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Source: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tencent-name…

Tencent Names Former OpenAI Researcher Chief AI Scientist
Tencent Holdings internally announced that Yao Shunyu, a researcher who joined from OpenAI in September, is now serving as a chief AI scientist overseeing the Chinese tech giant’s large language model department as well as its newly established AI infrastructure department, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Yao’s major role, part of Tencent’s office of the CEO and president,

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-made-an-ai-that-completely-breaks-the-online-surveys-scientists-rely-on/

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites: #SatelliteCommunication: https://www.heise.de/en/news/US-Researchers-Intercept-Unencrypted-Satellite-Communication-10767672.html - US researchers have investigated satellite data traffic using commercial equipment; much of it, including security-relevant data, was unencrypted.

That's not great.
"A security researcher said Home Depot exposed access to its internal systems for a year after one of its employees published a private access token online, likely by mistake. The researcher found the exposed token and tried to privately alert Home Depot to its security lapse but was ignored for several weeks."
#HomeDepot #GitHubAccessToken

An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more (Anika Collier Navaroli/The Tech Policy Press Podcast)
https://techpolicy.press/through-to-th

Through to Thriving: Protecting Our Privacy with Chris Gilliard | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press fellow Anika Collier Navaroli in conversation with Critical Internet Studies Institute privacy researcher and advocate Chris Gilliard.

Security researcher fumes at low macOS bug bounty awards
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/02/security-researcher-fumes-at-low-macos-bug-bounty-awards

Security researcher fumes at low macOS bug bounty awards | AppleInsider
A security researcher has complained about reduced payments from discovered macOS flaws by Apple's bug bounty program, despite Apple raising the maximum for more high-profile rewards.

heise | Von Beruf Hackerjäger: Was macht eigentlich ein Threat Intelligence Researcher?
Holger Unterbrink ist Threat Intelligence Researcher für Cisco. Er steht im Wettlauf mit Kriminellen. Und wird durch seine Arbeit selbst zum Angriffsziel.

Ditte Bjerregaard has joined NERDS
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/10/13/ditte-bjerregaard-has-joined-nerds/

This fits my theory that enthusiasm for LLMs is proportional to how far are people from undestanding how it works (few researcher exceptions notwithstanding)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away

Open PhD/Junior Researcher Position in Neurosymbolic AI and Information Extraction on historical documents at FIZ Karlsruhe - Knowledge-driven AI research group (former ISE research group), starting at Jan 1, 2026.
Application Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/stellenan…

«A generation of young scientists were being trained to think of genetics and genomics as the default place to look for answers. “I characterize science as a bunch of 5-year-olds playing soccer,” says another researcher. “They all go where the ball is, running around the field in a herd.” And the ball was decidedly not environmental health.»
A good piece about the impact of pollution in causing disease and how the genomics hype held research back.
https://archive.vn/ZpiKS
/HT @…

When you are an Apple security researcher, Christmas comes early on November 2025:
https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-security-bounty-evolved/

A major evolution of Apple Security Bounty, with the industry's top awards for the most advanced research - Apple Security Research
Today we’re announcing the next major chapter for Apple Security Bounty, featuring the industry’s highest rewards — up to $2 million and a maximum payout in excess of $5 million — expanded research categories, and a flag system for researchers to objectively demonstrate vulnerabilities and obtain accelerated awards.

I mean I'll take "Engineer" but why the fuck would you put this into your "free wireless at our location" captive portal?

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A - An Exceptionally Bright Long-duration #GammaRayBurst with an Associated Kilonova: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0a1d -> UAH student researcher leads discovery of fastest gamma-ray burst ever recorded: https://www.uah.edu/news/items/uah-student-researcher-leads-discovery-fastest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded

'Are you a data professional, researcher or practitioner (user) working with data within or across communities and sectors? This survey is for you!' https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_9S7AtciBfXf9K9o
Via Melissa Terras on a DH mailing list, so GLAMs…

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Expel Intel transforms industry noise into actionable defense, partners with renowned security researcher Marcus Hutchins to amplify capabilities
https://expel.com/resource/expel-accelerates-threat-intelligence-program-to-turn-signal-into-s…

Expel accelerates threat intelligence program to turn signal into shield | Expel
Expel Intel transforms industry noise into actionable defense, partners with renowned security researcher Marcus Hutchins to amplify capabilities

