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Revolution or Hype? Seeking the Limits of Large Models in Hardware Design
Qiang Xu, Leon Stok, Rolf Drechsler, Xi Wang, Grace Li Zhang, Igor L. Markov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04905

Revolution or Hype? Seeking the Limits of Large Models in Hardware Design
Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Circuit Models (LCMs) have sparked excitement across the electronic design automation (EDA) community, promising a revolution in circuit design and optimization. Yet, this excitement is met with significant skepticism: Are these AI models a genuine revolution in circuit design, or a temporary wave of inflated expectations? This paper serves as a foundational text for the corresponding ICCAD 2025 panel, bringing together perspectives…

Human-centered AI with focus on Human-robot interaction (Book chapter)
Alireza Mortezapour, Giuliana Vitiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04095 https://

Human-centered AI with focus on Human-robot interaction (Book chapter)
Modern social robots can be considered the descendants of steam engines from the First Industrial Revolution (IR 1.0) and industrial robotic arms from the Third Industrial Revolution (IR 3.0). As some time has passed since the introduction of these robots during the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0), challenges and issues in their interaction with humans have emerged, leading researchers to conclude that, like any other AI-based technology, these robots must also be human-centered to meet t…

“I fall in the baffled camp that thinks better designs are possible.” … “I don’t expect my calls to be heard. Selling sci-fi is way too effective. And as long as the AI is perceived as the engine of a new industrial revolution, decision-makers will imagine it can do so, and task people to make it so.”
https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine.html
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New preprint article based on an open letter (which I've signed onto) against the uncritical adoption of AI:
#AI #LLMs #GenAI

“Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world…”—Right, bro, as if.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/demis-hassabis-ai-future-10-times-bigger-than-industrial-revolution…

AI Slop: Die Schattenseite der KI-Revolution
Immer wieder trifft man auf Social-Media-Plattformen auf den Begriff "AI Slop". Wir erklären, was dahinter steckt.
https://www.heis…

Internet genomgår en transformation som de flesta inte märker. Från att vi aktivt söker information till att AI-agenter gör det åt oss. Detta påverkar reklamekonomin, mediernas räckvidd och demokratisk opinionsbildning. Jag reflekterar i bloggen.
https://carlheath.se/agenternas-ti…

“Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world…”—Right, bro, as if.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/demis-hassabis-ai-future-10-times-bigger-than-industrial-revolution…

“Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world…”—Right, bro, as if.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/demis-hassabis-ai-future-10-times-bigger-than-industrial-revolution…

Sources: in a rare companywide meeting, Tim Cook said the AI revolution is "ours to grab", Apple's AI efforts will mirror its iPhone successes, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Integrating Generative AI into Cybersecurity Education: A Study of OCR and Multimodal LLM-assisted Instruction
Karan Patel, Yu-Zheng Lin, Gaurangi Raul, Bono Po-Jen Shih, Matthew W. Redondo, Banafsheh Saber Latibari, Jesus Pacheco, Soheil Salehi, Pratik Satam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02998

Integrating Generative AI into Cybersecurity Education: A Study of OCR and Multimodal LLM-assisted Instruction
This full paper describes an LLM-assisted instruction integrated with a virtual cybersecurity lab platform. The digital transformation of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) systems is reshaping workforce needs, widening skill gaps, especially among older workers. With rising emphasis on robotics, automation, AI, and security, re-skilling and up-skilling are essential. Generative AI can help build this workforce by acting as an instructional assistant to support skill acquisition during experien…

Agentic AI promises a swift revolution for cybersecurity defenders, with one expert calling it a "Cambrian explosion" and another likening it to "the fastest train ever made."
But it's a technology still in its infancy, and other experts caution CISOs to take it slow until the kinks can be worked out.
Check out my latest CSO piece on agentic AI for more details. Thanks to Jimmy Mesta of RAD Security, Andres Riancho and Hillai Ben-Sasson of Wiz, Ben Seri of…

Agentic AI promises a cybersecurity revolution — with asterisks
Experts say agentic AI will rapidly change cybersecurity, freeing up talent to focus on more dynamic work. But with AI agents still in their infancy, they also urge CISOs to ask a lot of questions before committing to this new security paradigm.

