The day in AI

Thursday 12 June 2025

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Research

12 Jun 2025UW / Ai2 / UC Berkeley et al.Spurious Rewards Random rewards lift Qwen2.5-Math-7B by 21.4 points on MATH-500, nearly matching real rewards, but do nothing for Llama or OLMo.

People and teams

Alexandr WangScale AI → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Meta took a 49% stake in Scale AI and made Wang chief AI officer leading MSL; Jason Droege became Scale CEO. Meta had earlier tried and failed to buy SSI, Thinking Machines and Perplexity.