The NeurIPS position paper track was flooded with submissions that substantially used AI. More than other tracks, and despite a requirement otherwise. I appreciate the chairs' strong action. People are not entitled to reviewers' time, AI makes it exceptionally easy to waste it.
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AI IPO Race: Companies Move Beyond Models and Products
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For our free newsletter this week, we write about the AI IPO race.
@IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week.
The AI IPO race shows that AI companies are moving into a new stage. Instead of only competing over better models and products, companies like Anthropic, -

Team proud of AI transformation milestone in one year
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Very proud of my team for achieving this important milestone. They are very talented. Within a year, they transformed the AI capabilities of a large corporation.
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NVIDIA announces Vera CPU: 80% faster agentic task completion than x86
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The AI era needs a new CPU.
— NVIDIA (@nvidia) 2 juin 2026
Meet NVIDIA Vera, 80% faster agentic task completion than x86.
Built for AI factories. Built for what's next. The CPU for agents has arrived.
🔗 https://t.co/Qe1S4f4Qz5 pic.twitter.com/p7nh6ot6r8The AI era needs a new CPU. Meet NVIDIA Vera, 80% faster agentic task completion than x86. Built for AI factories. Built for what's next. The CPU for agents has arrived. https://
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Last Chance to Register for Build Small Hackathon & Model Suggestions
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Registration closes tomorrow, Wednesday, June 3rd. Register here: https://
huggingface.co/spaces/build-s
mall-hackathon/registration
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Microsoft AI’s in-house training reaches near-SOTA via Mustafa’s neolab
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you have to give @MicrosoftAI props for training all these in-house from scratch and getting ALL of them to near-SOTA. Mustafa built a full fledged neolab inside Microsoft in 2 years, that now MS fully controls from chip to model to harness. Absurdly impressive.
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Mustafa Suleyman announces seven new world-class MAI models
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Super excited to announce seven new world-class MAI models today. They represent what we consider a new era in AI designed to keep you in control and on the frontier.
First is our text foundation model, MAI-Thinking-1, exceptionally strong on reasoning and SWE tasks. – It’s a -
Trustworthy AI could end this commentary, hopes Gary Marcus
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not a doomer, but what would kill this line of commentary would be AI we can actually trust, which i firmly hope will come!
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Beyond moving agents: Durable platform, harness, and realistic dev environments are key.
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A great cloud agent experience involves a lot more than moving a local agent to a server. We've learned that it requires a durable execution platform, a powerful harness, and the tools and infra to give agents realistic development environments.
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Mustafa Suleyman announces 7 new Microsoft AI models with rapid development
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Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI: 7 new Microsoft Models, no end in sight when it comes to development, orders of magnitude in the next few years https://t.co/YqroDQsvuT pic.twitter.com/P1qNOdB3I9
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 2 juin 2026Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI: 7 new Microsoft Models, no end in sight when it comes to development, orders of magnitude in the next few years