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.NI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NI/new
[1/1]:
- Pingmark: A Textual Protocol for Universal Spatial Mentions
Kalin Dimitrov (Independent Researcher, M.Sc. Student, Veliko Tarnovo University)

A Doubly-Flexible Model Based on Generalized Gamma Frailty for Two-component Load-sharing Systems
Shilpi Biswas, Ayon Ganguly, Debanjan Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12686 ht…

A Doubly-Flexible Model Based on Generalized Gamma Frailty for Two-component Load-sharing Systems
For two-component load-sharing systems, a doubly-flexible model is developed where the generalized Fruend bivariate (GFB) distribution is used for the baseline of the component lifetimes, and the generalized gamma (GG) family of distributions is used to incorporate a shared frailty that captures dependence between the component lifetimes. The proposed model structure results in a very general two-way class of models that enables a researcher to choose an appropriate model for a given two-compon…

This is genuinely terrifying. Google Scholar is pushing "AI Powered Scholar Search."
What's scariest about this is that it will almost certainly turn up results that feel *right* -- they'll mention relevant topics and let a researcher craft a perfectly unassailable reference list.
But what it will prevent the researcher from doing is the actual research of finding relevant publications: discovering connections, framing questions, identifying contrasts…

Doctoral Researcher opening: Assessment of changing trace metal fluxes in the Central and Eastern Arctic Ocean - Technische Universität Braunschweig #geology #geochemistry

Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that is better at collaborating with humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025…

xAI Researcher In Talks To Raise $1 Billion For New Frontier Lab Humans&
Founded by former xAI staffer Eric Zelikman and early Googler Georges Harik, the new lab is building models that are better at interacting with humans.

iOS Developers Claim 1Password isn’t Removing Deleted Profile Pictures
The iOS developer and security researcher duo Mysk claims that after deleting their 1Password account, their profile picture was still being stored and remained publicly accessible via a URL.
🙄

iOS Developers Claim 1Password isn’t Removing Deleted Profile Pictures
The iOS developer and security researcher duo mysk claim that after deleting their 1Password account, their profile picture was still being stored and remained publicly accessible via a URL.

In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI's impact on humanity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

SentinelLabs' Dakota Cary linked Yu Yang and Qiu Daibing, two alleged members of the Chinese state hacking group, to participants of the 2012 Cisco Networking Academy Cup.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/salt_typhoon_cisco_training/

Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme
: Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert

A fascinating @… podcast on peace.. Interview (in English) with veteran peace researcher Peter Wallensteen on what is Peace, gridlock at the UN and how we should understand the present moment.
Intro in Danish.
https://samtaleromusa.podbean.com/e/peter-wallensteen-vi-far-ikke-fred-uden-stærke-folkelige-bevægelser-der-taler-oprustning-ned-og-diplomatiske-alternativer-op/

Agentic Additive Manufacturing Alloy Discovery
Peter Pak, Achuth Chandrasekhar, Amir Barati Farimani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02567 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Agentic Additive Manufacturing Alloy Discovery
Agentic systems enable the intelligent use of research tooling, augmenting a researcher's ability to investigate and propose novel solutions to existing problems. Within Additive Manufacturing (AM), alloy discovery remains a complex challenge, often requiring expertise in the various domains of materials science, thermodynamic simulations, and experimental analysis. Large Language Model (LLM) enabled agents can facilitate this endeavor by utilizing their extensive knowledge base to dispatch too…

American Science, Shattered: A young researcher's dashed hopes | STAT https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/research-cut-impacts-early-career-scientists-american-science-shattered-series/

Working with monkeys was this lab tech’s dream job. Now she’s staffing an IT help desk
Trump’s reshaping of science has fueled fears researchers will leave the U.S. This lab tech's story shows it can drive people out of science altogether.

Excited for the webinar "Research Software Engineering in Health Research" on Wednesday in collaboration with Health Data Research UK (HDR UK).
If you are a health researcher writing code or supervising someone writing code, this webinar is for you!
Topics:
- Research Software Engineering in Health Research – Why does it matter?
- Getting started (with examples):
1) Organising a code project
2) Creating useful code
3) Collaborative coding

A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that "demonstrated a near-flawless ability" to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-made-

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On: «We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people," Westwood said in a press release. "With survey data tainted by bots, AI can poison the entire knowledge ecosystem.”»
It's not like online surveys were particularly reliable before 😂
https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-made-an-ai-that-completely-breaks-the-online-surveys-scientists-rely-on/

Ex-Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper launch Decoherence Media to cover "authoritarian and anti-democratic movements" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/26/2025/dat…

Data journalists start news site to track extremist movements
Decoherence Media is a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right,” co-founder Tristan Lee told Semafor.

