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Model collapse – by Tom Stafford – Reasonable People
If you train a complex model on its own output, you get a phenomenon which has been termed model collapse - over successive iterations the model focuses more and more on the most common or typical patterns. Measures of performance may even show improvement initially,...
Can A.I. Generate New Ideas? – The New York Times
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own. Go to Source
Shubham Saboo on X: “Context is the new Moat ” / X
Everyone has access to the same models today. You're using Claude Opus 4.5. So is your competitor. You're using GPT-5.2. So is the startup that launched last week. You're using Gemini 3 Pro. So is everyone else building AI products. The models are commoditizing....
Is AI’s war on busywork a creativity killer? What the experts say | ZDNET
Tech companies are promising to automate mundane, time-consuming tasks. But these are often the gateway to moments of spontaneous inspiration. Go to Source
The ServiceNow Vulnerability Reveals Why Enterprise AI Is a Security Time Bomb – DEV Community
ServiceNow just patched a vulnerability that should terrify every CISO. Not because it was particularly sophisticated,it wasn't. Not because it exploited some cutting-edge AI weakness,it didn't. What makes CVE-2025-12420 terrifying is how it reveals a fundamental...
Investing in brain capital: Five levers for change | McKinsey
Discover why investing in brain capital matters. This McKinsey report outlines five key levers and a shared roadmap for stakeholders to drive change. The rise of artificial intelligence highlights how investment in “brain capital” (brain health and brain skills) can...
NVIDIA and Lilly Announce Co-Innovation AI Lab to Reinvent – PharmaLive
The lab brings together Lilly’s world-leading expertise in discovering, developing and manufacturing medicines with NVIDIA’s leadership in AI, accelerated computing and AI infrastructure. The two companies will invest up to $1 billion in talent, infrastructure and...
How Daimler Trucks North America built a living knowledge graph of its business
Combining Neo4j with Claude, MCP, and network monitoring has given the truck giant real-time visibility into how its systems, data, and processes interconnect Go to Source
The SLM Supercycle: Where the Next Trillion in AI Value Will Be Created.
This week, we examine why the future of AI is smaller, smarter, and more specialized and what this seismic shift means for investors, executives, and founders navigating the 2026 landscape Go to Source
AI may not need massive training data after all | ScienceDaily
New research shows that AI doesn’t need endless training data to start acting more like a human brain. When researchers redesigned AI systems to better resemble biological brains, some models produced brain-like activity without any training at all. This challenges...
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