πŸš€ WELCOME TO METAMESH.BIZ +++ OpenAI rushes into the Pentagon's classified networks while Anthropic gets federally ghosted for having principles (Silicon Valley alignment problem solved) +++ LLMs scoring literal zeros on ARC-AGI-2 until you give them code evolution (turns out reasoning needs actual reasoning) +++ Trump ordering agencies to drop Claude like it's TikTok 2.0 while Dario probably updating his "I told you so" presentation +++ THE THIRD WAVE OF AI LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE SYMBOLIC REASONING IN A TRENCH COAT +++ β€’
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πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks

⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

Tripling an LLM's ARC-AGI-2 score with code evolution

πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

Anthropic vs Pentagon

"Not sure people realize how important Anthropic’s refusal is here. https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8a#..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 70 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Government dysfunction β€’ Military-industrial complex β€’ Corporate influence
πŸ’¬ "Fascists took over." β€’ "Lobbying by mega corporations or the ultra rich has effectively destroyed the average person's ability to push for change through the proper channels."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 40 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 Modularization and code structure β€’ LLM integration with development β€’ Metrics for codebases
πŸ’¬ "it's the very reason why we humans invented modularization: so that we don't have to hold the complete codebase in our heads" β€’ "we're still focusing on how to integrate LLMs into existing dev tooling paradigms"
🏒 BUSINESS

OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 320 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Contrasting AI ethics policies β€’ Government-AI provider relations β€’ Geopolitics of AI contracts
πŸ’¬ "who decides these weighty questions?" β€’ "Anthropic has more ethics than OpenAI"
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

Pure LLMs Score 0% on ARC-AGI-2. Why the Third Wave of AI Looks Like the First

βš–οΈ ETHICS

Hey, OpenAI: Watch and f****** learn. This is how you stand up to power. [On Anthropics stands against US Pentagon]

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 1094 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 AI ethics β€’ National security β€’ Corporate responsibility
πŸ’¬ "Mass domestic surveillance... is incompatible with democratic values" β€’ "We cannot in good conscience accede to their request"
πŸ₯ HEALTHCARE

ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 135 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Healthcare costs β€’ Limitations of AI advice β€’ Doctors' cautious approach
πŸ’¬ "Healthcare is painfully expensive here." β€’ "AI wasn't involved in this case, but it's good to have both AI and a trained doctor in the decision loop."
🌐 POLICY

BREAKING: Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic AI tech 'immediately'

"President Donald Trump ordered U.S. government agencies to "immediately cease" using technology from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. Trump's abrupt and unexpected order came as the AI startup faces pressure by the Defense Department to comply with demands that it can use the company'..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 100 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Anthropic's public image β€’ Business impact β€’ Customer loyalty
πŸ’¬ "That's great publicity!" β€’ "Lol. Peanuts"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

A Decision-Theoretic Formalisation of Steganography With Applications to LLM Monitoring

"Large language models are beginning to show steganographic capabilities. Such capabilities could allow misaligned models to evade oversight mechanisms. Yet principled methods to detect and quantify such behaviours are lacking. Classical definitions of steganography, and detection methods based on th..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

LLM Novice Uplift on Dual-Use, In Silico Biology Tasks

"Large language models (LLMs) perform increasingly well on biology benchmarks, but it remains unclear whether they uplift novice users -- i.e., enable humans to perform better than with internet-only resources. This uncertainty is central to understanding both scientific acceleration and dual-use ris..."
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

LLM-Based Evolution as a Universal Optimizer

πŸ“Š DATA

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 80 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Automating log analysis β€’ Limitations of LLMs for logs β€’ Optimizing observability data
πŸ’¬ "Logs is doing some heavy lifting here" β€’ "LLMs are good at SQL is quite the assertion"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

EUrouter – Integrate the latest AI models, without sending data outside the EU

πŸ”’ SECURITY

We Audited the Security of 7 Open-Source AI Agents – Here Is What We Found

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Lessons from Building Claude Code: Seeing Like an Agent

