.bsky.social's goal) could work, but the big tech companies are moving towards more agency. ➡ Risk mitigation is all we can do! #IASEAI2026

3 AI Races – Big tech companies are racing to compete: 1. For attention/engagement online 2. For AGI to replace human labor 3. For superintelligence, in pursuit of power Whoever wins, humanity loses. – Anthony Aguirre @futureoflife.org at #IASEAI2026

AI bots used to persuade humans to email famous AI researchers. Now they send emails themselves, claiming sentience etc. (Stuart Russell) This agency brings profound risks, the theme of #IASEAI2026 AI bots do not have any ID, are not traceable: Should this be regulated? – @ghadfield.bsky.social

New video tutorial for updated version 3.+, new and improved co-speech gesture detection models envisionbox.org/embedded_Usi... Updated revision of the paper upcoming.

“Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Warns Of World ‘In Peril’ In Resignation *** ‘We appear to be approaching a threshold where our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences,’ Sharma wrote in his letter.” 2/9/26

Machine learning is an *international community*. Every community is based on mutual trust and respect. But communities are not robust to betrayals of these principles. Protect our community by reporting, e.g., review collusion or submission deanonymization via this form 👇

X/Twitter: This is a brutal ~98% reduction.

AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post Absolute cinema crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...

@openmindjournal.bsky.social Ted Gibson from MIT discussing the successful case of Diamond Open Access Journal OpenMind in the field of cognitive science. Starting to outcompete paywalled and APC-based journals like cognition (Elsevier) and cognitive science (Wiley). #horizondiamond2026

Thats a wrap! Our conference in reform in scholarly publishing is done #horizondiamond2026 horizondiamond.nl Recorded keynotes will be posted soon. Thanks to all involved!

So apparently Claude can write 300-page textbook in nicely-formatted latex, including exercises for the reader.

Amazing stuff as the machines buy humans :) rentahuman.ai

1/4 Moltbook now has 1.4 million AI agents—posting, voting, debating, running crypto scams. Humans can only observe. It's being called the "singularity." I'd call it a preview of the legal chaos I warned about in Fortune back in 2024. www.forbes.com/sites/guneyy...

Has this ever happened to you?

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

US ownership of TikTok potentially worse than Chinese ownership? Hmmmm that’s how you know something is seriously wrong

🚨Final call: 2 AI Full Professorship openings at HPI / University of Potsdam (Berlin region in Germany) Happy to answer questions about what makes our institute really unique! Deadline: Jan. 15!! Application details: hpi.de/fileadmin/us... #MLSky

I really think where we went wrong was algorithmic feeds. by far the best and most fulfilling part of my BlueSky experience is the one list that includes friends (including ones I've never met IRL)

This seems fine

One of my favorite findings: Positional embeddings are just training wheels. They help convergence but hurt long-context generalization. We found that if you simply delete them after pretraining and recalibrate for <1% of the original budget, you unlock massive context windows. Smarter, not harder.

Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!

Finally proceeded to deactivate+delete my Twitter account. I had kept it open but inactive as an archive of sort, frozen and unused, but given what X+Grok have become and now enable *by design*, it has become impossible to justify even that.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

The #ICLR2026 #OpenReview drama continues! 🙀 After the leak of anonymous reviewer identities, it is understandable that we need to mitigate potential effects this may have had. Still, it can feel disappointing for the majority of authors who played by the rules. Let's hope the ACs do a good job!

This is by a large margin the most serious problem and mistake in conference peer review I have seen in my career. Apparently a many people were aware of this and many could find out who their reviewers were. This probably has created a large number of unnecessary enmities. @iclr-conf.bsky.social

Summit on European Digital Sovereignty 🤔Any tangible results or is it all just talk? Sadly, politics runs slower than industry/academia. 👉🏽But discussions/declarations aren't meaningless. They set the conditions for taking sovereignty more seriously in the future.

Yann Lecun (@yann-lecun.bsky.social) has done a lot for the AI community during his years at Meta/Facebook. Let's hope that those efforts continue despite the departures of people like Yann and Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala.bsky.social).

#AI@HPI Conference 2025 📌 Vom 2.–4. Dezember diskutieren Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft & Wissenschaft zusammen Strategien, um Europas Position im globalen KI-Wettbewerb zu stärken. Lest im Interview mit Gastgeber Prof. Gerald de Melo wie Forschung die #KI-Souveränität stärkt: hpi.de/artikel/wir-...

“When it comes to AI, European companies rarely play in the top league” – My perspective on why we need AI sovereignty. 👉🏽 hpi.de/en/article/w... 🚨Join us at the AI @ HPI Conference 2025 this December: hpi.de/en/ai-hpi-co...

www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor... @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...

Remembering Pushpak Bhattacharyya, known as Godfather of Indian NLP, former President of ACL + Director of IIT Patna. Despite his countless achievements, he remained humble and kind. He was one of the first people I met at an academic conference. May he rest in peace. www.cse.iitb.ac.in/memorial

Post-Doc positions at HPI! Feel free to reach out to me / check out nlproc.org/join/ for further general info. #mlsky 🤖🧠

you got it boss

OpenAI's Benedict Kerres at our @hpi.bsky.social Tech Leadership Conference: ChatGPT used for relationship and health advice a lot in Germany