AI research agents can propose far more experiments than they can afford to run. Meta FAIR, Oxford and UCL introduce AI Research Preference Models —…
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Amazon Sets Final Closure of Mechanical Turk, Its Crowdsourcing Marketplace
Amazon has posted a closure notice on the official Mechanical Turk site confirming that its crowdsourcing marketplace will permanently close on September…
OpenAI Hits Goal of Building an ‘Automated Research Intern
OpenAI said on September 6, 2026 that, according to its measurements, it has reached the goal it announced last fall of fielding an “automated research…
An Alien Mind
Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international…
Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete “unfinished business.”
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
Rork Review: My Content Tracker Idea Became a Real App
Plenty of people these days have the same idea sitting in their Notes app: a mobile app they’re sure would take off, if only they could actually build it.…
Chatbots built an “echo chamber of one” and now psychiatry has to decide if “AI psychosis” exists
Researchers at King’s College London and other institutions are examining whether “AI-associated psychosis” should become a clinical diagnosis. By…
Google’s WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data
Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and learns directly from real-time…
OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months
OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company’s “biggest competitive advantage” while it wasn’t publicly available. Internal use boosted…