βš–οΈ ETHICS

Paper: The framing of a system prompt changes how a transformer generates tokens β€” measured across 3,830 runs with effect sizes up to d>1.0

"Quick summary of an independent preprint I just published: **Question:**Β Does the relational framing of a system prompt β€” not its instructions, not its topic β€” change the generative dynamics of an LLM? **Setup:**Β Two framing variables (relational presence + epistemic openness), crossed into 4 cond..."
βš–οΈ ETHICS

Never thought I’d rather pay Google

"Not a dollar of my money to these guys. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/openai-reaches-ai-agreement-with-defense-dept-after-anthropic-clash.html..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 80 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Google's government contracts β€’ AI safety concerns β€’ Ethical AI alternatives
πŸ’¬ "Google already deploys AI that sends fighter jets to bomb coordinates" β€’ "FAANG has been doing anything the government will pay for"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Why AI hallucinations make automated SoC triage dangerous

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

[R] ContextCache: Persistent KV Cache with Content-Hash Addressing β€” 29x TTFT speedup for tool-calling LLMs

"We present ContextCache, a persistent KV cache system for tool-calling LLMs that eliminates redundant prefill computation for tool schema tokens. Motivation: In tool-augmented LLM deployments, tool schemas (JSON function definitions) are prepended to every request but rarely change between calls."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 16 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Token count optimization β€’ Tool caching strategies β€’ Causal attention handling
πŸ’¬ "This could really help with making local models more practical at higher token counts." β€’ "We compile the system prompt + all tool definitions together as one unit and cache the entire KV state."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Ask HN: How do you enforce guardrails on Claude agents taking real actions?

πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Vigil – Zero-dependency safety guardrails for AI agent tool calls

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Modality Collapse as Mismatched Decoding: Information-Theoretic Limits of Multimodal LLMs

"Multimodal LLMs can process speech and images, but they cannot hear a speaker's voice or see an object's texture. We show this is not a failure of encoding: speaker identity, emotion, and visual attributes survive through every LLM layer (3--55$\times$ above chance in linear probes), yet removing 64..."
βš–οΈ ETHICS

The LLM Sycophancy Antidote

βš–οΈ ETHICS

Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

InnerQ: Hardware-aware Tuning-free Quantization of KV Cache for Large Language Models

"Reducing the hardware footprint of large language models (LLMs) during decoding is critical for efficient long-sequence generation. A key bottleneck is the key-value (KV) cache, whose size scales with sequence length and easily dominates the memory footprint of the model. Previous work proposed quan..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Scale Can't Overcome Pragmatics: The Impact of Reporting Bias on Vision-Language Reasoning

"The lack of reasoning capabilities in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has remained at the forefront of research discourse. We posit that this behavior stems from a reporting bias in their training data. That is, how people communicate about visual content by default omits tacit information needed to s..."
🌐 POLICY

President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 199 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 AI regulation β€’ Government-tech tensions β€’ Political polarization
πŸ’¬ "Anthropic vs. the Constitution" β€’ "Anthropic better get their act together"
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Bridge your Claude/OpenAI subs into a team API with per-key cost caps

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Assessing Deanonymization Risks with Stylometry-Assisted LLM Agent

"The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enabled powerful authorship inference capabilities, raising growing concerns about unintended deanonymization risks in textual data such as news articles. In this work, we introduce an LLM agent designed to evaluate and mitigate such risks th..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

How I built a 13-agent Claude team where agents review each other's work - full setup guide

