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AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans
Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.
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Artificial scientists
AI companies frequently invoke the possibility of AI-enabled scientific discovery as a justification for their existence: If the technology eventually cures cancer and solves climate change, then all the carbon emissions and slop videos will have been well worth it. Already, LLMs can assist...
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Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus
A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports Vibe-coding platform Lovable is pooh-poohing a researcher’s finding that anyone could open a free account on the service and read other users' sensitive info, including credentials, chat history, and source code. However, the company’s story...
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Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere
Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete A study into how humans interact with chatbots suggests the fastest way to make an LLM feel human isn't making it smarter – it's making it seem nicer.…
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Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Huawei’s HiFloat4 training format beats Western-developed MXFP4 in Ascend chip bakeoff:…Could this also be a symptom of the impact...
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How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba. The real ambition for many of these researchers was the...
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The musician-turned-biotech-founder waiting to fundraise
When Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc got COVID despite being vaccinated and boosted, he tried to fund research for a better solution. What he quickly found out? You can’t just write a check in biotech. Regulators require a commercialization plan, and philanthropy doesn’t move science...
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Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students
Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed...
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AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy
A new study examines the impact of the rise of AI-generated websites on the internet—and found some surprising results.
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Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. A shorter issue than usual as I was attending the 2026 Bilderberg conference this week. Subscribe now AI can reverse engineer software that...
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National Robotics Week — Latest Physical AI Research, Breakthroughs and Resources
This National Robotics Week, NVIDIA is highlighting the breakthroughs that are bringing AI into the physical world — as well as the growing wave of robots transforming industries, from agricultural and manufacturing to energy and beyond. Advancements in robot learning, simulation and foundation...
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Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find
Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures Large language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that's a problem when they’re used to create advertising.…
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GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks Chinese AI lab Z.ai's latest model is a giant 754B parameter 1.51TB (on Hugging Face) MIT-licensed monster - the same size as their previous GLM-5 release, and sharing the same paper. It's available via OpenRouter so I asked it to draw me a pelican: llm install...
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SQLite WAL Mode Across Docker Containers Sharing a Volume
Research: SQLite WAL Mode Across Docker Containers Sharing a Volume Inspired by this conversation on Hacker News about whether two SQLite processes in separate Docker containers that share the same volume might run into problems due to WAL shared memory. The answer is that everything works fine -...
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Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers
Internet-exposed devices that give BIOS-level access? What could possibly go wrong?
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ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Can LLMs autonomously refine other LLMs for new tasks? Somewhat.…PostTrainBench shows startling growth in AI capabilities at...
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Import AI 448: AI R&D; Bytedance’s CUDA-writing agent; on-device satellite AI
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI progress is moving faster than even well regarded forecasters can guess:…Ajeya Cotra updates her timelines…“On Jan 14th, I made...
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Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The AGI economy – most labor goes to the machines, and humans shift to verification:…What grappling with the singularity seriously...
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Import AI 445: Timing superintelligence; AIs solve frontier math proofs; a new ML research benchmark
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Economist: Don’t worry about AI-driven unemployment, because people like paying for the ‘human touch’:…Even when you have the...
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Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Import A-Idea:An occasional essay series: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and an internet in transition We’ve all had...