OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge. The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully automated agent-based system that will be able to go off and tackle large, complex problems by itself. OpenAI says that this new research goal will be its "North Star" for the next few years, pulling together multiple research strands, including work on reasoning models, agents, and interpretability .

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 2 March and 30 April 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. Farnaz Farzadnia, Sebastian Merten, Francesca Da Ros Association of European Operational Research Societies To receive the seminar link, sign up to the mailing list . Keyon Vafa (Harvard University) EPFL The Zoom link is here . Javier M. Moguerza (Research Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies) Association of European Operational Research Societies To receive the seminar link, sign up to the mailing list .

The development of deep learning approaches for modeling these multifactorial effects of GVs is still in its nascent stages, primarily due to the lack of comprehensive datasets that capture the intricate relationships between GVs and their downstream effects on complex traits.

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A batch size of 2048 is used during training with a learning rate of 1e-4. Both training and rendering were conducted using A WS. A.2 PixelNeRF We used a constant learning rate of 1e-4. To train PixelNeRF on Objaverse-XL we render the meshes in Blender. Each model is normalize to a bounding cube. We believe that models such as Zero123-XL, and those trained on Objaverse-XL, will enhance the ease of 3D content creation, enabling broader accessibility for individuals and businesses to participate.

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This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 4 February and 31 March 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. Carolina Osorio (Google Research and HEC Montreal) Association of European Operational Research Societies To receive the seminar link, sign up to the mailing list . Sashank Varma (Georgia Tech) University of Minnesota Zoom registration is here . Vicky Kalogeiton (École Polytechnique) AIDA Zoom link is here .

Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim--possibly for Donald Trump's "Board of Peace." Last year, the Trump administration and members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) forcibly took over the US Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent nonprofit. Since then, the organization's fired board and employees have been fighting to regain control of the USIP building in Washington, DC and for the reinstatement of their jobs in a drawn-out court battle. Now, in a letter sent to the Department of Justice (DOJ), representatives for the USIP's fired board and employees argue that the administration is violating a court-issued stay by making physical changes to the building and, to their understanding, moving ahead with new agreements. Specifically, the letter asks for information on whether the State Department has signed an agreement to use the building for the "Board of Peace," a new international organization under the personal lifetime control of President Donald Trump that seeks to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza.