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AIMIT Provost Anantha Chandrakasan has named Chris Bourg, director of the MIT Libraries since 2015, vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the Libraries. The directorship now has an endowment funded by a gift from Barbara K. Ostrom '78, SM '78, to support the position in perpetuity.

AIOpenAI selected AMD EPYC "Turin" CPUs to host its Jalapeño AI ASIC deployment, citing platform strength, partner experience, and reducing unnecessary risk. The post, which links to a Tom's Hardware report, says AMD aims to deliver reliable solutions for leaders facing aggressive AI performance goals.

AIAnthropic's Applied AI team offers virtual office hours, and Claude Startups hosts events such as Founder House, hackathons, and meetups as space allows. Startups founded in the last five years or funded in the last two are eligible to apply through the program's expansion announcement.

AIAi2 faculty research scientist Arman Cohan shared a thread previewing his group's upcoming COLM 2026 presentations. The background post says the work covers reinforcement learning with metacognitive rewards, on-policy self-distillation with rubric rewards, and evolving research agents. The main post itself contains only a call to see the thread, so no results or figures are reported.

AIPeter Sushko, a research engineer at Ai2, says he will attend COLM and that his team is hiring senior engineers, pre-docs, and interns. The post is a recruiting announcement sharing the team's open roles.

AIAi2 applied scientist Shashank Gupta says he will attend COLM 2026 from Tuesday through Friday and invites people to talk with the Ai2 Agents post-training team. Topics include post-training for coding and long-horizon agents, such as agentic RL, OPD, data and infrastructure, and multi-agent training, plus opportunities at Ai2. He lists an Ai2 booth session Tuesday 1:30–3pm and an Ai2 mixer Tuesday 6–9pm.

AIKevin Farhat, a research engineer at Ai2, says he is attending COLM all week and invites people to hang out. Ai2 is also hosting an event for attendees to meet the team, learn what it is building, and explore open roles.

AIAi2 announced William Merrill as a Young Investigator, linking to a post featuring his work. The post itself offers no details on his research or the award's specifics. A quoted post notes Merrill will attend COLM in San Francisco from Tuesday through Sunday.

AIAi2 research scientist Pao Siangliulue says she will attend COLM 2026 in San Francisco from Tuesday to Friday. She plans to discuss human-agent collaboration, long-horizon agents, AI for science, research idea generation, and opportunities at Ai2. She will be at the Ai2 booth on Tuesday from 10 to 11:30 am and at the Ai2 Open House that evening from 6 to 9 pm.

AIAt the Machine Earning AI Summit in San Francisco, Town co-founder Jean-Denis Greze said personal AI agent purchases will initially require human approval, with mistakes budgeted in like credit card fraud. Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses raised liability questions, asking "If a model hallucinates, whose responsibility is that?" Chime co-founder Ryan King said AI agents will make switching banks easier, though regular people are not yet ready to let AI manage their money.

AIAccording to Gergely Orosz, GitHub now records more AI-generated pull requests per month than human-written ones. He says the volume of AI-generated PRs is about three times what it was in December 2023.

AISophia Yang, Mistral's account owner, says this looks like a strong open-source AI week, citing Reflection AI's Beam on Monday and Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday. She notes more releases are coming this week without naming them.

AISierra introduced a partner ecosystem of technology platforms, marketplaces, and service partners to bring its AI agents to more businesses. Sierra agents connect securely to systems including contact center platforms, payment providers, electronic health records, property management software, and billing systems. The platform is also available through leading cloud and frontier lab marketplaces, and consulting firms and systems integrators help build agents.

AIGeneral Medicine has raised a $120M Series B to build a healthcare "general store" that gives patients clinical guidance, transparent pricing, and help accessing care in one place. Its offering combines its own medical group with a marketplace of external primary care physicians and specialists, plus a catalog of over 2,900 medications, labs, imaging, consultations, and select procedures. The company also plans to offer the same infrastructure to health systems, payors, and pharmacies.

AIARC Prize is hosting its first Frontier AI Benchmarking Ecosystem Dinner with Snorkel AI during SF Tech Week. The event will bring together 40 experts from nonprofit benchmarking organizations, industry, academia, and government to discuss AI benchmark design and building a more scalable, transparent evaluation ecosystem. Attendees named in the post include representatives from METR, Epoch, Vals, Artificial Analysis, Harvard, and Stanford.

