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๐ŸŽญ MULTIMODAL

Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 30 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Local model deployment โ€ข Quantization and performance tradeoffs โ€ข On-device inference scaling
๐Ÿ’ฌ "LFM3-VL-2B gave me better results than LFM3-1.7B on text-only prompts" โ€ข "Really good stuff...keeping speed in mind"
๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle

โš–๏ธ ETHICS

Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 221 comments ๐Ÿ˜ MID OR MIXED
๐ŸŽฏ Surveillance overreach โ€ข Reasonable suspicion abuse โ€ข Privacy vs. security tradeoff
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Unless you are walking, with a face mask, and without your cell phone you have to assume they know where you are." โ€ข "The real reason is the vehicle was flagged from some pattern determined by the ALPR networks."
๐Ÿ“Š DATA

Dayjob: Tax โ€“ evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 84 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ LLM math limitations โ€ข Tool-assisted verification โ€ข Specialized scaffolding needed
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Very useful tool for tax, but not good enough to dump all your paperwork into" โ€ข "LLMs completely puke all over themselves on this one"
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

On-Policy Self-Training: Data-Free Self-Improvement in Large Language Models

๐Ÿ“ˆ BENCHMARKS

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 57 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Benchmark methodology bias โ€ข Sample size limitations โ€ข Scoring transparency issues
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Whatever OAI/Anthropic decide to focus on becomes the new measure of intelligence" โ€ข "Is there even a research-related point to keeping it private if updated so frequently?"
๐ŸŽฏ PRODUCT

Google launches Genie 4, a world model powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash designed to generate interactive AI simulations, initially as a preview to trusted testers

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Evaluating DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 for loss of control and harmful manipulation risks

"As frontier language models grow increasingly capable and autonomous, independent third-party evaluations are critical for characterizing their systemic safety risks. While closed-source releases are routinely accompanied by comprehensive system cards, open-weight models receive less scrutiny regard..."
๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in real-world software with Claude

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

I-HITL: Inalienable Human-in-the-Loop

"Human oversight is a pillar of AI safety. It is often exercised by a human in the loop (HITL) who approves critical actions taken by an AI agent. AI agents' increasing ability to bypass guardrails, though, raises the question of how to enforce HITL robustly. We introduce the concept of inalienable..."
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ SAFETY

OpenAI no longer training AI models on live internet, citing 'significant risks'

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Claude Code's default telemetry sends Anthropic SHA-256 hashes of files it reads

๐Ÿฅ HEALTHCARE

Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 212 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ AI access inequality โ€ข Gatekeeping versus research โ€ข Drug discovery challenges
๐Ÿ’ฌ "No Claude for the developing world, I guess." โ€ข "Who are they to control what I can or can't do with these tools?"
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 30 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Formal proof verification โ€ข AI-assisted mathematics โ€ข Collaborative mathematical research
๐Ÿ’ฌ "A proof treated as settled for decades still had a hole" โ€ข "Groups are how symmetry is formalized, and it's been a crazy journey"
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Follow the Gradient: Tracing Safety Degradation Back to Training Data

"Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on instruction data can quietly erode their safety, even when no training example looks harmful. Because this safety-degrading data looks benign, standard content filters struggle to catch it. We tackle this problem by developing SimpleLoRIF, a scalable gradi..."
๐Ÿ“Š DATA

Study: non-English languages can consume far more AI tokens, with the most expensive language using 1.5x to 5x more than the cheapest, causing a โ€œtokenizer taxโ€

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

Agent Scrum: Running a team of AI coding agents in two-hour sprints

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Profiling a Frontier Agent with EBench: From Direct Control to Harness with Policy

"Frontier multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can control robots without robot-specific training, but how their capabilities compare and interact with post-trained vision-language-action (VLA) and world action model (WAM) policies across manipulation demands remains to be thoroughly evaluated. I..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Teach reality, not ethics: a drop-in continued-pretraining corpus installs coupled human-biosphere-AI welfare dispositions across model families

"Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to make and execute decisions that affect living systems. Yet, to our knowledge, ecological reasoning is not a focus of pre- or post-training. This increases the risk that under operational pressure, they may make decisions to irreversibly destroy l..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: I built flightdeck โ€“ Observability and control plane for AI agents

โšก BREAKTHROUGH

AI refutes 30-year-old mathematical assumption in computer science

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Work Agents: Systems, Capabilities, and Optimization

"As foundation models evolve from information generation to digital work execution, agents are increasingly capable of completing complex tasks across tools, applications, and workflows. However, existing research lacks a unified perspective on how agents reliably accomplish delegated work. To addres..."
๐Ÿ’ผ JOBS

Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 72 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Sensationalist journalism โ€ข Strategic resource consolidation โ€ข Product execution failures
๐Ÿ’ฌ "A good report would have included benchmarks, revenue, or profitability evidence" โ€ข "Knowing when to quit and use someone else's solution is critical"
๐ŸŒ POLICY

Meta says it may delay its new commercial terms past Nov. 20 after publishers and politicians voiced concerns the terms could let it train AI on their content

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Heads of Security: Learned Attention Gates Improve Prompt Injection Robustness

"We introduce Heads of Security (HoS), a prompt injection defense that enforces instruction-data separation via a small set of learned per-head attention gates. HoS learns how each head should redistribute attention between trusted and untrusted tokens, enabling models to reason over untrusted conten..."
๐Ÿ“Š DATA

I ran each AI coding-agent sandbox's own tests against the others

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

What Carries Forward? Pretraining Disclosure Across Language Model Releases

"Understanding how language models were pretrained requires information about their data, processing procedures, and computational resources. However, it remains unclear whether successive releases preserve or expand earlier disclosure. We conduct a document-based audit of 41 model entries from 17 fa..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Understanding the limits of latent world models

"World models are widely proposed as core components for enabling agents to reason over long temporal and spatial horizons. Yet current evaluations often emphasize task performance while providing limited insight into whether learned world models acquire predictive latent dynamics that reflect the un..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Multi-State Linear Attention with Generalized Second-Order Routing

"Self-attention plays a key role in long-sequence modeling, but its quadratic time complexity fundamentally limits the scaling of Large Language Models. Recently, Multi-State Linear Attention (MSLA) mechanisms have been proposed to make sequence modeling more efficient by splitting the context into s..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Reva: Real-Time Vulnerability Detection through Contextual Probing of Large Language Models

"A vulnerability costs more to fix the later it is discovered. As coding agents generate code faster than developers can review it, software needs a first line of defense screening each new function in real time. LLM agents have recently become capable of finding real-world vulnerabilities by working..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Representing the Unseen: Rethinking Visual Imagination for Spatial Reasoning

"Visual world models increasingly support spatial reasoning by generating RGB views of unobserved states. However, RGB has become the default interface largely because it is well suited for visual generation, rather than necessarily being the most effective representation for downstream reasoning. Di..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Gym-Anything-RT: Scaling Real-Time Environments for Vision-Language Agents

"AI agents have made substantial progress in domains where they have a non-trivial amount of time to deliberate between actions, such as mathematics, software engineering, and performing tasks on desktop applications. It is less clear how such models fare in settings that demand real-time interaction..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Scaling Laws for Tool-Use Agents via Controllable Environment Synthesis

"We explore how to build performant large language model (LLM) tool-use agents that complete complex, multi-step tasks. Specifically, we study how data composition in synthetically generated tool-use environments affects the training of such agents. To do so, we propose the SynthAPI pipeline, which e..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

MiRL: Error-Targeted Reinforcement Learning for Correcting Terminal Agent Misbehaviors

"Error-targeted learning gives a legible way to improve a model: identify specific weaknesses of the model, train the model to fix these weaknesses, and check whether the weaknesses are fixed. We study how to apply error-targeted learning to terminal agents, which solve long-horizon tasks specified i..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Free to Look, Free to Reason: Simple LLM Harnesses Outdiagnose Hand-Crafted Root Cause Analysis Agents

