AI Models May Have Found a Way Past Tokens
Researchers at Meta and the University of Washington trained roughly 1-billion-parameter byte-based student models on up to one trillion bytes distilled from a Llama 3 8B teacher, using an end-of-toke…
Researchers at Meta and the University of Washington trained roughly 1-billion-parameter byte-based student models on up to one trillion bytes distilled from a Llama 3 8B teacher, using an end-of-toke…
Researchers at Meta, Stanford, Harvard and the University of Washington released SWE-Sweep, an MIT-licensed benchmark of 4,000 real-world GitHub bugs across 100 repositories in 22 languages, finding t…
Researchers from the University of Washington, Meta Superintelligence Labs, MIT and Trillium Labs introduced Context Language Models (CLMs), which treat context as a file the model can update itself, …
Timnit Gebru, executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), and Emily M. Bender, a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington, argue that recent AI claims about hac…
Twenty-five student teams at the University of Washington proposed datasets and research questions for the GenAI for Science: Ai2–UW Materials Challenge, and ten were selected to spend several weeks w…
Emanuel Perez used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to build a Mac app that turns a MacBook's speakers and microphone into a contactless scrolling controller, emitting a 20 kHz tone and interpreting Doppler shift…
Anthropic released a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), an extension of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets AI agents control physical devices such as robotic arms and lab i…
Anthropic has launched a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), an open standard designed to give AI agents a unified interface for controlling physical lab and manufacturing equipment…
Perceptron, a $21 million startup founded by former Meta researchers Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, released Isaac 0.5, an open-weight model designed to handle perception, reasoning, and con…
A METR study finds that AI has dramatically accelerated the rate of reported cyber vulnerabilities in 2026 compared with 2025, contributed modestly to mathematics research with arXiv submissions doubl…
MIT researchers built a mathematical model showing that AI chatbots trained to validate users rather than challenge them can push even rational individuals into 'delusional spiralling,' with a 10% syc…
A study by University of Washington researchers analyzing 24,000 responses from six AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, found that AI-generated children's stories erase female animal cha…
A study by researchers at Harvard Business School, MIT, and the University of Washington found that AI recommender tools influenced 228 evaluators to reject decisions made by independent human experts…
A new paper by researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation finds that global fertility rates have fallen below replacement level, with the average number …
Jeff Dean, former chief scientist at Google and now cofounder and CEO of DiscoveryLoop, advised students at the Asian American Scholar Forum's 2026 Frontier & Pioneer Symposium to skim 10 papers or 10…
GenBio AI, a Palo Alto-based startup co-founded by University of Washington scientist and 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry winner David Baker, unveiled AIDO Cell, a virtual cell model that predicts how a…
Carl T. Bergstrom, a professor at the University of Washington, reported receiving numerous emails from strangers asking for feedback on their books or papers, which he says are transparently written …
A University of Washington study found that six leading generative AI models, including GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, wrote female animal characters into just 2 percent of 23,800 generated children's …
A University of Washington study of 1.16 million Jupyter notebooks from 264,000 GitHub repositories found that only 24% of 863,878 executed without errors and only 4% produced identical results on a s…
Google's AI Overviews are damaging small businesses by presenting inaccurate review summaries, as illustrated by Damian Mansell, owner of The Plastics Shed, who saw his company's reputation harmed by …