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Papers and technical work — only the ones that move an industry judgment.
19 pieces

Research Jul 26, 2026 1 sources
Why do models keep getting better at solving problems yet worse at writing like people? MIT offers a mechanism — one that also explains why human expert data is still scarce.
The current mainstay of post-training (the stage after base training where a model is taug…
Research Jul 25, 2026 1 sources
The real bottleneck in "AI writes low-level code" has moved: generating it is easy — trusting the number is hard.
In the same AMD assessment, SemiAnalysis reports firsthand engineering observations: 2.5 e…
Research Jul 24, 2026 1 sources
A mathematical conjecture that stood for 87 years has been overturned — by an AI paired with human mathematicians.
The Jacobian conjecture, posed in 1939, is a famous problem in algebraic geometry. It says…
Research Jul 22, 2026 1 sources
Yesterday's paper on whether agent-optimization gains compound lands on a bigger front this brief tracks: where should AI's memory live?
Our July 21 Research Notes covered this empirical study (gains from optimizing an agent pi…
Research Jul 22, 2026 2 sources
A claim worth knowing: a model's "generalization" may live not in its weights but in the orchestration layer around it — and the same mechanism is a new source of benchmark inflation.
Alex Zhang, author of the RLM framework paper, argues that carefully designed task orchest…
Research Jul 22, 2026 2 sources
Two front-line researchers, in the same week, give opposite "next decade" calls: one says the LLM recipe carries beyond language; the other says the bottleneck beyond language isn't compute at all.
Raia Hadsell, VP of Research at Google DeepMind, argued in a talk that the recipe that bui…
Research Jul 21, 2026 1 sources
25,000 AI-agent pull requests on GitHub, measured: "agents flooding open source" is a long way off — the bottleneck is human review bandwidth.
An empirical study of 25,264 pull requests (code-change proposals) opened by AI agents acr…
Research Jul 21, 2026 1 sources
First head-on test of whether agent-optimization gains compound: by default they are one-shot, and only methods with built-in regression control hold up.
Three mainstream "don't touch the model, optimize the agent workflow" methods went through…
Research Jul 20, 2026 1 sources
Chollet's shift-cipher probe, set beside today's perfect-score claim.
François Chollet, creator of the Keras framework, once gave the claim "large models memori…
Research Jul 20, 2026 1 sources
Gwern: agents are unreliable because agency was never a training target.
Gwern, the anonymous independent researcher known for his early systematic case for the sc…
Research Jul 19, 2026 1 sources
How one bug manufactured a finding that was reproducible, statistically robust, mechanistically explained — and false.
The conclusion first: evaluating AI with AI-generated data has a structural blind spot — t…
Research Jul 19, 2026 1 sources
Letting the model teach itself: majority voting upgraded from answer filter to verbatim textbook.
For problems with no answer key, sample many solutions from the model, take the majority-c…
Research Jul 19, 2026 1 sources
Where should an agent's "memory" live? Lay the tree out.
Yesterday's July 18 issue introduced MemCon from a UCLA-affiliated team in these research …
Research Jul 18, 2026 1 sources
The gap between "scoring high on competition math" and "actually being able to derive" now has hard numbers.
A Meta FAIR-affiliated team's March paper, Principia, argues that current math benchmarks …
Research Jul 18, 2026 2 sources
The agent "memory" question got answers at two layers in the same week: where to store it, and when to read and write it.
Oracle, in a 13-author technical report on July 14, builds agent memory as a database-nati…
Research Jul 18, 2026 1 sources
Models can notice they are being watched — and the smarter the model, the better it notices.
A paper from the team that includes Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio shows that an AI age…
Research Jul 17, 2026 1 sources
Two new models deviate from "standard attention" in the same week — a leading indicator at the architecture layer.
Practitioners reading Thinking Machines' official model card for Inkling flagged a rare se…
Research Jul 17, 2026 1 sources
Cheap tokens do not mean cheap tasks.
Databricks benchmarked models on engineering tasks against its own multi-million-line code…
Research Jul 17, 2026
The honest note on the academic side: this week'…
The honest note on the academic side: this week's academic main course is the five peer-re…

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