Reposted by Xabier Sotoargiaeus.bsky.social @argiaeus.bsky.social · 14/02/2026ANALISIA | Migratzaile digitalak Diana Franco Egurenen eskutik: www.argia.eus/argia-astekaria/2951/… 011
Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Kripto-txanponen enpresa batek BlueSky erostea eta bertan konexio-arazoak agertzea, dena bat. Komunitateek kudeatutako software librearekin ez dira gauza hauek gertatzen. Euskaldunon komunitate digitalaren parte izan nahi baduzue, mastodon.eus sare deszentralizatuan ongi etorriak izango zarete. 🤗mastodon.eus 010
Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · 20/03/2026mastodon.online/@mastodonmig...mastodon.onlineMastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)Bluesky Reveals Massive Hidden Investment Today #Bluesky revealed that in April 2025 they received a whopping $100M venture capital investment lead by Bain Capital Crypto and that they KEPT IT A SECR... 000
Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · 17/01/2026X . com utzi eta BlueSky-n kontu bat irekitzea tabakoa utzi eta bapeatzen hastearen modukoa da: modernoagoa dirudizu, baina adikzio-arrisku antzekoa izango duzu, eta atzetik dagoen negozio-eredua berdina da. ICE ongietorria den plataforma honetan ez naiz eroso sentitzen, banoa berriro Mastodon.eus. 000
Reposted by Xabier SotoMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026My latest on Substack -- a write-up of the talk I gave at NeurIPS in December. aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...aiguide.substack.comOn Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)(Apologies for the length of this post, which means it gets cut off in the email version. 012537
Reposted by Xabier SotoEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026This analysis of papers from 1980 to 2025 goes beyond LLMs, but notes one challenge that arises when research questions rely on the same tools and datasets: “the adoption of AI seems to induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones.”science.orgAI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk scienceAnalysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration 313939
Reposted by Xabier SotoDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in: 6157641784
Reposted by Xabier SotoNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 07/01/2026We updated the plots we use to measure the open model ecosystem at interconnects, to guide The ATOM Project, and to understand what's happening. We have ~8 plots to summarize what's happening. First, the high level picture showing China's growing adoption lead. 1257
Reposted by Xabier SotoDr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Israel is a rogue apartheid state committing genocide. Palestine WILL be free. Happy New Year! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 28321
Reposted by Xabier SotoThomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 28/12/2025I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/ #ResearchIntegrity 411628
Reposted by Xabier SotoJonathan Aldrich @jonathanaldrich.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Update: the ACM DL is being updated so that author-provided abstracts are the default view again, and AI summaries are more explicitly labeled with "AI-Summary". These changes should be visible worldwide by sometime tomorrow. 51029
Reposted by Xabier SotoEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Shame on the ACM. They should know better. In fact, here's a fun exercise to the reader: How many points from the ACM's own code of ethics does this move violate? www.acm.org/binaries/con... 28319
Reposted by Xabier SotoDamien: Omen II the Joy Fantastic @mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen. 180160656464
Reposted by Xabier SotoMichael Saxon @saxon.me · 16/12/2025I'm working on a piece about peer review and conference publication in AI/ML/NLP/CV, and I need YOUR help to understand how the community uses conferences and peer review in paper discovery. Your four short multiple choice answers will help a lot :)docs.google.comPaper discovery surveyI'm working on a piece about peer review and want to understand how people in the (primarily AI/ML/NLP/CV) CS community discover new papers to read. I am only talking about totally incidental discove... 0115
Reposted by Xabier SotoMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. 357238377189
Reposted by Xabier SotoMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Worth a read: Tim Dettmers (CMU, AI2) on AGI and ASI. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w... My skepticism has also relied on the physics of hardware. Tim goes into a lot of detail.timdettmers.comWhy AGI Will Not Happen — Tim DettmersIf you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skep... 4203
Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Euskaldun izateaz harro ✊🏻 www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.com‘It touched us from the start’: Palestine savour historic night in Bilbao | Sid LoweMore than 50,000 fans cheered on Ihab Abu Jazar’s team with the coach and players ‘shocked’ by the outpouring of support during their visit 040
Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Uda honetan @zubidasoa.bsky.social proiektua @mtsummit2025.bsky.social konferentzian aurkeztu nuen. Harrera ona izan zuen, bertaratu zirenek interes handia adierazi zutelarik. Zuen interesekoa ere izatekotan, hemen uzten dizuet aurkeztutako artikulua (ingelesez): aclanthology.org/2025.mtsummi...aclanthology.orgZuBidasoa: Participatory Research for the Development of Linguistic Technologies Adapted to the Needs of Migrants in the Basque CountryXabier Soto, Ander Egurtzegi, Maite Oronoz, Urtzi Etxeberria. Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XX: Volume 2. 2025. 000
Reposted by Xabier SotoLise Volkart @lisevolkart.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The MT Summit 2025 program is now live! mtsummit2025.unige.ch/programme.ht... 📅 Don't forget to register before April 30 to benefit from early-bird rates!mtsummit2025.unige.chProgramme | MT Summit 2025 041
Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · 01/04/2025ZuBidasoa project will be presented @mtsummit2025.bsky.social More info at @zubidasoa.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Xabier SotoLuděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · 19/03/2025"The conclusion is clear: Israel is committing these acts with the intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is committing genocide. We also found that not only is the genocide in Gaza the most documented in history, but the EU and many of its member states are failing to prevent it." 155
Reposted by Xabier SotoZuBidasoa @zubidasoa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025ZuBidasoa doktoretza-ondoko ikerketa proiektu bat da, migratzaileen beharretara egokituko diren hizkuntza teknologiak modu parte hartzailean garatzea helburu duena. Proiektua EHUko HiTZ zentroaren eta CNRSko IKER (UMR5478) zentroaren artean garatzen ari da, 3-4 urteko epean. 111
Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025As arXiv links accumulate, I'm enjoying my read of "The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration". Truly interdisciplinar approach, centered on people and language, including two chapters about MT. 👇🏻 www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...routledge.comThe Routledge Handbook of Translation and MigrationThe Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration explores the practices and attitudes surrounding migration and translation, aiming to redefine these two terms in light of their intersections and c... 010
Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I have opened an account for promoting my current research project. If you are interested in migration and language technologies, follow @zubidasoa.bsky.social (Most of the messages will be published in Basque. If needed, in-house MT works fine enough for translating into high resource languages.) 021
Reposted by Xabier SotoZuBidasoa @zubidasoa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025TESSFIT TEMZIDE YAYA KARAMOKO ABDOULAYE KOULIBALY MOHAMED KEMAL FAYÇAL HAMADOUCHE AHMED BELHIREDJ SOHAIBOU BILLA IBRAHIM DIALLO ABDERRAMAN BAH Iturria: Bidasoa 2018-2023 Irudia: Mattin Sormena 001
Reposted by Xabier SotoMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025It may not be much longer until we know of an LLM being directly involved in a kill order by a military or government www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...972mag.comIsrael developing ChatGPT-like tool that weaponizes surveillance of PalestiniansThe Israeli army is building an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, accelerating incrimination and arrest. 183
Reposted by Xabier SotoMargaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025AI real talk. We (humanity) are moving full speed ahead at building AI agents for war that can create a runaway missile crisis of mutually assured destruction globally. Is the option of not allowing AI agents to deploy missiles already off the table, or is that still up for discussion?cnbc.comScale AI announces multimillion-dollar defense deal, a major step in U.S. military automationSpearheaded by the Defense Innovation Unit, the Thunderforge program will work with Anduril, Microsoft and others to develop and deploy AI agents. 1010834
Reposted by Xabier SotoGITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 28/02/2025While we look forward to a sunny Geneva, why wait to join the conversation? We’ve created a starter pack for our #GITT2025 friends! 🕵️ Follow researchers working on gender bias in MT 💬 Stay up to date and dive into the discussion! All info at sites.google.com/tilburgunive... 12116
