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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital

Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/03/2026

One other note from today's newsletter: I'm worried about over-use of LLMs in software engineering. If people aren't reading (or are barely reading) code they ship, "writing code fast" becomes a liability. It also can stop you from learning to solve problems. www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-s...

I also want to be clear that I am extremely nervous about how many people appear to be fine with not reading code. I am currently (very slowly) learning Python, and every new thing I learn reinforces my overwhelming anxiety that there is a lot of software being written today by people who don’t read the output from LLMs and, in some cases, may not have understood it if they did. While I’m not saying all or even many software engineers might do this, I am alarmed by the idea that it’s becoming more commonplace — and even more alarmed that the reaction appears to be “ah it’s fine who gives a shit, it works.”

Guess what! It doesn’t always work. Amazon Web Services had multiple recent outages caused by use of its Kiro AI coding tool, and while it insists that AI isn’t to blame, it also convened an internal meeting to discuss this specific issue, and The Financial Times reported that Amazon now requires junior and mid-level engineers to get sign off on AI-assisted changes to code. However you may feel about Amazon as a service, its engineers are likely indicative of corporate engineering on some level, which is making me wonder if we’re not going to have some real problems in software development in the next few years as a result.

What does the software industry look like if nobody is actually reading their code? How many software engineers are comfortable doing this? I’m sure somebody will read this and get terribly offended, but to be clear, I’m not accusing you of copy-pasting code you can’t understand and being happy if it works unless that’s exactly what you’re doing.

To be explicit, allowing LLM to write all of your code means that you are no longer developing code, nor are you learning how to develop code, nor are you going to become a better software engineer as a result.

This isn’t even an insult or hyperbole. If you are just a person looking at code, you are only as good as the code the model makes, and as Mo Bitar recently discussed, these models are built to galvanize you, glaze you, and tell you that you’re remarkable as you barely glance at globs of overwritten code that, even if it functions, eventually grows to a whole built with no intention or purpose other than what the model generated from your prompt.

I’m sure there are software engineers using these models ethically, who read all the code, who have complete industry over it and use it like a glorified autocomplete. I’m also sure that there are some that are just asking it to do stuff, glancing at the code and shipping it. It’s impossible to measure how many of each camp there are, but hearing Spotify’s CEO say that its top developers are basically not writing code anymore makes me deeply worried, because this shit isn’t replacing software engineering at all — it’s mindlessly removing friction and putting the burden of “good” or “right” on a user that it’s intentionally gassing up.

Ultimately, this entire era is a test of a person’s ability to understand and appreciate friction.

Friction can be a very good thing. When I don’t understand something, I make an effort to do so, and the moment it clicks is magical. In the last three years I’ve had to teach myself a great deal about finance, accountancy, and the greater technology industry, and there have been so many moments where I’ve walked away from the page frustrated, stewed in self-doubt that I’d never understand something.

I also have the luxury of time, and sadly, many software engineers face increasingly-deranged deadlines set by bosses that don’t understand a single fucking thing, let alone what LLMs are capable of or what responsible software engineering is. The push from above to use these models because they can “write code faster than a human” is a disastrous conflation of “fast” and “good,” all because of…

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Definitely the first State of the Union where the president talked about the military killing unarmed fishermen as a laugh line

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20/02/2026

Premium Newsletter: The Hater's Guide To Anthropic, an inefficient, bloated AI ab that loses billions of dollars, deceives developers, burns as much as $8-$13 for every dollar of Claude Code revenue, and needs $283 billion to survive the next 4 years. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...

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Premium: The Hater's Guide to Anthropic

In May 2021, Dario Amodei and a crew of other former OpenAI researchers formed Anthropic and dedicated themselves to building the single-most-annoying Large Language Model company of all time. Pardo...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*

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tante @tante.cc · 19/02/2026

So don't feel like you cannot be a luddite if you like technology, like working on it. Caring about your fellow human beings' wellbeing and not some corporations bottom line makes you one. Believing that tech needs to be evaluated on what effects it has and that we have a choice makes you one.

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Glen Jackson @glenjackson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

THEY CANCELLED IT: A crowd of protesters breaks out in cheers after a planned data center in New Brunswick, NJ was cancelled amid widespread public outrage. Don't let big tech pollute our communities! Now do #Pennsylvania

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Raw America (@rawstory)

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This (about the 'new' Grammarly AI toolset) is absolutely terrifying, not because the tool is good, but because it is an easy, all-in-one, way to avoid thinking any thoughts or doing any work at all *and 3000 universities say its OK to use*. www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...