🤦🏻 Golf lesson: Study shows political polarization hurts performance at work
#politics

Golf lesson: Study shows political polarization hurts performance at work
Few workers face more scrutiny than professional athletes. Every movement is measured, every outcome quantified, and every performance evaluated against objective standards. So when UC Berkeley Haas researcher Tim Sels wondered how America's deepening political polarization was affecting workers' performance, he turned to one of the most comprehensive data sets on individual human performance: the PGA Tour.

The science of defiance: A psychology researcher explains why people comply, and how to resist
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-science-defiance-psychology-people-comply.html

A Universal Banach--Bregman Framework for Stochastic Iterations: Unifying Stochastic Mirror Descent, Learning and LLM Training
Johnny R. Zhang (Independent Researcher), Xiaomei Mi (University of Manchester), Gaoyuan Du (Amazon), Qianyi Sun (Microsoft), Shiqi Wang (Meta), Jiaxuan Li (Amazon), Wenhua Zhou (Independent Researcher)
https://arx…

A Universal Banach--Bregman Framework for Stochastic Iterations: Unifying Stochastic Mirror Descent, Learning and LLM Training
Stochastic optimization powers the scalability of modern artificial intelligence, spanning machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and large language model training. Yet, existing theory remains largely confined to Hilbert spaces, relying on inner-product frameworks and orthogonality. This paradigm fails to capture non-Euclidean settings, such as mirror descent on simplices, Bregman proximal methods for sparse learning, natural gradient descent in information geometry, or Kullb…

I do this ish for a living, I am an AI developer and researcher, and *I* don’t fully understand the security implications. What hope do regular users have?
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-war…

Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11 but has issued an important security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.

Bats are one of the few animals that I genuinely don't enjoy being around.... but I still want them to thrive!
This is really great news that a Canadian researcher might have found a treatment for white-nose syndrome!
" B.C.-based scientist Cori Lausen, nicknamed Bat Lady by her peers, believes a probiotic formula may be capable of saving them. This cocktail is a blend of four bacterial strains that suppress the fungus. These bacteria are naturally found in some bats, but not all. ”
#Bats #health #nature
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bats-white-nose-syndrome-probiotic-9.6948885

Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/negro-river-study-finds-genetic-damage-in-fish-after-oil-spill/

Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill
On the morning of March 26, 2013, approximately 60,000 liters (16,000 gallons) of an oil byproduct used to produce asphalt spilled from a barge on the Negro River, near the São Raimundo Harbor in Manaus. When researcher Helen Sadauskas-Henrique saw the news on TV, she did not hesitate to cancel plans to spend Easter with […]

Anyone (academic / researcher) had recent experience with submitting to #ScienceAdvances (https://www.science.org/journal/sciadv)? Good or bad?
We submitted there about 3 months ago and hear…

Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs hires Mikhail Shapiro, who works on noninvasive techniques for neural imaging and control (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/altman-taps-leading-researcher-for

Altman taps leading researcher for BCI startup Merge Labs
The hire suggests that Merge is taking a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Also: Sources IRL and reactions to yesterday's Snap scoop.

"Climate change linked to landslide that buried Swiss village"
#Switzerland #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change linked to landslide that buried Swiss village
In May, a landslide above Blatten in the canton of Valais buried most of the village under a mass of ice, mud and rock, an event that has prompted in-depth research. At a recent conference in Innsbruck, UZH researcher Christian Huggel presented his findings on the link between the landslide and climate change.

Det är nu över 10 år sedan dietboksförfattare och influensers påstod att de visste hur man fixade tarmfloran och med det en rad olika hälsoproblem.
Och än idag har vi i princip ingenting konkret från vetenskapen kring tarmfloran och behandling av olika besvär utanför just tarmproblem.
The Autism-Microbiome Hypothesis Is Falling Apart

The Autism-Microbiome Hypothesis Is Falling Apart
Why this new review paper should be required reading for every microbiome researcher

Worktrace AI, founded by ex-OpenAI product lead Angela Jiang and researcher Deepak Vasisht, launches with a $9.3M seed, and unveils a workflow automation agent (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/worktrace-ai-automation-openai

OpenAI-Backed Automation Startup Worktrace AI Launches With $9M
Worktrace AI founders Angela Jiang and Deepak Vasisht are launching a workflow automation agent with $9M from Conviction, 8VC, OpenAI and prominent alumni like Mira Murati.

