BL 6/2/2026

Codex for every role, tool, and workflow

OpenAI introduces role-specific Codex plugins and tools for analysts, marketers, designers, and other non-developer roles. 20% of users are non-developers.

HN T-A 6/2/2026

OpenAIRE AI Hackathon

OpenAIRE 12-week hackathon on AI and open science with multiple skill tracks launching June 2.

HN MisterKent 6/2/2026

The LLM Job Paradox

Discussion exploring whether entire jobs and fields could be replaced by AI, comparing perspectives from workers and management.

LB blog.hellas.ai via statusfailed 6/2/2026

thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home

Linux kernel module enabling RDMA over USB4/Thunderbolt for distributed AI workloads across consumer hardware. Supports vLLM and tensor-parallel inference.

Ax Peng Xie, Ke Xue, Yunqi Shi, Ruo-Tong Chen, Chengrui Gao, Siyuan Xu, Chenjian Ding, Mingxuan Yuan, Chao Qian 6/2/2026

FlowPlace: Flow Matching for Chip Placement

FlowPlace: flow matching generative model for chip placement overcoming synthetic data pre-training and sampling time limitations.

Ax Ruo-Tong Chen, Ke Xue, Chengrui Gao, Yunqi Shi, Tian Xu, Peng Xie, Siyuan Xu, Mingxuan Yuan, Chao Qian, Zhi-Hua Zhou 6/2/2026

How Can Reinforcement Learning Achieve Expert-level Placement?

Reinforcement learning approach for chip placement learning from expert layouts to achieve expert-quality physical design.

Ax Akash Bonagiri, Gerard Janno Anderias, Saee Patil, Angelina Lai, Devang Borkar, Gezheng Kang, Ishant Gandhi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun 6/2/2026

STABLEVAL: Disagreement-Aware and Stable Evaluation of AI Systems

STABLEVAL framework for disagreement-aware evaluation of AI systems, modeling latent item correctness and annotator reliability to improve ranking stability.

Ax Tatiana Gaintseva, Andrew Stepanov, Ziquan Liu, Martin Benning, Gregory Slabaugh, Jiankang Deng, Ismail Elezi 6/2/2026

MidSteer: Optimal Affine Framework for Steering Generative Models

Theoretical framework for steering intermediate representations in generative models, formalizing concept steering through affine concept erasure.

Ax Weichen Yu, Xiaomin Li, Yizhou Zhao, Xiaoze Liu, Ruowang Zhang, Haixin Wang, Yinyi Luo, Chen Henry Wu, Gaurav Mittal, Matt Fredrikson, Yu Hu 6/2/2026

Multi-Rollout On-Policy Distillation via Peer Successes and Failures

On-policy distillation approach leveraging peer trajectories to provide denser token-level supervision for LLM reasoning improvement.