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2026 DeGoogle Mobile Telemetry Study: 72-Hour Packet Capture Dataset
An empirical 72-hour Wireshark capture comparing idle stock Pixel Android to GrapheneOS finds ~348 outbound Alphabet requests per hour on stock versus near-zero without Google services, with a public CC BY 4.0 CSV.
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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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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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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet
A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposes that if the Sun engulfed a super-Earth early in its history, that event would have left detectable chemical and structural signatures in the solar interior that helioseismology could potentially identify today.
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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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Why machine learning research agents don't overfit — and what compression has to do with itNew research indicates that AI agents learn compressible models of data, which don't have enough space to enable memorization.
Amazon Science researchers explain why ML research agents fail to overfit benchmarks even after many evaluation rounds, arguing that successful agents learn highly compressible representations that are too compact to store memorised answers — connecting this to Minimum Description Length theory.
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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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The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security
James Mickens argues that LLMs' external language and internal features can be illegible to humans and to each other—creating security implications when defenses assume readable, inspectable linguistic behavior.
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Frontis.AI / Horizon Research open-source OpenMLE (gym, RL, Evo) and Frontis-MA1-35B, lifting MLE-Bench Lite medal average to 71.21% under a single RTX 4090 budget toward executable RSI research.
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ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and CompressionProving JPEG compression and edits without revealing the original image
Dittmer, Lu, Model, and Near present ZK-JPEG, a zero-knowledge tool that proves an image was correctly JPEG-compressed (and can verify a family of edits) from a secret committed input—bridging camera attestation with lossy encoding.
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Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus
Many open-source and industry software projects, including several here at Amazon, are embracing the Rust programming language, since it provides performance and flexibility similar to that of the C programming language, while its clever type system automatically prevents a variety of bugs and security vulnerabilities. The result is fast code that's more correct and secure than average.
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Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral DistichWe gave Claude Fable 5.1 an open task: solve an unsolved 370-year-old cipher. It solved it within a day.
Vals AI reports that Claude Fable 5.1 solved the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cryptogram by Sir Thomas Urquhart that had resisted solution for centuries. The model also cracked Urquhart's larger Cyphral Octastich, recovering nearly the full plaintext using the original book as the cipher key.
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No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls
Pew Research Center tests trap questions, CloudResearch Sentry, and voter-file matching on 11,114 opt-in respondents: bogus cases still distort quality, and voter-file matching can raise error by discarding valid people.
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Continuous diffusion language models
A flurry of recent activity in the space of continuous diffusion models for language, after a few years of relative dormancy, suggests that this approach is making something of a comeback. Fully discrete diffusion methods had largely supplanted earlier attempts to make continuous diffusion work for language, but the tide is starting to turn. In this post, I want to take a closer look at what’s going on, and why it is happening now. The recent influx of new research in this…
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AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop
Position paper arguing that today’s AI agent designs impede and degrade effective human oversight—the irony of automation at agent scale—and outlining developer affordances plus deployer protocols for cognitive scaffolding.
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Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
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