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Why do South Koreans love AI so much?

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I landed in Seoul after a grueling 12-hour flight from San Francisco, I walked through an unmanned immigration checkpoint, where a machine scanned my face an…

Jun 15, 2026

This man with ALS is “the first power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak

Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain for almost three years. Harrell, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is paralyzed, first used his brain-computer interface (BCI) to “speak” sentences with the help of a research team in 2023. Since then, Harrell has clocked…

Jun 15, 2026

The Download: cutting AC emissions, and nature’s drug designer

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These new solid-state ACs promise a cool future. Scientists aren’t so sure. After three years of record-­breaking heat and another scorcher underway,…

Jun 15, 2026

Import AI 461: “Alignment is not on track”; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI researchers launch new safety startup because “alignment is not on track”:…Sequent will have a portfolio of under-r…

Jun 15, 2026

Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

Jun 15, 2026

These new solid-state ACs promise a cool future. Scientists aren’t so sure.

After three years of record-­breaking heat, this one is set to be yet another scorcher. Air-conditioning? Not going anywhere. The International Energy Agency projects that the number of AC units will triple by 2050. That’s good for health—one Lancet study estimated that AC prevented nearly 200,000 p…

Jun 15, 2026

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.

Jun 14, 2026

A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

Jun 13, 2026

Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order

“The government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said in a blog post.

Jun 13, 2026

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

“I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee posted in a forum open to the entire staff.

Jun 12, 2026

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.

Jun 12, 2026

Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen

Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR tools did not detect it. The post Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen appeared first on Microsoft Research .

Jun 12, 2026

China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers

GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.

Jun 12, 2026

olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop

Jun 12, 2026

The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing…

Jun 12, 2026

You do your own time

There we were, a regular murderers’ row of librarians. Little Jo. Eustace. And me. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming in didn’t respect sanctuary. Little Jo had a stack of books under one arm. Eustace was holding the…

Jun 12, 2026

New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.

Jun 12, 2026

Inside interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Your brain lives in the dark space of your skull. Yet it knows when the wind lifts the hairs on you…

Jun 12, 2026

Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now

Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first volunteer. A person with glaucoma has had an experimental treatment injected straight into their eyeball. The idea is to try to treat the disease—which can cause vi…

Jun 12, 2026

How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning

Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.

Jun 12, 2026

The Download: soccer’s data renaissance and China’s big nuclear plans

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside soccer’s data renaissance Imagine tuning in to the opening kickoff of a World Cup match and seeing a player intentionally kick the ball out of…

Jun 11, 2026

How an astrophysicist uses Codex to help simulate black holes

Discover how astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan uses Codex to build black hole simulations, helping scientists study extreme physics and test Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Jun 11, 2026

OpenAI to acquire Ona

OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.

Jun 11, 2026

BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI

Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.

Jun 11, 2026

Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem

OpenAI supports the EU Code of Practice on AI content transparency, advancing provenance standards and tools to help people understand AI-generated content.

Jun 11, 2026

Profiling in PyTorch (Part 2): From nn.Linear to a Fused MLP

Jun 11, 2026

Introducing North Mini Code: Cohere’s First Model For Developers

Jun 09, 2026

How an Agent Built a 3D Paris Gallery by Chaining Two Hugging Face Spaces

Jun 09, 2026

Migrating Your GitHub CI to Hugging Face Jobs

Jun 09, 2026

Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Society can be reward-hacked, just like cyber environments:…Imagine an army of credit card point optimizers gaming the…

Jun 08, 2026

The Open Source Community is backing OpenEnv for Agentic RL

Jun 08, 2026

LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)

A curated roundup of notable LLM research papers that came out this year

Jun 06, 2026

Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The AI economy in the US is growing at 2,000% a year:…The more directly you measure the AI economy, the weirder and mo…

Jun 01, 2026

Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data

Data Formulator introduces AI-powered analytics for enterprise data workflows. Data teams can easily bring enterprise data into an AI-ready workspace where users can explore, analyze, and visualize data with AI agents to turn raw data into actionable insights. The post Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powere…

May 28, 2026

Extending Human Intelligence Through AI

Understanding AI as an extension of human intelligence—not a replacement for it—offers a more grounded path for building trustworthy AI systems. The post Extending Human Intelligence Through AI appeared first on Microsoft Research .

