In one of my classes I asked the question I was afraid to ask but I just needed the answer to: “Who is afraid of not getting a job after graduating?” About eighty percent of the 150 people in the room raised their hands. … The other story arrives by email. PhD students who cannot wait to graduate, because they want to join a frontier lab and they have concluded that research in academia is meaningless. They are counting the years until they can leave.
I believe both stories are wrong, and wrong for the same reason. They assume the future of research belongs to whoever has the most GPUs. I think the opposite is true. Academia is probably about to have a renaissance, and the most exciting work of the next decade will happen in university labs — not in spite of their limited resources, but because of them. — Read More
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Andreessen Horowitz Wants Teens to Skip College for Its New Academy Instead
All of Silicon Valley seems to be coming together to launch a new alternative to college for teens dreaming of becoming the next big tech founder.
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, announced Tuesday that applications are now open for the first class of the creatively named The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. — Read More
In His Voice
Through the VOICE trial, Terry is using his Neuralink implant to help fine-tune a brain-to-voice interface for himself and others who can’t speak. He trained the algorithm first by miming speech as best he could, then by simply thinking the words and hearing them come out in his own natural voice. — Read More
#audioAI Goes to War: Ukraine AI Autonomous Drone Guidance
Ukraine is making gigantic strides in AI autonomous drone guidance. There are two specific areas of focus:
— Last mile AI autonomy — a human pilot flies the drone to the target area and then AI takes over for the last 500 meters of flight guiding its warhead to exactly where it can do the most damage. BOOM!
— Mission AI autonomy — once parameters of the mission are set, an AI assisted drone flies without GPS/radio guidance to the target with no human involvement, Fire and forget. BOOM!
AI is the game changer. — Read More
Nvidia boss rejects AI extinction fears as ‘doomsday narratives’
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has described warnings that AI could lead to humanity’s extinction by the next decade as “doomsday narratives”.
“2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world”, Huang said in an interview with CBS News, the BBC’s US partner.
Huang added: “Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.” — Read More
Human Brain is Two Organs Fused Together, Study Suggests
Scientists have long treated the brain as a single organ that grows from one pool of early cells. Stanford University neuroscientist Kyle Loh and colleagues challenge this view, arguing that the human brain is two distinct nervous systems that evolved separately and were joined together over hundreds of millions of years. The discovery could also help explain why researchers have struggled for decades to grow certain types of brain cells in a lab, and open new avenues for studying devastating diseases that affect the hindbrain, or brain stem, such as spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease). — Read More
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‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI
Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate known as the “Godfather of AI,” issued an ominous warning to lawmakers: Congress may have only one year left to implement safeguards on artificial intelligence before it loses control of it.
“Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” Hinton said Wednesday evening after he and other AI experts huddled with Senate and House lawmakers behind closed doors. “If you look at predictions for when we’ll get superintelligence,” he continued, “it used to be maybe 30 years, maybe 50 years. Then it came down to maybe 10 years, maybe 20 years. Now people are saying, a lot of the researchers are saying only a few years.” — Read More
How Did AI Became So Good At Video Generation
I remember a few years ago when I tried Deforum for the first time.
… Fast-forward three years, and we have models like MiniMax H3, Kling 3.0, Sora 2, Wan 2.2, etc. These models are not only able to produce well-defined and good-looking frames, but also maintain a high degree of temporal consistency.
In this post, I wanted to share with you the main technical advancements that allowed for such an unbelievable improvement in visual quality and temporal consistency. — Read More
Hacking OpenAI
On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts. With these accounts, we could then access internal OpenAI repositories, and potentially many other connectors.
To prove we had in fact gained the access we believed without allowing ourselves to learn any sensitive information, we used the employee’s Codex to open a PR #1186742 in OpenAI’s internal monorepo openai/openai.
… The entire timeline from initial discovery to access to OpenAI repo access took place in less than 72 hours. — Read More
The myth of uncontrollable AI
AI getting smarter does not automatically make it uncontrollable. The real question is what we give that intelligence access to. Give a model enough permissions, persistence, resources, copies and coordination, and its mistakes can compound into real-world power. The good news? Those layers are ours to design.
… Most people assume that intelligence, pushed far enough, naturally turns into uncontrollability, and that the smarter the mind, the less any fence can hold it.
I think that assumption is wrong. I don’t think AI is on an inevitable path to killing us all.
My rationale has nothing to do with the technology being harmless. My reason is that we have misunderstood where an AI system’s power comes from and what we can do about it — Read More
