Prerna Juneja

📢After a long painful wait, excited to share I’ve been awarded NSF CRII on understanding the dynamics of conversations with AI companion apps. Feeling encouraged the panel rated my proposal highly competitive! So grateful given how rough funding has been lately🎉#NSF #AI

Taylor Swift’s record contract could lead to millions of dollars being paid to artists as UMG prepares to sell half of their equity stake in Spotify. When Swift signed her contract in 2018, she negotiated a clause stating that any sale of UMG’s Spotify shares would result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable. Her “non-recoupable” clause ensures that artists receive that money even if they still owe advances to the label that signed them. (billboard.com/pro/taylor-swi…)

Omg CRYSTAL SNOW IN 2026 😭💜

its the way you can physically see him getting ready to eat the lyrics

THE CONCEPT OF BTS MAKING J-ARMYS SING THE LOUDEST THE ARIRANG PART ON BODY TO BODY OMG😭

THE FUCKING CROWD ?*?#?*?*?*??*

NeurIPS encourages and benefits from a diversity of papers and ideas, which can be developed in many different ways. This year, Main Track submissions can select a Contribution Type, including General, Theory, Use-Inspired, Concept & Feasibility, and Negative Results. 

 More info at neurips.cc/Conferences/20… and read some concrete examples in the companion blog post: blog.neurips.cc/2026/04/16/a-c…

somewhere in these photos are everything youve ever loved

To ensure compliance w peer-review policies, ICML has removed 795 reviews (1% of total) by reviewers who used LLMs when they explicitly agreed to not. Consequently, 497 papers (2% of all submissions) of these (reciprocal) reviewers have been desk rejected Details in blog post 👇

Alysa Liu, that's the tweet 👸💛

THE SEATTLE SEAHAWKS ARE SUPER BOWL LX CHAMPIONS 🏆

My favorite part about writing is that first spark of an idea. It can happen at any time, for any reason. The idea for the Opalite music video crash landed into my imagination when I was doing promo for The Life of a Showgirl. I was a guest on one of my favorite shows, @TheGNShow. For those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s a UK late night show where Graham Norton (the insanely charismatic and lovable host) invites a random group of actors, entertainers, musicians, etc to be on his show and we all sit there and chat like it’s a dinner party. They even serve wine. Anyway. I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with. Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and @LewisCapaldi. All people whose work I’ve admired from afar. When we were all talking during the broadcast, Domhnall made a light hearted joke about wanting to be in one of my music videos. He’s Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an *idea*. And so a week later he received an email script I’d written for the Opalite video, where he was playing the starring role. I had this thought that it would be wild if all of our fellow guests on the Graham Norton show that night, including Graham himself, could be a part of it too. Like a school group project but for adults and it isn’t mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90’s with us and help with this video. You might even recognize some friendly faces from The Eras Tour. I got to work with one of my favorite people in the world, Rodrigo Prieto, again! I had more fun than I ever imagined - Made new friends, metaphors, and fashion choices. It was an absolute thrill to create this story and these characters. Shot on film. The Opalite video is out now on Spotify & Apple Music. taylor.lnk.to/OpaliteMusicVi…

“dinosaur documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman… …produced by Steven Spielberg” you had me at hello

CHI2026 in Barcelona: Local Info We’ve put together a practical local guide covering accommodation, transport, food, safety tips, and more — everything you need to plan your stay and enjoy the city. 🔗 chi2026.acm.org/attendees/loca…

Breaking News: Yale will waive tuition for new undergraduate students whose families have annual incomes below $200,000. nyti.ms/45vJY8L

THE SEAHAWKS ARE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL.

IJCAI 2026 will charge $100 USD per submission. Funds will be used to compensate reviewers.

I am an AC for ICLR 2026. One of the papers in my batch was just withdrawn. The authors wrote a brief response, explaining why the reviewers failed at their job. I agree with most of their comments. The authors gave up. They are fed up. Just like many of us. I understand. We pretend the emperor has clothes, but he is naked. Here is the final part of their withdrawal notice. I took the liberty to make it public, to highlight that what we are doing with AI conference reviews these last few years is, basically, madness. --- Comment: We thank the reviewers for their time. However, upon reading the reviews for our paper, it became immediately apparent that the four "reject" ratings are not based on good-faith academic disagreement, but on a critical failure to read the submitted paper. The reviews are rife with demonstrably false claims that are directly contradicted by the text. The core justifications for rejection rely on asserting that key components are "missing" when they are explicitly detailed in the manuscript. Some specific examples are (and many are even fake claims). Claim: Harder tasks like GSM8K are missing. Fact: GSM8K results are in many tables, like Table 2 (Section 4.2) and Appendix G. Claim: The method does not use per-layer ranks. Fact: This is the entire point of our method. The reviewer clearly mistook our method for the baselines. (Section 2, Table 1). Claim: The GP kernel is not specified. Fact: It is specified in Appendix E (Table 6). Claim: There is no ablation of the method's three stages. Fact: Section 4.4 ("Ablation Study") and Appendix J are dedicated to this. Reviewers have a fundamental responsibility to read and evaluate the work they are assigned. The nature of these errors is so fundamental, so systemic in overlooking explicit content, that it goes far beyond what "limited time" or "oversight" can explain. This work has gone through several rounds of revision over the last year. In earlier submissions, the paper usually received borderline or weak-accept scores. Numerous signs strongly suggest that some reviewers are relying entirely on AI tools to automatically generate peer reviews, rather than fulfilling their fundamental responsibility of personally reading and evaluating manuscripts. We strongly protest this. This is a gross disrespect to the authors. It is a flagrant desecration of the reviewer's sacred duty. It fundamentally undermines the integrity of the entire peer-review process. Given that the reviews are not based on the actual content of our paper, we have decided to withdraw the submission. We leave this comment so that future readers of the OpenReview page are aware that the items described as "missing" are already present in the submitted manuscript. These negative reviews for this submission are factually unsound and do not reflect the content of the paper. We cannot and will not accept an assessment that is not based on the work we actually submitted.

I was born with a disability into a poor family. But I was also born into a society that has free healthcare, free schools and access to social benefits and financial support. In some societies my start would have pre-determined where I ended up. But because of the societal support I got I was able to grow, learn, participate and ultimately contribute back. Poverty is not a sin. It's a trap. And we can choose to help people out or let them stay stuck for generations.

Just ban the use of anyone’s likeness wtf are doing man

The @karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self driving took so long 1:57:08 - Future of education Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy!