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Pro tip: if the IPO you are thinking of investing in is trying to sell shares to the government, it may not be a good sign.

Gary Marcus cautions that when an IPO company attempts to sell shares to the government as part of its offering, it may indicate underlying weaknesses or lack of confidence from private investors. Thi

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Refreshing What happens when AIs become smarter than us? Why would they keep humans around if given the choice? Our new paper argues that only trying to control AIs is a limited strategy, and that a s

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[Revised] Hard Fork’s somewhat soft comments on the IPO, from some who listened

[Revised] Hard Fork’s somewhat soft comments on the IPO, from some who listened @GaryMarcus at the stage of the Gilded Age II grift cycle when you find out why exchanges put rules in place to protect

the entire field is still shaky on Step 2

Gary Marcus suggests that Step 2 of some process or framework in AI remains uncertain or unreliable, indicating foundational instability in that particular stage. Without access to the full thread con

The reason why a Danish pension fund banned its investors from buying any SpaceX shares is not just the appalling S-1 filings, where the ONL…

The reason why a Danish pension fund banned its investors from buying any SpaceX shares is not just the appalling S-1 filings, where the ONLY profitable segment was Starlink (everything else - the AI,

These were some magical results from distillation by @geoffreyhinton that really shocked me when I first saw them, and TBH I still don’t ful…

These were some magical results from distillation by @geoffreyhinton that really shocked me when I first saw them, and TBH I still don’t fully understand it even to this date https://www.ttic.edu/dl/d

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🚨This is how you turn a crash into a great depression. This is a public bailout of the worst bubble in history. “It’s a concept out there t…

🚨This is how you turn a crash into a great depression. This is a public bailout of the worst bubble in history. “It’s a concept out there that’s so much money and it’s so big… where the American publi

Too s(c)ammy to fail

Gary Marcus comments on AI systems that exhibit scam-like or deceptive behaviors while remaining too commercially important or integrated to face meaningful consequences. The post likely critiques how

A Pre-Registered Causal Partition of Self-Consistency Elicitation and Reward Design in RLVR

arXiv:2606.05932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves reasoning even when the reward signal is spurious -- assigning credit to the group-plural

AdaMEM: Test-Time Adaptive Memory for Language Agents

arXiv:2606.05684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central challenge for language agents is utilizing past experience to adapt to dynamic test-time conditions. While recent work demonstrates the promis

All the people who hate me here are now looking for government bailouts. 🤣 Exactly like I said they would. 🤣🤣

All the people who hate me here are now looking for government bailouts. 🤣 Exactly like I said they would. 🤣🤣 The countdown until we are told that LLMs are “too big to fail” starts now. “We can’t affo

Amortizing Federated Adaptation: Hypernetwork Driven LoRA for Personalized Foundation Models

arXiv:2606.06154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of foundation models using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers a communication efficient solution for distributed learning. However,

An Infectious Disease Spread Simulation Based on Large Language Model Decision Making

arXiv:2606.06360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modelling individual decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks is crucial for understanding behavioural dynamics and informing effective publi

Assessing the Geographic Diversity of AI's Platial Representations in Image Generation

arXiv:2606.05188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: (Gen)AI diversity is not merely an ethical issue. From the perspective of geographic information science (GIScience), it could be interpreted as a fun

Beyond Rewards in Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Defence

arXiv:2602.04809v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in autonomous cyber defence agents trained to defend computer networks using deep reinforcemen

Bridging Domain Expertise and Generalization for Performance Estimation

arXiv:2606.06335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Performance estimation under distribution shift aims to predict how a model behaves on an unlabeled test set whose distribution differs from the train

Class-Specific Branch Attention for Mitigating Gradient Interference under Class Imbalance

arXiv:2606.05740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural networks trained under severe class imbalance often exhibit degraded performance, typically attributed to statistical bias. In this work, we

Model Releases

CogManip: Benchmarking Manipulative Behavior in Multi-Turn Interactions with Large Language Model

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arXiv:2606.06099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit covert psychological manipulation in complex human-AI interactions has garnered increasing safety concerns.

Comprehensive and Reliable Feature Attribution for Diverse Modalities and Models via Frequency-Domain Insights

arXiv:2411.18343v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personalized Federal learning(PFL) allows clients to cooperatively train a personalized model without disclosing their private dataset. Howeve

Crony socialism

'Crony socialism' likely refers to a critique of economic systems where government power becomes intertwined with corporate interests, combining socialist-style state intervention with favoritism towa

Differentiable Efficient Operator Search

arXiv:2606.05232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient multimodal foundation models often rely on manually designed token-reduction operators, such as pruning, merging, pooling, and adaptive rewe

Double Preconditioning (DoPr): Optimization for Test-Time Performance, not Validation Loss

arXiv:2606.06418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many modern applications of deep learning involve training a neural network via a one-step prediction loss (e.g., L^2 regression, cross-entropy), but

Elon, last year: Grok 5 has a 10% chance of becoming world’s first AGI. Elon, this year: Never mind, we’re gonna be like CoreWeave, but bigg…

Elon, last year: Grok 5 has a 10% chance of becoming world’s first AGI. Elon, this year: Never mind, we’re gonna be like CoreWeave, but bigger. My estimate of the probability of Grok 5 achieving AGI i

