2025 Turing award given for quantum information science(awards.acm.org)

114 points by srvmshr 7 months ago | 26 comments

ACM Software System Award Given to seL4 Microkernel(awards.acm.org)

203 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 53 comments

ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk(binnenlandsbestuur.nl)

570 points by vincvinc 11 months ago | 182 comments

Dutch news article reporting that the International Criminal Court is replacing Microsoft 365 with openDesk, a European open-source office suite.

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award(awards.acm.org)

485 points by camlinke 1 year ago | 101 comments

ACM announcement naming Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton recipients of the 2024 A.M. Turing Award for foundational work in reinforcement learning.

Don't believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable(ru.nl)

46 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 49 comments

Turing Award Honors Bennett and Brassard for Quantum Information Science(amturing.acm.org)

59 points by throw0101d 7 months ago | 0 comments

ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades(news.cornell.edu)

509 points by JohnHammersley 3 years ago | 136 comments

Cornell Chronicle article announcing that arXiv received over $10 million from the Simons Foundation and NSF to fund upgrades.

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award(awards.acm.org)

485 points by camlinke 1 year ago | 101 comments

ACM announcement naming Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton recipients of the 2024 A.M. Turing Award for foundational work in reinforcement learning.

ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit(blog.arxiv.org)

292 points by JohnHammersley 1 month ago | 38 comments

arXiv blog post announcing $17.2 million in multiyear philanthropic commitments from Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and Siegel Family Endowment to support its launch as an independent nonprofit.

Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge(torrentfreak.com)

357 points by gslin 3 years ago | 42 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that the EFF will give Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan an award for providing access to scientific knowledge.

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup(qazinform.com)

361 points by Bolat14 4 months ago | 368 comments

Kazinform news article reporting that Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in valuation after a new funding round, approaching $1 trillion.

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents(interconnects.ai)

344 points by vantareed 4 months ago | 197 comments

Nathan Lambert's Interconnects post arguing that the GLM-5.2 model marks a capability threshold for open-weight agentic AI.