AI startup Elorian and Scale AI released the visual intuition reasoning benchmark Humanity's Sixth Sense (HSS), containing 522 questions, 288 images and 234 short videos (17.6 hours of video in total).
The Latent Space podcast interviews Periodic Labs co-founders Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk about their "synthesis superintelligence" vision: building reinforcement learning environments around physical labs where AI agents learn through an end-to-end cycle of predicting, synthesizing and characterizing materials, rather than relying only on internet data.
TechCrunch interviewed Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who, as the company launched AI search this week, argued that AI agents need operating-system-level support, saying iOS, macOS, and Windows are not AI operating systems and that AI should ideally run at the kernel level.