Weekly Media Update

Week of February 7, 2025

Bridging the Energy Gap: AI and the Future of Data Centers

Benjamin Lee shares insights on the challenges of powering AI's rapid growth and how innovation in energy infrastructure could shape the future of technology on Interesting Engineering's Lexicon Podcast.

Evaluating Security Risk in DeepSeek and Other Frontier Reasoning Models

Researchers from Penn, including Hamed Hassani, collaborated with Robust Intelligence to expose major security flaws in DeepSeek, the recently announced AI chatbot from China.

Learning-Based Data Compression: Fundamental Limits and Algorithms

2/6: UPenn Optimization Seminar | Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti 

Super Bowl Predictions with Wharton Faculty

2/6: Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen 

Decision Theoretic Foundations for Conformal Prediction: Optimal Uncertainty Quantification for Risk-Averse Agents

2/4: arXiv | Hamed Hassani and Aaron Roth 

Congestion Pricing: Because Nothing Says ‘New York’ Like Paying More to Get Less

2/3: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon 

Harnessing the Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence

2/3: Inspiring Impact Magazine | Eric Bradlow and Bhuvnesh Jain 

On The Concurrence of Layer-wise Preconditioning Methods and Provable Feature Learning

2/3: arXiv | Hamed Hassani and Nikolai Matni 

Federal Deregulation and State Roles vis-à-vis Telecom Networks

2/2: Silicon Flatirons 2025 Flagship Conference | Christopher Yoo

AI’s Climate Revolution or Environmental Collapse? The High-Stakes Battle Over Tech’s Future

1/31: Bay of Bengal Post | Cary Coglianese

Generation GPT: How the Rise of Generative AI Chatbots is Revolutionizing Teaching, Testing, and Research

1/31: 34th Street Magazine | Robert Ghrist and Kevin Werbach 

What Is DeepSeek?

1/31: Penn Engineering AI | Lyle Ungar 

Disentangling Safe and Unsafe Corruptions via Anisotropy and Locality

1/30: arXiv | René Vidal 

Evaluating Computerised Assessment of Motor Imitation (CAMI) for Identifying Autism-Specific Difficulties Not Observed for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or Neurotypical Development

1/28: The British Journal of Psychiatry | René Vidal 

The Interplay of Uncertainty, Relevance and Learning Influences Auditory Categorization

1/27: Scientific Reports | Konrad Kording 

A Structural Model of Automated Market Making

1/24: ResearchGate | Brett Hemenway Falk 

Feasible Learning

1/24: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro 

Individual-Specific Strategies Inform Category Learning

1/23: Scientific Reports | Konrad Kording 

Overcoming Challenges Associated with Broad Sharing of Human Genomic Data

1/22: Nature Genetics | Jonathan Moreno 

Classifying Unstructured Text in Electronic Health Records for Mental Health Prediction Models: Large Language Model Evaluation Study

1/21: JMIR Medical Informatics | Lyle Ungar 

Biden Bashed Over AI Diffusion Policy

1/14: TechNewsWorld | Benjamin Lee 

US Chip Export Rule Proposes Limits to Thwart Chinese GPUs

1/13: TechRepublic | Benjamin Lee 

AI Comes Down from the Cloud as Chips Get Smarter

1/10: Yahoo Tech | Benjamin Lee 

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