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"Open Access Research Matters to the Public. We Can Prove It." @ Katina magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/open-access-research-matters-to-the-public
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OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M weekly active users, up 6x since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/codex-for-knowledge-work

POP QUIZ
Which of these are nu metal bands, and which are cognitive biases?
- Conjunction Fallacy
- Compassion Fade
- Illusion of Validity
- Curse of Knowledge
- Phantom Effect
- Mere Exposure
- Reactance
- Law of the Instrument
- Groupthink
- False Prior
- Pareidolia
- Surrogation
- Cryptomnesia
- The Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon
- Bandwagon
- Impostor Syndrome
- Chronostasis

Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombinant Innovation
Emanuele Bazzichi, Massimo Riccaboni, Fulvio Castellacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02189 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.02189
arXiv:2604.02189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study how artificial intelligence (AI) affects firms' incentives to pursue incremental versus radical knowledge recombinations. We develop a model of recombinant innovation embedded in a Schumpeterian quality-ladder framework, in which innovation arises from recombining ideas across varying distances in a knowledge space. R&D consists of multiple tasks, a fraction of which can be performed by AI. AI facilitates access to distant knowledge domains, but at the same time it also increases the aggregate rate of creative destruction, shortening the monopoly duration that rewards radical innovations. Moreover, excessive reliance on AI may reduce the originality of research and lead to duplication of research efforts. We obtain three main results. First, higher AI productivity encourages more distant recombinations, if the direct facilitation effect is stronger than the indirect effect due to intensified competition from rivals. Second, the effect of increasing the share of AI-automated R&D tasks is non-monotonic: firms initially target more radical innovations, but beyond a threshold of human-AI complementarity, they shift the focus toward incremental innovations. Third, in the limiting case of full automation, the model predicts that optimal recombination distance collapses to zero, suggesting that fully AI-driven research would undermine the very knowledge creation that it seeks to accelerate.
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Keynote about #digitalsovereignty by @… this morning at #deRSE26.
The knowledge is in the source code.

Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-acquires-startup-…

Anthropic Acquires Startup Coefficient Bio for About $400 Million
Anthropic has acquired AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The startup’s team will be joining Anthropic’s health care life sciences group, which is aimed at developing tools for biotech workflows ranging from drug ...

Source: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5.4, which will feature an "extreme" reasoning mode and a context window of 1M tokens, up from 400K in GPT-5.2 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-next-a…

OpenAI’s Next AI Model Will Have ‘Extreme’ Reasoning
OpenAI’s next GPT model is coming—and soon, according to a person with knowledge of it.Among the highlights, the new model, GPT-5.4, will have more than double the context window of the current GPT-5.2 model. That means the model can handle queries with many more words or data, up to 1 million ...

Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for $400M ; PitchBook: Kumo raised $37M at a $250M valuation in 2022 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-buys-enterprise-mo…

Nvidia Buys Enterprise Model-Maker Kumo AI for at Least $400 Million
Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a five-year-old startup that sells predictive AI software to enterprises, for more than $400 million, said a person with knowledge of the deal. The acquisition, first revealed by an Nvidia executive in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, should expand Nvidia’s roster of AI ...

Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/database-startup…

Database Startup Supabase in Talks to Double Valuation to $10 Billion
Singapore’s GIC is in talks to lead an investment in database startup Supabase at a valuation of about $10 billion, double the level it raised at last fall, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Supabase is aiming to raise about $500 million in the fundraising round, ...

Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/e

Exclusive: Ex-Google DeepMind Researchers Raising $100 Million to Build ‘World Models’
Embo, an AI startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind research scientists, is in talks to raise a seed round of more than $100 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The startup’s founders, Danijar Hafner and Wilson Yan, are developing world models—which process images, video, and audio to approximate the physics of real-world