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A gentle reminder that TMLR is a great journal that allows you to submit your papers when they are ready rather than rushing to meet conference deadlines. The review process is fast, there are no artificial acceptance rates, and you have more space to present your ideas in the

A model trained with a frequentist objective using i.i.d. observational train and validation data is almost surely converging to the non-causal model of the underlying data generating process. That is because using short cuts/spurious correlations leads to a lower loss than not,

The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Patrick Schwab Beautifully succinct statement of the core problem with the blind application of statistical learning in AI!!

Environmental impacts of Mistral AI LLMs We have conducted a first-of-its-kind comprehensive study to quantify the environmental impacts of our LLMs. With this study, we are not only addressing our own impacts but also hope to contribute to a global environmental standard for

Twitter was (and could have been) so much better. It's such a bummer.

Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) Thomas G. Dietterich To support authors who may experience difficulties obtaining Canadian visas, #IJCAI2025 hosts a satellite event in Guangzhou, China, from August 29 to August 31, 2025.

Fascinating blog post on being the India correspondent for The Economist

I'm observing a mini Moravec's paradox within robotics: gymnastics that are difficult for humans are much easier for robots than "unsexy" tasks like cooking, cleaning, and assembling. It leads to a cognitive dissonance for people outside the field, "so, robots can parkour &

boundary conditions are the fine line between a stable solution and an existential crisis

A great way to seamlessly improve a paper is to delete all occurrences of "seamlessly"

Israel starves civilians in Gaza partly on the basis that Hamas steals food from UN distributions. But the The New York Times reports that the Israeli military concluded, on the contrary, that Hamas has NOT systematically diverted UN food shipments. nytimes.com/2025/07/26/wor…

💥One of the most painful interviews I've ever conducted, with ex Green Beret Anthony Aguilar, a former Gaza Humanitarian Foundation security chief, on the UnXeptable platform. Shattering. You can see the entire thing here: youtu.be/wmxBUpyb2oI.

A very sobering read. Even in the age of live streaming, we underestimate the tragedy of warfare

Ex-Alibaba CTO just made the boldest claim about AI & global power: “China is building the future of AI, not Silicon Valley.” He also revealed why AI by 2030 will look nothing like ChatGPT and how China’s approach is already decades ahead. Here are my top 7 takeaways: 🧵

July has been a truly incredible month for model releases from China - Moonshot (Kimi K2), Z.ai (GLM-4.5) and 5 new releases from Qwen I think it's undeniable that the best available open weight models now come from the Chinese AI labs

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There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing. In the startup world, we know momentum

The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau. For a full statement opposing this move, read: friendsofbls.org/updates/2025/8…

Glimmer of hope: the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services Subcommittee just voted, 26 to 3, to reject the administration’s proposed cuts and instead recommend a $400 million increase to the NIH budget. The House LHHS Subcommittee convenes in September appropriations.senate.gov/news/minority/…