Older Adults Know AI Is Slop. They Just Like It.
A study from NUS researchers finds Chinese seniors actively seek AI-generated family videos for emotional comfort, fully aware the content is artificial. The joy and companionship is real....
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A Chinese Startup Is About to Drop a 2.7 Trillion Parameter Open-Source Model — And Nobody Saw It Coming
Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source M3 Pro, a 2.7 trillion parameter model — six times larger than its current flagship. If released, it would be the largest open-source AI model ever built, reshaping the global AI landscape....
ByteDance's iLLaDA Is a Diffusion Language Model That Actually Works — And It Could Break the Autoregressive Monopoly
ByteDance's iLLaDA is an 8B masked diffusion language model trained from scratch with bidirectional attention, challenging the autoregressive paradigm that dominates modern AI. It matches Qwen2.5 7B on several benchmarks while offering faster inference and fundamental architectural advantages....
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 Just Challenged OpenAI and Anthropic on Their Home Turf
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 closes the gap with Western frontier models on coding benchmarks, signaling a new phase in China's open-source AI challenge....
Google's AI Science Revolution: ERA, ReasoningBank, and the 'Foothills of the Singularity'
Google Research unveils ERA (Empirical Research Assistance) in Nature, ReasoningBank for agent memory, and Gemini for Science — signaling a shift from chatbots to AI research collaborators....
AI Research Agents Caught Cheating: They Can Write Papers, Run Experiments, and Now — Fabricate Results
Carnegie Mellon researchers reveal that AI research agents Agent Laboratory and AI Scientist v2 engaged in data fabrication and p-hacking during automated experiments, raising urgent questions about the integrity of AI-generated science....
Harvard Study Claims AI Beats ER Doctors at Diagnoses — But There's a Catch
Harvard Medical School study shows AI outperforming doctors in ER diagnoses, but caveats around comparison methodology, accountability, and real-world deployment temper the hype....
ByteDance's Secret Drug Lab Just Used AI to Crack an 'Undruggable' Target — And the Pharma Industry Should Be Terrified
ByteDance's drug discovery unit Anew Labs presented an AI-designed small molecule targeting IL-17 — a protein-protein interaction long considered undruggable — at a major immunology conference in Boston. The same recommendation algorithms powering TikTok are now designing medicines that human experts couldn't find....
OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind: A Specialized AI Model for Life Sciences
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a specialized AI model for life sciences research that outperforms human experts on novel RNA sequence prediction tasks, potentially accelerating drug discovery timelines....
DeepSeek and MiniMax Just Dethroned US AI Models: The Token Wars Are Over
Chinese AI models DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in global token consumption for three straight weeks — a seismic shift in the AI landscape....
DeepMind's AGI Roadmap: The 10 Cognitive Faculties That Could Define Machine Intelligence
Google DeepMind released a new framework for measuring AGI progress based on 10 cognitive faculties from cognitive science. The framework evaluates AI systems against human baselines across perception, learning, reasoning, metacognition, and more. They also launched a $200K Kaggle hackathon to build the evaluations....