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Sakana AI Series B Announcement (sakana.ai)

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AI Consciousness, Qualia, and Personhood (dileeplearning.com)

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Petri Dish Neural Cellular Automata (sakana.ai)

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Transformer co-author says he's 'sick' of transformers, the tech that powers AI (venturebeat.com)

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Sakana AI CTO says he's 'sick' of transformers that powers every major AI model (venturebeat.com)

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ShinkaEvolve: Evolving New Algorithms with LLMs, Magnitudes More Efficiently (sakana.ai)

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ShinkaEvolve: Evolving new algorithms with LLMs with higher sample-efficiency (sakana.ai)

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The Science of Intelligent Exploration: Why We Need Exploration in AI (richardcsuwandi.github.io)

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Gamblers Now Bet on AI Models Like Racehorses (wsj.com)

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ICML Statement about subversive hidden LLM prompts (icml.cc)

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Evaluating publicly available LLMs on IMO 2025 (matharena.ai)

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AI Is Evolving – and Changing Our Understanding of Intelligence (noemamag.com)

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AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene (pitchfork.com)

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Inference-Time Scaling and Collective Intelligence for Frontier AI (sakana.ai)

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Zero Zen (nymag.com)

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Zero Zen: Cheap yen and ChatGPT turned Kyoto into the loveliest tourist trap (nymag.com)

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Inference-Time Scaling and Collective Intelligence for Frontier AI (sakana.ai)

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Reinforcement Learning Teachers of Test Time Scaling (sakana.ai)

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Towards Automating Long-Horizon Algorithm Engineering for NP-Hard Problems (sakana.ai)

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How to Build Conscious Machines (osf.io)

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Jensen Huang says he disagrees with almost everything Anthropic CEO Amodei says (fortune.com)

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Text-to-LoRA: Instant Transformer Adaption (arxiv.org)

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Darwin Gödel Machine: A Commentary on Novelty and Implications (4m4.it)

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A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine (richardcsuwandi.github.io)

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Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents (arxiv.org)

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The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code (sakana.ai)

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Sudoku-Bench Leaderboard (sakana.ai)

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Continuous Thought Machines (sakana.ai)

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Sakana AI super-powers AI reasoning using Japan's own Sudoku Puzzles (sakana.ai)

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The AI Scientist Generates Its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication (sakana.ai)

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Show HN: AI Scientist Generates Its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication (sakana.ai)

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The AI Scientist Generates Its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication (sakana.ai)

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The AI CUDA Engineer: Agentic CUDA Kernel Discovery, Optimization, Composition (sakana.ai)

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Evolving Deeper LLM Thinking (arxiv.org)

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Transformer^2: Self-Adaptive LLMs (sakana.ai)

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Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models (sakana.ai)

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I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS'24 (kyunghyuncho.me)

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Population-Based Model Merging via Quality Diversity (sakana.ai)

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Russia fines Google more than entire GDP for blocking YouTube accounts (sky.com)

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Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it (economist.com)

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Intelligence at the Edge of Chaos (arxiv.org)

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Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study (arxiv.org)

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Is Xi Jinping an AI Doomer? (economist.com)

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Workers at Google DeepMind Push Company to Drop Military Contracts (time.com)

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Automated Design of Agentic Systems (arxiv.org)

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JPEG-LM: LLMs as Image Generators with Canonical Codec Representations (arxiv.org)

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The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (sakana.ai)

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The 'godmother of AI' has a new startup already worth $1B (theverge.com)

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The Tragedies of Reality Are Coming for You (alexirpan.com)

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Artificial General Intelligence (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] (gwern.net)

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AlphaMath Almost Zero: process Supervision without process (arxiv.org)

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Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models (arxiv.org)

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Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs? (sakana.ai)

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Kan: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (arxiv.org)

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Why the Military Can't Trust AI (foreignaffairs.com)

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Uncompetitive Programming (Part 1) (sujitkc-techbits.blogspot.com)

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Securing Canada's AI Advantage (pm.gc.ca)

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Collective intelligence: A unifying concept integrating biology across scales (nature.com)

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Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes (sakana.ai)

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Evolving New Foundation Models: Unleashing Power of Automating Model Development (sakana.ai)

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Evolving New Foundation Models: Unleashing Power of Automating Model Development (sakana.ai)

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Evolving New Foundation Models: Unleashing Power of Automating Model Development (sakana.ai)

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The Ethos of the Divine Age (piratewires.com)

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Are polynomial features the root of all evil? A myth (alexshtf.github.io)

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Everyone Could Have Died in the Tokyo Airport Crash. Here's Why They Didn't (nymag.com)

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The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact with the real world (newscientist.com)

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Fortran 2023 (iso.org)

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Fortran 2023 has been published (iso.org)

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Stability AI Gets Intel Backing in New Financing (bloomberg.com)

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Design giant Ideo cuts 1/3 staff, close offices as era of "Design Thinking" ends (fastcompany.com)

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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto (twitter.com/pmarca)

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Where AI Meets Copyright Law, Present and Future (medium.com/vkhosla)

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Strategic Game Datasets for Enhancing AI Planning: Invitation for Collaboration (laion.ai)

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Be an Open Source Absolutist (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

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[dupe] John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI (amii.ca)

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The Alberta Plan for AI Research (arxiv.org)

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Teens Love LinkedIn (thecut.com)

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Twitter stops showing headlines because Elon thinks it makes posts look better (theverge.com)

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Self-Assembling Artificial Neural Networks Through Neural Developmental Programs (arxiv.org)

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What is at stake in the AI based techno-economic war between the West and China? (medium.com/vkhosla)

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‘Equity-Based Weeding Process’ Clears Ontario Public School Bookshelves (nationalreview.com)

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The USAF Pairs Piloted Jets with AI Drones (ieee.org)

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Generative AI and Intellectual Property (ben-evans.com)

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Generative AI and Intellectual Property (ben-evans.com)

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Why scientists are delving into the virtual world (nature.com)

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Analogies for thinking about intelligence as a quantity (togelius.blogspot.com)

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To Compress or Not to Compress- Self-Supervised Learning and Information Theory (arxiv.org)

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The Albanian town that TikTok emptied (codastory.com)

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MatX: Faster Chips for LLMs (matx.com)

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AI Startup Hugging Face Is Raising Fresh VC Funds at $4B Valuation (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)

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HyperDreamBooth: HyperNetworks for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models (hyperdreambooth.github.io)

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Stable Doodle (clipdrop.co)

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Eight AI Startups Winning the Race for Tech Talent (medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners)

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Show HN: Stable Diffusion Reimagine XL (clipdrop.co)

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Jürgen Schmidhuber, ‘Father Of Modern AI’, says AI won’t lead to dystopia (reddit.com)

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Bringing Open Large Language Models to Consumer Devices (mlc.ai)

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Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate (stability.ai)

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Self-Alignment of Language Models from Scratch with Minimal Human Supervision (arxiv.org)

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TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account (bbc.com)