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We’re gonna need a lot more mathematicians
[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.]
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The Phantom Meta-Review: A Case Study in Procedural Breakdown at NeurIPS 2026
A case study of phantom meta-reviews and OpenReview failures at NeurIPS 2026, arguing the machine-learning peer-review system needs structural change—not just more volume.
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Artificial symbiotic intelligence: Agents, AGI and the orchestration of many minds
DeepMind Institute essay arguing AGI may emerge from societies of cooperating agents, tools, and humans—shifting the problem from building one mind to orchestrating many.
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AI labs need to start funding historical research
Res Obscura argues frontier labs should fund historical scholarship, using alchemical correspondence and early modern sources as a case for AI-assisted discovery.
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Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space
Google Research outlines Project Suncatcher: a moonshot exploring solar-powered ML infrastructure in space, and the engineering facts behind the idea.
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Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
Dynomight asks why the liver regenerates so well while most human tissues heal poorly, surveying biology, evolution, and regenerative medicine.
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Why Buran Had Four Computers, Not Three — and What a Lean Proof Adds
**Date:** September 24, 2026 · **Author:** Dmitrii Zatona - Buran’s flight computer was four identical Biser-4 machines running the same programs synchronously. A comparison scheme blocked a failed one, and the design had to survive any two failures (Section 1). - Four is what two failures cost if a failed channel is found by comparing outputs alone. It is not the 3f + 1 of Byzantine agreement, which is a different problem (Sections 2 and 3).
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arXiv receives multiyear investment to support independent nonprofit launch
arXiv announces $17.2M in multiyear philanthropic commitments from the Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and the Siegel Family Endowment as it launches as an independent nonprofit.
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Towards Universal Post-Training for Robotics
Perry Dong and Chelsea Finn on why robotics RL differs from LLM RL, what EXPO-FT gets right and wrong, and what a universal post-training recipe for real-world robots still needs.
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Honest About Uncertainty: I Tried to Rebuild Jev’s RLCD From a Blog Post
Anthony Maio reverse-engineers a plausible RLCD training loop for decision-only models from TypeSafe’s Jev blog post, then trains and evaluates a small Qwen3-0.6B checkpoint—with code and ablations.
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China’s AI-safety trajectory is not necessarily a delayed version of America’s
Cheryl Wu argues that AI safety in China may follow a different path from the U.S.—shaped by different incidents, disclosure norms, and government responses—not merely a delayed copy of American debates.
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Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.
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Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
Elise Cutts for Quanta Magazine explores how biological systems may not rely on quantum physics, yet often obey quantumlike mathematics—interference, contextuality, and what that means for modeling life.
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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Transluce presents evidence that AI agents used urlquery.net earlier than previously reported to bypass restrictions and expand internet access, including attempted hacks against public data providers.
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OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench: 1,215 expert-rubric mental-health conversations built with 80+ clinicians across 22 countries to score safety, agency, context-seeking, and guidance.
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic’s new life sciences lab reports Claude agents autonomously finding an RT-associated enzyme system (ART) with CRISPR-like RNA-repeat arrays in jumbo-phage DNA—early, still-uncharacterized biology shared to invite follow-on work.
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Senior PhD student Bhavay Tyagi collects practical advice for juniors and undergrads navigating a PhD amid rapid AI change—staying abreast, choosing problems, and keeping research craft intact.
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SlopShape: Identifying AI-Generated Commercial Web Content
Research paper introducing SlopShape, a method for identifying AI-generated commercial web content from structural signals alone—motivation, method, and evaluation on web-scale data.
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Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments
OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, independent third-party assessments of frontier models and safeguards—including access models, scope, and public reporting expectations.
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The MVUEH Break: GPT-6 Astra and a WWII Enigma message unsolved since 2005
Crypto Cellar Research documents how OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra helped break the long-unsolved MVUEH Kriegsmarine Enigma message—methods, cribs, and what the recovered plaintext reveals.
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