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AIStanford's CS146S course, taught by Mihail Eric, has published its Week 3 materials on Agent Skills and CLI. The lecture covers how SKILL.md files and scripts encode workflows, and it lists practical advice such as keeping each skill focused, mining one's own transcripts for skill ideas, and writing descriptions that name real trigger phrases.

AICohere CEO Aidan Gomez is celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving in San Francisco with Bryan Hydon. The Cohere office in SF will host a gathering next week to mark the holiday and share what the company is building in Canada.

AIAustralia's privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into Shenzhen Qingcheng, the China-based software company behind the HeyCyan app in Kmart's $89 Anko-branded smartglasses, after it failed to respond to inquiries.

AIThe University of Birmingham has digitised and released more than 3,100 items from the unpublished papers of sociologist Stuart Hall, donated by his widow Catherine Hall, in an interactive database. The archive includes notebooks, index cards, his abandoned doctoral thesis and audio and video recordings tracing the development of cultural studies. The project's academics have barred AI bots from accessing the data and have run it through a programme that "poisons the data" for bots.

AIFireworks promotes a Forge talk by Nathan Lambert, co-founder of Trillium Labs and author of Interconnects, on why open models are winning adoption. The event takes place November 3 in San Francisco.

AIArena, which began in a small room in Berkeley's Soda Hall and now has about 90 people, is hiring across ML, product/engineering, design, sales, and more as it scales. Candidates can DM @aryanvichare10 or apply through the link in Arena's bio.

AILisa Su said she was honored to receive the National Medal of Science from President Trump, citing her parents' immigration and the opportunity to pursue semiconductor work in America. The post frames the award as recognition of work in semiconductors and science and technology leadership.

AINitin Goyal, VP of Engineering at Sprinklr, says the company stays competitive by adopting the latest and greatest technology. The post is part four of a series and links to an AWS page for more details.

AILiveKit is hosting an AI Agents Speakeasy with Modal during LA Tech Week on Wednesday, October 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. in Los Angeles. The event offers cocktails, food, and conversation with people building AI agents, with RSVPs available through a Partiful link.

AIAmazon is hosting a live AI rap battle demo at its booth at the COLM conference, where attendees can try to out-rhyme an AI agent. The booth also features talks on multi-agent systems and responsible AI for science.

AIZyphra describes itself as an open superintelligence research and product company based in San Francisco, aiming to build human-aligned AI that helps individuals and organizations reach their fullest potential. The post invites applicants to join the company through its job listings.

AIARC Prize is inviting applications to attend its 2026 Research Summit. The post provides an application link at arcprize.org but gives no further details about the event.

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AIOpenAI withdrew three math manuscripts, including "Algebraicity of Weil classes on split abelian eightfolds," after a sign error invalidated a stabilization-trace cancellation argument used by two dependent papers. The withdrawn papers now carry notices linking to archived manuscripts, and 14 other manuscripts were revised with proof repairs and corrected statements.

AIAMD CEO Lisa Su met with leaders, customers, and partners in Korea as part of efforts to grow the open AI ecosystem. She also spent time with AMD gaming fans alongside Jack Huynh, praising the energy of Korea's tech community.

AIThomas Wolf announced an oral spotlight session at CoLM 2026 featuring himself, Joel Niklaus, and Lewis Tunstall. The post invites attendees to come say hi at the session.

AISatya Nadella says Microsoft is partnering with NVIDIA as it kicks off the next chapter for Windows. He thanked Jensen Huang and Sriram Krishnan for joining the announcement.

AIDex Horthy praised the swag from WorkOS's init() conference, highlighting an ESP board programmed to display a "No More Slop" animation. The post is a brief, informal social media remark with no further product, model, or technical details.

AIOpenAI Developers shared that its community has been building projects for the Modretro Chromatic handheld, a retro-style gaming device, in place of its missing DevDay event. The post links to a community showcase and a conversation with Casey about creativity and turning ideas into playable games.

AIThe post from Amazon Web Services (AWS) only links to a video titled "Watch the full story" at go.aws/4yCQ8Au. The post itself gives no product names, figures, or announcement details.

AICohere is accepting applications for its Compass program via a sign-up form on its website. The post provides no further details about the program's purpose, eligibility, or benefits.

AIAMD CEO Lisa Su wrote that she was back in Taiwan this week spending time with customers and partners. She thanked them for the warm welcome and the strong partnership.

AIGergely Orosz says an account with a blue check, promoting a competitor, falsely claimed to have worked at OpenRouter. He says current OpenRouter employees confirmed the account never worked there, and he warns that anonymous blue-check accounts on the site can't be trusted.

AIMiniMax tagged several partner companies, including Friendli, Anaconda, Kilo Code, Novita, Artificial Analysis, Nous Research, RadixArk, and Vercel, in a post directing readers to its event listings. The post provides a Luma link for finding MiniMax events and no details about specific events, dates, or announcements.

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.

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 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.

AIMatt Shumer posted a link to a tracker for the pneumonic plague at plague.somethingbig.ai. The post gives no further details about the tracker's data, sources, or coverage.

AIUnderstanding AI has added Dan Kagan-Kans, a former managing editor of Mosaic and freelance AI journalist, as a writer, with his first post published now. The newsletter says he will be supported by a Tarbell Fellowship in AI journalism, and readers can book video calls with him on Tuesday or Wednesday.

AIARC Prize has named Kenneth Stanley as a keynote speaker for its ARC Prize Research Summit 2026. Stanley is a pioneer in neuroevolution and open-ended AI, co-creator of NEAT and novelty search, and co-author of "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned."

AISakana AI will hold a free, English-language symposium in Tokyo on October 26, 2026, featuring a keynote and Q&A by Jürgen Schmidhuber, who recently joined as Chief Scientific Advisor. Sakana AI researchers will also give short talks on their work at the RSI Lab, and registration is required because seating is limited.

AIReplit CEO Amjad Masad, writing on X, says he enjoyed meeting Steve Wozniak at the Supabase Select event. The post provides no further details about the discussion or event content.

AIThe Korea Society presented NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang with its 2026 Van Fleet Award, recognizing the U.S.–Korea partnership. NVIDIA says it has worked with Korea for more than 25 years and looks forward to future collaboration.

AIMiniMax will take part in an Advertising Week panel titled "The New Creative Stack: AI Video, Brand Control & the Future of Advertising." The session, with speakers from Krea, fal, Magnific, and MiniMax, is scheduled for Thursday, October 8 at 2:30 PM ET on the Innovation Stage.

AIGoogle AI linked to a blog post presenting facts about Project Suncatcher, a Google research initiative. The post itself contains no further details beyond the title and link, so specifics cannot be confirmed from this source alone.

AIParil Jain of The Bot Company and Quan Vuong of Physical Intelligence discussed real-world robot evaluation, field deployment, and where robotics will be in three years at the Runway AI Summit. The panel was described in the post without specific findings or figures.

AIThe post is a reflection from Vaibhav Srivastav after returning from OpenAI DevDay, citing a full-house talk, model and product launches, and extensive testing and feedback. He thanks his team and the community for sharing how OpenAI's products affect their lives, and mentions upcoming DevDay Exchange events.

AISara Hooker announced the Grady plushie, a mascot for Adaption, named after a tardigrade. The background notes that tardigrades are nearly indestructible and adapt to environments from the ocean floor to outer space.

AIGamma Chief AI Officer Deeni Fatiha, Adobe Director Morgan Prygrocki, and Salesforce Global Brand Marketing's Shane Tapp discussed what changes when creative AI shifts from experimentation to production. The post gives no further details on specific tools, figures, or conclusions.