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AIKDE's Akademy conference in Graz, Austria, opens on September 19, where contributors Eva Brucherseifer and Jan Muehlig will present a talk proposing an "AI-native" KDE desktop built on a personal, encrypted "Kadai" kernel. The proposal's middle section is expected to divide attendees, while the project marks its 30th anniversary, with KDE 1.0 released in July 1998.
AIGoogle's AI & Economy Research Program has added Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion as an Academic Advisor and Ajay Agrawal as a Visiting Fellow, with Anu Madgavkar and Daniel Rock named Directors. The program covers the future of work, productivity and growth, global technology diffusion, and AI's impact on scientific discovery, and builds on the recently launched AI & Economy ATLAS v1.0.
Lewis Tunstall @ COLM 🌉@_lewtunAI score13AIA post from Lewis Tunstall of Hugging Face says Geoffrey Hinton and Jürgen Schmidhuber are closer collaborators than previously thought. The remark is tied to alphaXiv's coauthorship graph of AI researchers on arXiv, which lets users find the shortest chain of papers linking any two names.
Kling AI@Kling_aiAI score20AIVeteran film and TV producer Diane Shorthouse is exploring how AI can expand what filmmakers create, sharing her experience making MINIBOTS with Kling AI. The post says AI can support safer production and help bring emotional performances to AI characters.
Wan@Alibaba_WanAI score13AIAlibaba Wan's post advises beginners making AI video to design a viewing experience and tell an emotion-triggering story rather than chasing the prettiest frame. It notes a single 30-second shot can be enough, citing the filmmaker behind Soulscape and Johnny Mai from Alibaba Cloud. The post promotes bringing Wan3.0 to teams via a sign-up form.
AIQianjue Technology founder Gao Haichuan argues that robotics will not see one breakthrough that suddenly lifts the whole industry, and he judges the company by deployment results rather than research papers. Qianjue, founded in 2023, has completed a Series A+ round worth a nine-figure RMB sum, with first orders coming from restaurant, cleaning, and hotel service robots. Gao says customers care about task completion, failure rates, and price rather than whether a predictive world model is used.
Waymo@WaymoAI score39AIWaymo says its vehicles will arrive in Singapore later this year, with road mapping and learning beginning in early 2027. Fully autonomous ride-hailing is planned to launch in 2028.
AIShopify has announced it is abandoning React Native and will build its mobile apps with native Swift and Kotlin. The move reverses its 2020 decision to adopt React Native, a choice the article attributes mainly to cost savings.
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_spAI score20AIDwarkesh Patel worries that AI labs will stop externally deploying their models once recursive self-improvement begins. He argues this would leave the public uninformed about model capabilities and alignment while concentrating power.
ChatGPT@ChatGPTAI score38AIOpenAI's ChatGPT can now be added to Microsoft Word, letting users turn rough notes into first drafts, rework tangled paragraphs, proofread, and get suggested edits without leaving their document. The post also says it can flag formatting issues.
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_spAI score22AIDwarkesh Patel asks whether, once AIs automate AI research, recursive self-improvement could produce an explosion analogous to the rapid progress now seen on well-scoped math problems. He says he and @polynoamial debate the question in a linked discussion.
Noam Brown@polynoamialAI score4AINoam Brown says his OpenAI team is hiring for long-horizon agent and multi-agent research. Open roles include alignment and safety work built into the research process from the start, plus human-AI interaction.
Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzoloAI score40AIAccording to this post, OpenAI is close to solving the Hodge Conjecture, one of the Millennium Prize problems, though the announcement could be delayed as the company navigates its rocky relationship with the math community.
Yi Tay@YiTayMLAI score38AIYi Tay congratulated Vinh Q. Tran (@vqctran) on his move from Google DeepMind and recalled years of co-inventing work together. The post praised Tran's pursuit of his biology passion, which the quoted post describes as building Polyphron to grow human tissue with frontier models and reinforcement learning.
