GPT-5 says 'I don't know'. Love this, thank you.

Upcoming event at Ashoka University

THE NEW YORK TIMES PAYWALLED THE MINI CROSSWORD

Fabulous timings in the India Mini Slack leaderboard today. NYT Mini may be behind a paywall, but you can play the India Mini for free. Join our fun community to compare your solving times and unlock the weekly themes. indiamini.in

September 1st, the traditional day for Europeans to circle back to their emails

Call for Storytellers, Dastangos, spinners of yarns & shahs of blah. Alt Carbon is hiring someone who likes to read & write to join our Climate Studio to own Content across platforms, and work closely with Adithya Venkatesan & myself. If you're interested, write to

I am a big supporter of engineering students in India being taught humanities and social sciences, and especially in IITs. If there is anywhere in the world where future engineers need to be sensitised to the world outside the four walls, it is in India, which is an artefact of

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Lattice and FHE broken? In 2024, Yilei Chen claimed that lattice-based cryptography was broken. eprint.iacr.org/2024/555 However, there was a bug in the attack, and the claim did not hold. This new paper by Yifan Zhang claims to fix that error. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12341 Let's

This means a busy weekend for some cryptographers

Matrix multiplication is now a multi-trillion dollar business.

The dumbest person you know is currently being told “You're absolutely right!” by ChatGPT

In 5 years, traditional DSA will be known as Deterministic AI.

Did you know the InfoView in #LeanLang's #VSCode extension updates in real-time as you write proofs? Click on any part of your code to see the current proof state, goals, and hypotheses at that exact point. Learn more about the Lean VS Code extension: github.com/leanprover/vsc…

Calling all teachers! Are you and your students curious about the 2025 Nobel Prizes? On 15 October we'll be publishing free and easy-to-use Nobel Prize lessons about this year's prizes. The lessons include a slideshow with a speaker’s manuscript, a text for pupils, a short

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

Physical Intelligence is the next OpenAI. Mark my words.

💡 Should you do a PhD in AI (2025–26)? 🎓 🔗: yashbhalgat.github.io/blog/phd-or-no… Every October, students considering PhD applications ask me: is a PhD still the right path in AI? ⚖️ ⚠️ After a few years moving between academia (University of Oxford's Visual Geometry Group (VGG)) and industry (Qualcomm Research & Technologies,

Who called him a senior developer and not mahadev?

Absolutely brilliant title! amazon.science/publications/l…