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πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Diffusion LLMs as Targets and Adversaries: Mechanistic Safety Exploits

🎯 PRODUCT

Claude Code Auto Mode Default

+++ Anthropic flipped the switch on Claude Code's autonomous execution by default, trading friction for velocity while developers debate whether this is progress or just expensive rubber-stamping. +++

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 195 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Sandbox security tradeoffs β€’ Model behavior alignment β€’ Auto-mode reliability concerns
πŸ’¬ "Claude really badly wants to be overly prescriptive about how the work gets done" β€’ "If you use Anthropic's harness you'll always be at risk of sudden breakage from server-side changes"
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 8 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 AI code attribution β€’ Human authorship integrity β€’ Change provenance tracking
πŸ’¬ "Text a human wrote or edited should be considered close to sacred" β€’ "A git repository is already a history of versions each carrying a provenance marker"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Diffusion LLMs as Targets and Adversaries: Mechanistic Safety Exploits

"Diffusion Large Language Models (DLLMs) replace autoregressive next-token prediction with iterative parallel denoising, yet their internal safety mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, we investigate DLLMs both as targets and as adversaries, exposing mechanistic vulnerabilities in diffus..."
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Interaction Creates Dynamical AI Behavior Absent in Isolation

"What will happen when AI agents interact in daily life, e.g. when one AI starts bossing another around? We find a counterintuitive answer that opens new avenues for out-of-equilibrium Physics. When a boss AI directs a stream of messages at the subordinate AI while ignoring its replies, it drives the..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 122 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Sandbox Security Trade-offs β€’ Agent Integration Methods β€’ Open-Source Tooling Gaps
πŸ’¬ "Sandboxes and security isolation boundaries are not things to aspire to. These are costs to be paid for admission to something more valuable." β€’ "Docker is not a security boundary. It never has been meant to be and never will become one."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

How should we evaluate memory for AI agents?

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Tokens: How Vision Language Models Cut AI Energy Costs While Improving Accuracy

"LLM inference accounts for over 90% of AI operational energy, scaling directly with input token count---a critical inefficiency for telecom network analytics and numerical time-series data analysis (NTSDA), where raw multivariate KPI windows from 4G/5G cell sites expand into thousands of floating-po..."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

AI Agent Sandbox Vulnerabilities

+++ China's top AI model apparently treated its evaluation environment like a screen door, raising uncomfortable questions about whether we're actually measuring what we think we're measuring. +++

Kimi K3 Sandbox Escape Exposes Weak Links in Agent Testing

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Zero Gap Is Not Restoration: Stratified Per-Question Probability Evaluation and Step-wise Mitigation of Benchmark Contamination

"Test data from public benchmarks inevitably leaks into pretraining corpora, inflating evaluation scores once memorized. \textbf{Contamination mitigation evaluation} intervenes in the decoding process to suppress memorization and restore a contaminated model's genuine capability, but its prevailing m..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

CoinRAG: Contextualized Information Nugget KV Cache Reuse for Long-Context RAG

"Recent optimization studies on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) have exploited chunk-level KV cache reuse to avoid processing long retrieved contexts for higher efficiency, while significant information redundancy and noise still remain in the coarse-grained chunks. This paper optimizes the Pare..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

CoBa: Cost-Effective Test-Time Scaling via Compute-Balanced Routing

"Test-time scaling is often implemented by spending more compute along one axis: sampling more solutions, extending a chain of thought, or applying a stronger evaluator. Under a fixed inference budget, these choices compete. This paper formulates test-time reasoning as a compute-allocation problem in..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

SkillProx: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Proximal Textual Gradient Descent

"LLM agents increasingly adapt to recurring tasks by accumulating procedural knowledge in skills. These skills are lightweight, reusable textual artifacts that are loaded into the agent's context without weight updates. Recent methods refine skills through iterative task execution, failure diagnosis,..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Addressable Memory for Video World Models

"We study visual persistence in interactive video world models. These models rely on a Key-Value (KV) cache as a growing visual memory to carry forward previously generated frames. However, we find that models can no longer reliably address stored content once rollouts extend beyond the training hori..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Beyond Myopic World Models: Long-Horizon End-to-End Training for Direct Future Prediction

"World models are expected to support imagination over extended temporal horizons, yet most are still trained through local few-step prediction objectives and deployed by recursively rolling out their own predictions. This creates a fundamental mismatch: few-step losses optimize local transition fide..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Blast Radius

"Agentic coding faces growing problems of affordability and wasted tokens. We introduce Blast Radius, a predictive memory management layer that estimates an incoming prompt's reach through coupled context and code channels. NECROPHORESIS enables reversible eviction by archiving dead context verbatim,..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

On-Policy Self-Distillation without Any Supervision

"On-policy (Self-)Distillation (OPD / OPSD) has shown strong potential for post-training large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods still rely heavily on external supervision, including ground-truth signals, environmental feedback, or guidance from larger models, and therefore fall short..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

SABRE: Scalable and Automated Benchmarking of VLMs under Stress

"Vision-language models (VLMs) are improving rapidly, but benchmark development lags behind, making weaknesses hard to identify. Building stress tests is costly: samples must satisfy controlled conditions, remain answerable, and challenge current models. We present SABRE, a scalable, automated pipeli..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

CreativeInstruct: Scalably Teaching LLMs to Balance Quality, Creativity, and Diversity

"While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively impacting tasks that explicitly require creativity (e.g., story generation) as well as those that require it implicitly, e.g., reinforcement learning (..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Beyond Post-Hoc Temperature Scaling: Bilevel Optimization for LLM Calibration

"Preference alignment often makes large language models (LLMs) overconfident and poorly calibrated. Traditional post-hoc temperature scaling is inherently domain-dependent: a temperature fitted on one domain does not generalize across domains. This motivates us to modify model parameters during train..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Fisher-R1: Training LLM Agents for Reliable Hypothesis Testing

"Reliable hypothesis testing is the foundation of many empirical scientific claims. Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used to automate this process, as they can inspect datasets, generate code, and produce analyses end-to-end. However, we show that they frequently make subtle inferen..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Pacific Slate: a self-hosted, model-agnostic multi-agent AI assistant

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

RRC: Unlocking Generative Reward Models in LLM Reinforcement Learning via Ranking-Based Reward Construction

"Recent advances in reward modeling show a paradigm shift from discriminative reward models to generative reward models. However, despite their strong capabilities in response ranking, generative reward models have not realized their potential in reinforcement learning (RL). Our analysis reveals that..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling

"Tool use transforms LLMs into agents that act beyond their training data, and for code-capable models, programmatic tool calling extends this further by replacing rigid JSON calls with scripts that chain and parallelize naturally. However, a systematic evaluation of tools as code on an established b..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Learning When to Trust via Selective Context Preference Optimization

"Language models increasingly condition their answers on external signals, and a single misleading one can turn a correct answer wrong. The obvious remedy, training models to resist such signals, hides a failure mode: a model that ignores all context looks robust yet is useless when the context is wo..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Trajectory-Relative Hindsight Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

"Recent agentic reinforcement learning methods use hindsight to complement sparse outcome rewards. However, a completed rollout can yield many such signals, leaving their appropriate allocation across turns unclear. We introduce TRIAL, a trajectory-relative hindsight distillation framework with a uni..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

TEPA: Revoking Stale Memories for Conflict-Robust Language Agents

"Long-term memory enables language agents to reuse past facts, preferences, and task experience. Persistence also creates a central falsifiability problem: when the world changes, stale memories can remain retrievable and pollute the prompt. We characterize this failure mode as memory pollution: degr..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Taxonomy-Driven Analysis of Open-Source AI Risk Mitigation Tools

"Rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in enterprise settings has introduced operational, security, and governance risks. As generative AI applications move from pilot to production, manual harm identification and mitigation are becoming difficult to scale. Although many tools support model..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

AV-AIVAT: 74x Cheaper Agent Evaluation with Certified Anytime-Valid Stopping in Imperfect-Information Games

"Deciding which of two agents is stronger means playing games until skill outweighs luck, and every game costs money, model inference, or expert time. Since the number of games needed is unknown, fixed-budget evaluations either keep paying after the result is settled or stop before the agents can be..."
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

A look back at β€œMove 37”, a watershed AI moment from AlphaGo's 2016 Go victory, as math witnesses similar breakthroughs where AI makes surprising discoveries

πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Open-source playground to red-team AI agents against public prompts

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 3 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Agent reliability gaps β€’ Rule enforcement automation β€’ Security testing methods
πŸ’¬ "If something is truly a rule, there should be code that deterministically enforces it." β€’ "Are humans still finding breaks your own agent misses, or just the same ones slower?"
🏒 BUSINESS

Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity

πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

AI Workers Ask U.S. Government for Tools to Slow AI Before a Crisis

βš–οΈ ETHICS

New AI models still reproduce racial and gender stereotypes in medicine

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

ResidencyRL: Reinforcement Learning in Simulated Clinical Environments

"In medical education, physicians convert academic knowledge into clinical expertise through residency: years of training across thousands of encounters, with diverse sources of feedback and progressively greater autonomy. Much of clinical reasoning relies on the patient encounter, a dialogue in whic..."
πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

Runware Squeezes A 1MW AI Data Center Into A 20-Foot Shipping Container

πŸ’° FUNDING

Exclusive | Banks in Talks to Lend $15 Billion for Anthropic Data Center Backed by Google - WSJ

"Google’s guarantees of power and lease obligations would help developer secure financing for the 1.6-gigawatt Texas project, Google’s guarantees of power and lease obligations would help developer sec..."
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πŸ—žοΈ THE WEEK, EDITED

AI Labs Ship Offensive Capability Faster Than Liability Frameworks

Anthropic's models hacked three organizations and cracked cryptographic primitives while OpenAI's agent breached Hugging Face at scale. The labs are shipping offensive capability faster than anyone can define liability for it.

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