Vedran wins Independent Research Fund Denmark Grant!
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/11/03/vedran-wins-dff-grant/

I don't think I've ever written an #introduction here. Now, I'm doing it elsewhere in the context of my research in the #DigitalHumanies, so, also sharing it here:
I'm a technical researcher coming from #edtech

Manoeuvre, Crui: cuts mean the country does not need universities. Bernini: it's propaganda, there are no cuts of 700 mln
The president of the Conference of Italian University Rectors, Giovanna Iannantuoni, at a hearing in the Budget Committee. "On average, an Italian citizen pays two coffees a week for the university system. This is how much the Italian university costs our state".

NaviSense: A Multimodal Assistive Mobile application for Object Retrieval by Persons with Visual Impairment
Ajay Narayanan Sridhar (The Pennsylvania State University), Fuli Qiao (The Pennsylvania State University), Nelson Daniel Troncoso Aldas (Independent Researcher), Yanpei Shi (University of Southern California), Mehrdad Mahdavi (The Pennsylvania State University), Laurent Itti (University of Southern California), Vijaykrishnan Narayanan (The Pennsylvania State University)

A Samsung researcher introduces the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7M-parameter model that was able to outperform LLMs 10,000x larger like o3-mini on specific problems (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/samsung-ai-researchers-n…

Russian scientist sentenced to 21 years on treason, cyber sabotage charges
https://therecord.media/russia-sentences-physicist-treason-ddos-attacks

Russian scientist sentenced to 21 years on treason, cyber sabotage charges
Artyom Khoroshilov, a researcher at the Moscow Institute of General Physics, will spend more than 20 years in Russian prison on accusations that include treason for aid sent to Ukraine and sabotage related to a DDoS attack on the postal system.

China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/china-blac

China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei
Beijing has banned semiconductor researcher TechInsights from working with or receiving data from entities in China.

This whole thing reads like a puff piece for that "AI detector" startup, but this quote by an researcher got me:
«Everyone in the community is aware that we are in a regime where all of us are doing significantly more volunteer work than we used to.»
I bet large part of that increase in work is due to "AI"-generated slop and not only due to a genuine, human increase in publications, but somehow that part of seems not discussed. Wonder why 😅
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

Chinese hackers exploiting React2Shell bug impacting countless websites, Amazon researchers say https://therecord.media/chinese-hackers-exploiting-react2shell-vulnerability-amazon

The Provenance Problem: LLMs and the Breakdown of Citation Norms
Brian D. Earp, Haotian Yuan, Julian Koplin, Sebastian Porsdam Mann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13365 https://

The Provenance Problem: LLMs and the Breakdown of Citation Norms
The increasing use of generative AI in scientific writing raises urgent questions about attribution and intellectual credit. When a researcher employs ChatGPT to draft a manuscript, the resulting text may echo ideas from sources the author has never encountered. If an AI system reproduces insights from, for example, an obscure 1975 paper without citation, does this constitute plagiarism? We argue that such cases exemplify the 'provenance problem': a systematic breakdown in the chain of scholarl…

Sources: Meta poached Yang Song, who led OpenAI's strategic explorations team, to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs earlier this month (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-poaches-openai-researcher-yang-song/

Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab
Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new ‘research principal’ of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Martin Fleischmann @… will present in 1.5 hours at ITU, AUD 1: "Open source inside out"

Evidence for a brief appearance of gamma-ray periodicity after a compact star merger: #NeutronStar in Distant Cosmic Explosion: https://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/28601.html

🍻 Online discrimination fuels drinking by Hispanic college students
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-online-discrimination-fuels-hispanic-college.html

Online discrimination fuels drinking by Hispanic college students
Hispanic college students who encounter racial or ethnic discrimination on social media are more likely to turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism, according to a study led by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.