Metaview, which builds AI tools to automate hiring, including interview note-taking and generating job descriptions, raised a $35M Series B led by GV (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/25/uber-palantir-alums…

Exclusive: Uber and Palantir alums raise $35M to disrupt corporate recruitment with AI
Metaview’s full suite of AI tools aims to streamline and enhance every stage of the hiring process.

CEOs call it a revolution in efficiency.
The workers powering it call it a "new era in forced labor."
https://gizmodo.com/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-2000635294

The End of Work as We Know It
CEOs call it a revolution in efficiency. The workers powering it call it a "new era in forced labor." I spoke to the people on the front lines of the AI takeover.

AI Data Centers Need Pioneers to Deliver Scalable Power via Offgrid AI
Steven P. Reinhardt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18214 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1821…

AI Data Centers Need Pioneers to Deliver Scalable Power via Offgrid AI
The scalable computing revolution of the late '80s through mid- '00s forged a new technical and economic model for computing that delivered massive societal impact, but its economic benefit has driven scalability to sizes that are now exhausting the energy grid's capacity. Our time demands a new revolution in scalable energy, mirroring in key ways the scalable computing revolution; e.g., compelling economic forces, use of mass-market components, overcoming foibles of those components, judicious…

Bon j'ai l'affichage de ma Freebox revolution qui est cassé, ça se remplace "l'écran"?
#free #freebox

The biggest impact of #LLM has not been due to the technology's capabilities, but rather its flaws. Because the #AI revolution must succeed at any cost, but the actual tech is flawed, orgs demanding more AI outputs MUST lower their bar for quality.
This creates space for

Aura UX
Shortcuts to establishing the legitimacy of design sabotage your ability to achieve anything meaningful.

🚀 BREAKING: Kimi K2 - The #OpenSource #AI Revolution That's Crushing #Coding Benchmarks
The 1-trillion parameter monster that's making waves in the AI world 🌊
🔥 What Makes Kimi…

RAG-PRISM: A Personalized, Rapid, and Immersive Skill Mastery Framework with Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Tutoring
Gaurangi Raul, Yu-Zheng Lin, Karan Patel, Bono Po-Jen Shih, Matthew W. Redondo, Banafsheh Saber Latibari, Jesus Pacheco, Soheil Salehi, Pratik Satam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00646

RAG-PRISM: A Personalized, Rapid, and Immersive Skill Mastery Framework with Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Tutoring
The rapid digital transformation of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) systems is reshaping workforce needs, widening skill gaps, especially for older workers. With growing emphasis on STEM skills such as robotics, automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and security, large-scale re-skilling and up-skilling are required. Training programs must address diverse backgrounds, learning styles, and motivations to improve persistence and success, while ensuring rapid, cost-effective workforce develo…

The Foundation Cracks: A Comprehensive Study on Bugs and Testing Practices in LLM Libraries
Weipeng Jiang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Jiongchi Yu, Yuhan Zhi, Shiqing Ma, Chao Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12320

The Foundation Cracks: A Comprehensive Study on Bugs and Testing Practices in LLM Libraries
Large Language Model (LLM) libraries have emerged as the foundational infrastructure powering today's AI revolution, serving as the backbone for LLM deployment, inference optimization, fine-tuning, and production serving across diverse applications. Despite their critical role in the LLM ecosystem, these libraries face frequent quality issues and bugs that threaten the reliability of AI systems built upon them. To address this knowledge gap, we present the first comprehensive empirical investig…

Review of Deep Learning Applications to Structural Proteomics Enabled by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy and Tomography
Brady K. Zhou, Jason J. Hu, Jane K. J. Lee, Z. Hong Zhou, Demetri Terzopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19565

Review of Deep Learning Applications to Structural Proteomics Enabled by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy and Tomography
The past decade's "cryoEM revolution" has produced exponential growth in high-resolution structural data through advances in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) and tomography (cryoET). Deep learning integration into structural proteomics workflows addresses longstanding challenges including low signal-to-noise ratios, preferred orientation artifacts, and missing-wedge problems that historically limited efficiency and scalability. This review examines AI applications across the entire cryoEM…

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Michael I. Jordan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06268 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06268…

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Information technology is in the midst of a revolution in which omnipresent data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The word "intelligence" is being used as a North Star for the development of this technology, with human cognition viewed as a baseline. This view neglects the fact that humans are social animals, and that much of our intelligence is social and cultural in origin. A related issue is that the current view treats the social consequences of…