AISenseTime chief scientist Lin Dahua argues that native multimodal AI, which processes language, vision and other information in one shared model, is essential for AI to move beyond coding into industries and the physical world. SenseTime released the open-source SenseNova U1 in April and U1.5 Lite nearly four months later, and reported first-half 2026 revenue of RMB 2.91 billion, up 23.4% year-on-year. Lin's claim that a breakthrough could come within two years is the source's prediction, not a confirmed result.
Wan@Alibaba_WanAI score34AIQwen's Wan 3.0 video model produced a complete fantasy fight between a mage and a swordswoman, with strong timing, poses, and complex layouts that the post calls anime-ready. The quoted post notes Wan is stronger than Seedance 2.5 on timing and layouts, while Seedance is better at keeping characters on-model, and that all three support Vid2Vid and Omni Reference.
AIWaymo announced plans to launch its fully autonomous, all-electric ride-hailing service in Singapore through the Waymo app in 2028, in partnership with the Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority. The rollout begins with initial Jaguar I-PACE vehicles arriving in the coming months, followed by a 2027 readiness phase of manual driving to adapt the Waymo Driver to local conditions.
Greg Brockman@gdbAI score38AIChatGPT Ads for Shopify is now live, making Shopify OpenAI's first commerce partner. Merchants set their own campaigns and budgets, with products pulled directly from Shopify Catalog, and the app is free to install and tracked from the Shopify admin.
wh@nrehiew_AI score18AIA post estimates the cost of an RL hero run on a large open-source model at $65K per step, with a batch size of 25K. Each step takes about 2 hours, averaging 4K input and 80K output tokens.
hardmaru@hardmaruAI score16AISakana AI says it shipped Sakana Chat, Namazu, Sakana Translate, Sakana Marlin, Fugu, Fugu Cyber, and Fugu Max this year and is now deploying them to enterprises, manufacturers, financial institutions, and government agencies in Japan and internationally. The company is massively expanding its GTM team and recruiting a Product Sales & Account Executive and a Forward Deployed Engineer (GTM) for founding roles.
Demis Hassabis@demishassabisAI score28AIDemis Hassabis says he and Shane Legg have long discussed AGI's potential impact on the economy, science, and society. Google DeepMind is now expanding interdisciplinary research on key questions for the AI era through the DeepMind Institute.
Mustafa Suleyman@mustafasuleymanAI score62AIMustafa Suleyman argues that AI systems are not conscious, yet a growing movement favors giving models welfare protections and a duty of care, which he thinks is the wrong approach. He says this framing could make alignment and containment much harder, and points to Anthropic's Claude constitution, which describes Claude's moral status as a serious question. He calls for urgent public debate and collective norms on how training documentation is drafted and deployed.
Demis Hassabis@demishassabisAI score11AIDemis Hassabis said he was honoured to receive the Albert Medal from the RSA, arguing that while science and technology enable major opportunities, the arts and humanities will be crucial in shaping the future society wants in the coming AGI era. He also pointed to a discussion with Hannah Fry covering a range of new topics.
Waymo@WaymoAI score36AIWaymo is teaming up with Allianz Partners to build the insurance, claims, and safety foundation needed for commercial expansion across Europe. The post frames the partnership as a way to scale responsibly across the continent, with further details in a linked Waymo blog post.
Fei-Fei Li@drfeifeiAI score13AIFei-Fei Li announced that World Labs is recruiting robot learning researchers and engineers. A follow-up post from Yunzhu Li says the team aims to define and scale next-generation world models for robot learning.
Stability AI@StabilityAIAI score10AIStability AI says attending ECCV, a premier computer vision conference, offers a chance to gather with the community beyond papers and talks. The post highlights reconnecting with old friends, meeting new people, and exchanging ideas on current work.
ChatGPT@ChatGPTAI score29AIOpenAI will retire GPT-5.5 in ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex on October 14 across all plans. Codex users who rely on GPT-5.5 are advised to switch to GPT-5.6 Sol or GPT-6 Astra.
