Other AI research in last week's AI Lab newsletter: The evolutionary tree of AI models. How to stop chatbots learning to be unsafe. And the insane power needed for future AI training runs. …
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Cornell McGill Study Tracks Evolution Open Source AI Projects
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A fascinating study from researchers at Cornell and McGill universities examines the evolution of thousands of open source AI projects hosted on HuggingFace.
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MIT Benchmark Measures Chatbots’ Emotional Intelligence and User Behavior
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The GPT-5 backlash highlights the fact that chatbots have little social or emotional intelligence. This week's AI Lab looks at a benchmark from MIT researchers that would attempt to gauge a model's capacity to encourages healthy behavior in its users.
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Global AI Safety Governance: China and Nations Shift While US Isolates
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At WAIC in Shanghai, China and other nations showed new interest in AI safety and global governance—just as the US took a more isolated stance.
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Anthropic Seeks Middle East Gulf State Funding Sources
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In case you missed it, here is the latest @kyliebytes scoop, about Anthropic pursuing Middle East gulf state money.
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OpenAI Launches New Fundraising Round
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OpenAI is fundraising yet again. Awesome scoop from @LaurenGoode –
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FlexOlmo: Distributed AI Model with Confidential Data Contribution
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New on @WIRED
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Meta Offers $300M to Recruit OpenAI Researchers
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Mark Zuckerberg is offering some researchers $300 million over four years, WIRED has learned. Meta has made at least 10 of these offers to OpenAI staffers. Wild new scoop from @ZoeSchiffer
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Trump visa cuts threaten US scientific and technical talent pipeline
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Trump’s visa-cutting measures may rob America of scientific expertise, technical talent, and many future entrepreneurs.
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Global AI Competition Intensifies as US Raises Trade Barriers
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While the US puts up barriers to the rest of the world, the rest of the world demonstrations that it can offer increasingly competitive AI. Side-note: the Stanford AI index is an excellent, in-depth look at where things stand in AI.