Harmattan all the way to Brazil 😲

#ShareGoodNewsToo A great example of how, with our new technologies, guarding the planet is cheaper than trashing it.

Non-export bananas are the best

The $100 whole human genome sequence finally reached! www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/19/s...

Squint your eyes

The first country to BAN the sale of new gas cars is doing just fine, actually

WMO has released new guidance to help Members map national renewable energy resources. The technical publication supports high-resolution atlases for wind, solar and hydropower, turning climate data into decision-ready action. Full publication👉 https://bit.ly/3ZInsWW

Re-OCR'd the complete 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica (2,724 pages) with a single command on @hf.co Jobs. - 0.9B model (GLM-OCR) ~$0.002/page ~$5 total on an L4 GPU Before (old Tesseract ocr) → After

🌱Very proud of our team's latest release 😊 meet Tiny Aya, a massively multilingual model with 3.35B parameters. Tech report here: github.com/Cohere-Labs/...

The 🔥🔥Anny roll continues this week with the release of Multi-HMR trained with the Anny body model. Multi-person, single shot Human Mesh Recovery predictions are now made in the open, interpretable parameter space of Anny! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Multi-HMR code: github.com/naver/multi-... 👉Anny: tinyurl.com/5fsekm9z

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France cuts funding for Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria by 58%!

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025: apnews.com/article/sola...

That was fast... techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/o...

Used Gemini-CLI to help me set up a 5G Standalone network (Open5GS + UERANSIM) locally and made a succesful call. AI agents are fundamentally changing the barrier to entry for complex network R&D. You can read more about Open5GS here: open5gs.org

simply, more OSS projects should DO THIS. OSS is a long playing game, if not forever. but we are people behind those projects, and we need good rest and balance to keep things sustainable. I am super happy to see this move and looking forward to see how it could change how OSS works for all of us.

"It's So Fluffy" #3dgs #GaussianSplatting

🎉 Announcing TabICLv2: State-of-the art Table Foundation Model, fast and open source A breakthrough for tabular ML: better prediction and faster runtime than alternatives, work by Jingang Qu, David Holzmüller @dholzmueller.bsky.social , Marine Le Morvan, and myself 👇

TMLR's 2025 annual report! The word of the year is growth: whether it's our number of submissions, published papers, or reviewers, pretty much everything has increased ~50%. EXCEPT: our review period, which is still shorter than NeurICMLR (91 vs 126 days) Read on for more! 1/n

🚨New Paper on Bonobo and Chimpanzee tool flexibility. As so often performance is leveraged by the captivity effect yet the two species differ in explorative behavior and how readily they switch between tool types. For more 👇🏼 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @rachelaharrison.bsky.social

MC Hammer following me on the other site is the main reason why this took me so long

Finally a feature for all the stuff I'm too chicken shit to post

Probably one of my best shots ever. (Dakar, Senegal)

📣 Registration and abstract submission are now open for a workshop on #MachineLearning for Land and Hydrology 🗓️ 3–5 November 2026 📍 Reading, UK If you are an expert in ML, hydrology, and land-surface modelling, find out more here ➡️ events.ecmwf.int/event/530/

Sand and maze! This looks like such a great stress test for a humanoid robot..(Dakar, Senegal along the corniche)

I find this very impressive

In Dakar fishing village, Senegalese girls enticed back to school with offer of surfing lessons.

This took several years and I'm so happy it is finally out. We just released an open-source dataset of nearly 2M African speech records for speech recognition and vocalization (27 languages). Blog: blog.google/intl/en-afri... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.02734 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/goo...

It once took 13 years and $3 billion to sequence the human genome. Now, we're using Google’s AI tools to sequence animal genomes in just days to help save endangered species 🧬 (1/4) ↓ goo.gle/4kgx18P

The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. —Over 100,000 women in Sweden —radiologist + AI vs 2 radiologists, in follow-up —AI added led to 29% more cancer detected, 44% reduced workload, and —Less cancer dx in subsequent 2 years, and, when found, less aggressive thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"Your human..."

A hackathon for vibecoders

I had intended to post something about this new Google DeepMind paper that appeared yesterday in Nature, but the press coverage has added to what there is to say. So this is a long 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally found a good use of my twitter archive, it's all ingested by my agent now

🇨🇳 Chinese man runs smart farm with one finger, one toe Quadriplegic and confined to a medicalised portable cabin in the Chinese countryside, 36-year-old Li Xia can only move one finger and one toe, which he uses to manage a high-tech farm.

I have a personalized agent running in my Android terminal app that sends me decent Bluesky digests via Telegram

Heads up! 🚨 Mark your calendar for next week! 🚨 More games to be released on the @kaggle.com Game Arena!!! 🎉🙌 See how foundations models perform at poker ♣️♥️♠️♦️ and werewolf 👫🐺!! And more Chess results too! 🧠♟️ 🤩 🤩 🤩

New post on how to do real-time diffuse global illumination using surfels and #WebGPU: juretriglav.si/surfel-based... #threejs

1 year, half a billion flashes, and storms revealed like never before. Our Lightning Imager is transforming how meteorologists can now track & forecast lightning from space. 🌩️ In our latest article, EUMETSAT’s Sven-Erik Enno reflects on the LI’s impacts after its first full year: bit.ly/4alc9tJ

A project is a garden, and hooks are the tools we use to tend it. With Gemini CLI hooks, you can inject your own project context without touching the source code. Let's grow open source technology together. What context does your project garden need most? developers.googleblog.com/tailor-gemin...

We're testing AlphaGenome. It's a very valuable step forward towards the goal of identifying functional non-coding variants (FNCVs) causing human diseases. Congrats to @avsecz.bsky.social and the team for this landmark publication. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introducing Theorizer: Turning thousands of papers into scientific laws 📚➡️📜 Most automated discovery systems focus on experimentation. Theorizer tackles the other half of science: theory building—compressing scattered findings into structured, testable claims. 🧵

Today @nature.com, it's #AlphaGenome, to decipher and determine functionality of the regulatory (very challenging) variants in our genome. Another big step of AI for advancing life science nature.com/articles/s41...

Floods in Mozambique. The blue zones on this map shows predictions of the flood impact. IFRC is accepting donations: donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/ifrc/mozambi... sites.research.google/floods/l/-24...

People have been looking at "AI & brains" through the lens of LLMs/transformers. But what latent diffusion? (think text-to-image/video platforms such as Midjourney). **Class conditioned latent diffusion and semantically cued hippocampus share a remarkably similar computational architecture...**

Africa is leapfrogging into a micro-EV revolution right now, the surprising thing is how fast it happened.

Interesting post about hiring in 2026 which applies to other fields besides research. In summary Depth > Breadth

The technical assessment is just a conversation starter. The real interview is about how you think. We look for: → Hypothesis-driven reasoning → Clear communication → Honest acknowledgment of limitations → Genuine curiosity

I founded Sakana AI after my time at Google, so it is incredibly meaningful to be able to partner with them now. It feels like a special connection to be working together again to advance the AI ecosystem in Japan. sakana.ai/google#en