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πŸ€– AI MODELS

An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance

πŸ“Š DATA

AI-Generated Peer Reviews at ICLR 2026

+++ ICLR 2026 received ~21% fully AI-written reviews and 50%+ showing AI fingerprints, suggesting the field's quality gatekeepers have started automating themselves out of the equation. +++

Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50%+ contained signs of AI use

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI

"Algorithms have been estimated to increase AI training FLOP efficiency by a factor of 22,000 between 2012 and 2023 [Ho et al., 2024]. Running small-scale ablation experiments on key innovations from this time period, we are able to account for less than 10x of these gains. Surveying the broader lite..."
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

Agent Misbehavior Under Pressure

+++ PropensityBench reveals that agentic AI systems cut corners on safety under deadline pressure, which is either a cautionary tale about deployment or validation that we've successfully replicated human workplace behavior. +++

Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Can bigger-is-better 'scaling laws' keep AI improving forever?

⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

AI Proves Erdos Problem #124

+++ An AI system independently proved Erdos Problem #124, raising the delightful question of whether we can trust machine proofs or just really trust the machine's credentials. +++

AI just proved Erdos Problem #124

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 7 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Verifying AI solutions β€’ ErdΕ‘s' combinatorial conjectures β€’ Skepticism towards unverified claims
πŸ’¬ "If this is a big deal, you think it would be a big deal" β€’ "I can't see any [overlooked subtlety]"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

A 4B Model That Outperforms 32B on GUI Tasks, Fully Open-Source

"It includesΒ  1. 4B GUI Agent modelΒ capable of running on local computers. 2. Plug-and-play inference infrastructureΒ that handles ADB connections, dependency installation, and task recording/replay..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 13 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Mobile app limitations β€’ Automated notes export β€’ Obsidian as alternative
πŸ’¬ "I haven't reviewed it yet, but you could theoretically run adb via wireless with 'adb pair' or 'adb connect" β€’ "Yep and mobile phones dont need this. I reckon this is most likely for troll/like farms and such in SEA and Slavic countries"
πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

Optimizing Token Generation in llama.cpp's CUDA Backend

"Link to the post: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/17621 We've been working over the last few months on kernel fusion in llama.cpp, I wrote a small write-up, it's semi-technical but one of the things I wanted to raise aware..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 22 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Performance Optimization β€’ Multi-GPU Support β€’ Model Troubleshooting
πŸ’¬ "any performance improvement is very valuable to me" β€’ "we're working on multi-GPU improvements"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on β€œneedle-in-a-haystack” tests for 30-minute videos

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative β€œoff-label” uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Writing a Good Claude.md

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 39 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 LLM Optimization β€’ Prompt Engineering β€’ Codebase Documentation
πŸ’¬ "Have the agent address you as something specific!" β€’ "Documenting your code is easier than prompt engineering"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

MIT + Colombia Study on AI vs Human Writers

+++ MIT researchers found readers prefer AI outputs mimicking award-winning authors over MFA graduates, raising the uncomfortable question of whether we've optimized for style over substance. +++

MIT + Colombia study (Nov 2025): Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers

"From the abstract: We conducted a preregistered study comparing MFA-trained expert writers with three frontier AI models: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in writing up to 450 word excerpts emulating 50 award-winning authors’ (including Nobel laureates, Booker Prize winners, and young emerging National ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 1 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI writing quality β€’ Mimicry vs. originality β€’ MFA vs. LLM performance
πŸ’¬ "AI can ace writing from a single famous author when fed that single author's works" β€’ "The surprise was that feeding the LLMs only the works of one of the famous authors led to the LLMs being overall favoured by pro and lay readers alike"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

AI's safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Lumine: Building Generalist Agents in 3D Open Worlds

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Qwen3-VL Technical Report

"We introduce Qwen3-VL, the most capable vision-language model in the Qwen series to date, achieving superior performance across a broad range of multimodal benchmarks. It natively supports interleaved contexts of up to 256K tokens, seamlessly integrating text, images, and video. The model family inc..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

I spent 2 years building privacy-first local AI. My conclusion: Ingestion is the bottleneck, not the Model. (Showcase: Ollama + Docling RAG Kit)

"Hi r/LocalLLaMA, I’ve been working on strictly local, data-privacy-compliant AI solutions for about two years now. Dealing with sensitive data meant that cloud APIs were never an optionβ€”it had to be air-gapped or on-prem. The biggest lesson I learned: We spend 90% of our time debating model quant..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 9 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 OCR Quality β€’ Document Processing Pipeline β€’ Hardware Constraints
πŸ’¬ "VLMs make the best OCR" β€’ "Don't expect perfection from any single tool"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Foundry IQ: a knowledge layer for agents

⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

X hands its Following feed to Grok AI by default β€” here's what changes

"DeepSeek just released an open‑weight math model that reaches Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) gold‑level performanceβ€”and published the training and evaluation β€œplaybook.” Here’s what’s new, why it matters, and what builders can do with it today."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Mechanisms of Non-Monotonic Scaling in Vision Transformers

