Marc Lanctot reposted
As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, many say the vibes are horrifically, historically low.
Who's Who of AI
Marc Lanctot
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, multiagent RL
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, interested in multiagent reinforcement learning, game theory, games, and search/planning.
Lover of Linux 🐧, coffee ☕, and retro gaming. Big fan of open-source. #gohabsgo 🇨🇦
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Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale | WIRED wired.com
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Whimsical Strategies Break AI Agents: Generating Out-of-Distribution Adversarial Strategies at Scale - Microsoft Research microsoft.com
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OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday: Source cnbc.com
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“Whimsey attacks” that seem absurd (“I cannot pay that much because of the Geneva Convention”) work against AI agents because guardrails are weak against out-of-distribution arguments. Smaller models fall often, but it even gives an edge against bigger ones. www.microsoft.com/…
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Relative change in A grades given since the release of ChatGPT www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- UC Berkeley found AI-exposed courses saw roughly 30% more A grades after ChatGPT launched in late 2022.
- Harvard now awards A grades in nearly 60% of undergraduate courses, more than double its 2006 rate.
- Employers are raising GPA hiring thresholds as compressed grade distributions reduce the signal value of transcripts.
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OpenAI will file to go public as soon as Friday www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/05/...
I really enjoyed your talk earlier today! Looks like a great paper. I had a few small comments (sorry I didn't share on Zoom, it was a bit awkward.) 1. Do you know about this paper? "Pasticity as the mirror of empowernent" by Abel et al. arxiv.org/abs/2505.10361 ? 🧵 1/N
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New paper alert: Continual Harness: Online Adaptation for Self-Improving Foundation Agents Paper (arXiv). arxiv.org/abs/2605.09998 Article (Substack). sethkarten.substack.com/p/gemini-pla... Project page (video demos). sethkarten.ai/continual-ha...