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I watched the Beneficial AGI Summit & Unconference 2025 online. This post collects some personal impressions.

Microsoft Research Asia has introduced VASA-1, a groundbreaking framework for generating lifelike talking faces with appealing visual affective skills (VAS) given a single static image and a speech audio clip.

AI that rewrites its own soul: Darwin Gödel Machine evolves code through natural selection, doubling performance while exposing dangerous objective hacking risks.

Seventy-five years after Turing’s "Imitation Game," a new Nature commentary claims the quest for general intelligence is officially over.

Existential dread and kale smoothies: Professor Begelaw’s satirical interview exposes the absurdity of the West's AI panic while real-world crises rage on.

Join us for a peek at HypreRing's NFC ring with CEO Joy Zhang. Explore its unique security features intertwined with wearable, payment, and healthcare technologies.

Explore how merging Graph Machine Learning with Large Language Models creates Graph Foundation Models, enhancing our ability to analyze interconnected data for advanced applications in various domains.

How did LSD become an art form? Erik Davis and Mark McCloud trace the strange evolution of blotter acid from psychedelic tool to collectible visual medium.

Researchers show that even tiny VAR Transformers can learn any image transformation—revealing how simplicity in design may hold the key to limitless visual AI potential.

Shatter the sorting barrier: New hybrid algorithm reimagines network navigation, slashing computation time for real-time routing in traffic, internet, and beyond. Efficiency redefined.