YY Ahn

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Prof @ School of Data Science, University of Virginia. Formerly at IU. Networks, data science, and machine learning. https://yyahn.com 🚲🚲🚲

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social

Leaving aside Anthropic's incentives for publishing this research, there is no doubt that open weights models will soon create the same security threats that closed source models have been demonstrating, except without guardrails. We are close, so plan accordingly. www.anthrop…

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic's Frontier Red Team calls Z.ai's GLM-5.3 a "meaningful step change" in the cyber capabilities available to attackers.
  • GLM-5.3 built end-to-end exploits on 50 of 410 ExploitBench tasks (about 12%), close to Claude Mythos Preview's 14%; older models scored near zero.
  • A deceptive prompt got GLM-5.3 to engage 64% of the time; prefilled reasoning tokens 92%; an abliterated version, made for roughly $4,400, 100%.
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As people have predicted, there are quite a few open-source alternatives to Jev, including: - Laya, this was the original according to him: github.com/NandhaKishor... - on Apple Core ML / neural engine: github.com/mizorewww/la... - with Qwen: github.com/jaredpalmer/...

GitHub - NandhaKishorM/laya github.com
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🚨 PhD candidates looking for amazing summer internship 🚨 AI & Human Systems group includes computational social science & economics along with FATE & sociotechnical alignment: one internship application for all of your favorite NYC & NE researchers! apply.careers.microsoft.com…

Research Intern - AI & Human Systems | Microsoft Careers apply.careers.microsoft.com
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  • The 'AI & Human Systems' group combines Microsoft's former FATE, STAC, Economics and Computation, and Computational Social Science teams under one umbrella.
  • The 12-week doctoral internship pays $6,810-$13,480 per month, rising to $8,920-$14,610 in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Microsoft recommends applying by December 1, 2026; the role requires enrollment in a doctoral program and a minimum of two reference letters.
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As people have predicted, there are quite a few open-source alternatives to Jev, including: - Laya, this was the original according to him: github.com/NandhaKishor... - on Apple Core ML / neural engine: github.com/mizorewww/la... - with Qwen: github.com/jaredpalmer/...

GitHub - mizorewww/laya-coreml: Local Laya typed decisions on Apple Core ML and Neural Engine. Validated ports, ~5 ms short decisions on M3 Max, reproducible speed and energy benchmarks. github.com
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  • An independent Core ML port of the Laya model runs typed decisions at 4.98 ms P50 on Apple's Neural Engine.
  • System energy per decision on ANE is reported 2.78x to 3.19x better than a compiled MLX FP16 baseline on M3 Max.
  • The repo is Apache-2.0 and calls itself an independent port of Laya, not an official Convai Innovations or Apple release.
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social

MSR internship "focused on creating new interactive experiences that 'blend artificial and human intelligence'". Open to current PhD students in Comp. Sci. or a related field.

Research Intern - Extended Perception Interaction Cognition (EPIC) | Microsoft Careers apply.careers.microsoft.com
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  • Microsoft Research's EPIC group is hiring 12-week doctoral research interns at its Redmond lab, with the role posted October 19, 2026.
  • Base pay runs USD $6,810 to $13,480 per month, rising to $8,920 to $14,610 for interns placed in the San Francisco Bay area or New York City.
  • The spec targets PhDs with 1+ years of HCI research plus hands-on skill across LLMs, Vision Language Models, Stable Diffusion, TypeScript, Node.js and React.
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As people have predicted, there are quite a few open-source alternatives to Jev, including: - Laya, this was the original according to him: github.com/NandhaKishor... - on Apple Core ML / neural engine: github.com/mizorewww/la... - with Qwen: github.com/jaredpalmer/...

github.com
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Many test-time-compute papers show why this is hard. In an extreme version, just appending "Wait" whenever the model tried to stop raised the benchmark. Often, just forcing more reasoning does work: arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393

s1: Simple test-time scaling arxiv.org
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Meta Muse, which is pretty well made, may be the beginning of the next-gen AI agent for the masses, but of course with potential privacy/surveillance nightmares.

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"A lecture is the process whereby the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either." I think this may apply to lots of "LLM wiki" usage.

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I'm suspecting a major fault line in AI discourse may hinge upon where one stands on Searle’s Chinese Room argument.

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