P Sam Sahil

Visiting Undergraduate Research Fellow @Harvard University

[P Sam Sahil @sam8393239]

Great work by our team must check!

[Natalie Shapira @NatalieShapira]

In this amazing multidisciplinary collaboration, we report our early experience with the @openclaw

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[alphaXiv @askalphaxiv]

As believers of open research, we are disappointed to see Anthropic silently degrading Fable 5 for AI development

"Any topic related to building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design... may have limited effectiveness through Claude via methods such as prompt modification, steering vectors, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning."

Not only do they get to decide what you use LLMs for in research, but this also enables them to silently intervene in your research without you knowing.

This sets a dangerous precedent. If a model refuses openly, users can understand the boundary. If a model falls back to another model, users can still evaluate the difference. But if a model silently modifies or weakens its own answers while still pretending to help, researchers lose the ability to know whether a failed result came from their own idea, their implementation, or an invisible intervention by the model provider.

That is not safety. Safety policies should be transparent, auditable, and user-visible.

On top of that, the people most harmed by this are not the largest labs with massive teams and proprietary infrastructure. It is the independent researchers, academic groups, startups, and open-source builders who rely on public tools to compete, innovate, and pioneer AI for everyone else.

[IIT Kanpur @IITKanpur]

🔐 Introducing B.Cyber. at IIT Kanpur — a first-of-its-kind undergraduate program designed to create future cybersecurity leaders.

From rigorous academic foundations to real-world cybersecurity challenges, the program offers a unique pathway to build expertise in protecting critical digital systems.

Admission to the program will be based on a special selection process involving shortlisting through JEE Main performance and demonstrated prior work in cybersecurity, followed by a test that includes a hackathon.

🎥 Watch @Director_IITK, Prof. @agrawalmanindra share the vision behind this new initiative.

@EduMinOfIndia | @wadhwanif | @IndiaDST | @HubC3i | @ugc_india | @AICTE_INDIA | #IITKanpur #BCyber #Cybersecurity #FutureOfTechnology #IITK

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Major difference in my mind:
- an engineer, given a problem, invents and tries multiple solutions and stops when the solution is good enough. The goal is product innovation and shipping.
- a scientist asks new questions, proposes various new solutions, compares them (sometimes with old ones), and writes about it. The methodology must be sound or else peers will sneer. The goal is scientific breakthroughs and technological progress.

Both can be called "researchers". Many people can do both: these are activities, not identities.

Importantly, most product innovations are built on scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations that happened 2, 5, 10, or 20 years earlier.

[François Fleuret @francoisfleuret]

IMO a researcher studies a problem that may not be solvable, while an engineer solves a problem that is considered solvable.

[Colossal Biosciences® @colossal]

BREAKTHROUGH: Colossal scientists hatched healthy chicks from artificial eggs.

No shells. No hens. Just bioengineered eggs that breathe like the real thing.

This could help bring back giant extinct birds like the South Island giant moa, whose eggs were ~80x a chicken’s. (1/10)

[Lucas Bunzel @LBunzel]

"Beyond autoregressive: why diffusion is the future of language models"

@StefanoErmon's keynote at @startupgrind yesterday. Fully packed Fox Theatre.

Mercury 2 is hitting >1,000 tok/sec on standard GPUs at a fraction of the cost, comparable quality to frontier speed-optimized models. Diffusion. Parallel token generation.

His closing line: the question isn't which model is smartest, it's which model is most efficient, without sacrificing quality, on the highest-volume tasks.

When agents make 50 LLM calls per task, latency is the product. @_inception_ai

[hinata @HinataMotivates]

Jensen Huang gets into a heated argument over selling chips to China.

[P Sam Sahil @sam8393239]

@m_heilb @m_heilb are bachelor 4 yr eligible to apply ?

[P Sam Sahil @sam8393239]

@FazlBarez HI @FazlBarez , Just mailed you do Kindly check it. Thanks

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

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[joseph francis @joefrancis505]

None of this guy's stuff has been peer reviewed. Loser.

[ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY @adgpi]

Seeking Solutions for Technological Challenges

The Indian Army had released the Compendium of Technological Challenges (#CTC 2025) on 23 September 2025, outlining 41 futuristic challenges across domains such as Unmanned Systems, AI, Quantum Technologies and Directed Energy Weapons. The index of the compendium is available on the Army Design Bureau (ADB) webpage.

Interested agencies may request detailed information by emailing [email protected] to obtain the relevant sections of the compendium.

The last date to request details is 20 April 2026, and solutions may be submitted by 31 May 2026.

Further updates are available on the ADB webpage.

[机器之心 JIQIZHIXIN @jiqizhixin]

Breaking: Academic freedom no more.

The NeurIPS Foundation has announced it will no longer accept submissions from US-sanctioned institutions.

[Natalie Shapira @NatalieShapira]

Agents of Chaos in @ScienceMagazine

https://t.co/10lPTrL0dx

Quoting researchers including David Bau @davidbau Yonatan Belinkov @boknilev Michael Cohen @AI_Safety Peter Steinberger @steipete and me

Feature by Jeffrey Brainard @JeffreyBrainard @NewsfromScience @ScienceInsider

[Joaquin Barroso @joaquinbarroso]

I'm so mad. Once again, got a paper accepted, but Ref2 wants me to add 4 references all having a single author in common, whereas Ref1 suggests 6 with another common author!
This unethical behavior should be stopped by the editors.
Should I say who those authors are? Thoughts?

[P Sam Sahil @sam8393239]

@iarthsingh @redteamhacker @KellinPelrine

[Anne Lauscher (she/her) @anne_lauscher]

📢 Join our team in Hamburg!
The Trustworthy AI lab 🤝 is looking for a Research Associate for a novel DFG-funded project on ethical LLM-based multi-agent systems. 🤖 Full-time | EGR. 13 TV-L | Apply by 8 April 2026
🔗 https://t.co/GZPIvuXh9s
#TrustworthyAI #LLM #AcademicJobs

[P Sam Sahil @sam8393239]

By 2030, AI code generation will advance significantly, supported by strong verification systems.
Till Then Use AI Assisted coding not Vibe Coding

[Kr$na @krishdotdev]

> Strong engineers build C.
> C builds the foundations.
> Foundations create leverage.
> Leverage creates comfort.
> Comfort creates Python.
> Python creates AI.
> AI creates vibe coding.
> Vibe coding creates weak engineers.
> Weak engineers create collapse.
> Collapse creates strong engineers.

[Kingsley W @SmokelessWord]

New episode is out now!

This week I had the privilege of sitting down with @BorisJohnson - former London Mayor, UK Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister.

An hour of total candour - on power, crisis, and what he'd do differently.

Watch now: https://t.co/2HznpiIr1L

[Gabriele Sarti @gsarti_]

tired: meta omni-translation to 1600 low-resource languages
wired: kagi translate english to mechinterp