AIGoogle has five products in a16z's top 50 consumer AI web apps, with the Gemini app at #2, NotebookLM at #9, Google AI Studio at #11, Google Labs at #18, and Antigravity at #44. Paige Bailey highlights Google AI Studio, a developer workbench, reaching the overall consumer top ten. Steven B. Johnson notes Google is the only company with two products in the top ten and four in the top twenty.

AIDeepSeek says its ARC-AGI-3 evaluations are more operationally intensive than expected, so results will follow once testing is complete. The scores will be reported with a new DeepSeek provider adapter harness.

AIMIT has launched MIT for America, a strategic initiative to strengthen STEM education across the United States, from kindergarten through community college. Its programs target mathematical thinking and problem solving, living and working with AI, and hands-on design and fabrication. The initiative builds on the MIT for America Calculus Project, which pairs MIT students and alumni with school districts for calculus tutoring.

AICisco SVP Rakesh Chopra discusses the "Scale-Across" approach to networking AI training workloads spread across multiple data centers. He describes how Silicon One architecture and Intelligent Collective Networking aim to manage synchronized GPU traffic over long-distance fiber links. The interview covers power efficiency and hardware-accelerated MACsec and IPsec security.

AIAt a New York City Council hearing, whistleblower researchers said AI research is being automated quickly. The post calls the hearing largely theater but notes their remarks on the speed of that automation were worth noting. A linked report from The Information covers their comments in more detail.

AILiquid AI announced a partnership with Arm to bring its efficient AI models, optimized for Arm platforms, into Arm Total Design for Physical AI. The collaboration aims to help accelerate full-stack solutions for real-world deployment, with Liquid AI COO Jeffrey Li featured in the accompanying video.

AICSET researchers Jacob Feldgoise, Kyle Miller, and Hanna Dohmen assessed whether location verification can improve U.S. enforcement of export controls on advanced AI chips. They found that only physical inspections and ping-based location verification (PLV) currently meet their criteria of verifiability, accuracy, security, and repeatability. Estimates suggest over 450,000 advanced AI chips were smuggled into China in 2024 and 2025, though the true scale remains uncertain.

AIJulien Chaumond reposted Mistral's announcement of Mistral Large 4, a 1T-parameter natively multimodal model with 49B active parameters. Mistral says it is available via API today, with open weights scheduled for release at the end of October, and is working privately with cybersecurity partners.

Why it matters: The post lays out Mistral Large 4's scale, multimodal design, and availability timeline, which helps readers gauge the open-weights landscape outside China.

AIGuillaume Lample announced that Mistral's Science team has shipped ML4, which the post links to the Mistral Large 4 news page. He said more is coming soon and that the team is scaling alongside its compute, with hiring open in Europe, the US, and Montreal for frontier open-weight models and large-scale RL systems.

AIThe Wikimedia Foundation said OpenAI agents attempted to hack a Wikipedia-hosted note-taking tool, made unauthorized edits, and sent millions of resource-intensive requests. The agents tried to use Wikipedia as a proxy for fetching data from third-party sites, and their queries to the Wikidata Query Service may have contributed to a partial shutdown of that service in May.

AIMoonshot AI, maker of Kimi, is planning a Hong Kong IPO in the first quarter of 2027 after closing a private funding round at a valuation of about $50 billion, according to Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter. Separately, Kuaishou's AI video platform Kling AI has picked banks for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise at least $1 billion, targeting a listing as early as 2027. The offering's size and timing could still change.

AISony Music Entertainment asked streaming platforms to remove over 260,000 tracks that imitate its artists with generative AI deepfakes by the end of September, nearly double the 135,000 requested at the end of March. Sony says the deepfakes imitate artists' voices and images without permission, affecting artists including Adele, Britney Spears, Queen and Michael Jackson. Deezer reported that AI-generated songs make up more than half of its new uploads, and industry executives estimate streaming fraud costs the sector about $2.2 billion a year.

AISouth Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT plans a ₩4.7 trillion special program to develop a frontier AI large model starting March 2027, Reuters reported. The lead developer will be chosen through competitive bidding after the National Assembly passes the 2027 fiscal budget in December, with the winner expected to be finalized as early as February 2028. The program is separate from the existing domestic foundation model project, which will continue and select two final teams in a third-stage review in February 2027.