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Grammarly Revisited - Carleton College

A close look at Grammarly's new AI tools

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by
@micarosenberg
et al for ProPublica:

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Can’t believe we are still doing this

Screenshot from The Onion reading; “Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition of Concentration Camp Sign of Healthy Society.”

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Phillip Kieval and I have a new commentary on Binz et al.'s Centaur model and its role in discovering a new theory of human cognition: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/08/2025

Premium newsletter: My 14.5k word piece, "AI Bubble 2027" - extrapolations of what may happen in the next 18 months, conditions that might accelerate a collapse, and how OpenAI and Anthropic overstate user numbers and revenues while hiding their awful burnrates. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-bubble-20...

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AI Bubble 2027

Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer An MIT study found that 95% of organizations are getting "zero return" from generative AI, seemingly every major outlet is now writing ...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/06/2025

There’s no bigger state sponsor of terror than the United States, and no bigger bully in the Middle East than Israel.

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon @jlmelenchon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Merci à HasanAbi, premier streamer politique des États-Unis, pour son accueil et cet échange passionnant ! Nous avons besoin d’une autre voix des Etats-Unis. 👉 twitch.tv/videos/24553...

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

they made up a bunch of shit about jeremy corbyn being hitler 2 so they could have this guy instead

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/03/2025

Statement from Drop Site News on Israel’s Murder of Our Colleague Hossam Shabat: We Hold Both Israel and the U.S. Government Responsible 🔗 Read here: www.dropsitenews.com/p/statement-...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/03/2025

BREAKING | The Israeli army has assassinated journalist Hossam Shabat, 24-year-old reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and contributor to @dropsitenews.com , in an airstrike targeting his vehicle in northern Gaza.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/03/2025

Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat aje.io/ylcl1j

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This morning, the Israeli military deliberately targeted and killed beloved Palestinian journalists Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk's politics, because his identity is rooted in being an underdog fighting against the real power, but as the world's wealthiest person, who is deeply politically connected, he needs a definition of elite not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I got incredibly star struck and incoherent once because I realised Sandra Harding was in the same room as me at a conference, she was hugely influential on so many people

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham: "The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/02/2025

These are, to put it mildly, absolutely insane numbers to charge developers for GPT 4.5, a model with no real featureset difference I can see other than Sam Altman saying it's "more conversational" where Sam is already saying it won't benchmark well! WASHED!

GPT-4.5
Largest GPT model designed for creative tasks and agentic planning, currently available in a research preview. | 128k context length
Price
Input:
$75.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input:
$37.50 / 1M tokens
Output:
$150.00 / 1M tokens

GPT-4.5 is ready!
good news: it is the first model that feels like talking to a thoughtful person to me. i have had several moments where i've sat back in my chair and been astonished at getting actually good advice from an Al.
bad news: it is a giant, expensive model. we really wanted to launch it to plus and pro at the same time, but we've been growing a lot and are out of GPUs. we will add tens of thousands of GPUs next week and roll it out to the plus tier then. (hundreds of thousands coming soon, and i'm pretty sure y'all will use every one we can rack up.)
this isn't how we want to operate, but it's hard to perfectly predict growth surges that lead to GPU shortages.
a heads up: this isn't a reasoning model and won't crush benchmarks. it's a different kind of intelligence and there's a magic to it i haven't felt before. really excited for people to try it!

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Reporte Indigo @reporteindigo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

#Presidencia | “¡Ahora el pueblo!”, fue la reflexión compartida por la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum y el político francés Jean-Luc Mélenchon tras reunirse de manera privada, así lo informó la mandataria en sus redes sociales.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Who Is the Anonymous Data Expert Telling Elon Which Cuts to Make?

Conservatives cite her account to spread misinformation about federal agencies. DataRepublican has worked at a tech firm that’s battled the CFPB.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Time to tap the sign: At present, there's no known way to stop generative AI from producing output that is false, wrong, mistaken, untrue, erroneous, incorrect, "hallucinatory," etc etc. You can't fix this by pointing to any particular source material. Bummer, I know. But that's the truth.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/02/2025

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

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The Generative AI Con

It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights". Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased. ai.google/responsibili...

