📚 HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - October 31, 2025

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🔬 RESEARCH

Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models

via Arxiv 👤 Rui-Jie Zhu, Zixuan Wang, Kai Hua et al. 📅 2025-10-29

⚡ Score: 8.1

"Modern LLMs are trained to "think" primarily via explicit text generation, such as chain-of-thought (CoT), which defers reasoning to post-training and under-leverages pre-training data. We present and open-source Ouro, named after the recursive Ouroboros, a family of pre-trained Looped Language Mode..."

🛡️ SAFETY

Anthropic discovers introspective awareness in Claude

4x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2025-10-30

⚡ Score: 8.0

+++ Anthropic's introspection research suggests LLMs exhibit genuine self-awareness capabilities, which is either a breakthrough in mechanistic interpretability or the beginning of an excellent tech industry panic cycle. +++

Anthropic's Pilot Sabotage Risk Report

via HackerNews 👤 allenleee 📅 2025-10-31

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 8.2

🛠️ TOOLS

Cognition releases SWE-1.5, a new coding model in Windsurf, saying it partnered with Cerebras to serve SWE-1.5 at speeds up to 13x faster than Claude Sonnet 4.5

via Techmeme 👤 Cognition 📅 2025-10-30

⚡ Score: 7.5

📊 DATA

Scale AI and CAIS' Remote Labor Index, which measures AI models' ability to automate freelance work, finds the best AI performed less than 3% of tasks

via Techmeme 👤 Wired 📅 2025-10-30

⚡ Score: 7.4

🛡️ SAFETY

Agents Rule of Two: A Practical Approach to AI Agent Security

via HackerNews 👤 mickayz 📅 2025-10-31

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.3

🛠️ TOOLS

I tested 30+ community Claude Skills for a week. Here’s what actually works (complete list + GitHub links)

via r/claudeai 👤 u/Zestyclose-Ad-9003 📅 2025-10-30

⬆️ 280 ups ⚡ Score: 7.2

"**I spent a week testing every community-built Claude Skill I could find. The official ones? Just scratching the surface.** So when Skills launched, I did what everyone did - grabbed the official Anthropic ones. Docx, pptx, pdf stuff. They work fine. Then I kept seeing people on Twitter and GitHub..."

🏢 BUSINESS

How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise

via HackerNews 👤 reaperducer 📅 2025-10-31

🔺 349 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 353 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Dot-com bubble lessons • AI hype and valuations • Concerning financial practices

💬 "The hype was something hard to describe." • "OpenAI's moat is tenuous."

🤖 AI MODELS

Your Transformer is Secretly an EOT Solver

via HackerNews 👤 elonlit 📅 2025-10-31

🔺 3 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

Qwen3-VL-32B Q8 speeds in llama.cpp vs vLLM FP8 on a RTX PRO 6000

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/bullerwins 📅 2025-10-30

⬆️ 58 ups ⚡ Score: 7.0

"Support for Qwen3-VL has just been merged to llama.cpp, thanks to all the contributors and the qwen team! https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/16780 The speed for the Q8 gguf's is actually faster\* in llama.cpp vs the FP8 version in vLLM, ..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 18 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Model performance • Deployment setup • Generative model limitations

💬 "VLLM is not currently optimized for Cutlass on SM12.0" • "FP8 on SM12.0 will use Triton kernel which will be slower than native llama.cpp"

🔒 SECURITY

AI scrapers request commented scripts

via HackerNews 👤 ColinWright 📅 2025-10-31

🔺 142 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 83 comments 😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY

🎯 Web Scraping Techniques • Copyright Infringement • Poisoning LLM Data

💬 "Most web scrapers, even if illegal, are for... business." • "A coordinated effort among different sites will have a much greater chance of poisoning the data of a model."

🔒 SECURITY

OpenAI launches Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous cybersecurity research agent that can identify and help patch vulnerabilities, in private beta

via Techmeme 👤 Zdnet 📅 2025-10-30

⚡ Score: 6.9

🤖 AI MODELS

One Memory Layer, Multiple Models (Claude, GPT, Llama, etc.)

via HackerNews 👤 jingerzz 📅 2025-10-31

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.9

🔬 RESEARCH

The Limits of Obliviate: Evaluating Unlearning in LLMs via Stimulus-Knowledge Entanglement-Behavior Framework

via Arxiv 👤 Aakriti Shah, Thai Le 📅 2025-10-29

⚡ Score: 6.7

"Unlearning in large language models (LLMs) is crucial for managing sensitive data and correcting misinformation, yet evaluating its effectiveness remains an open problem. We investigate whether persuasive prompting can recall factual knowledge from deliberately unlearned LLMs across models ranging f..."

🔬 RESEARCH

Process-Level Trajectory Evaluation for Environment Configuration in Software Engineering Agents

via Arxiv 👤 Jiayi Kuang, Yinghui Li, Xin Zhang et al. 📅 2025-10-29

⚡ Score: 6.6

"Large language model-based agents show promise for software engineering, but environment configuration remains a bottleneck due to heavy manual effort and scarce large-scale, high-quality datasets. Existing benchmarks assess only end-to-end build/test success, obscuring where and why agents succeed..."

🔬 RESEARCH

ALDEN: Reinforcement Learning for Active Navigation and Evidence Gathering in Long Documents

via Arxiv 👤 Tianyu Yang, Terry Ruas, Yijun Tian et al. 📅 2025-10-29

⚡ Score: 6.5

"Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at interpreting text-rich images but struggle with long, visually complex documents that demand analysis and integration of information spread across multiple pages. Existing approaches typically rely on fixed reasoning templates or rigid pipelines, which force VL..."

