2. The Takeoff Tracker — macroeconomic indicators to give us an early warning of when and where better AI capabilities lead to an economic take-off. 3/6
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Stanford launches AI Economic Indicators platform tracking AI’s impact on economy
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Today, the Stanford @DigEconLab launches the AI Economic Indicators, a new platform for tracking how AI is reshaping work, productivity, adoption, and the economy. 1/6
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AI reduces brain tumor diagnosis from 12 days to 12 minutes
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Reducing brain tumor diagnosis from 12 days to 12 minutes with AI.
Predicting methylation pattern from path slides.
Outperformed 5 neuropathologists @NatureCancer @MoritzGerstung https://
nature.com/articles/s4301
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New Observer series on catastrophic AI risks with Bengio, Marcus
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New series from The Observer with @Yoshua_Bengio
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Fable invents a new color using eye lasers
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I asked Fable to invent a new color, and I received my first 'paused cat'. That said, he decided to pursue a strategy of projecting lasers into your eyes to trigger otherwise impossible cone activations.
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New AI model spots fake images with less training
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Grounded in reality, new #AI model spots fake images with less training
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Concretize the wall as entelechy to make it real and falsifiable
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But the wall cannot be an indefinite entelechy. It must be concretized to make it real and falsifiable. We start by saying: 'the models approach a wall because they will not be able to do…' and with this we will see if it is real or not.
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Model generalizes to unseen harness during training
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Fun fact: this model has never seen this harness during training, this is pure generalization. https://t.co/P8hmXZZvuf
— Maxime Labonne (@maximelabonne) 10 juin 2026Fun fact: this model has never seen this harness during training, this is pure generalization.
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WaDi: One-step image generation with better quality than multi-step diffusion
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What if you could generate an image in one step with better quality than multi-step diffusion models? Researchers from Nankai University, Nanjing University, and NKIARI present WaDi. They discovered that during distillation, weight direction changes matter far more than
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Train LLM from scratch GitHub repo and AI newsletter summary
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Repo: https://
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