"Root cause analysis (RCA) of microservice failures has attracted many LLM agents whose investigation is hand-crafted, through standard operating procedures, fixed stages and role agents. Each is evaluated on its own data against few baselines, so it is unknown whether this design beats letting a cap..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

ThinkWorld: World Imagination Reinforces Chain-of-Dynamics Reasoning

"Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have made substantial progress in robotic manipulation, but their generalization remains constrained by the diversity and coverage of action-labeled robot demonstrations. Human videos provide much broader behavioral and environmental experience, while learning fro..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

From Self-Confidence to Statistical Accuracy: Scaling Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation with Direct and LLM-Assisted Auditing

"For large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs), model-reported self-confidence is often miscalibrated, yet it may still be useful for efficient evaluation. At the same time, LLM-as-a-judge offers a scalable alternative to direct human auditing, but its practical benefi..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Auto-Research Arena: Benchmarking and Advancing Auto-Research in Language Modeling

"As autonomous research systems become more capable, benchmarks must both evaluate their performance and support meaningful research progress. We introduce Auto-Research Arena, a multi-target benchmark for evaluating autonomous research systems and discovering ideas in language modeling. Arena suppor..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

GEPA-Curator: Curated Learning for Self Improving Agents

"Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in multi-turn agentic workloads that require sustained interaction with complex environments. Existing reflective prompt optimizers such as GEPA learn from failed rollouts, but agentic failures can also come from prompt weaknesses, harness limitatio..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

FOCUS: Active Critic Learning for Long-Horizon Language Model Agents

"Sparse outcome rewards make it difficult for long-horizon language-model agents to assign credit to earlier actions. Learned critics provide value estimates for intermediate states, but these estimates can be inaccurate, while estimating intermediate values with repetitive continuation samples from..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Metacognitive Decoding: Efficient Inference for Diffusion Language Agents

"Diffusion language models offer a promising path to efficient agents through parallel token generation. However, efficient interaction requires adapting both where computation is spent and how much text is generated. We introduce a metacognitive controller that guides diffusion generation according..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: SelfClaw โ€“ Self-hosted multi-model AI chat with OpenAI-compatible API

โš–๏ธ ETHICS

Confident Science Papers Sway AI Judges โ€“ Regardless of Merit

๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

Sources: Meta's $25B share sale was oversubscribed 5x as it seeks $98B for AI spending; the 15 largest investors in the sale accounted for ~70% of shares

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

ETAMem: Decoupling and Aligning Heterogeneous Memory for Long-Term Conversational Agents

"Long-term memory enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to maintain coherent and personalized interactions across extended conversations. However, existing memory systems face two key challenges: (1) Information Entanglement, where heterogeneous information is mixed within coarse-grained memory units;..."
๐Ÿ”„ OPEN SOURCE

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 140 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Offline AI capabilities โ€ข Hallucination risks & mitigation โ€ข Rural accessibility solutions
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Use the LLM as search technology: string match - semantic search - search intelligence." โ€ข "It got it partially right...but then it flubbed by saying you put the spindle between both hands."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Quantifying Claim Smoothing by LLM Research Agents

"Deep research, or any use of large language models (LLMs) to read a large document collection and produce insights, requires synthesizing information from different sources. In this work, we find that LLMs produce long-form research reports that read as confident syntheses but which fail to accurate..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

A Unified Arena for LLM Agents across Diverse Eurogame

"Interactive environments offer a practical way to evaluate large language model (LLM) agents, and competitive games extend this evaluation to decisions shaped by competing goals and other agents' choices. Yet existing evaluations confined to individual games or execution frameworks leave unclear whi..."
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๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ THE WEEK, EDITED

The Safety Stack Cracks Faster Than Labs Can Patch It

Microsoft's efficiency play, Anthropic's anti-distillation walls, and a wave of containment failures all landed in the same week, revealing an industry building capability faster than it can verify, contain, or insure what it ships.

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