Richard Sutton's 2019 essay 'The Bitter Lesson' argues that in artificial intelligence, general approaches that scale with computational power outperform domain-specific methods in the long run, as ex…
Mind Lab, founded in October 2025 by Andrew Chen, released Macaron-V1 on July 21, achieving state-of-the-art results in six of 12 benchmarks, with the flagship Venti model post-trained on GLM-5.2 usin…
Martin Casado's question about whether AI harnesses matter is answered by distinguishing two halves: the HOW half rots as models improve, supporting the belief that less harness is better, while the W…
A curated index of over 30 legally free AI/ML textbooks, including foundational works by Goodfellow, Sutton & Barto, Murphy, Bishop, and Jurafsky & Martin, has been compiled on GitHub. The repository,…
Anthropic, valued at over $1 trillion CAD, announced a $10 million investment in Canadian research through Claude credits, prompting criticism from Vass Bednar of the Canadian Shield Institute and tec…
Reinforcement learning pioneer and Turing Award winner Richard Sutton has founded a new AI research lab called Oak Lab with colleague Khurram Javed, leaving Keen Technologies to focus on real-time exp…
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton and co-founder Khurram Javed left John Carmack's Keen Technologies to launch Oak Lab, a Canadian AI startup building continuously learning agents based on Sutton's O…
Richard Sutton, co-winner of the 2024 Turing Award for founding modern reinforcement learning, announced Monday he is leaving John Carmack's startup Keen Technologies to launch his own AI startup, Oak…
Richard Sutton, the 2024 Turing Award winner and reinforcement learning pioneer, has launched Oak Lab in Toronto to develop AI agents capable of continuous learning, challenging current deep learning …
Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto to build AI agents that learn continuously from their env…
Richard Sutton has broken away from Keen Technologies to co-found Oak Lab with Khurram Javed, pursuing a different path toward understanding intelligence through reinforcement learning and fundamental…
Alberta is investing $50 million into the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) over five years, announced by Premier Danielle Smith. The funding, drawn from five provincial ministries, aims t…
A new pinnacle AI model release prompts a set of recommended re-runs for prompts that benefit from the smartest models, focusing on goal orientation, bitter lesson optimization, self-model audit, memo…
Markov Biosciences founder Adam Green argues that virtual cell models improve with scale when trained on observational single-cell RNA-seq data using a ranking loss function, outperforming models buil…
A new era of machine intelligence is emerging where artificial agents learn not from human data or solitary practice, but by interacting with each other inside learned world models. Researchers argue …
A group of former researchers from Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta Superintelligence Labs launched a startup called Trajectory on Wednesday, aiming to build a platform that enables AI product…