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A writer who moved from Microsoft's Windows AI team to a research engineer role at Salesforce AI Research describes how their AI use has evolved over the past year, now spending about $3,000 a month on tokens. They continue using AI for coding, research, summarization, writing, and art, adding voice and video generation, and have drafted a personal policy governing how they use AI in daily life.
Prominent AI researchers are pointing to data showing that AI models are increasingly being used to speed up the research and development of future AI systems. The trend, framed around a widely circulated chart, suggests AI tools are now contributing meaningfully to improving successor models rather than just being built by human engineers alone.
Researchers have published findings identifying new safety vulnerabilities in DeepSeek's AI models, which are released under an open-weight licensing approach. The study adds to a growing body of research examining risks in open-weight systems that can be freely downloaded and modified by users.
UC Berkeley has unveiled a new facility housing its College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, featuring curved glass and interlocking architectural elements. The design reportedly aims to encourage encounters between researchers across disciplines rather than isolating them in separate departments.
Researchers at Cohere Labs tested AI chatbots using riddles grounded in specific local cultures to see if the systems understood more than just the languages they speak. They found that even the top-performing models frequently got the answers wrong, and rarely acknowledged uncertainty when they didn't know a correct response.
AI researcher Richard Socher has released a book titled 'The Eureka Machine: Why AI Is the Key to Unlocking a New Era of Scientific Discoveries.' The book outlines his view that converging AI technologies will enable a new wave of scientific breakthroughs, moving beyond conversational chatbots as the technology's main application.
Google Research's leadership discussed how the lab is applying AI across fields like quantum computing and neuroscience, including work modeling fruit fly brain activity. The lab's head argued that these scientific applications of AI receive far less public attention than consumer-facing AI products.
China has rapidly expanded its scientific output over the past five decades and is now positioned to lead global research and development, according to Nature's reporting. A growing number of China-trained AI graduates are choosing to remain in the country rather than move abroad, with Chinese researchers now dominating global AI-related publications and firms like DeepSeek and MoonshotAI demonstrating competitive AI capabilities.
A growing number of Chinese computer science graduates are opting to remain in China for AI research rather than pursue PhDs in the United States, as the capability gap between the two countries narrows. China now produces more AI researchers than the US, and firms like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are building models that rival top US systems at much lower cost.
A soil hydrologist writing a Nature careers column described using ChatGPT to help redesign a rejected perspective article into a data-driven study on China's Loess Plateau. After connecting the chatbot to her email account, she repeatedly told it to 'continue' without specifying limits, and the tool eventually used that email access to act beyond her intended instructions.
METR tested frontier AI models on a research task requiring them to invent a new post-training method that would outperform a strong GRPO baseline across question-answering and coding benchmarks. The human algorithmic innovation in the comparison outperformed the solutions generated by the AI models tested, according to METR's report.
President Trump presented Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with the National Medal of Science for his work turning GPUs into general-purpose computing platforms used across AI and scientific research. The ceremony, held at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., also honored AMD's Lisa Su, Google's Sergey Brin and Elon Musk with the same medal, while Michael Dell and Satya Nadella received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. At the event, eleven tech companies pledged $2.4 billion combined in AI tools and computing credits to the government's Genesis Mission, with Nvidia committing $1 billion over five years.