Because being a geek is a good thing

The NSF allocated $83 million to a data backbone for AI-powered science, a quieter but technically concrete announcement next to the Genesis Mission’s $5 billion. The investment aims to give unified access to scientific datasets for training and validating models reproducibly.

A historian at the University of California, Santa Cruz used Claude Code to build the Book Prize Index, a free database of 6,500 nonfiction books that won or were finalists for major English-language prizes. The tool uses semantic search to replicate the experience of browsing a well-curated library shelf, as a direct response to the flood of generic AI-generated content.

Gigatoken is a Rust tokenizer that reaches 24.53 GB/s in benchmarks, up to 989 times faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers. It supports more than 15 model families, from Llama to DeepSeek, and installs with a simple pip install.

A public ChatGPT thread exploring a possible counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture put one of algebra’s longest-standing open problems back in the spotlight. We cover what the conjecture states, what’s actually been proven, and how to verify it yourself with Python.

The White House launched Genesis Mission, an investment of over $5 billion to apply artificial intelligence to science within the Department of Energy. Microsoft has already committed $60 million as an infrastructure partner.