A mathematics consortium has published a list of actions to address the use of AI in their field. It may be a good idea for @cvprconference.bsky.social @neuripsconf.bsky.social @iclr-conf.bsky.social and other ML, CV, NLP groups to work on a similar, cohesive proposal for our extended community.

Is being under anesthesia like being in coma? @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The #Fortune500 has a new winner. Amazon dethroned Walmart at No. 1, ending a 13-year reign. https://bit.ly/4fp6Tsc

Estonia just made chatGPT available to all students. Miami-Dade county gave Gemini access to its high-schoolers. These large scale experiments will provide much-needed learning on what works and does not, but come with some risks. What are your thoughts on these experiments (pros vs cons)?

Box says they expect to significantly increase the number of employees in coming years. All because of AI. New positions include A.I. architects and A.I. solutions managers, among others.

Florida is the first state to sue an AI company alleging they product are used by criminals. “The lawsuit (…) claims OpenAI and Altman knowingly released an unsafe product and ignored warnings that it could harm users.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

🎁 Gift article Cervantes much-loved Lynx went from near extinction to thriving. Now Spain has safaris to see these enchanting creatures in the wild ❤️ www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

$1 into the S&P 500 ETF today: ~18 cents is allocated to semiconductors (record) ~37 cents goes into the Magnificent 7 (near-record) ~41 cents is concentrated in the Top 10 holdings (record) Rubner Citadel

US: Use AI as an excuse to let employees go due to a variety of complex issues. China: Find non-tech related excuses to fire employees due to AI automation.

It makes sense to convert long memories into weights. That may be achieved in downtime (aka “sleep”) mode. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26099

Go figure—humans provide a much larger ROI than AI. Who could have predicted that? As I’ve been saying for years—AI is a tool and not an end-to-end solution; humans are end-to-end solvers and not a tool. Understand that, and you’ll find AI extremely useful.

A gene editing therapy that may lower your LDL (bad cholesterol) forever. In a small study, with only 35 patients, an experimental treatment may have achieved just that. If confirmed and proven safe, this would be a game changer. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Bold take by the @economist.com www.economist.com/business/202...

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AI is increasing the number of entry jobs. “Nearly three times as many executives at companies using or exploring AI said they were increasing junior-level hiring in 2026 than cutting back.” www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

A lesser known impact of GLP-1 drugs is cancer prevention and tumor suppression. Truly a miracle drug 💉

IBM, GlobalFoundries, D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, Infleqtion and others to receive $2B US government investment to accelerate quantum computing. The US government will take a minority stake in each; like in Intel. Company stocks up. Why these companies and not others is unclear.

Thanks to AI exoskeletons are here and the possibilities are endless—for the elderly, those in physically demanding jobs, and people with certain disabilities. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Ever heard of “Kolmogorovor,” or seen the phrase “after adjusted by common confounding factors”? If so, AI may have written it. Interesting read @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

The 60,000 year old dentist 🦷 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Jury unanimously dismissed claims against OpenAI claiming statute of limitations had expired. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jury...

🎁 Gift article. There’s a tragedy unfolding. Soaring costs for food, fuel and fertilizer are causing extreme famine worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

The gravitational dynamics that shape entire galaxies, creating tidal arms and bridges, can be reproduced at the millimeter scale by water lenses on a soap film—the vast and slow ballets of space are echoed in miniature on an ephemeral soap bubble. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/vYvf50YZNQQ

Buried behind Cerebras’ IPO is Fervo’s. Fervo is a modern, geothermal energy company that aims to provide clean, abundant energy to data centers. techcrunch.com/2026/05/13/g...

I looked in dismay as the UCF Commencement speaker was booed by students after she mentioned AI will be the next Industrial Revolution. 1st. Are we against progress now? 2nd. It’s your commencement, enjoy it. 3rd. We need to teach our students to respect a diverse set of opinions. #academia

Some of the best Chinese AI scientists in the US are flocking back to China. Allured by commensurate pay and concerned by US layoffs, AI experts (mostly trained in the US) are going back home. Europe experienced a similar exodus to the US in the 2000s. Just saying. www.wsj.com/business/chi...

𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 Think about it. AI does students' homework. And, homework is graded by AI. This means students can now spend their time working with Professors on cutting-edge research. And, Professors finally have time to mentor them — and even write their own papers!

🎁 Gift article -- Highly recommended read. A well-balanced review of Sweden's transformation from a high-tax, government-centric economy to a morph between the US and the EU. If there ever was an experiment, Sweden is it. A good discussion of pros and cons. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Whereas this may look like a doomsday scenario, big tech is also using AI to find security holes on their own software. And, since big tech has more resources, AI will improve cybersecurity in the long run, not the other way around, as is being reported. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

This is a bigger deal that it may seem. Canvas has tons of very sensitive data about our students.

Axon Enterprise President Josh Isner recently emailed staff “I am thinking of AI as the thing that allows our teams to do more, not the thing that replaces our teams.” Here is a leader who understands AI is a tool ment to solve problems we could no solve before. Kudos to him.

Top hiring metro areas for young professionals, as per @wsj.com

No meaningful reduction in tech workers, via @washingtonpost.com

Computer vision can detect pancreatic cancer from abdominal CT scans up to 3 years before clinical diagnosis. gut.bmj.com/content/earl...

We are speaking less than ever before due to our increase reliance on technology. The result is less fluent youngsters. Are chatbots going to make things worse? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

SpaceX may acquire Cursor for $60B later this year.

AI also makes the economy less efficient. Robocalls, customer service chatbots, and many others have an estimated $165 billion negative impact in the economy, according to a new study. groundworkcollaborative.org/work/taking-...

A 20-year-old man allegedly tossed a molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“Just over half of Gen Z report using generative AI at least weekly … unchanged from 2025.” This is “in contrast to broader market trends” which rose by 50%” “Gen Z workers are more than 3 times as likely to say the risks of AI in the workforce are greater than the potential benefits.” By Gallup

Extremely disturbing… Bullets hit the home of an Indianapolis city councilman early Monday morning, leaving shattered glass and holes through the front door, and a handwritten note reading “NO DATA CENTERS” was left under the doormat. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

The astronauts flying to the moon are taking their cellphones with them. That’s the power of social media 🌖 🚀

Simple living, naturalism, and elegant writing. www.pbs.org/show/henry-d...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/s...

Wonderful guide of a wonderful city. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The number of white-collar jobs has increased by about 3M in the past 3 years, whereas the number of blue-color jobs has remain pretty much flat.

The network architecture of general intelligence in the human connectome “support a shift in perspective from prevailing localist models to a theory that grounds intelligence in the global topology of the human connectome.” Consistent with our findings in: openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR...

What do chatbots think of other chatbots’ writing? Hilariously insightful. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/dete...

If you could only teach one ML topic, which one would it be? I used to claim it’s Bayes. I guess one could make the argument it should be least-squares — including nonlinear LS, which of course also includes backprop. Any others? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Good article on the last frontier for classical silicon chips. This still matters. But it’s obvious that we must find the next solution fast. It’s not just materials though — quantum, tensor units, and many others. www.wsj.com/tech/silicon...

Neurogenesis — the not unexpected secret of aging well. www.nature.com/articles/s41...