"https://reddit.com/link/1rga7f5/video/dhy66fie52mg1/player # The setup that shouldn't work but does I have 13 AI agents that work on marketing for my product. They run every 15 minutes, review each other's work, and track everything in a database. When one drafts content, others critique it befor..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 40 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Quality control β€’ Architectural diversity β€’ Security concerns
πŸ’¬ "forcing every agent through review before promotion is what actually catches hallucinated data" β€’ "The ability to tag an agent by name is interesting"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Tests of 12+ AI-detection tools show many capable of spotting basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Fine-Tuning Without Forgetting In-Context Learning: A Theoretical Analysis of Linear Attention Models

"Transformer-based large language models exhibit in-context learning, enabling adaptation to downstream tasks via few-shot prompting with demonstrations. In practice, such models are often fine-tuned to improve zero-shot performance on downstream tasks, allowing them to solve tasks without examples a..."
πŸ“Š DATA

A monthly update to my "Where are open-weight models in the SOTA discussion?" rankings

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 58 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 LLM Performance β€’ AI Model Landscape β€’ Local vs. Cloud Models
πŸ’¬ "Mistral models are great, they just aren't MOE, reasoning or making a huge push into code generation space" β€’ "If IBM made a big push into 200b+ size with a larger dataset, they would definitely leapfrog into the frontier category"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

New Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Unsloth Dynamic GGUFs + Benchmarks

"Hey r/LocalLlama! We just updated Qwen3.5-35B Unsloth Dynamic quants **being SOTA** on nearly all bits. We did over 150 KL Divergence benchmarks, totally **9TB of GGUFs**. We uploaded all research artifacts. We also fixed a **tool calling** chat template **bug** (affects all quant uploaders) * We t..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 182 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Quantization Research β€’ Model Comparison β€’ Community Collaboration
πŸ’¬ "going forward, we'll publish perplexity and KLD for every quant" β€’ "This is how testing should be done!!! Insane work"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Sources: DeepSeek plans to release its multimodal model V4 next week and worked with Huawei and Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon to optimize V4 for their products

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Open source router for personal AI agents

πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

Note to staff: Sam Altman says OpenAI seeks a DOD deal, except for use cases like domestic surveillance, and wants to β€œhelp de-escalate” DOD-Anthropic fight

πŸ€– AI MODELS

Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

LLmFit - One command to find what model runs on your hardware

"Haven't seen this posted here: https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit 497 models. 133 providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. A terminal tool that right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU. Detects your hardware, scores each model across quality, speed, fit, and c..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 36 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Model Performance Evaluation β€’ Skepticism of Recommendations β€’ Vibe Coded Garbage
πŸ’¬ "I would take these recommendations with a grain of salt" β€’ "gives me hallucinated vibe coded app for sure"
βš–οΈ ETHICS

I used steelman prompting to audit bias across six major LLMs. The default-to-steelman gap was consistent and measurable.

"I ran a structured experiment across six AI platforms β€” Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, and an uncensored DeepSeek clone (Venice.ai) β€” using identical prompts to test how they handle a hotly contested interpretive question. The domain: 1 Corinthians 6–7, the primary source text behind Chris..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: RayClaw – AI agent like OpenClaw, standalone or as a Rust crate

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

CiteLLM: An Agentic Platform for Trustworthy Scientific Reference Discovery

"Large language models (LLMs) have created new opportunities to enhance the efficiency of scholarly activities; however, challenges persist in the ethical deployment of AI assistance, including (1) the trustworthiness of AI-generated content, (2) preservation of academic integrity and intellectual pr..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Why Diffusion Language Models Struggle with Truly Parallel (Non-Autoregressive) Decoding?

"Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are often advertised as enabling parallel token generation, yet practical fast DLMs frequently converge to left-to-right, autoregressive (AR)-like decoding dynamics. In contrast, genuinely non-AR generation is promising because it removes AR's sequential bottleneck,..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

ParamMem: Augmenting Language Agents with Parametric Reflective Memory

"Self-reflection enables language agents to iteratively refine solutions, yet often produces repetitive outputs that limit reasoning performance. Recent studies have attempted to address this limitation through various approaches, among which increasing reflective diversity has shown promise. Our emp..."
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