A Brown University economics professor, Roberto Serrano, suspects widespread AI cheating in his ECON 1170 class after 86 students enrolled following a switch to take-home exams, with an average midter…
Researchers at Goodfire, Harvard, Stanford, and Brown introduced Block-Sparse Featurizers (BSF), a method that decomposes neural network activations into multidimensional subspaces instead of single d…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano uncovered what he calls the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history after 40 of 86 students scored a perfect 100 on a take-home exam, while the sam…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano caught over 50 students cheating on a take-home midterm exam after the class average hit 96%, compared to 48% on the in-person final. Serrano offer…
Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University found that students scored an average of 96 on a take-home midterm but only 48 on an in-person final, revealing that AI contributed more to the assessment…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal involving at least 50 students in his advanced mathematical economics course, ECON 1170, who used artifici…
A Brown University professor reported 40 of 86 students scoring 100% on a take-home exam, calling it mass AI fraud. Fabric's analysis of 19,368 technical interviews found 38.5% of candidates used AI t…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal in his ECON 1170 class, with at least 50 students using AI to cheat on a midterm exam. Serrano says the university a…
Besimple AI (YC P25), a startup building data and benchmark infrastructure for voice AI, is hiring a Strategic Projects Lead — Audio Data. The role involves owning complex audio data projects end-to-e…
An Associated Press feature profiles a wave of startups and researchers shifting focus from language models to 'world models' that learn physical space and interaction. Computer scientist Louis Castri…
Researchers at Brown University propose a human-in-the-loop approach to formal specification generation using LLMs, introducing PICK to help programmers select correct formal specifications from multi…
A brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by UC Davis, Brown University, and Mass General Brigham enabled a man with ALS to communicate independently at home for nearly two years, achieving 99% word …
Robotics remains a pre-paradigm field lacking a grand unified theory, despite decades of competing frameworks like subsumption architecture, neural networks, and POMDPs. Researchers and companies incl…
A Brown University study of 110 therapy sessions found that improved prompting did not resolve core ethical violations in LLMs acting as mental health counselors, a result replicated two months later …
According to Walmart CFO John David Rainey, shoppers are now purchasing less than 10 gallons of gas per visit for the first time since 2022, which he described as "an indication of stress" among lower…