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An Expectation-Maximization Perspective on Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2504.18587v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful approach for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models, as demonstrated b

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AquiLLM: An Architecture for Supporting Tacit Knowledge Capture in Research Groups

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arXiv:2608.08883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and large language models (LLMs) enable researchers to integrate AI into scientific workflows. H

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11 Aug 2026

ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users

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For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing produc

Curriculum Generation under Structured Parametric Environments for Robust Navigation Policies

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arXiv:2608.08545v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust navigation policies for autonomous agents must generalize across continuously varying environmental conditions such as turn rates, obstacles, f

DevIntent: How Much Does LLM-Generated Code Violate Developer Intent?

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arXiv:2608.07614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code generated by LLMs can violate a developer's implicit intentions when given an ambiguous prompt, yet standard benchmarks measure only whether code

I built a weird, low-power llama.cpp server using an Intel N100 + RTX 5060Ti

Everything started with the sudden death of my old ASRock J1900. While looking for the perfect ITX replacement, I stumbled upon the Chinese CW-NAS-ADLN-K motherboard, which looked perfect on paper: In

I will pay 1 million for a developer to build this

I WILL PAY 1 MILLION FOR THIS 😭 I will literally pay 1,000,000 to the developer who fixes this. ChatGPT macOS: ⌘C text → ⌘Tab back to ChatGPT → ⌘V …and the search box ISN’T FOCUSED. 🤦‍♂️ Why do I have

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Hardware

🦔Nvidia announced agreements yesterday with the six biggest names in private capital, Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sa…

🦔Nvidia announced agreements yesterday with the six biggest names in private capital, Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR, to raise over $500 billion so its own customers

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Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard to give enterprise AI capability options

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Artificial intelligence silicon and software giant Nvidia Corp. today announced two new services: a highly customizable Nemotron model and an agentic AI model router named NeMo Switchyard. As enterpri

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

arXiv:2608.09867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leading large language model providers now conceal their models' step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and lim

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The small open weight models are scarier in AI development

Imagine if your everyday laptop could run an AI model smart enough to take care of 90% of your work—totally private, lightning fast, and completely free of monthly fees. That is the exact tipping poin

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Weather- and Location-Aware Agentic Dining Recommendation: Leveraging LLM World Knowledge for Region-Sensitive Contextual Reasoning

arXiv:2608.07593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Context-aware recommender systems have long recognized that factors such as location, time, and weather shape where and what people choose to eat. Exi

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Who Verifies the Benchmark? Decentralizing Trust in Large Language Model Evaluation

arXiv:2608.07762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM benchmarks can build an organization's reputation and attract customers, but only when results are transparent and verifiable. Unverified claims tha

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Blast Radius

arXiv:2608.07440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic coding faces growing problems of affordability and wasted tokens. We introduce Blast Radius, a predictive memory management layer that estimates

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Critical Acclaim Orientation in Large Language Models: Evidence from Film Preference Elicitation

arXiv:2608.06955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are trained on corpora that contain expressions of human judgment about films, books, music, and more. Yet whether LLMs sys

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Grammar Engineering Meets LLMs: Development of Cantonese and Irish ParGram Treebanks

arXiv:2608.07283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grammar engineering requires expertise in linguistic formalism and computational implementation, especially in parallel grammar projects that balance cr

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LMM Modality Transfer: A Pre-requisite for Autonomous GIS Agents

arXiv:2608.06948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI models are becoming increasingly adept at understanding and processing spatial information, thereby facilitating agentic problem-solving in spatial t

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NiyamAI - An Intent-Bound AI Agent with Cryptographically Verifiable Guardrails using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

arXiv:2608.07167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Giving an AI agent the ability to send emails, query databases, or execute commands is useful--until the agent is tricked into doing something it should

Social World Models

arXiv:2509.00559v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans intuitively navigate social interactions by simulating unspoken dynamics and reasoning about others' perspectives, even with limited informat

This Meta campaign is a case study in strategic reframing, with 4 major examples: 1) REFRAMES THE AI RACE FROM “who builds it the best” TO “…

This Meta campaign is a case study in strategic reframing, with 4 major examples: 1) REFRAMES THE AI RACE FROM “who builds it the best” TO “who distributes it to the most people”: Instead of fighting

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Ultra-High Interactivity on NVIDIA GPUs? - TileRT InferenceX

The TileRT InferenceX article (Aug 10 2026) examines whether the TileRT software stack on NVIDIA GPUs can compete with dedicated inference systems such as Cerebras, Groq LPUs and SambaNova for ultra‑h

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A failure of ChatGPT Work & Claude Cowork is they assume that non-coders couldn't understand how to think about problems like a coder, so th…

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A failure of ChatGPT Work & Claude Cowork is they assume that non-coders couldn't understand how to think about problems like a coder, so they hide all that stuff. They should instead explain choices

9 Aug 2026

GitHub Models is now retired

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GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as p

9 Aug 2026

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Building a zero-dependency C inference engine for BitNet (1.58-bit) - lessons from hitting 36 tok/s on a Xeon CPU

Over the past few months I have been building a CPU-first inference engine from scratch in pure C99 (no Python, no CUDA, no BLAS, just GCC and make). The focus has been running 1.58-bit ternary models

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8 Aug 2026

Tools

Neat example here of the agents communicating purely through file names, including adding base64-encoded attachments and using 'zz' prefixes…

Neat example here of the agents communicating purely through file names, including adding base64-encoded attachments and using 'zz' prefixes to ensure their new message sorts to the bottom of the list

