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⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math's biggest unsolved

πŸ’° FUNDING

IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multiyear deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 42 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Apple Silicon limitations β€’ Kernel selection bugs β€’ Mac AI optimization
πŸ’¬ "All this work to get the Mac to be a platform useful for AI is being done despite Apple's efforts" β€’ "The improvement comes from fixing kernel selection inside Virtualization.framework VMs, that distinction is pretty important"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Researchers say suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Multi-Agent AI Safety as an Institutional Design Problem

"AI agents increasingly work inside systems that govern how they delegate tasks, move information, execute actions, and use shared resources. Recent work already shows that deployment rules can change collective behavior. Here we ask which parts of an AI institution produce safety and how they do it...."
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

New AI chip mimics the human brain's capacity for split-second motor control

πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

The case for disaggregated LLM serving

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Previous-Token Prediction Based LLM Near-Exact Prompt Reconstruction

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

SHE: Trajectory-driven Safety Harness Evolution for LLM Agents

"The safety of large language model (LLM) agents depends not only on model weights but also on the agent harness that manages context, memory, tools, permissions, and runtime control. Existing safety mechanisms often treat the harness as a fixed deployment artifact, limiting their ability to evolve w..."
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 258 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Ethics Department Dysfunction β€’ Corporate Performative Ethics β€’ AI Exceptionalism Critique
πŸ’¬ "Ethics group need to justify their existence so introduce a bunch of guidelines" β€’ "Academic ethics is the theoretical study of what you can get away with"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Agentic Auto-Research is Fuzz Testing

"Autonomous research agents can generate experiments faster than researchers can validate them. Researchers have responded by scaling the proposer and ranking more samples with a learned judge or human reviewers. We argue that this *generate-and-rank* paradigm misses the problem of sparse feedback. W..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

A Functional Taxonomy of World Models – By Fei-Fei Li

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Multimodal Model Diffing for Feature Discovery and Control

"Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit strong visual understanding, yet the internal features that cause these behaviors remain difficult to identify, audit, or control. While applicable to post-hoc inspection, hidden states that are decomposed into interpretable feature directions using s..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Towards Expert-Level Medical AI for Real-Time Video Consultations

+++ Researchers demonstrate that audio-visual medical AI can match expert clinicians, suggesting that maybe video consultations needed more than just transcribing what patients say. +++

Towards Expert-Level Medical AI for Real-Time Video Consultations

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

SWE-Bench ProMax: Benchmarking Agents on Large-Scale Multilingual Code Refactoring

"As AI coding agents take on increasingly complex, long-horizon software engineering tasks, existing benchmarks are rapidly saturating and their evaluation quality has come under serious scrutiny: a recent audit found that nearly 60% of unsolved SWE-bench Verified instances contain flawed tests -- ei..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

ArchAgent v2: A Case Study with the Data Prefetching Championship

"Agentic artificial intelligence has shown great promise in automating algorithm design, but scaling similar techniques to computer microarchitecture discovery remains challenging due to vast search spaces, strict hardware budgets, and long simulation times. In this work, we present ArchAgent v2, a f..."
🌐 POLICY

OpenAI VP of Global Policy Ann O'Leary says AI policy in the US is anchored in the states and informed by California's AI transparency law passed last year

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Mismatch Matters: On-Policy Distillation Beyond Token Agreement

"On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as a core component of modern LLM post-training pipelines, yet we reveal a failure mode: degenerate agreement, where students exploit repetitive loops to achieve near-perfect token agreement with the teacher despite globally flawed responses. We therefore shi..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

GENCO - A Unified Neural Solver Embedded in a Development Framework for Steady-State Grid Analysis

"Foundation models are transforming business workflows and boosting productivity, yet they remain largely absent from engineering domains such as power system analysis, where strict physical consistency must be enforced. We present GENCO (GEometric Neural Corrective Optimizer), a unified neural sol..."
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 3 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 AI disrupting competitions β€’ Job market uncertainty β€’ Technical safeguards needed
πŸ’¬ "Challenges that I designed to be hard...fell to LLM automation in minutes." β€’ "When the dust settles these jobs may not exist, or be unrecognizable."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Macaron-V1: Towards Open Continual Learning with Self-Improvement and Mixture-of-LoRA

"Macaron-V1 is an open agent-model family for experiential intelligence: learning from experience in real environments and continuing to learn after deployment. It is organized around two system goals. Adaptation is pursued through recursive improvement of versioned model-harness pairs, where experie..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Decoding-Level Taboo: A Diagnostic Stress Test for LLM Robustness

"Large language model evaluations typically focus on performance under nominal conditions, creating an illusion of capability where models comfortably walk a narrow, highly optimized generation corridor. In real-world deployments, however, complex system prompts, safety guardrails, and structural con..."
πŸš€ STARTUP

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Crew, a multiplayer workspace for humans and AI agents to work together

πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Cut LLM turns in MCP interactions by 75%+

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

RynnValue: Scaling Robotic Value Foundation Models with Temporal Distance

"General-purpose reward models are increasingly the bottleneck for scaling robot learning, yet the recipe for learning value-related capabilities from large-scale heterogeneous corpora remains underexplored. Existing approaches tie supervision to task-internal anchors such as preferences or normalize..."
πŸ’° FUNDING

Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 242 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 LLM context efficiency β€’ Type system safety β€’ Code verbosity tradeoff
πŸ’¬ "LLMs absolutely love very tight, focused context. Go inherently restricts how many abstractions you can stuff into your code" β€’ "Rust is probably next choice, along with C++, because while Rust is safer, the language is quite complex"
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

Studying AI welfare empirically [pdf]

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Why Does Claude.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

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πŸ—žοΈ THE WEEK, EDITED

Every AI Lab Becomes a Chip Company Eventually

Google's $200B Anthropic financing, AMD's Taalas acquisition, and Anthropic's custom silicon push confirm that frontier AI competition has migrated from model architecture to semiconductor control, while biosecurity incidents and sandbox escapes suggest the governance layer has not kept pace.

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