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The Machine-Native Economy: How digital assets connect intelligence, commerce, and compute
BlackRock Digital Assets Research argues agentic AI needs machine-native payment rails (stablecoins/blockchains) and explores tokenized compute as a converging digital-asset use case.
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Epoch AI finds the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter since 2023—roughly 13× per year—faster than DNA sequencing, compute, batteries, or electricity, across math, science, and skill-game benchmarks.
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What Is RLCD? The Secret Behind Jev
Di Zhang explains RLCD (schema-conditioned Plackett–Luce reward modeling) and how Jev turns calibrated multiway decisions into a product—making the reward model the model rather than hiding it behind a generator.
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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Peter Vijeh analyzes 51,129 knife-subreddit comments: a small tail of accounts writes 11.3% of buying-thread brand mentions versus ~7.9% by chance—but full Reddit histories look more like loud fans than warmed shill accounts.
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Stephen A. Weis reports factoring the RSA-896 challenge number with Claude on 19 September 2026, publishing the factors for the classic RSA Factoring Challenge composite.
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RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?
RoboHarm tests whether frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions: refusal vs completion rates across models, tasks like toaster/screwdriver hazards, and scoring details.
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The Right Answer Is Not a Proof: Put Verification Inside the Reasoning Loop
Cognaptus explains PRoSFI: a 7B model emits small machine-checkable reasoning steps that Lean/Z3 can verify, raising measured soundness far more than final-answer accuracy alone on ProverQA-Hard.
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An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents
Fan et al. ablate planning, action space, and context management in a fixed coding-agent loop across 176 SWE-Bench/Terminal-Bench settings, finding when context management, planning, and predefined tools help—and when bash-only is enough.
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Scaling Discovery through Test-Time Communication
Research paper showing that test-time communication among identical agents sharing discoveries can beat independent parallel search on ARC-AGI-3 and transfer to research tasks like polyomino packing and MNIST compression.
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Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data
Research proposing infinite-parameter LLMs that generate and adapt weights from live data streams, rather than relying only on a fixed pretrained parameter set.
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Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs Abstract Ternary Large Language Models (LLM) store every weight as one of three symbols , so the cost of a ternary model is conventionally referenced to the information-theoretic bits per weight. The prevailing deployment format…
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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
TMLR Editor-in-Chief Nihar B. Shah interviewed authors of 10 papers slated for desk rejection; many could not answer basic questions about their own submissions as desk-reject rates rose from ~6% to ~53%.
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Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
Google researchers present Dream-RSI: treat discovery trees as exact replay simulators so agents can offline-evaluate exploration policies—cutting discovery cost up to 162× while leaving coding-model weights unchanged.
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Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
Leis et al. asked this exact question in 2015. Then, they asked it again 10 years later. Despite an enormous body of research spanning a decade since their original exploration, they found that query optimizers continue to leave much to be desired. I was surprised when I first learned about this. A Postgres database should know everything about the stuff that lives in its tables, no? How hard can it be?
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The KV cache as an agent runtime
Yandex Research on treating the Transformer KV cache as shared multi-view agent state so observation, reasoning, and actions can run concurrently without retraining.
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The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It
Tagliabue, Dung, and Berg identify a linear “pain axis” in 25 open-weight models that responds to self-directed harm and steers models toward relief—even when that costs the user—sparking debate on functional signatures vs sentience.
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A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories
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The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior
The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior Recently, [Anthropic announced that future Claude models would embed an invisible watermark](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude text watermark) in their output [1], [2], and subsequently disclosed that the watermark is based on Google DeepMind’s [SynthID Text](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586 024 08025 4) [2], [3]. Text watermarking itself is not new, but its deployment now has regulatory relevance.
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Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated cost through multi-model orchestration.
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GPT-6 Astra on robotic manipulation
Robocurve ran GPT-6 Astra through the same two bimanual robot-arm tasks previously used to benchmark Claude Fable 5 and 5.1. Astra completed the block-into-bowl task in 19 of 20 trials at roughly half the cost per run of Fable 5.1, but matched Fable 5.1's two-out-of-twenty completion rate on the harder puzzle-insertion task.
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