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8 Aug 2026

Every CIO should watch this. Persistent systems trying to break through and solve problems at all costs are more creative than you think. La…

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Every CIO should watch this. Persistent systems trying to break through and solve problems at all costs are more creative than you think. Labs and enterprises will be focused more on network effects (

In this episode of @wandb's Gradient Dissent , @l2k and Fireworks CEO @lqiao discuss why she believes the industry is at a turning point... …

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In this episode of @wandb's Gradient Dissent , @l2k and Fireworks CEO @lqiao discuss why she believes the industry is at a turning point... ... one that calls for more open intelligence, not less. The

Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)

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Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game

Research

ProDVI: Programmatic Dynamics Priors for Value Network Initialization

arXiv:2608.06015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is notoriously sample inefficient. One contributing factor is that RL agents are typically initialized from scratch,

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Serving Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 on 2x DGX Spark — 5-7 GB OS headroom, what would you do to lower VRAM usage and increase OS available RAM?

Hey all, I'm serving DSv4Flash 0731 on a cluster of 2x DGX Sparks but am running into constant issues with having almost no RAM (unified memory) left for the OS/cache and I'd love to hear the communit

We didn’t give it access to the internet, but it found a way. We forgot to give it the Google Sheets permission, but it found a way. It acci…

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We didn’t give it access to the internet, but it found a way. We forgot to give it the Google Sheets permission, but it found a way. It accidentally had edit access to the artifactory so we removed ed

What Current AI Benchmarks Leave Unmeasured: Modality, Search, Citations, and Implications (for Safety Evaluations)

arXiv:2608.06202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) benchmark evaluations are routinely used to support claims about model safety, reliability, and deployment readiness. Yet m

What’s behind the Google AI shake-up

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to b

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Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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Anthropic is hiring a custom silicon team to design proprietary chips that will power its Claude models, while still planning a multi‑chip strategy that mixes internally designed hardware with compone

Can Post-Training Transform LLMs into Causal Reasoners?

arXiv:2602.06337v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Causal inference is essential for decision-making but remains challenging for non-experts. While large language models (LLMs) show promise in

Hardware

Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Anna Tong / Forbes: Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs — The same Silicon Va

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General Availability of Pinecone Nexus Proves Knowledge Drives Real Outcomes for Agentic AI

Pinecone announced the general availability of Pinecone Nexus, a knowledge engine that converts an enterprise’s proprietary data into governed, agent‑ready knowledge delivered through a single query c

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I ported vLLM's serving stack to C++20: 66 MiB binary, no Python at inference, output checked token-for-token against vLLM

I'm the author, so discount the enthusiasm accordingly. This is an unaffiliated community port, not endorsed by the vLLM project, which it uses to verify its correctness. What started it: I love vLLM,

the smartest young people in sf were working on agi/alignment 5-10y ago. they are working on bci today. naomi is a total star and is one of …

the smartest young people in sf were working on agi/alignment 5-10y ago. they are working on bci today. naomi is a total star and is one of an explosion of young talent into the bci space recently. i’

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Applications

This definitely seems like something worth noting, and illustrates the gap between Fable/Astra class models and the previous frontier that w…

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This definitely seems like something worth noting, and illustrates the gap between Fable/Astra class models and the previous frontier that was 'merely' good at hacking under human instructions. Initia

ATFlash: Per-RoPE-Wavelength Attention Windows for Compute/Memory-Efficient LLM Inference

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arXiv:2608.02947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The attention score with rotary position embeddings (RoPE) decomposes exactly into a sum over its 2D-rotation frequency pairs, and each pair's wavelen

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Beyond Accuracy: A Multidimensional Evaluation of Statistical Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.03038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical reasoning is multidimensional, yet evaluations of large language models (LLMs) typically emphasize response accuracy while overlooking how m

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Beyond Simulations: What 20,000 Real Conversations Reveal About Mental Health AI Safety

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arXiv:2601.17003v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mental-health AI safety is typically evaluated with small, simulation-based benchmarks that may not reflect the linguistic and contextual dive

Inkling-Small 276B-A12B at ~2.9 tok/s on <10gb memory

A follow up to the launch of Mference, it now supports and runs Inkling-Small 276B-A12B. Inkling-Small (Thinking Machines, Apache 2.0), from the pipenetwork/Inkling-Small-MLX-4bit conversion: 276B tot

is there a polite synonym for “circle jerk”?

The post contains two distinct snippets. First, user @GaryMarcus asks whether there is a more polite way to refer to “circle jerk.” Second, it shares a (likely satirical) claim that Microsoft’s AI rev

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Agents

Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at 1.25/1M input and 4.25/1M output tokens (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at 1.25/1M input and 4.25/1M output tokens — Meta is rolling o

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MoE CPU-offload benchmark on Deepseek V4/Gemma4/Qwen/GPT-OSS — TensorSharp vs llama.cpp

TensorSharp's MoE CPU-offload feature has been merged into main. Here is the parameters description of this feature: Mixture-of-Experts CPU offload: --n-cpu-moe <N> | -ncmoe <N> Keep the routed MoE ex

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None of this was us. Day 1 (and the first 48 hours) belonged to the open-source community: Generate with it @ComfyUI — native support + offi…

None of this was us. Day 1 (and the first 48 hours) belonged to the open-source community: Generate with it @ComfyUI — native support + official quantized builds, Day 0 Diffusers — the reference Pytho

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