We should consider how long monitoring is reliable for during RL
Epistemic status: I am new to AI Safety and am writing blogs to gain context. This blog post was formed from discussions with Aidan Ewart and…
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The Age of Pluribus: One Consultant for Everyone
What happens when everyone asks the same consultant?Millions of people turn to LLMs for advice daily, consulting on various personal topics, from how to learn a…
SPIEval: Evaluating Large Language Models as Mobile Assistants over Scattered Personal Information
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as mobile assistants, where a key challenge is leveraging personal information scattered across multiple applications (apps) to complete user…
VibeLifeBench: Can Your Life Agent Be Proactive and Persistent in a Living World?
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed as personal assistants. Existing evaluations, however, mostly use short, self-contained requests in static environments. Everyday life assistance is…
Mendel Gödel Machine: Recursive Self-Improving Coding Agents via Comparative Evolution
Self-improving coding agents that iteratively rewrite their own source code have demonstrated impressive performance on coding tasks. However, existing solutions generally derive self-modification from a single…
Beyond Pixels: From Video Priors to 4D Worlds
4D generation synthesizes dynamic 3D scenes from conditions such as text or images. Existing methods either reconstruct generated RGB videos with a separate 4D model or…
Did the alignment community underestimate its power?
Unfortunately, the alignment community is doing very badly at learning from the past decade, or holding anyone accountable. Indeed, it’s pursuing many strategies which seem likely…
New Muse-Glimmer-30B SoTA Quants – hopefully a new lineup :)
Hey Folks, I've been making quants for a while - recently I took a short break to get into hardcore research (submitted my first EMNLP paper…
Interesting research suggests caution in determining which AI company is winning by looking at any one source.. OpenRouter seems to show open weights …
Interesting research suggests caution in determining which AI company is winning by looking at any one source..OpenRouter seems to show open weights winning over time, but…
was this a Taco truck?
was this a Taco truck?TMZ: Trump left Marco Rubio, top aides on Air Force One as he secretly fled Iranian threat. Details: https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/11/trump-left-marco-rubio-top-aides-on-air-force-one-amid-iranian-threat/
Watching labs post benchmarks comparing their models to 3.6 27b while knowing what’s about to go down on Qwednesday
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RT Phazzee 🐼🚀 | 中国航天 🇨🇳 | 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈: Glad to have provided insight as to why the Long March 7A failure and the …
RT Phazzee 🐼🚀 | 中国航天 🇨🇳 | 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Glad to have provided insight as to why the Long March 7A failure and the Zhuque-3 delay are coincidental!联合早报…
The Human Is the Loop
Article URL: https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/the-human-is-the-loop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267108 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267057 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood
Article URL: https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-race-to-protect-the-species/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266921 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner
Article URL: https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-police-officer-accused-of-using-flock-cameras-to-track-and-follow-ex-romantic-partner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266899 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
You can now use Ollama as a provider in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-11-copilot-memory-and-ollama-in-github-cop…
You can now use Ollama as a provider in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-11-copilot-memory-and-ollama-in-github-copilot-for-jetbrains/
Arguments for and against (me) dropping out
One year ago, I was preparing for my first year of undergrad. Today, I’m considering dropping out. What changed?Before writing this post, I attribute my decision…
Patient Zero
I want to show you something, she says.She’s magnetic. The way she smiles. Tilts her shoulder. It’s in the corners of her eyes, in the curl…
VectraYX-Vision-1B: A Sub-2B Spanish/LATAM Cybersecurity Vision-Language Model with Structured Visual Reasoning and Native Tool Use
We present VectraYX-Vision-1B, a sub-2B vision-language model (VLM) for Spanish/LATAM cybersecurity imagery, coupling a frozen SigLIP-so400m encoder to a 1.04B Spanish/LATAM security decoder via an MLP.…
The Next Screenshot Knows: Gated Hindsight Distillation for Mobile GUI Agents
GUI agents are commonly trained offline from successful interaction trajectories. Standard training decomposes each trajectory into prefix-action pairs: the agent predicts an action from the current…
I tested whether 27B Q8 or 35B Q6 is the better coding model on a 32 GB GPU. The more interesting result: neither was reliable enough to be its own final checker.
I started this because of the recurring question around Qwen 27B vs 35B on a single 32 GB card. In particular, some people reported that the…
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266560 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
RT Sakana AI: The next frontier of Recursive Self-Improvement is Physical AI. Japan sparked the robotics revolution. We are expanding our RSI Lab to b…
RT Sakana AIThe next frontier of Recursive Self-Improvement is Physical AI.Japan sparked the robotics revolution. We are expanding our RSI Lab to build world models that…