Latent.Space@latentspacepodAI score43AILatent.Space's podcast episode features Richard Socher discussing Recursive, a new neolab that raised $5B to pursue open-ended, self-improving AI for AI research. The conversation covers the Eureka Machine, Socher's 10 Spaces of Intelligence, AI peer review, and the idea that this could be humanity's last invention.
Greg Brockman@gdbAI score29AIGreg Brockman says OpenAI's Astra and Luna are taking off. A quoted post reports that Astra led last week's spending while Luna led by a wide margin in token usage, compared with Anthropic.
Sundar Pichai@sundarpichaiAI score42AIGoogle says it is focusing AI efforts on health, disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity. Recent examples include AlphaGenome Atlas, which maps all 9B possible single-letter genetic changes across the human genome and is openly available to researchers, and WeatherNext 3, described as its most accurate and capable global weather AI model to date. The post also cites AI & Economy ATLAS, an open-access look at global AI usage, and says its translation services now cover nearly 300 languages spoken by 7B people.
Latent.Space@latentspacepodAI score18AILatent Space teased three upcoming episodes: why prompting is underrated, Claude Code mods released by @bcherny, and pacing the frontier. A quoted post from @trq212 said the recording was technical, covering topics the podcast has not discussed much.
AIGoogle is showcasing how partners are applying AI to societal challenges, including making disease detectable, treatable, and preventable, predicting natural disasters, expanding learning, and unlocking economic opportunities. The source describes these efforts as measurable real-world impact but provides no specific models, figures, or benchmarks.
Leandro von Werra@lvwerraAI score10AILeandro von Werra says his usual approach to brainstorming with AI is to review many weak suggestions to spark a good idea. He is responding to a post from Blanche Minerva, who says AI models have not produced ideas she had not already considered and that typical idea quality is poor.
AIShanghai-based Twoo is building an AI that participates in conversations between two users, sharing context, remembering experiences, and helping them plan activities together rather than serving one person. Founder Cobe Chen says the product's monetization includes in-app "shells" that unlock outfits for its octopus AI character, plus premium memberships for professional uses such as collaborative writing and teaching. The company is preparing overseas expansion into North America, Japan, and South Korea.
Junyang Lin@JustinLin610AI score2AIu guys r drinking too much! (this is not an ad for 农夫山泉
Kling AI@Kling_aiAI score12AIAt TIFF The Market, Kling AI hosted an expert panel and industry reception with filmmakers and tech leaders. The discussion explored how AI can make film production more affordable and accessible.
Zyphra@ZyphraAIAI score10AIZyphra announced a Compute Track session on September 16 at 3:00 PM PT titled "The Speed Problem: What It Actually Takes to Stand Up Capacity." Its Head of AI Infrastructure, @jjubran, joins vCluster CEO @LukasGentele, GMI Cloud VP of Engineering Yujing Qian, and SF Compute Head of Product @kasra_danesh on the panel.
Josh Woodward@joshwoodwardAI score10AIFast Company named Google the winner of its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards for its holistic design vision and new AI design language. The language spans products including the Gemini app, Google Maps' Immersive Navigation, and Search AI Mode. Josh Woodward, who runs Google's Gemini app, invited readers to design with the team.
Microsoft Research@MSFTResearchAI score22AIMicrosoft Research's latest Research Focus issue covers how coding agents behave at scale, evaluations of AI models that find lymphoma lesions in PET/CT scans, and understanding AI chatbot dependence. It also features research on advancing large-scale decision-making systems.
Mustafa Suleyman@mustafasuleymanAI score42AIMicrosoft AI has released a first-draft Code of Conduct governing its MAI Models as they approach the frontier, opening it for public comment for six weeks. The code, built on a "Humanist AI" view, says AI must stay subordinate to humans and contained within human interests. Key provisions reject model welfare and legal personhood for AI, require models to be interruptible, correctable and shut-down-able, and ban neuralese.