The Axios story floating around about OpenAI limiting the release of their newest model Spud isn’t true. Just spoke to OpenAI, and it appears the story conflated two things. They do have a cyber product they are testing with a trusted tester group. But this is not the same
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Distinguishing Capability Assessment from Enthusiasm in AI
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the graph is about *perceived capability* not intrigue or excitement or fun or whatever. i think you are conflating enthusiasm with capability assessment.
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Scaling Coding Agents Through Atomic Skills Composition
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// Scaling Coding Agents via Atomic Skills // Most coding agents train end-to-end on full tasks like resolving GitHub issues. But complex software engineering is really a composition of simpler skills, and training on the composite makes it hard to improve the parts. This
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Neural Harmonic Textures: New Method for View Synthesis
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Introducing Neural Harmonic Textures: our new method for real-time novel view synthesis that outperforms all 3DGS and NeRF derivatives including (finally) ZipNeRF in terms of quality across all benchmarks.
— Jorge Condor (@Arcanous98) 9 avril 2026
The code is released (Apache 2.0): (https://t.co/O0a2JyZ9Bu) 🧵 pic.twitter.com/KYSxAU8ED3Introducing Neural Harmonic Textures: our new method for real-time novel view synthesis that outperforms all 3DGS and NeRF derivatives including (finally) ZipNeRF in terms of quality across all benchmarks. The code is released (Apache 2.0): (research.nvidia.com/labs/sil…) 🧵 [Translated from EN to English]
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Global AI for Science Network Launched with 19 Partner Countries
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The Network of AI For Science Institutions was announced at the #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 with 19 partner countries at launch, creating a global collaboration infrastructure for AI-powered scientific research and discovery. Details here: http://
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Fundamental Principles of Sustainability by Design in AI
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Fundamental Principles of #Sustainability by Design by @antgrasso #LLM #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning
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Gaussian Wrapping Framework Extracts High-Quality Meshes from 3DGS
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1/n 🧵 Introducing Gaussian Wrapping — a principled framework for extracting high-quality meshes from 3DGS! 🚲
— Diego Gomez (@DiegoGomezLIX) 9 avril 2026
We recover thin structures, like bicycle spokes, where all prior methods fail.
Follow the thread for a brief overview and links! pic.twitter.com/T5XY1pKMvF1/n 🧵 Introducing Gaussian Wrapping — a principled framework for extracting high-quality meshes from 3DGS! 🚲 We recover thin structures, like bicycle spokes, where all prior methods fail. Follow the thread for a brief overview and links!
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Demo as Starting Point: Real Opportunity in Implementation
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What it does produce is genuine opportunity for people who understand that the demo is the beginning of the work, not the end of it.