🛠️ TOOLS

Faster llama.cpp ROCm performance for AMD RDNA3 (tested on Strix Halo/Ryzen AI Max 395)

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/randomfoo2 📅 2025-10-30

⬆️ 125 ups ⚡ Score: 6.5

"The other day I was doing some exploring on how ggml-cuda works and I found that there were some easy fixes for llama.cpp's ROCm/HIP backend performance with rocWMMA (which sees bigger-than-expected drops..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 8 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 Optimizing performance • Addressing community needs • Maintainer plans

💬 "people like you and your PR keep alive local inference for modest wallets and old hardware" • "I think you're not reading things carefully enough. The PR will not be merged"

🔬 RESEARCH

The Tool Decathlon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Diverse, Realistic, and Long-Horizon Task Execution

via Arxiv 👤 Junlong Li, Wenshuo Zhao, Jian Zhao et al. 📅 2025-10-29

⚡ Score: 6.5

"Real-world language agents must handle complex, multi-step workflows across diverse Apps. For instance, an agent may manage emails by coordinating with calendars and file systems, or monitor a production database to detect anomalies and generate reports following an operating manual. However, existi..."

🔒 SECURITY

Netflix, Anthropic, and others are paying researchers up to $25K to find and report flaws; HackerOne paid a record $81M in rewards in the past year, up 13% YoY

via Techmeme 👤 Bloomberg 📅 2025-10-30

⚡ Score: 6.5

🛠️ TOOLS

Claude outage

via HackerNews 👤 stuartmemo 📅 2025-10-31

🔺 124 pts ⚡ Score: 6.5

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 173 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 AI service reliability • User frustration • Overreliance on AI

💬 "It keeps me grounded, and saves me from being unconsciously outsourcing all the hard work of thought process to AI." • "If LLM use were as valuable as the adherents claim it is, this news would be on par with AWS US East 1 being down."

🤖 AI MODELS

I've Been Logging Claude 3.5/4.0/4.5 Regressions for a Year. The Pattern I Found Is Too Specific to Be Coincidence.

via r/cursor 👤 u/JFerzt 📅 2025-10-31

⬆️ 96 ups ⚡ Score: 6.4

"I've been working with Claude as my coding assistant for a year now. From 3.5 to 4 to 4.5. And in that year, I've had exactly *one* consistent feeling: that I'm not moving forward. Some days the model is brilliant—solves complex problems in minutes. Other days... well, other days it feels like they'..."

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Samsung says it's partnering with Nvidia to build an “AI Megafactory” and deploy over 50K of Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to embed AI in its chipmaking process

via Techmeme 👤 Siliconangle 📅 2025-10-31

⚡ Score: 6.3

🤖 AI MODELS

Extropic, which says its chips using probabilistic bits can be 10,000x more energy efficient than current AI chips, shares its first chip with some AI labs

via Techmeme 👤 Wired 📅 2025-10-30

⚡ Score: 6.2

🎨 CREATIVE

Completely made with AI

via r/ChatGPT 👤 u/EnvisionFirstFilms 📅 2025-10-31

⬆️ 7830 ups ⚡ Score: 6.0

"AI tools used: Midjourney Hailuo 2.0 (99% of shots) Kling (opening shot) Adobe Firefly Magnific Enhancor Elevenlabs In a way when actual directors start using it like say in the video above (Chris Chapel), It is not so slop anymore. Meaning when AI is put in the hand of artists it will only get be..."

Stories from October 31, 2025

Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models

Anthropic discovers introspective awareness in Claude

Anthropic's Pilot Sabotage Risk Report

Anthropic scientists hacked Claude's brain – and it noticed

Anthropic has found evidence of "genuine introspective awareness" in LLMs

Signs of introspection in large language models

Cognition releases SWE-1.5, a new coding model in Windsurf, saying it partnered with Cerebras to serve SWE-1.5 at speeds up to 13x faster than Claude Sonnet 4.5

Scale AI and CAIS' Remote Labor Index, which measures AI models' ability to automate freelance work, finds the best AI performed less than 3% of tasks

Agents Rule of Two: A Practical Approach to AI Agent Security

I tested 30+ community Claude Skills for a week. Here’s what actually works (complete list + GitHub links)

How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise

Your Transformer is Secretly an EOT Solver

Qwen3-VL-32B Q8 speeds in llama.cpp vs vLLM FP8 on a RTX PRO 6000

AI scrapers request commented scripts

OpenAI launches Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous cybersecurity research agent that can identify and help patch vulnerabilities, in private beta

One Memory Layer, Multiple Models (Claude, GPT, Llama, etc.)

The Limits of Obliviate: Evaluating Unlearning in LLMs via Stimulus-Knowledge Entanglement-Behavior Framework

Process-Level Trajectory Evaluation for Environment Configuration in Software Engineering Agents

ALDEN: Reinforcement Learning for Active Navigation and Evidence Gathering in Long Documents

Faster llama.cpp ROCm performance for AMD RDNA3 (tested on Strix Halo/Ryzen AI Max 395)

The Tool Decathlon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Diverse, Realistic, and Long-Horizon Task Execution

Netflix, Anthropic, and others are paying researchers up to $25K to find and report flaws; HackerOne paid a record $81M in rewards in the past year, up 13% YoY

Claude outage

I've Been Logging Claude 3.5/4.0/4.5 Regressions for a Year. The Pattern I Found Is Too Specific to Be Coincidence.

Samsung says it's partnering with Nvidia to build an “AI Megafactory” and deploy over 50K of Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to embed AI in its chipmaking process

Extropic, which says its chips using probabilistic bits can be 10,000x more energy efficient than current AI chips, shares its first chip with some AI labs

Completely made with AI

Stories from October 31, 2025

Anthropic discovers introspective awareness in Claude

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