Roadmap: Emerging Platforms and Applications of Optical Frequency Combs and Dissipative Solitons
Dmitry Skryabin, Arne Kordts, Richard Zeltner, Ronald Holzwarth, Victor Torres-Company, Tobias Herr, Fuchuan Lei, Qi-Fan Yang, Camille-Sophie Br\`es, John F. Donegan, Hai-Zhong Weng, Delphine Marris-Morini, Adel Bousseksou, Markku Vainio, Thomas Bunel, Matteo Conforti, Arnaud Mussot, Erwan Lucas, Julien Fatome, Yuk Shan Cheng, Derryck T. Reid, Alessia Pasquazi, Marco Peccianti, M. Giudici, M. Marconi, A. Bartolo, N. Vigne, B. Chomet, A. Garnache, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, Richard Burguete, Sarah Hammer, Jonathan Silver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18231 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18231 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18231
arXiv:2511.18231v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The discovery of optical frequency combs (OFCs) has revolutionised science and technology by bridging electronics and photonics, driving major advances in precision measurements, atomic clocks, spectroscopy, telecommunications, and astronomy. However, current OFC systems still require further development to enable broader adoption in fields such as communication, aerospace, defence, and healthcare. There is a growing need for compact, portable OFCs that deliver high output power, robust self-referencing, and application-specific spectral coverage. On the conceptual side, progress toward such systems is hindered by an incomplete understanding of the fundamental principles governing OFC generation in emerging devices and materials, as well as evolving insights into the interplay between soliton and mode-locking effects. This roadmap presents the vision of a diverse group of academic and industry researchers and educators from Europe, along with their collaborators, on the current status and future directions of OFC science. It highlights a multidisciplinary approach that integrates novel physics, engineering innovation, and advanced researcher training. Topics include advances in soliton science as it relates to OFCs, the extension of OFC spectra into the visible and mid-infrared ranges, metrology applications and noise performance of integrated OFC sources, new fibre-based OFC modules, OFC lasers and OFC applications in astronomy.
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Good Morning #Canada
Many people, that includes you, are worried about #Skynet assuming control of all military systems, but what happens when it starts harvesting our crops? Canadian agricultural scientists are blindly charging ahead in their efforts to fill our farms with robots. It started with self-driving tractors pulling conventional equipment and evolved to fully autonomous vehicles that plow, plant, fertilizer, weed, and harvest. Organic farming is seeing the biggest benefits as robots can hand weed 2 hectares per day, eliminating herbicides.... and farm workers. Almost 15% of Canada’s dairy farms use robotic milking cubicles where cows enter when they need milking, with no cold human hands involved. IMO, using robots to replace hard back breaking labour or tedious driving of equipment up and down a farm field is a good use of technology. But I hope the tech is not priced out of the reach of small farms.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Robotics #Farming
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2024/08/these-self-driving-weed-cutting-robots-transform-the-future-of-farming-says-u-of-g-researcher/

Russian scientist sentenced to 21 years on treason, cyber sabotage charges https://therecord.media/russia-sentences-physicist-treason-ddos-attacks

OpenAI researchers delete X posts claiming a GPT-5 math breakthrough after pushback from Hassabis, others; LeCun says they were "hoisted by their own GPTards" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/leading-openai

Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy communication.

An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India (Nilesh Christopher/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1124621/openai-in…

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.
India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

This Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 14:30, our Professor Luca Aiello @… will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen!
https:/…

Sources: Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider that is aiding Google's effort to expand access to its TPUs, is in talks to raise $700M led by Situational Awareness (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-cloud-pr…

AI Cloud Provider Aiding Google’s Chip Push Is in Talks to Raise $700 Million
Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google’s AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700 million in new financing, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. A one-year-old investment fund started by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is in talks to lead the financing, one ...

Prof. Paul Smaldino @… will join us in Copenhagen on Wed, Sep 24, 12:30-13:15 to present at an exciting data science seminar!
Topic: Why Use An Evolutionary Perspective To Study Culture?
To attend, see:

Manas AI, the AI drug discovery startup founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised a $26M seed extension after a $24.6M seed in January (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2025/09/manas-ai-raises-26m-in-seed-extension.html

Roberta Sinatra and Vedran Sekara talk at Rigsrevisionen
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/09/18/roberta-sinatra-and-vedran-sekara-talk-at-rigsrevisionen/
@…

Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot, starting with Researcher and Copilot Studio (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/784392/microsoft-365-copilot-anthropic-ai-models-feature…

Microsoft embraces OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot users.

Soumith Chintala, who co-created the PyTorch ML framework at Meta and left the company this month, has joined Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-soumith-chinta…

A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati's hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, hires Meta AI veteran Soumith Chintala as it rapidly expands its team and prepares for major funding.