AI Rewards Generalists Who Can Build New Skills: With AI assistance, full-stack engineers are joined by full-stack recruiters, full-cycle marketers, and more.
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AI Rewards Generalists Who Can Build New Skills: With AI assistance, full-stack engineers are joined by full-stack recruiters, full-cycle marketers, and more.

As AI increasingly automates coding, it frees up developers to spend time on high-level software development tasks traditionally reserved for senior engineers, like deciding on technical architecture and participating in scoping product requirements.

July 17, 20262 min read
AI Degrees on the Rise: Inside U.S. universities' programs in artificial intelligence, from majors to minors and in-between
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AI Degrees on the Rise: Inside U.S. universities' programs in artificial intelligence, from majors to minors and in-between

Universities in the U.S. are rapidly rolling out undergraduate majors, minors, and specializations in artificial intelligence to meet the growing demand for AI expertise.

June 26, 20263 min read
RSI Is the New AGI: What Is recursive self-improvement, and why Is everybody talking about it?
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RSI Is the New AGI: What Is recursive self-improvement, and why Is everybody talking about it?

The phrase recursive self-improvement erupted on social media following an Anthropic report that tracked AI-driven gains in the company’s internal software-engineering productivity.

June 12, 20264 min read
Toward Agent Benchmarks That Reflect Human Work: AI agents may not be getting better at full range of economically valuable labor
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Toward Agent Benchmarks That Reflect Human Work: AI agents may not be getting better at full range of economically valuable labor

AI agents seem to be increasingly capable of performing economically valuable tasks, but current benchmarks measure this capability only narrowly.

May 22, 20263 min read
AI at Work, Quantified: Gallup poll shows AI boosts productivity, but many workers haven't tried it
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AI at Work, Quantified: Gallup poll shows AI boosts productivity, but many workers haven't tried it

Half of workers in the United States used AI at work at least a few times last year, a sign of steadily rising AI adoption in U.S. workplaces.

May 8, 20262 min read
Assistants That Assist Consistently: Large language models can drift drift from helpful personas to harmful ones, but new research aims to stabilize them
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Assistants That Assist Consistently: Large language models can drift drift from helpful personas to harmful ones, but new research aims to stabilize them

Typically, large language models are trained to act as helpful, harmless, honest assistants. However, during long or emotionally charged conversations, traits can emerge that are less beneficial. Researchers devised a way to steady the assistant personas of LLMs.

April 24, 20263 min read
That Feeling Of Job Insecurity (And What You Can Do About It): In times of economic and technological uncertainty, build on things that tend to remain stable. Community and skills are likely to weather shifts in business and society.
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That Feeling Of Job Insecurity (And What You Can Do About It): In times of economic and technological uncertainty, build on things that tend to remain stable. Community and skills are likely to weather shifts in business and society.

I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity.

March 20, 20263 min read
Meta Moves to Buy Agent Tech: Meta strikes a deal to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based agentic AI startup with Chinese origins
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Meta Moves to Buy Agent Tech: Meta strikes a deal to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based agentic AI startup with Chinese origins

A high-profile acquisition could enable Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to offer built-in agents that do users’ bidding.

January 16, 20262 min read
Education That Works With — Not Against — AI by Juan M. Lavista Ferres: Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, on assignments that properly test students’ abilities
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Education That Works With — Not Against — AI by Juan M. Lavista Ferres: Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, on assignments that properly test students’ abilities

A little more than three years ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and education changed forever. For students, the ability to generate fluent, credible text on demand in seconds is an incredible new tool.

January 2, 20262 min read
Big AI Lures Talent With Huge Pay: Meta’s hiring spree raised compensation for top AI engineers and executives
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Big AI Lures Talent With Huge Pay: Meta’s hiring spree raised compensation for top AI engineers and executives

Leading AI companies fought a ferocious war for talent, luring top talent from competitors with levels of compensation more commonly associated with pro sports.

December 26, 20252 min read
How to Gain New Skills and Sharpen Old Ones: Give yourself a gift this holiday season by taking courses, building projects, and (maybe) reading papers.
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How to Gain New Skills and Sharpen Old Ones: Give yourself a gift this holiday season by taking courses, building projects, and (maybe) reading papers.

Another year of rapid AI advances has created more opportunities than ever for anyone — including those just entering the field — to build software.

December 26, 20252 min read
Don't Believe The Hype!: AGI is not just around the corner. People who enter AI today have huge opportunities to contribute to the field.
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Don't Believe The Hype!: AGI is not just around the corner. People who enter AI today have huge opportunities to contribute to the field.

I recently received an email titled “An 18-year-old’s dilemma: Too late to contribute to AI?” Its author, who gave me permission to share this, is preparing for college.

November 12, 20253 min read
OpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partners
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OpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partners

OpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.

November 5, 20253 min read
Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro
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Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro

With exclusive courses, tools, and community, DeepLearning.AI Pro is a universal passport to learn every AI skill that matters.

October 31, 20251 min read
LoRA Adapters On Tap: Text-to-LoRA generates task-specific LoRA adapters directly from natural language descriptions
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LoRA Adapters On Tap: Text-to-LoRA generates task-specific LoRA adapters directly from natural language descriptions

The approach known as LoRA streamlines fine-tuning by training a small adapter that modifies a pretrained model’s weights at inference. Researchers built a model that generates such adapters directly.

October 8, 20252 min read

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