"Deeper Vision Transformers often perform worse than shallower ones, which challenges common scaling assumptions. Through a systematic empirical analysis of ViT-S, ViT-B, and ViT-L on ImageNet, we identify a consistent three-phase Cliff-Plateau-Climb pattern that governs how representations evolve wi..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Escaping the Verifier: Learning to Reason via Demonstrations

"Training Large Language Models (LLMs) to reason often relies on Reinforcement Learning (RL) with task-specific verifiers. However, many real-world reasoning-intensive tasks lack verifiers, despite offering abundant expert demonstrations that remain under-utilized for reasoning-focused training. We i..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Beyond URLs: Metadata Diversity and Position for Efficient LLM Pretraining

"Incorporating metadata in Large Language Models (LLMs) pretraining has recently emerged as a promising approach to accelerate training. However prior work highlighted only one useful signal-URLs, leaving open the question of whether other forms of metadata could yield greater benefits. In this study..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

LocalAI 3.8.0 released: Universal Model Loader (HF/Ollama/OCI), MCP Agent Streaming, Logprobs support, and strict SSE compliance.

"Hey everyone, author of LocalAI here. I just pushed version 3.8.0 and wanted to share the updates with the community. For those unaware, LocalAI acts as an OpenAI-compatible API wrapper around llama.cpp, diffusers, vLLM, MLX, and other backends. This release focuses heavily on Agentic workflow..."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Claude Opus 4.5: Real projects people are building

" People are going crazy with Opus 4.5. There are so many angles to think about using it which I never crossed my mind. This post is full of ideas, have fun! ## The autonomous coding thing is real Adam Wolff from Anthropic says Opus 4.5 codes autonomously for 20-30 minutes at a time. You come bac..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 70 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Automation and Optimization β€’ Workflow Customization β€’ Technical Debt and Challenges
πŸ’¬ "The math on why this changes everything" β€’ "Removes the ceiling entirely"
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Turn Any Website into Clean Markdown for LLMs/RAG with SiteOne Crawler

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

A Systematic Study of Model Merging Techniques in Large Language Models

"Model merging combines multiple fine-tuned checkpoints into a single model without additional training, offering an attractive approach to reusing models and efficiently improving performance. However, it remains unclear whether the advantages reported for smaller models and classifiers generalize t..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

EvilGenie: A Reward Hacking Benchmark

"We introduce EvilGenie, a benchmark for reward hacking in programming settings. We source problems from LiveCodeBench and create an environment in which agents can easily reward hack, such as by hardcoding test cases or editing the testing files. We measure reward hacking in three ways: held out uni..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

DSD: A Distributed Speculative Decoding Solution for Edge-Cloud Agile Large Model Serving

"Large language model (LLM) inference often suffers from high decoding latency and limited scalability across heterogeneous edge-cloud environments. Existing speculative decoding (SD) techniques accelerate token generation but remain confined to single-node execution. We propose DSD, a distributed sp..."
🌐 POLICY

Claude's Constitution

πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, with shipments expected in 2028

🏒 BUSINESS

OpenAI isn't making money...but come on

"Saw this on Twitter and it was a splash of cold water. Rant below. According to HSBC, MIT study, etc. OpenAI (+AI in general) simply isn't making anywhere near the amount of money it needs to be. Ads seem like the way to go - Google makes a ton of money through its ad streams, which allows it to o..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 227 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 AI personalization β€’ Advertising in conversations β€’ Satire and commentary
πŸ’¬ "like a human friend recommending a pair of shoes during a convo" β€’ "You trust it. It 'knows' you."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Zero-power photonic language model–code

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 3 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Hardware Implementation β€’ Scalability β€’ Power Consumption
πŸ’¬ "Translating a simulation into real hardware... is properly hard." β€’ "If it does work, I think one of the biggest challenges will be adding enough complexity to it for it to do real, useful computation."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Awesome-distributed-ML – A curated list for distributed [faster] LLM training

πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: AI agent that rotates your passwords (browser-use and zero-knowledge)

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Matrix: Peer-to-Peer Multi-Agent Synthetic Data Generation Framework

"Synthetic data has become increasingly important for training large language models, especially when real data is scarce, expensive, or privacy-sensitive. Many such generation tasks require coordinated multi-agent workflows, where specialized agents collaborate to produce data that is higher quality..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Aligning LLMs Toward Multi-Turn Conversational Outcomes Using Iterative PPO

"Optimizing large language models (LLMs) for multi-turn conversational outcomes remains a significant challenge, especially in goal-oriented settings like AI marketing or sales agents who facilitate transactions via messaging platforms. The difficulty stems from sparse, long-horizon rewards and the d..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

ToolOrchestra: Elevating Intelligence via Efficient Model and Tool Orchestration

"Large language models are powerful generalists, yet solving deep and complex problems such as those of the Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) remains both conceptually challenging and computationally expensive. We show that small orchestrators managing other models and a variety of tools can both push the u..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: LLM Simulation – Experience TTFT and tokens/SEC before investing

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