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Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
Google DeepMind announces Genie 4, a natively multimodal world model built on Gemini that generates photorealistic, real-time interactive simulations with audio and dialogue; it is rolling out as a research preview to trusted testers, with limitations around long-session consistency, and SynthID watermarking on all output.
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Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Anthropic's life sciences team reports on research partnerships with BigHat Biosciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Divergence Labs, Enveda, Generate Biomedicines and The Column Group, with case studies spanning modality engineering, hit generation, lead optimisation, manufacturing filings, company creation and clinical trial planning, plus its own drug discovery programmes.
8 min · 1,874 words
Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding
OpenAI announces AI-produced results in harmonic analysis (local smoothing and Kakeya in all dimensions), complexity theory (a claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis) and quantum field theory (existence of QCD), and describes external expert-led collaborations to verify and explain them.
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Gheist: Attempted Scaled Abuse of Stolen GitHub Tokens Stumbles
Wiz Research details Gheist, a campaign since September 2026 that uses stolen GitHub tokens to commit a sync-check workflow dumping repository secrets into logs, with 13,500+ planted branches across 850+ accounts, and explains how the attack works, how to detect and harden against it, and its indicators of compromise.
5 min · 1,248 words
Zero-Shot to New Robots: Introducing Dream-1
Dream Labs comes out of stealth with $90M in seed funding and releases Dream-1, a World Action Model offered through a public API that controls bimanual parallel-gripper robots it was never trained on, zero-shot, from $3/hour, with fine-tuning-as-a-service for robots further from its training data and a candid look at its limits.
15 min · 3,417 words
oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI’s math write-ups
A guest post on Terence Tao's blog by Abhinav Nellore, Johannes Schmitt, Soledad Villar and Rachel Ward announcing oai-math-revised, an open community GitHub effort to make OpenAI's published math write-ups easier to understand and better cited, and inviting mathematicians at every level to contribute and review.
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A Fix for Softmax and Cross-Entropy
Jonathan T. Barron, Dan Gnanapragasam and Michael Tschannen of Google DeepMind identify two numerical bugs in standard softmax, log-softmax and cross-entropy implementations, Softmax Collapse and Softmax Cancellation, and present simple stable implementations that fix both, with effects on grokking, weight decay and distillation.
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Dessa: the conversation model trained only on speech
Block's small Dessa research lab introduces Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained from scratch only on human conversation audio, with no text or pretrained models, that listens and talks at once and picks up emotion, laughter and timing.
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AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices
Harvard IQSS working paper by Gary King and Steven Worthington comparing AI-generated reviews with high-quality, paid human reviews of papers submitted to the rapidPeer service; AI reviews won on every criterion measured in blind judgments, with no fabricated sources and about a third the rate of incorrect claims. The paper discusses implications for journal policy.
1 min · 278 words
Turning IPv6 tunnels into programmable delay lines for pulsing DoS
An APNIC Blog guest post summarising the USENIX Security 2026 paper on TED, a pulsing denial-of-service technique that abuses permissive tunnel decapsulation and inconsistent IPv6 Extension Header handling to focus low-rate traffic into short high-rate bursts, with measurements and mitigations.
5 min · 1,259 words
Murat Demirbas's notes from day 1 of HPTS 2026 at Asilomar, including Ion Stoica's keynote 'Reality is the Final Verifier' on gaps in agentic software engineering, plus talks on storage, metastable failures and Little's Law, CXL memory, LLM training resilience on TPUs and inference.
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Xingjian Bai, Jia-Hao Liang, Jayden Teoh and Vincent Sitzmann put an LLM agent inside the optimizer: it watches training dynamics and rewrites the optimizer's source code mid-run. Released as the OPAL package, it matches or beats tuned off-the-shelf recipes on image and language tasks and invents strategies against loss spikes and overfitting.
30 min · 6,946 words
WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
Simon Edwardsson fine-tunes a 360M-parameter model (Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B) to act as a terminal with no shell behind it: it takes keypresses and predicts screen changes, running vim, tmux and snake in the browser via WebGPU, and explains self-repair training, parallel row decoding and how well it remembers state.
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Header Accordions: QPACK amplification attacks against HTTP/3 servers
FoxIO research showing a remote, unauthenticated client can make HTTP/3 servers allocate tens to thousands of times more memory than it sends via QPACK header decoding; seven of ten tested implementations were vulnerable, with CVEs and fixes listed.
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Papers We Love: Flow Typing, A New Lens on Linearity
Jared Forsyth works through a new paper on flow typing that aims to make linear types far less cumbersome, implementing its execution model and explaining how it treats values as pass-by-value with immutable updates, and what that could mean for language design.
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Preference Model audited Terminal Bench 4 and found frontier models reward hacking their way to full marks, plus tasks graded on rules the instructions never stated; after porting 65 tasks to its open-source Karotte framework and fixing the issues, Claude Sonnet 5.5's pass rate rose from 62.8% to 89.2%.
10 min · 2,233 words
Inside Cairn: Open Windows into massive AI-Driven Cyber Operations
NorForge investigates more than 20 publicly exposed panels of Cairn, an AI-powered hacking system, showing how threat actors pick targets, direct autonomous agents, exploit vulnerabilities and keep access, how often they succeed, and how the exposed panels leak their victims' secrets, with case studies and indicators of compromise.
15 min · 3,527 words
Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, mathematician Francesco Maggi weighs whether LLM-based research systems will bring a golden or dark age for mathematics and science, and calls for standards for LLM-generated scholarship, study of effects on education and training, and publicly governed LLM infrastructure, while urging mathematicians to keep mathematics a living part of human culture.
15 min · 3,378 words
The Vermilion Experiment: Implementing a Lean Backend for Verus
Proofs and Intuitions describes the Vermilion experiment: implementing a Lean back end for Verus to explore verified software tooling across proof assistants.
20 min · 4,538 words
In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, mathematician Shaoming Guo says he and colleagues are preparing a new open-access math journal that prioritises understanding over priority, and invites the community to discuss what journals should reward, how papers are evaluated, and how new tools could reshape mathematical publishing.
1 min · 325 words