my side project budgets are basically $0, so the new gemini flex pricing in AI.dev is actually saving my life ๐
50% discount if you don't need instant responses! perfect for background agents, batch jobs, or evals while you sleep or go watch robot cage fights
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New paper: โ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒโ
Agent-based models of social order work better when agents act by predictive pattern completion from prefix (culture/context) to suffix (action) than when they act through expected value maximization
To anyone encountering Moltbook this week and wondering about AI personhood, consciousness, sentience, etc---we published a very relevant paper in October: A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26396
๐จ ๐ฌ PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France ๐ซ๐ท
We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit.
These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Heads up! ๐จ Mark your calendar for next week! ๐จ
More games to be released on the @kaggle.com Game Arena!!! ๐๐
See how foundations models perform at poker โฃ๏ธโฅ๏ธโ ๏ธโฆ๏ธ and werewolf ๐ซ๐บ!! And more Chess results too! ๐ง โ๏ธ
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Or anywhere else. Just a wishful thinking because it would liberate so many families, save careers, less cars on the road hopefully better for our environments, etc...
@waymo.bsky.social Waymoโs biggest missed opportunity is not being the official chauffeur for everyone under 16. Safe, tracked, and never gets tired of "Golden" on repeat. Letโs make it happen. Waymo Junior.
opendoor, opentable, openai, what else are we going to open?
๐ Join the Gemini 3 global hackathon for early API access to build next-gen apps! Weโve got $100k in prizes + funding opportunities for the best builds.
If you've yearned to start a passion project or to kick the tires on an idea for a company, there's never been a better time.
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If you're are an HCI student navigating the industry job market, hereโs my unsolicited take on why you should stop defending 'human-centeredness'. Iโm rarely right. Read at your own risk: minsukchang.com/blog/2026-01...
This site became too political and not enough research convo. The other site is also very political but it has waaaaay more research convo.
People wanted our Open Source Organizations starter pack to include many projects, so we decided to give them their own starter pack.
go.bsky.app/HvKFRKa
Recently went to Goodwill for a ceramic planter. Left with Michelle Obama's autobiography for $2 instead (there were three of them???) Still looking for the planter...
Hey hey. We just have a very aggressive regularization parameter to prevent overfitting to any single roster. We prioritize generalization, as we all should!
We're optimizing the same reward function, but your learning rate is way higher ๐
All this just to remind the timeline that Eintracht Frankfurt is the greatest football club on earth. I will die on this hill. ๐ฆ โ๏ธ #SGE
In the month of December, Seattle (where I live now) gets 52.9 hrs of sunlight on average, London (where my employer is) gets 52 hrs, Frankfurt (where I grew up) gets 41. Seoul gets 152.6 hrs, more than all three put together.
Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!
Okay people. I've achieved Nobel Trajectory on this Tenure-track game (tenuretrack.vercel.app/game2d.html) Kangwook (kangwooklee.com) made. This is going into my faculty application if I ever apply.
Gentle reminder for the RL folks out there:
RLC 2026 โ Montreal ๐จ๐ฆ (Aug 16โ19)
Abstract: Mar 1 | Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) | rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
Looking forward to receiving your submission!
I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...
Trying this place again.
My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally.
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
Come be our colleague in the robotics and embodied intelligence center at NYU!
๐ท Professor in Robotics / Embodied AI (Open Rank)
apply.interfolio.com/176977
๐ท Faculty Fellow in Robotics / Embodied AI
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Physical Intelligence has a recipe for real world RL on top of VLAs and it looks impressive: www.pi.website/blog/pistar06
clarification: I won't be able to reply to all your emails (thanks for sending those!). But I will try my best in making sure your application is seen by our recruiters.
re: non-us based candidates - tbh I don't know, but I assume yes.
I'm hiring a student researcher for next summer at the intersection of MARL x LLM. If you're a phd student with experience in MARL algorithm research, please apply and drop me an email so that I know you've applied! www.google.com/about/career...
Hundreds of hours of European driving data from NVIDIA! 1700 hours total
