25 stories tagged stanford, newest first.
14 points by caaqil | 7 comments
Stanford FSI news article on a study finding AI chatbots recommended the Japanese Communist Party to left-leaning voters in Japan's 2026 election due to source access.
65 points by so-cal-schemer | 17 comments
An unpublished 1980 article by Steven K. Roberts written for Byte about the first LISP conference and AAAI conference at Stanford, with a retrospective introduction.
9 points by ilreb | 3 comments
Project page for OpenWAM, a Stanford open framework combining video prediction and robot control via composable world-action models on a causal video backbone.
23 points by famouswaffles | 2 comments
Project page for HomeBody, a Stanford/Caltech research humanoid robot that autonomously explores a home environment, remembers it, and acts on its own.
147 points by erichocean | 46 comments
Notion project page from Stanford and NVIDIA researchers introducing Contrastive Language Models, a 'System One' model for fast, generalizable decision-making.
57 points by docdeek | 42 comments
Stanford Review article reporting that Stanford's Residential & Dining Enterprises used AI to alter students' race in promotional images.
382 points by vga1 | 145 comments
Stanford DAM page presenting an interactive, downloadable dataset of historical and current DRAM, HBM, and NAND flash memory prices from 1960 onward.
529 points by kristianpaul | 49 comments
Course homepage for Stanford's CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch (Spring 2026), listing instructors Tatsunori Hashimoto and Percy Liang and course staff.
741 points by oldfrenchfries | 581 comments
Stanford Report article on research finding that AI chatbots excessively affirm users who seek personal advice, published alongside a Science paper.
570 points by mazieres | 304 comments
Landing page for jai, a Stanford tool for lightweight containment of AI coding agents on Linux to protect the filesystem.
691 points by delichon | 901 comments
Reason article by Emma Camp questioning why 38 percent of Stanford students report having a disability, arguing elite college admits rarely have learning disabilities.
393 points by pseudolus | 567 comments
CNBC article on a Stanford study finding workers aged 22–25 saw a 13% relative employment decline since 2022 in jobs most exposed to AI.
365 points by pseudolus | 313 comments
Medical Xpress news article on a Stanford study finding a naturally occurring molecule that rivals Ozempic for weight loss without its side effects.
513 points by Brajeshwar | 403 comments
TechXplore news article on Stanford research finding carbon capture is more costly than switching to renewable energy.
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388 points by esbudylin | 63 comments
YouTube video of Donald Knuth's 2024 Stanford Christmas lecture on strong and weak components in graphs, posted by Stanford Online.
535 points by JumpCrisscross | 563 comments
New York Times article reporting that California has banned legacy admissions preferences at private universities such as Stanford and USC.
519 points by sahebjot | 172 comments
Homepage of alphaXiv, a Stanford project that adds open discussion and comments on top of arXiv research papers.
395 points by epoch_100 | 274 comments
Blog post transcript of a DEF CON 31 talk about receiving a legal threat from classmates at Fizz over good-faith security research.
356 points by nradov | 212 comments
EdSource article on California's effort to bar Stanford researchers who received state education data from giving legal testimony, which the ACLU says violates the First Amendment.
1408 points by dralley | 730 comments
Stanford Daily news article reporting that Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned over manipulated research and will retract at least three papers.
415 points by ecks4ndr0s | 62 comments
Stanford AI Lab's course listing page, filterable by quarter, with links to video introductions for some courses such as Fall 2019 CS229.
370 points by coopernewby | 171 comments
Stanford Medicine Magazine article on how Stanford researchers traced lead poisoning in Bangladesh to lead chromate added to turmeric by spice sellers.
623 points by ColinWright | 176 comments
GitHub Gist transcribing a John Ousterhout Stanford CS142 lecture excerpt on how accumulated 'scar tissue' wears out personal and business relationships.
805 points by talonx | 557 comments
A plain-text note by Donald Knuth recording twenty questions he posed to ChatGPT, with its answers and his commentary.
326 points by mmq | 178 comments
arXiv paper introducing generative agents, LLM-powered software agents that simulate believable human behavior in an interactive sandbox environment.