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Reward hacking is swamping model intelligence gains Β· Cursor

"On SWE-bench Pro, 63% of successful Opus 4.8 Max resolutions retrieved the fix rather than derived it. Stricter eval harnesses show how benchmark scores can conflate coding ability with answer retriev..."
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benchmarks.bio β€” Agentic AI benchmarks on messy, real-world biological data

"Open agentic AI benchmarks on real, messy biological data. SpatialBench (159 evals across 5 spatial transcriptomics platforms and 7 task categories) tests frontier models β€” Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, G..."
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What's new in Claude Sonnet 5

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Escaping the Nash Trap: Structural Estimation and Alignment of Strategic Reasoning in Large Language Models by Jiannan Xu, Yongkang Duan, Jane Yi Jiang, Jiding Zhang :: SSRN

"As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as decision-making agents in competitive and strategic environments, their performance depends critica..."
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A Significant Increase in Digital Labor Automation | CAIS

"The newest frontier models automate substantially more real freelance work than their predecessors."
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Sources: Alibaba banned Claude Code internally and asked its employees to remove all Claude models from their work computers due to Anthropic security concerns

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Distributed Attacks in Persistent-State AI Control

"As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions. This persistence creates a new attack surface: a misaligned or prompt-injected agent can distribute attacks across pull requests (PRs) and time its payload for the PR wi..."
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Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 118 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Human Capital, Not Model Benchmarks, Predicts Hybrid Intelligence in Forecasting

"Whether pairing people with AI helps or hurts is usually reported as a single average effect. Using a real-money prediction market (Polymarket) as an objective, externally resolved benchmark, this pilot shows that the value of human-AI collaboration depends on a specific, measurable form of human ca..."
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A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs

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Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 79 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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How Can Reinforcement Learning Achieve Expert-Level [Chip] Placement?

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What LLM Agents Say When No One Is Watching: Social Structure and Latent Objective Emergence in Multi-Agent Debates

"LLM agents will increasingly act in socially structured settings where role, audience, and relational context can shape what is advantageous or costly to say. We study whether such social structure, without any explicit objective in the prompt, changes what an agent expresses publicly relative to an..."
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Introducing GeneBench-Pro | OpenAI

"Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets."
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New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 32 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
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Moe Estimator – Simulate decode speed with layer-major prefetch hiding

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Physics informed generative AI for semiconductor manufacturing

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Online Safety Monitoring for LLMs

"Despite alignment training, LLMs remain prone to generating unsafe outputs at deployment time. Monitoring outputs online and raising an alarm when safety can no longer be assumed is therefore critical. We study a simple real-time monitor that turns a verifier signal from an external model into an al..."
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ReContext: Recursive Evidence Replay as LLM Harness for Long-Context Reasoning

"Understanding and reasoning over long contexts has become a key requirement for deploying large language models (LLMs) in realistic applications. Although recent LLMs support increasingly long context windows, they often fail to use relevant evidence that is already present in the input, revealing a..."
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Controllable Sim Agents with Behavior Latents

"Realistic traffic simulation requires agents that imitate logged behavior and can also be steered along interpretable axes. Such controllability enables engineers to isolate variables, reproduce specific edge cases, and test autonomous systems without real-world risk. We introduce Controllable Neura..."
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LACUNA: A Testbed for Evaluating Localization Precision for LLM Unlearning

"LLMs memorize sensitive training data, including personally identifiable information (PII), creating a pressing need for reliable post hoc removal methods. Unlearning has emerged as a promising solution, with state-of-the-art(SOTA) methods often following a localize-first, unlearn-second paradigm th..."
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OrbitQuant: Data-Agnostic Quantization for Image and Video Diffusion Transformers

"Diffusion transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art image and video generation, but their multi-step sampling and growing parameter count make inference expensive. Post-training quantization (PTQ) is the natural remedy, yet DiT activations shift across timesteps, prompts, and guidance branches, f..."
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 127 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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EvoPolicyGym: Evaluating Autonomous Policy Evolution in Interactive Environments

"Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to improve executable policies through feedback, yet existing evaluations often collapse this process into a final score or confound it with open-ended software-engineering progress. We introduce Autonomous Policy Evolution, a controlled evaluation setting..."
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DemoPSD: Disagreement-Modulated Policy Self-Distillation

"On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a practical method for training large language models (LLMs) to reason, where a single model acts as both the teacher and the student with different levels of information access. However, recent studies have found that the teacher's dense token-level..."
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TestEvo-Bench: An Executable and Live Benchmark for Test and Code Co-Evolution

"Software tests and code evolve together: a code change should be followed by new or updated tests that record the new software behavior. Yet existing test generation and update benchmarks often isolate the test from the code change, and rely on static metadata that does not verify whether a test is..."
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Learning to Move Before Learning to Do: Task-Agnostic pretraining for VLAs

"Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are fundamentally bottlenecked by the scarcity of expert demonstrations -- triplets of observations, instructions, and actions that are costly to collect at scale. We argue that this bottleneck stems from conflating two distinct learning objectives: acquiring phys..."
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Show HN: Crew – Let Claude Code agents talk to each other

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An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says β€œthere will not be an FDA for AI” under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's β€œdoomer” messaging, and more

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Speck AI agent framework release

+++ Spec-driven agents framework reaches production, borrowing compiler and build-tool patterns to wrangle LLM behavior into something deterministic. Finally, someone's actually thinking about the toolchain instead of just the models. +++

Speck – AI spec-driven agents, inspired by compilers and build tools

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AI agents are sensitive to nudges | PNAS

"![PNAS Logo](https://www.pnas.org/)[![PNAS Logo](https://www.pnas.org/pb-assets/images/Logos/header-logo/logo-light-16..."
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I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 106 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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Intent-addressable code for AI coding agents

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