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AI Principles – Google AI - Google AI

A guiding framework for our responsible development and use of AI, alongside transparency and accountability in our AI development process.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Please read this and pass it on: Aaron is a Harvard educated lawyer, community organizer and bookstore owner in Buffalo.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic" www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

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Day Five of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Not “Read Only” access anymore

If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

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Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/11/2024

Israel has killed three World Central Kitchen aid workers and at least two others in an air attack on Gaza's Khan Younis, in the third deadly attack on the aid group this year.

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Israel kills three World Central Kitchen aid workers as it pounds Gaza

US-based food charity says it is pausing operations in Gaza after Israeli air attack hits vehicle carrying its workers.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/11/2024

The amount of violence Zionism requires and has required in order to exist … the lives taken every day. The memories and cultural artifacts destroyed. The way it seems so mundane for so many people to accept this. This isn’t a blip or just Bibi. This is the whole thing. This is all it can ever be.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

What AI futures might have emerged from this astonishing past? Evgeny Morozov recounts the history of the Environmental Ecology Lab,a precursor to the MIT Media Lab, and the zany hippie scholars who centred human curiosity, affect, and play as the starting point for machine design. archive.is/uZoVY

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/11/2024

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/

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Oscar @oscarw.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm sad to (yet again) miss #PSA24, but this time I will be there in spirit: @philgoretrout (Phillip Hintikka Kieval) will give a talk based on joint work, on Friday at 3:45pm in the AI as method session. A draft of the paper can be found here: philpapers.org/rec/KIEDLA

Title slide of presentation for the Philosophy of Science Association Conference.

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Phillip Hintikka Kieval @philgoretrout.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

On my way to #PSA2024! Looking forward to seeing many friends both old and new in NOLA! #PhilSci

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Phillip Hintikka Kieval @philgoretrout.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Zionism's blood-and-soil nationalism has always been hostile to diaspora Jews like myself. "Jews have always been safer in societies that are cosmopolitan and democratic, when nationalism gives way to pluralism, and when Jews build alliances with other people facing marginalization and oppression."

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The Antisemitism of Zionism – Spectre Journal

Shane Burley argues that Zionism has a long history of entrenching antisemitism and serves as a reactionary, radical sectionalist mode of politics that spells disaster for both Jews and humanity more ...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/10/2024

Expanding on this, Mark Zuckerberg started his "tech wiz" trajectory with a networked hot-or-not app for Harvard stufents to rate the appearance of female students. The use of misogyny as a predictor for other right-wing views is well-known and should have been WAY more of a red flag to more people.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2024

The headline here is bad but what this really documents is the fascist shift in valley politics, and insular bubble that you have to live in if you want to be considered as a founder in the industry these days.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/11/2023

Dear New Yorker, NYT, CNN, WaPo, &c: stop interviewing Sam Altman & Geoffrey Hinton, & start interviewing Timnit Gebru, Meredith Whittaker, Emily Bender, Chris Gilliard, Rua Williams, Ruha Benjamin, Margaret Mitchell, Abeba Birhane, Alex Hanna, Kendra Albert, Jonathan Flowers, Robin Zebrowski, Damie

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/08/2024

Taylorism is a management philosophy based on using scientific optimization to maximize labor productivity and economic efficiency. Here's the result of making the false Taylorist assumption that the output of scientific research is scientific papers—the more, faster, and cheaper, the better.

The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated
Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
Chris Lu1,2,*, Cong Lu3,4,*, Robert Tjarko Lange1,*, Jakob Foerster2,, Jeff Clune3,4,5, and David Ha1,
*Equal Contribution, 1Sakana AI, 2FLAIR, University of Oxford, 3University of British Columbia, 4Vector Institute, 5Canada CIFAR
AI Chair, Equal Advising
One of the grand challenges of artificial general intelligence is developing agents capable of conducting
scientific research and discovering new knowledge. While frontier models have already been used as aids
to human scientists, e.g. for brainstorming ideas, writing code, or prediction tasks, they still conduct
only a small part of the scientific process. This paper presents the first comprehensive framework for
fully automatic scientific discovery, enabling frontier large language models (LLMs) to perform research
independently and communicate their findings. We introduce The AI Scientist, which generates
novel research ideas, writes code....

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