Open-ended autonomous goal setting is the capability gap nobody has a clean path to yet. Everything else is impressive but this is the actual frontier.
RESEARCH
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Teaching Impact: How Mentorship Shapes Top AI Researchers
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You're probably too new to the field to be aware that his teaching was actually a big part of how many of the top researchers got their start. That's much higher leverage than nearly any individual researcher.
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Public Research Credit and Big Tech Companies
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It reminds me of Mariana Mazzucato's work showing how, for instance, Apple tends to get the lion's share of credit for research funded by the state.
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Private Sector Role in AI Research Commercialization and Societal Impact
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Very interesting. My perspective is that the private sector is mainly scaling/commercializing research. Which is also valuable, but I tend to think of that as stuff that would naturally happen anyway. So lower societal impact for individuals wanting to make a positive impact.
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Meta’s Conflicting Strategy: Licensing Gemini While Building Competitor
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Considering licensing Gemini to power Meta AI products while building a model to compete with Gemini is a strange position to be in publicly.
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HOG: The Algorithm That Powered Early Human Detection
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HOG: The Algorithm That Powered Early Human Detection
— Satya Mallick (@LearnOpenCV) 13 mars 2026
In 2005, before deep learning dominated computer vision, researchers introduced Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) – a powerful technique for detecting people in images. Instead of analyzing raw pixels, HOG focused on… pic.twitter.com/vCcvn6IjdDHOG: The Algorithm That Powered Early Human Detection In 2005, before deep learning dominated computer vision, researchers introduced Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) – a powerful technique for detecting people in images. Instead of analyzing raw pixels, HOG focused on
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Microsoft AI CEO Sets Four-Capability Shutdown Threshold
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𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁’𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 13 mars 2026
He recently said something that made me pause.
𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 if it ever combines four capabilities at the same time:
→… pic.twitter.com/0KNX2d5ZCe𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁’𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜. He recently said something that made me pause. 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 if it ever combines four capabilities at the same time: →
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IterResearch: AI Agents for Long-Duration Marathon Research Tasks
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Can AI agents truly handle marathon research tasks without losing their way? Renmin University, Alibaba Group's Tongyi Lab, and OpenRLHF present IterResearch. This iterative method rethinks how agents process long tasks. Instead of a single, ever-growing memory context, it
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Liquid Template Language Performance Improved by 53%
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Published some notes on @tobi
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Meta Delays Avocado AI Model Release Due to Performance Issues
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META HAS DELAYED THE RELEASE OF ITS NEW AI MODEL "AVOCADO" AFTER INTERNAL TESTING REVEALED IT LAGGED BEHIND RIVAL MODELS FROM GOOGLE, OPENAI, AND ANTHROPIC IN REASONING, CODING, AND WRITING PERFORMANCE.