Looking back, one of my main disappointment in LLM/AI research is seeing the non-commercial space shrinking, becoming more conservative, fragmented and less cooperative

The Drain of Scientific Publishing

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.04820

Friends, who is doing good work/research on the impact of AI on women's employment and careers? Do you know? Please share if so!!

Gentle request that @altmetric.com and @linkedin.com resume contact to be able to track academic LinkedIn activity on AltMetric.

More and more scientific discourse is happening on BlueSky (tracked) and LinkedIn (not tracked).

@linkedin.com let AltMetric use your API and include you! NOW!

Google has now admitted that they will tap into users' personal data within Gmail and Drive in order for their upcoming AI search to "be more helpful".

For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really?

1/5 🧵

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.

Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.

Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

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@inriaparisnlp.bsky.social brought you CamemBERT, and we now bring you Gaperon (for non-cheese connoisseurs, it’s a cheese that’s flavoured with pepper and garlic 🧀 ).

If Sam Altman claimed something about a past event — say, a date or a historical episode — would you take his word for it, or would you double-check the facts elsewhere? Then why take him at his word when he talks about things that haven’t happened yet?

"Ethical due diligence should become as routine as financial due diligence. Before asking how large a technology might become, we should ask what kind of behaviour it incentivises, what dependencies it creates, and who it leaves behind." #AIEthics

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The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

This is a big part of why so many data centre sites are just flat-out straight-up building their own brand new fossil fuelled power stations right next to the data centre

Rapport de l'#IGESR de cette année sur les heures d'enseignement à l'université. #ESR

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Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...

La Commission européenne prévoit d’affaiblir le RGPD au profit des entreprises d’IA

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France Universités exprime sa vive inquiétude après l’annulation d’un colloque scientifique au Collège de France.
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#LibertéAcadémique