May 27, 2026

Last Week in AI #341 - Musk loses to OpenAI, Google's IO updates, OpenAI solves Erdős

Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026, and more!

May 27, 2026

Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. This issue consists of a lengthy essay based on a speech I recently gave, and a fictional story attempting to think through what a p…

May 26, 2026

LWiAI Podcast #246 - Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős

Google unveils AI model Gemini 3.5 and AI agent Gemini Spark, Omni turns images, audio, and text into video, Musk loses OpenAI court battle

May 26, 2026

MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara1.5: An agentic experience optimized for small models

MagenticLite is an agentic system for small models that works across the browser and local file system in a single workflow. It combines specialized models and orchestration to support efficient agentic performance on everyday tasks. The post MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara1.5: An agentic experien…

May 21, 2026

Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI

Vega turns a full credential into a single proof, sharing only what is needed and nothing more, with performance that works in real apps. The post Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI appeared first on Microsoft Research .

May 21, 2026

LWiAI Podcast #245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand

OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API, Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time, and more!

May 20, 2026

Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Stuxnet before Stuxnet:…Fast16 bugs software likely used in weapons programs…Here’s a fascinating investigation of a ~…

May 18, 2026

Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention

From Gemma 4 to DeepSeek V4, How New Open-Weight LLMs Are Reducing Long-Context Costs

May 16, 2026

Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Regulate? Don’t regulate. There’s a third way: Radical Optionality:…Governments should invest in the tools now that th…

May 11, 2026

Last Week in AI #340 - OpenAI vs Musk + Microsoft, DeepSeek v4, Vision Banana

First week of Musk v. Altman, OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal, DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models, and more!

May 05, 2026

LWiAI Podcast #243 - GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage

Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!

May 04, 2026

My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures

A learning-oriented workflow for understanding new open-weight model releases

Apr 18, 2026

Components of A Coding Agent

How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice

Apr 04, 2026

A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs

From MHA and GQA to MLA, sparse attention, and hybrid architectures

Mar 22, 2026

After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment

Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices [1] : networks of actions, action-dispositio…

Feb 18, 2026

AGI Is Not Multimodal

"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture the…

Jun 04, 2025

Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically principled architectures result in only marginal improvements while compute-intensive and engineerin…

Nov 16, 2024

What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to these scores?…

Sep 09, 2024

We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing

Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact o…

Aug 03, 2024

Generative AI to quantify uncertainty in weather forecasting

Posted by Lizao (Larry) Li, Software Engineer, and Rob Carver, Research Scientist, Google Research Accurate weather forecasts can have a direct impact on people’s lives, from helping make routine decisions, like what to pack for a day’s activities, to informing urgent actions, for example, protectin…

Mar 29, 2024

AutoBNN: Probabilistic time series forecasting with compositional bayesian neural networks

Posted by Urs Köster, Software Engineer, Google Research Time series problems are ubiquitous, from forecasting weather and traffic patterns to understanding economic trends. Bayesian approaches start with an assumption about the data's patterns (prior probability), collecting evidence (e.g., new tim…

Mar 28, 2024

Computer-aided diagnosis for lung cancer screening

Posted by Atilla Kiraly, Software Engineer, and Rory Pilgrim, Product Manager, Google Research Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally with 1.8 million deaths reported in 2020. Late diagnosis dramatically reduces the chances of survival. Lung cancer screening via computed…

Mar 20, 2024

Using AI to expand global access to reliable flood forecasts

Posted by Yossi Matias, VP Engineering & Research, and Grey Nearing, Research Scientist, Google Research Floods are the most common natural disaster , and are responsible for roughly $50 billion in annual financial damages worldwide. The rate of flood-related disasters has more than doubled sinc…

Mar 20, 2024

ScreenAI: A visual language model for UI and visually-situated language understanding

Posted by Srinivas Sunkara and Gilles Baechler, Software Engineers, Google Research Screen user interfaces (UIs) and infographics, such as charts, diagrams and tables, play important roles in human communication and human-machine interaction as they facilitate rich and interactive user experiences.…

Mar 19, 2024