""The result demonstrates that by utilizing inference-time scaling with multiple frontier models, AI agents can now match or exceed the performance of top human experts in complex tasks requiring extended reasoning."

Our AI agent has achieved 1st place in a competitive optimization programming contest against over 800 human participants. Blog: sakana.ai/ahc058 Thread:

Religious communities around the US are getting hit with AI depictions of their leaders sharing incendiary sermons and asking for donations. www.wired.com/story/ai-dee...

How Ghana’s Ibrahim Mahama became recognised as one of the most significant artists in the world.

Happy AI coding year

Hmm not sure I need a blogging platform anymore

If this technology reduces barriers to coding significantly enough, it will also change the equation for lots of fields that don’t *think* of themselves right now as bottlenecked by coding

All these cherry-picked robots vids are impressive

Power struggle, army fracture, chaos and unrest are the likely scenarios where you now have to deploy boots on the ground and ask for help from Colombia and Brazil..

Researchers at Google and MIT unveil new soft-max functions optimizing approximation and smoothness. Their piecewise linear soft-max enforces sparsity for improved machine learning performance, while a power mechanism enhances differential privacy in optimization. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11450

What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Checking out Claude Code to see what the buzz is about. I really enjoy Gemini-CLI so far.

World’s oldest adult cremation found in northern Malawi, dating back 9,500 years.

I don't think the world cup is happening

Grok, at the request of users, appears to be altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

You can now use "show more like this" and "show less like this" in the For You feed. (this is being rolled out so you may need to update your Bluesky app) Here is how it works in For You 🧵

The end of 2025 marks the end of Hugo Larochelle's term as (Founding co-) Editor-in-chief of TMLR. It is an understatement to say that he was indispensable to making TMLR what it is today. Huge thanks to Hugo for everything he's done!

1) 3 years of WeatherNext-2 precipitation forecast in one image 2) Wind power density at 100m in 2025 Weather-2 dataset: developers.google.com/earth-engine...

Visualizing the Somali Jet with WeatherNext-2 via Google Earth Engine. Gemini helped with the code. ​This model generates a 15-day, 64-member forecast ensemble in under 1 minute on a single TPU. ​Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10772 Dataset: developers.google.com/earth-engine...

Satellites like Copernicus Sentinel-3 & -6 track ocean waves across the globe. This data helps improve forecasts, track sea level changes, & support climate research, showing everything from gentle ripples to large winter swells. Learn more: bit.ly/3NmMpUF

Q4 was fun >npx gemini-wrapped

China activates the world’s largest 100% #hydrogen gas turbine (30MW), delivering stable #zerocarbon power with the “Jupiter-1” unit. A major step for wind-solar-hydrogen integration and #cleanenergy scalability. #HydrogenNow #HydrogenEnergy #CleanTech fcw.sh/sh80XZ

India passes 132.8 GW of installed solar capacity #energysky -- via pv magazine global:

Happy birthday Linus Torvalds

how is it going with the Lego set

Accra 🇬🇭 (2016–2023) 7 years of rapid growth. Visualization: Nighttime Lights (VIIRS) × Google Open Buildings. 💡 Lights: NOAA VIIRS (Annual V22) 🟩 Buildings: Open Buildings Temporal Code: github.com/adiack/geosp... #EarthEngine #Urbanization #DataViz #AI

Autonomous RIVR delivery robots in Pittsburgh

@wcrpclimate.bsky.social's APARC releases a landmark report on global atmospheric impacts of the 2022 Hunga volcanic eruption 159 scientists. 21 countries. 3 years. One report. More information here: https://bit.ly/493hOmz #WCRP #APARC #ScienceforAction #HungaEruption

🏹 Job alert: PhD position on generative modeling for constrained Bayesian inverse problems in imaging at IMT Atlantique 📍 Nantes 🇫🇷 📅 Apply by Jan 30th 🔗 https://bit.ly/3KzrGfG

Hello! 👋 Are you interested in AI for board games using language models? Want to do some hobby tinkering with fine-tuning or RL? We've released an easy-to-follow example colab that fine-tunes Gemma models via Kauldron to mimic an MCTS player. Details here: github.com/google-deepm... ♟️🎲♦️♠️♥️♣️✨🎉

FunctionGemma, a specialized version of our Gemma 3 270M model that’s fine-tuned for function calling ⚙️ Function calling to the edge, and is designed as a strong base for further training into custom, fast, private, local agents NL -> executable API actions blog.google/technology/d...

Our Image of the Week series showcased some remarkable events & environments this year 🌍 Each week we scan the planet from space & our satellites have seen a lot - from wildfires to hurricanes, & dust storms to phytoplankton blooms. See them all at: https://www.eumetsat.int/image-week #2025Wrapped

🌊🛰️ Just weeks after its launch, #CopernicusEU Sentinel‑6B has reached orbit and delivered its first data, revealing sea‑level variations and showing the Gulf Stream current in detail. 🔗 www.esa.int/Applications... @eumetsat.int @noaa.gov @cnes.fr

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📣 Competition Launch Alert! Deep Past Challenge: Translate Akkadian to English hosted by Deep Past AI 🎯 Build an AI model that translates 4,000-year-old Old Assyrian business records into English 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: March 23, 2026 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Wooo it's up! New paper alert! I will write a summary thread about this paper tomorrow morning when I'm not quite as mentally exhausted! "An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions" by Thiele, Heiland, Boley, & Lawler https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643 Not […]

Today in our TUM AI - Lecture Series we'll have the amazing Ruiqi Gao, Google DeepMind. She'll talk about "𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: progress and challenges". Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/CkOSMqw... 7pm GMT+1 / 10am PST (Tue Dec 16th).

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I asked a bank for a loan. They said, "For a house?" I said, "No, for two sticks of 6000MHz CL30 DDR5 RAM." They hung up

🚀 Benchmark your AI across India’s languages with IndicGenBench! Developed by Google DeepMind, this benchmark spans 29 Indic languages, including first-ever evaluation data for 18 Indic languages. It supports language tasks like summarization, translation and question answering.

Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. Here's what happened: https://cfl.re/4aw32qy

Want to use a modern GPU API on Android without going full Vulkan? #WebGPU is now part of Jetpack! Full flavor, zero barriers. 😉

Unitree g1 shooting and playing basketball, by Yinhuai from HKUST

1/ Why does RL struggle with social dilemmas? How can we ensure that AI learns to cooperate rather than compete? Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL. Preprint🧵👇 (Paper link below.)

This interesting week started with DeepSeek V3.2! I just wrote up a technical tour of the predecessors and components that led up to this: 🔗 magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/technical-... - Multi-Head Latent Attention - RLVR - Sparse Attention - Self-Verification - GRPO Updates

Rich Sutton takes the stage this morning to open our invited speaker series. The pioneer of reinforcement learning brings decades of insight to NeurIPS 2025. buff.ly/bruWGc1 #NeurIPS2025 #NeurIPSanDiego

My baby #JuliaLang package got an award! DifferentiationInterface.jl just received a national prize for open-source research software and I couldn't be prouder. We started this from a vague dream with @adrianhill.de, and reached 1000 dependents and 100k downloads last month. Research != just papers.

📢 WebGPU is now officially supported across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari → goo.gle/3MmN7Rj Access high-performance 3D graphics and AI capabilities right in the browser with this major milestone.

Incredible footage of volcanic eruption of a dormant volcano in Ethiopia from a commercial plane. A sight seen for the first time in recorded history. ⌚

Storm over Sri Lanka based on the Weather Lab's experimental model ensemble mean. deepmind.google.com/science/go/A...