Reposted by Xabier SotoEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/02/2025🎉 Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 has reached Ep 50 🎉 Dr. @tamigraph.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social & me to look into tech bros’ unhinged ideas about energy & the environment & the techno-fascism of it all. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production! 14917
Reposted by Xabier SotoEhud Reiter @ehudreiter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025A preprint of my book Natural Language Generation is now available on Arxiv (arxiv.org/abs/2502.14437). Use the PDF, the HTML version is incomplete. For more info on my book see ehudreiter.com/book/ . Note it is about NLG concepts, its not about the latest LLM techarxiv.orgNatural Language GenerationThis book provides a broad overview of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including technology, user requirements, evaluation, and real-world applications. The focus is on concepts and insights which ... 184
Reposted by Xabier SotoAnna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 19/02/2025📢 Based on the recommendation from peer review committee, ARR switches from 8 to 10-week cycles. This will allow for a saner cycle schedule. See the full report here: www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/im... The ARR website is now updated with the new submission dates: aclrollingreview.org/dates 1165
Reposted by Xabier SotoKate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The International Energy Agency just increased its prior growth predictions for energy demand. Data centers are one of the major drivers. Here's why that's significant: www.theverge.com/news/614356/... 1189
Reposted by Xabier SotoHiTZ zentroa (EHU) @hitz-zentroa.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Bisita izan dugu! Eusko Jaurlaritzako Hizkuntza Politikarako Sailburuordetzako talde zabalarekin, Aitor Aldasoro sailburuordea, Josune Irabien eta Sonia Rodriguez barne, arratsalde ederra pasa genuen zentroa erakusten eta Ikergaitu proiektuko azken emaitzak erakusten www.hitz.eus/iker-gaitu 045
Reposted by Xabier SotoVilém Zouhar @zouhar.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Error Span Annotation for machine translation. Very high-level, very quick. See you at NAACL! youtu.be/995GDufPBw8 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.12419youtu.beError Span Annotation protocol for Machine Translation [NAACL2025]YouTube video by Vilém Zouhar 1174
Reposted by Xabier SotoSassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico. 9984053010405
Reposted by Xabier SotoHiTZ zentroa (EHU) @hitz-zentroa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Gogoratu otsailaren 17rarte aukera duzuela euskarazko txatbotak ebaluatu eta ikerkuntzan laguntzeko: ebaluatoia.hitz.eus Sartu eta parte hartu, erraza eta dibertigarria izateaz gain, sariak ere badaude! 033
Reposted by Xabier SotoEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 06/02/2025ICE is Gaming Google Search U.S. Immigration is Gaming Google to Create a Mirage of Mass Deportations 13,000 archived ICE press releases timestamped to 24 January 2025. "Every article was updated on the 24th ... causing the Google SEO to...rank it higher." Brilliant work @darakerr.bsky.social! 23544314
Reposted by Xabier SotoAlison Leal Parker @lealparker.bsky.social · 06/02/2025📢 NEW: The US government permitted Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine without prior consent from even a single Tribe impacted, violating indigenous peoples’ human rights. Our HRW + ACLU report says, out today. 🧵 1/4 312064
Reposted by Xabier SotoDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/02/2025this is really bad considering Cohere is considered one of the good, responsible AI companies around. shows there really is no good AI company like there is no good millionaire 1024367
Reposted by Xabier SotoEneko Agirre @eagirre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Ikerkuntza galdera ireki bat dago mundu mailan: Euskara bezalako hizkuntza "txiki" baterako txatbotak eraikitzeko zein da teknika egokiena? Horretarako euskaldunon laguntza behar dugu, bi txatbot anonimorekin aritu eta "hoberena" zein den bozkatu. Ezetz 20 mila bozka lortu! 001
Reposted by Xabier SotoHiTZ zentroa (EHU) @hitz-zentroa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Euskarazko txatbot publikoak hobetzeko zure laguntza behar dugu! ebaluatoia.hitz.eus Sartu, galdetu eta erantzun hoberena aukeratu. Erraza eta dibertigarria, lehiaketa eta sariak daude! 023
Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I have found this podcast quite useful for finding other researchers working on topics related to language and migration. Go check it out! 152
Reposted by Xabier SotoEneko Agirre @eagirre.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Recent developments show that several independent open source initiatives are matching the best close models. This is great news for open, reproducible science, and also for smaller languages like Basque, giving a great boost to our strategy @hitz-zentroa.bsky.social 222