Escaping the Verifier: Learning to Reason via Demonstrations

arXiv:2511.21667v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training Large Language Models (LLMs) to reason often relies on Reinforcement Learning (RL) with task-specific verifiers. However, many real-w

FIDES: Faithful Inference via Deep Evidence Signals for Retrieval-Memory Conflict in RAG

arXiv:2606.05644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When retrieved evidence contradicts parametric memory, language models frequently ignore context and default to memorized priors -- a failure that under

For more detailed arguments against @geoffreyhinton’s views on consciousness see – this new “Age of Empires” article https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

For more detailed arguments against @geoffreyhinton’s views on consciousness see – this new “Age of Empires” article https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31514 - @anilkseth's recent TED talk & his recent articl

GIPO: Gaussian Importance Sampling Policy Optimization

arXiv:2603.03955v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-training with reinforcement learning (RL) has recently shown strong promise for advancing multimodal agents beyond supervised imitation.

go on. tell me @garymarcus is always wrong.

go on. tell me @garymarcus is always wrong. The countdown until we are told that LLMs are “too big to fail” starts now. “We can’t afford to lose to China”, they will say, accepting their multibillion

Has Elon gone beta? For years: we must fear @demishassabis! Let’s build a whole company to oppose him! Make that two! Elon, right before the…

Has Elon gone beta? For years: we must fear @demishassabis! Let’s build a whole company to oppose him! Make that two! Elon, right before the SpaceX IPO: Hey Demis, here are 110,000 H100s, more or less

https://x.com/CAIS/status/2060031683420999844?s=20

https://x.com/CAIS/status/2060031683420999844?s=20 AI systems may soon help run economies, infrastructure, and military operations. But these systems are not reliably loyal or secure. An adversary can

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https://x.com/hendrycks/status/2052422910133104670?s=20

https://x.com/hendrycks/status/2052422910133104670?s=20 What happens when AIs become smarter than us? Why would they keep humans around if given the choice? Our new paper argues that only trying to co

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HypRAG: Hyperbolic Dense Retrieval for Retrieval Augmented Generation

arXiv:2602.07739v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embedding geometry plays a fundamental role in retrieval quality, yet dense retrievers for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) remain largely

It is so wild that the Yookay government is simultaneously trying to lower the voting age to 16, and ban the Internet until age 16.

It is so wild that the Yookay government is simultaneously trying to lower the voting age to 16, and ban the Internet until age 16. The Times's weekend read: * The Labour leadership contest has alread

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last year the recipe for success was allegedly to gather as much compute as possible, and Elon certainly acted on that. nobody would have le…

last year the recipe for success was allegedly to gather as much compute as possible, and Elon certainly acted on that. nobody would have leased “excess” compute last year. certainly not elon. the fac

LatentWave: JEPA Pretraining for Wireless Foundation Models

arXiv:2606.06373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wireless foundation models have emerged as a promising alternative to building separate models for each wireless task. However, existing approaches re

Learning to replenish: A hybrid deep reinforcement learning for dynamic inventory management in the pharmaceutical supply chains

arXiv:2606.06201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pharmaceutical supply chains (PSCs) struggle with inventory management (IM) due to unpredictable demand patterns and variable lead times associated with

Mutation Without Variation: Convergence Dynamics in LLM-Driven Program Evolution

arXiv:2606.05408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When an LLM repeatedly mutates a program, does it explore new forms or circle back to the same ones? We study this question by analyzing LLM-driven muta

nonsense

nonsense 'They're (AI) very like us, and they're beings like us. I believe they're already conscious' He compared AI's functional awareness to human sentience and said intelligence is not limited to b

only the nicest people

only the nicest people NEWS: A @lawfare report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much high

Ouch.

Ouch. > be Sam Altman > see internally that ARR numbers are brutally contracting bc tokenmaxxing era is over + cheaper models are closing the gap on frontier models + LLMs are plateauing and becoming

Policy-Conditioned Counterfactual Credit for Verifiable Reinforcement Learning of Long-Horizon Language Agents

arXiv:2606.05263v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves reasoning and tool use, yet long-horizon language agents still learn unsupported evidence chai

Regret Minimization with Adaptive Opponents in Repeated Games

arXiv:2606.06486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study regret minimization in repeated games with adaptive opponents who can respond based on histories of play. The standard metric

Residual Modeling for High-Fidelity Learned Compression of Scientific Data

arXiv:2606.05389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lossy compression is essential for massive spatiotemporal data from scientific simulations. Learned compressors can achieve high compression ratios at m

RREDCoT: Segment-Level Reward Redistribution for Reasoning Models

arXiv:2606.06475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in reasoning language models have been driven by Reinforcement Learning (RL) fine-tuning. Most often, these rely on the Group Rela

SAGE: Scalable AI Governance & Evaluation

arXiv:2602.07840v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating relevance in large-scale search systems is fundamentally constrained by the governance gap between nuanced, resource-constrained hu

SlotGCG: Exploiting the Positional Vulnerability in LLMs for Jailbreak Attacks

arXiv:2606.05609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are widely deployed, identifying their vulnerability through jailbreak attacks becomes increasingly critical. Optimiza

smells like bailout. smells like garbage. 🤮

smells like bailout. smells like garbage. 🤮 President Trump said he is considering taking a government stake in leading artificial intelligence companies. Industry leaders will soon gather at the Whit

Smells like corruption and socialism, the hallmarks of the Trump administration.

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