Former Cohere VP Sara Hooker launches Adaption Labs with $20-40M in seed funding, challenging the billion-dollar AI scaling paradigm by developing systems that continuously learn and adapt in real-time rather than relying on increasingly expensive traditional model scaling approaches showing diminishing returns.
Elon Musk challenges former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy to a public coding contest between xAI's Grok 5 and Karpathy, likening it to the historic Deep Blue vs Kasparov chess match, but Karpathy declines, preferring collaboration over competition with AI models.
Researchers at Mila unveil 'Markovian Thinking' technique that slashes AI training costs by over two-thirds while enabling models to reason with up to 140,000 tokens and potentially scale to million-token capabilities through revolutionary linear compute scaling instead of traditional quadratic methods.
Tech CEOs boast AI writes 90% of code, but engineers reveal the reality: messy, non-functional AI-generated code requires extensive human cleanup, with studies showing mixed productivity results ranging from 19% slower completion times to modest 6.5% savings, while companies pressure workers to use AI tools inappropriately, creating more work for …
Yandex unveils groundbreaking open-source AI that detects cerebral palsy in infants under 12 months with 90% accuracy by analyzing MRI scans, reducing diagnosis time from days to minutes and offering free access to healthcare institutions worldwide through GitHub.
Anthropic launches Claude for Life Sciences, its first specialized AI platform for the sector, promising to slash research tasks from days to minutes by integrating with scientific tools like PubMed and Benchling to accelerate discovery from literature reviews to regulatory submissions.
Researchers discover that adding a single sentence to AI prompts doubles output diversity by up to 2.1× while maintaining quality, with the technique called Verbalized Sampling bypassing AI models' tendency to give repetitive answers and showing particular success in creative writing and dialogue tasks.
Researchers develop revolutionary algorithmic fault tolerance technique that slashes quantum error correction time by 100x, detecting and fixing errors during computation instead of pausing for checks, dramatically accelerating the timeline for practical large-scale quantum computing.
Python 3.14 launches optional GIL-free version delivering 10x performance boosts in CPU-intensive tasks like prime calculations and matrix multiplication, though compatibility issues with third-party libraries require careful testing before implementation.
University of Otago researchers achieve world-first breakthrough enabling smartwatches to pinpoint locations within 8 centimeters using new algorithms that combine signals from multiple satellite systems, bringing military-grade GPS precision to everyday consumer devices.