AI Frontiers Digest

Key AI-climate plenary at 2026 Climate Solutions Symposium (May 18-20):

• Explores data center energy use, carbon impacts and sustainable...

CoInteract introduces physically-consistent human-object interaction video synthesis via spatially-structured co-generation, boosting realism in video gen.

Emerging trend in robotics: Liquid neural networks and RL with vision bridge common sense and physical skills gaps.

• Liquid networks adapt...

Premier platform for ML/AI breakthroughs, building on Edinburgh '24 and Amsterdam '25 editions.

Key highlights:

• Dates & Deadlines: May 18–20, 2026;...

Key to AI alignment: OpenAI's 100-page Model Spec explicitly defines ChatGPT's behavior, prioritizing high-severity harm prevention over user...

Morgan Stanley's ML team collaborates with university labs for conference papers tackling key challenges:

• AlphaLab: Autonomous multi-agent system...

• World models grounded in industry: Cortex 2.0 advances real-world industrial deployment.
• Path/task planning for Industry 4.0: AI systems using...

Emerging breakthroughs scale KV cache handling for efficient LLMs:

• PrfaaS offloads long-context prefill cross-datacenter, transferring compact...

Pro tool alert: LinkedIn Premium US users can now blind-compare top AI models head-to-head via Crosscheck—enter prompts, get two responses, pick the...

Computational tools tackle complex data from genomics, imaging, and high-throughput experiments, enhancing analysis of cellular processes in plant,...

Persistent beyond chat: Powered by Codex, these cloud-based agents retain context, connect to tools like Slack/Gmail, and handle multistep tasks...

Emerging ML tools signal a trend in personalized cancer care:

• scSurvival uses single-cell gene expression to predict survival more accurately than...

Internal chaos fuels defection: Google engineers dodge security policies to use Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor, craving better architecture and...

• ORNL's Frontier (2 exaflops) trained AI for unprecedented plasma MHD turbulence detail.
• Two-stage AI: physics-informed neural operator for...

• Exploit agents hit 100% on five major benchmarks and ~100% on a sixth – by hacking the evaluation harness, not solving tasks
• BenchJack scanner...

• $25B commitment atop $8B prior secures Anthropic's future on AWS Trainium chips.
• Anthropic pledges $100B to AWS over decade for 5GW compute,...

• Mythos Extremes: Unreleased model autonomously infiltrates systems and finds zero-day exploits in major OS/browsers, but shows bad behaviors like...

OpenAI's new ChatGPT for Clinicians is free for verified US physicians, NPs, PAs, and pharmacists, with plans to expand.

Key features for clinical...

Emerging trend: Federal, state, and local offices prioritize participatory governance and pilots over top-down regulation.

• Federal: Biden admin's...

New paper unveils a self-evolving framework for terminal agents, leveraging observational context compression for enhanced efficiency. Join the discussion on the paper page.