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Established AI research Analysis 5d ago
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neural networks already clean essay

Neural Networks Are Already Clean

11 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing research & technical analysis.
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Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Quite a claim in this new work from Goodfire. Among many points, they argue that some of the main examples of superposition and polysemanticity in large models were misunderstood. This definitely deserves some deep, rigorous peer review. already-clean.goodf…”

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Ryan Moulton: Haven't read this yet, but I'm posting it because it seems important and I want to. already-clean.goodfire.com
Ryan Moulton: Claim, as they say.
Ryan Moulton: @norvid-studies.bsky.social some sparkling fresh juicy claims for you.
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Developing Culture, work & education Development 2d ago
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AI used to remove smart TV ads tracking

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again | TechCrunch

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Finally a good use case for AI techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/p...”

“👀 "People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again" #weekendproject techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/p...”

Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago
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In the Garden of Forking Paths: Mapping and Making Sense of Storytelling at Scale

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“I'll be at Berkeley today, giving a talk at noon for the Cultural Analytics Series in the the School of Information! I'll be speaking about storytelling, AI, pretraining data, and user-chatbot behavior.”

Established Safety & security Research 5d ago
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mechanistic topic models SAE paper

Model Directions, Not Words: Mechanistic Topic Models Using Sparse Autoencoders

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Maria Antoniak: aclanthology.org/2026.tacl-1....
Maria Antoniak: babe wake up, new results just dropped, lda is still great
Ted Underwood: babe wake up, new results just dropped, lda is still great
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Established AI research Resource 3d ago
Colorado assistant professor positions posted

​Assistant Professor​

4 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“The University of Colorado Boulder is hiring in AI + Math, through the Department of Mathematics. "mathematical foundations of AI, formalization and automated reasoning, advancement of AI for mathematical research, and AI safety" jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobD…”

“U. Colorado Boulder Mathematics is hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions: 1 open area jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... due Nov 15 1 at the interface of AI + math jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... due Nov 11 Please help spread the word! #MathSky #Ac…”

Established Policy & governance Research 20d ago
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AI token worth scaling laws paper

How Much Is an AI Token Worth? Scaling Laws for Wild AI-Generated Web Text

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“We release WildAI: 83B tokens with AI, topic and format labels, plus all 800 models and code. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2609.40295 💻 github.com/pangramlabs... Joint work with Ben Glickenhaus, @kthai1618.bsky.social, John Wieting, @miyyer.bsky.social, @max.pangram.com…”

“Jenna Russell, Ben Glickenhaus, Katherine Thai, John Wieting, Mohit Iyyer, Max Spero, Bradley Emi How Much Is an AI Token Worth? Scaling Laws for Wild AI-Generated Web Text https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40295”

Established AI field signal Development 7d ago
Schmidt Sciences AI humanities research grant

Schmidt Sciences awards $10 million to one of the world’s largest AI and humanities research programs - Schmidt Sciences

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“At @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the 2026 HAVI open call awardees! Congratulations to all the PIs on your fantastic work, bridging digital humanities & AI. www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2026-an...”

Developing Models & releases Release 2d ago
Google Gemma 4 open models release

Google Gemma 4 Open Models - Gemma Documentation

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“We launched a new home for Gemma developer docs at https://gemma.ai 📚💎 Includes a global model selector that adapts code snippets across sizes, one-click Markdown export on every page for local coding agents, and live on-device WebGPU demos in the browser.”

Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
NeurIPS 2026 journal track announced

Announcing the NeurIPS 2026 Journal Track – NeurIPS Blog

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“All will be presented across our conference locations in Sydney, Atlanta, and Paris this December at the main conference event, alongside the Main Track, and Evaluations & Datasets Track. You can find the full list of accepted papers in our blog post: buff.…”

Developing AI research Resource 2d ago
Interfolio academic faculty job posting

Apply - Interfolio

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“apply.interfolio.com/195460 new post-doc at Princeton: AI as a "cultural technology" — its role across arts & humanities & knowledge infrastructures, AI's societal effects on creative & cultural industries (literature, music, film, visual arts). Looking hum…”

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Meredith Martin: apply.interfolio.com/195460 new post-doc at Princeton: AI as a "cultural technology" — its role across arts & humanities & knowledge infrastructures, AI's societal effects on creative & cultural in…
Maria Antoniak: apply.interfolio.com/195460 new post-doc at Princeton: AI as a "cultural technology" — its role across arts & humanities & knowledge infrastructures, AI's societal effects on creative & cultural in…
David Smith: This looks great! Do you have any more advice for foreign graduate students? “These positions are not eligible for sponsorship of an H-1B visa requiring consular processing; other visa sponsorships…
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Established AI business Release 19d ago
Trillium Labs AI company launch

Introducing Trillium Labs

5 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next. blog.trill…”

5 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Nathan Lambert: Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacki…
Nathan Lambert: At Trillium Labs, the recipes will be the slow nutrients for the seasons and the model releases will be the blooms. Building an institution dedicated to this is needed because, much as nature’s tri…
Nathan Lambert: Trilliums are wildflowers that bloom briefly in the spring, before the forest canopies fill out. Though they are small, they lay the foundation for the cycles of growth and nourishment through the …
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Established AI field signal Resource 20d ago
NAACL 2027 student research workshop call

NAACL 2027 Student Research Workshop

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“📣 Call for Papers for the Student Research Workshop at NAACL 2027 Deadline: Jan. 11, 2027 This is a forum for student-led completed work or work in progress. It features archival and non-archival tracks. See the website for more info: naacl27-srw.github.io”

Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago

ssrn.com

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“A propos of another literary prize scandal, here is our paper looking at popular art and generative AI in terms of media theory in relation to market incentives. @kabirahuja2431.bsky.social @jivatneet.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...”

Established AI research Resource 20d ago
University Sydney AI tenure positions

Multiple Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

“We are hiring at Sydney! All areas covered, but I think it would be particularly good to hire more people in NLP :) usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...”

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9 experts · 12 posts · 17d ago
David Pfau: An academic collaborator just told me his students aren't using LLMs because he can't afford even the low tier monthly subscription for everyone. I'm not sure the folks making $Xm/yr at frontier la…
ae: An academic collaborator just told me his students aren't using LLMs because he can't afford even the low tier monthly subscription for everyone. I'm not sure the folks making $Xm/yr at frontier la…
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4 experts · 8 posts · 13d ago
Maria Antoniak: This talk by @himself.bsky.social was wonderful. Models mechanize, map, + remix the "house of intellect", connecting together previously disconnected hallways of knowledge. LLMs are not stochastic …
David Smith: This talk by @himself.bsky.social was wonderful. Models mechanize, map, + remix the "house of intellect", connecting together previously disconnected hallways of knowledge. LLMs are not stochastic …
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4 experts · 5 posts · 18d ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Maria Antoniak: Maybe worth saying aloud that I do worry about safety risks (hacking, bio, an “out of control” agent). I just also see those risks as deeply entangled with money, politics, personalities, regulatio…
Ted Underwood: Maybe worth saying aloud that I do worry about safety risks (hacking, bio, an “out of control” agent). I just also see those risks as deeply entangled with money, politics, personalities, regulatio…
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