AI Research Dispatch

Updates from labs, pre-print servers, and academic AI research groups.

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Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics

During a summer internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Ivy Mahncke, an undergraduate student of robotics engineering at Olin College of Engineering, took a hands-on approach to testing algorithms for …

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Import AI 438: Silent sirens, flashing for us all

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Import A-Idea An occasional essay series: …

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Import AI 441: My agents are working. Are yours?

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Import A-Idea An occasional essay series: My …

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Learnings from COBOL modernization in the real world

There’s a lot of excitement right now about AI enabling mainframe application modernization. Boards are paying attention. CIOs are getting asked for a plan. AI is a genuine accelerator for COBOL …

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CORPGEN advances AI agents for real work

At a glance Today’s AI agent benchmarks test one task at a time, while real workplace productivity requires managing dozens of interdependent tasks at once. To reflect this, we created a setting …

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New method could increase LLM training efficiency

Reasoning large language models (LLMs) are designed to solve complex problems by breaking them down into a series of smaller steps. These powerful models are particularly good at challenging tasks …

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Mamba Explained

The State Space Model taking on Transformers Right now, AI is eating the world. And by AI, I mean Transformers. Practically all the big breakthroughs in AI over the last few years are due to …