The nose knows: Thermal responses to active psychological stressors journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Chrome 144 includes the start of a slow rollout of WebGPU support on Linux! Intel Gen 12+ only for the moment, but expected to expand.

New CO2-holding #batteries can store 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, stabilizing the grid when renewables need a break. It takes less than two years to build and only requires 5 hectares of flat land to construct. spectrum.ieee.org/co2-battery-...

MUST READ: Trump Orders Sweeping Withdrawal From International Institutions www.onestnetwork.com/post/trump-o...

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

Pretty neat, btw pixels phone can also connect directly to monitor screens

Won best thesis award with this video! 4 years of research and play in 3 minutes :') youtu.be/so0fPlK1-LM

U.S. denies entry to 14 Ethiopian athletes ahead of World XC Championships. Only four of the 18 Ethiopian U20 athletes had their U.S. visa applications accepted.

RIP startup decks

Meanwhile, in Venezuela:

I kinda miss the "I have a problem with my computer" friends

In 2024, I was a co-author on "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives", covering areas we thought AI would have significant impact on the world. A shortened version appears as the cover article in this month's CACM: cacm.acm.org/research/sha... arxiv.org/abs/2412.02730 See: shapingai.com

""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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