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As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, many say the vibes are horrifically, historically low.
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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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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ 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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Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative arxiv.org
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Google DeepMind and partners announce multi-agent safety research funding call. — Google DeepMind deepmind.google
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OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday: Source cnbc.com
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In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale. www.wired.com/story/andrew...
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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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Happy to announce our latest paper! We argue that a solipsistic superintelligence is unlikely to be cooperative. "Solipsism" in the development process can give rise to self undermining in deployment. So, is humanity now building solipsistic or non-solipsistic AI? arxiv.org/ab…
GDM, @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, @coop-ai.bsky.social, @aria-research.bsky.social, and Google announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent saftey research! Amazing, such an important research area. 🤩 Check it out 👇 Deadline for applications: August 8th, 2026. deepmind.google…
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Relative change in A grades given since the release of ChatGPT www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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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...
Canada is talking about introducing a bill that restricts social media for kids under 16. I am about halfway through The Chaos Machine, which consistently has me in awe 😲 (the problems are way more serious than I thought) so this is maybe not such a bad idea... www.cbc.ca/news…
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These days you're not a serious AI startup unless you're using "in-" as a prefix for your name: - Inflection - Ineffable - Inherent Let's look for a few more!
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