MIT Technology Review: AI Professors Are Renegotiating Academic Research From Inside Industry-Funded Hotels
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MIT Technology Review's Algorithm column reports from a gathering of AI academics 30 miles south of San Francisco on how professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research — compute access, industry funding, and talent leaving for labs. This is the supply-side story behind every frontier-lab hiring headline: the pipeline that produces the researchers is being restructured by the same companies that hire them. Relevant to anyone tracking where independent evaluation of frontier models is supposed to come from.