Imran Ahmed

AI performs better when they take notes like top medical school students? Applied Compute published a new article on this RL technique called “neural cheat sheets” that makes models perform very well on document summarization cost-effectively It's cool to see the summaries produced be so similar to the notes I’d see some of my smart friends write down in prep for med school exams. A technique true to its name 🧠

CCD Fellow Spotlight: Manasa Vinodkumar! Meet Manasa a 2026 #Bridge Fellow at The Centre for Conscious Design (CCD). Bridge Fellows connect science and design through translation, communication, and interdisciplinarity, helping make research more accessible and actionable for practitioners. Manasa is currently a consultant at Foster + Partners, London. She has a background in designing specialist buildings, including workplaces, hospitals, and schools. Passionate about how design shapes human behaviour and movement through space, her work brings together strategy, health, and the built environment to create places that support both wellbeing and everyday experience. As part of her fellowship this year, Manasa contributes to Spotlight Research. Her latest spotlight explores how understanding pedestrian movement can help designers and planners create healthier, more connected, and walkable cities. 📖 Read the Spotlight Research: https://lnkd.in/dJKjc8PF

Our CTO, Amogh, showed Spacebar AI to Harish Chandran. Harish has worked on real-world autonomy at Waymo and Google DeepMind. His reaction captured exactly why we are building Spacebar: “Frontier agents are bottlenecked by trajectory quality, not data volume. Spacebar is the first multi-agent RL gym I’ve seen built to capture the specialist work models can’t learn any other way.” The next wave of AI progress will not come only from bigger models or more generic data. It will come from better trajectories: humans and agents working together in live environments, on shared state, with clean traces that can be used for training, post-training, evaluation, and deployment. That is what Spacebar is built for. A persistent, multiplayer surface where humans and agents can see, hear, act, coordinate, and generate the kinds of interaction traces frontier models need. If you are building frontier agents, we would love to compare notes.

How can a four year old be taught remotely? It's a question we continually review and reflect on at Bemorefab Children's Cancer Charity. Early years pedagogy is built on movement, play, choice and the freedom for a child to follow what interests them around a classroom. None of that translates obviously to a screen. Yet remote learning is often the only option for children following a diagnosis of cancer. Treatment, immunosuppression, fatigue and hospital stays mean being in a Reception classroom isn't always possible, sometimes for a long time. So how can we design learning to ensure EYFS principles are implemented whilst also navigating the practical challenges presented? A few things we've found: Choice has to be real and obvious. Using the infinite canvas in Pencil Spaces, we build environments with different corners and areas a child can move between, choosing where to go next. That sense of 'choosing time' is core to early years practice and the closest digital equivalent to a Reception classroom we've been able to implement. Every activity is anchored in one of the seven areas of learning that make up the EYFS curriculum. This week our Explorers will work on patterns (Mathematics), build fine motor control through dot-to-dots (Physical Development), name and recognise feelings through "If You're Happy and You Know It!" (Personal, Social and Emotional Development), develop language and observation through I Spy (Communication and Language) and practise turn-taking with Bingo and other games. We will also read Zog and the Flying Doctors (Literacy) and spend time talking about the weather, days of the week and other real-life scenarios (Understanding the World). Wellbeing isn't separate from learning: it is at the heart of the learning! In all four of our daily classes, at least a third of every session is given to developing confidence, relationships, communication, achievement or purpose, and that work starts from the very first minute of each lesson. A parent in our EYFS Explorers Class shared: "My son has almost entirely missed his first year at school. It makes us less stressed about the learning he is missing. BMF has had a positive impact on my child's emotional wellbeing." Feedback like that is the whole point. The video attached is a snippet from the opening of a session with one of our 'Excellent Explorers' and I've included some screenshots in the comments to showcase the learning environments mentioned above. If you know of any online resources suitable for EYFS children we would very much welcome any suggestions! If you work with young children remotely, either in hospital schools, alternative provision, or virtual settings, we'd genuinely like to hear how you're approaching this in order to continue to learn professionally and develop ideas further. #EarlyYears #EYFS #ChildhoodCancer #BeMoreFab #SEND #RemoreLearning #RemoteEducation Andrew Bark Lauren Connachie Kelly Church

How can a four year old be taught remotely? It's a question we continually review and reflect on at Bemorefab Children's Cancer Charity. Early years pedagogy is built on movement, play, choice and the freedom for a child to follow what interests them around a classroom. None of that translates obviously to a screen. Yet remote learning is often the only option for children following a diagnosis of cancer. Treatment, immunosuppression, fatigue and hospital stays mean being in a Reception classroom isn't always possible, sometimes for a long time. So how can we design learning to ensure EYFS principles are implemented whilst also navigating the practical challenges presented? A few things we've found: Choice has to be real and obvious. Using the infinite canvas in Pencil Spaces, we build environments with different corners and areas a child can move between, choosing where to go next. That sense of 'choosing time' is core to early years practice and the closest digital equivalent to a Reception classroom we've been able to implement. Every activity is anchored in one of the seven areas of learning that make up the EYFS curriculum. This week our Explorers will work on patterns (Mathematics), build fine motor control through dot-to-dots (Physical Development), name and recognise feelings through "If You're Happy and You Know It!" (Personal, Social and Emotional Development), develop language and observation through I Spy (Communication and Language) and practise turn-taking with Bingo and other games. We will also read Zog and the Flying Doctors (Literacy) and spend time talking about the weather, days of the week and other real-life scenarios (Understanding the World). Wellbeing isn't separate from learning: it is at the heart of the learning! In all four of our daily classes, at least a third of every session is given to developing confidence, relationships, communication, achievement or purpose, and that work starts from the very first minute of each lesson. A parent in our EYFS Explorers Class shared: "My son has almost entirely missed his first year at school. It makes us less stressed about the learning he is missing. BMF has had a positive impact on my child's emotional wellbeing." Feedback like that is the whole point. The video attached is a snippet from the opening of a session with one of our 'Excellent Explorers' and I've included some screenshots in the comments to showcase the learning environments mentioned above. If you know of any online resources suitable for EYFS children we would very much welcome any suggestions! If you work with young children remotely, either in hospital schools, alternative provision, or virtual settings, we'd genuinely like to hear how you're approaching this in order to continue to learn professionally and develop ideas further. #EarlyYears #EYFS #ChildhoodCancer #BeMoreFab #SEND #RemoreLearning #RemoteEducation Andrew Bark Lauren Connachie Kelly Church

Excited to be one of the GTM10 Award Winners! The growth team we’ve built at ElevenLabs is really special - but a huge part of our success has been the research and engineering teams repeatedly shipping breakthrough models and products week after week Great to see many friends and leaders I look up to on the list too! Laura Modiano Alina Vandenberghe 🌶️ David Sandstrom Sophia Yang, Ph.D.

💡 New Spotlight Research! Why do some spaces feel intuitive to navigate—while others leave us disoriented? Our latest Spotlight Research by Bridge Fellow Manasa explores how we actually think through space and why movement, not measurement, shapes navigation. Summary and Analysis by Bridge Fellow: Manasa Vinodkumar Spotlight Research Paper: Space Syntax And Spatial Cognition: Or Why the Axial Line? Based on research by author(s): Alan Penn Publication: Environment and Behaviour In this Spotlight, Manasa unpacks how #spatialcognition is built through movement; How we understand environments not by distances or maps, but by connections, visibility, and experience over time. For designers, this shifts the question from “How far?” to “How does it connect?” 👉 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/daSpETqE #ConsciousDesign #SpaceSyntax #UrbanDesign #Architecture #SpotlightResearch #SR #DesignThinking