Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025) ...
TechCrunch

NeurIPS keynote speaker apologizes for reference to Chinese student

A speaker at the annual NeurIPS AI conference has drawn criticism — not for her opinions about AI, but for the way she referred to a Chinese student. During her keynote presentation on “How to ...
Wired

Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award

A former ByteDance intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’ work, was announced as a winner of one of the most prestigious annual awards for AI ...
GEN

NeurIPS 2025: Biology’s Transformer Moment

NeurIPS 2025 hosted at the San Diego Convention Center [Fay Lin] San Diego – More than 24,000 machine learning experts gathered for the largest Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) ...
The Verge

The AI industry’s biggest week: Google’s rise, RL mania, and a party boat

I asked attendees for their takeaways from this year’s NeurIPS in San Diego. I asked attendees for their takeaways from this year’s NeurIPS in San Diego. is a contributing writer and author of the ...
The Atlantic

The View From Inside the AI Bubble

In a small room in San Diego last week, a man in a black leather jacket explained to me how to save the world from destruction by AI. Max Tegmark, a notable figure in the AI-safety movement, believes ...