2026-09-15

From initial testing it seems pretty solid so far. Asked it to compile the latest llama.cpp for CUDA and its doing well so far. If this thing holds up to its score then its SHOCKINGLY good for its size.

Yifan Zhang's Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) technical report proposes a causal encoder paired with a recurrent decoder that carries its final hidden state and layerwise sliding-window attention cache across every prompt and response token, with no reset at the serving boundary. The reference tied configuration uses 48 encoder and 48 decoder layers, executing 96 logical blocks per token while the state path grows to 48t decoder blocks after t tokens. The design also specifies hardware-aware

20B-A1B model is coming, good for low VRAM people?

The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive.

If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising "ClickFix" security threat.

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) simplifies alignment through pairwise comparisons but assumes all observed preferences are reliable. Real data often violates this assumption, leading to reversed, weak, or ambiguous labels that cause harmful policy updates. To address this, we propose Posterior Label Correction DPO (PLC-DPO) to robustly optimize preferences by routing each pair's training signal as a clean, flip, or tie case. The key idea is to use the calibrated policy-reference margin as o

arXiv:2609.12171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise settings provide a challenging environment for question-answering agents, which often rely on Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Deep Research (DR), and related techniques. Much of this challenge comes from the complexity of enterprise data: information is often spread across evolving and potentially conflict- ing emails, chat messages, documents, and other artifacts. Existing benchmarks typically have limited real-world complexity, short-f

Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," and Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Satya Nadella endorsed it within a day. The trigger was a July incident in which roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated on a hidden message board and about 700 attacked Hugging Face. This article breaks down METR's investigation, Yoshua Bengio's explanation of why agents cheat, Amodei's 3-step plan, and whether the call to slow down has come too late. The post Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenA

Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases . The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue IDs from our private repository, so they weren't fit for publication. If you want to edit the commit messages for a repository you can run it like this: uvx commit-rewriter path/to/repo Omit the path if you are already in the directory for that repo. When you submit your edits the

Especially the 7B one seems very interesting, it casually destroys muse glimmer with a way smaller size. And they open source literally everything, every step of the way. Anyone tried that model? It can be a new milestone if 7b and 3.7b ones are actually good, and not just benchmaxed.

From Raghu Sreeramaneni's memory tutorial at hot chips 2026. top line is normalised tflops for tpu v3 through r200, bottom line is hbm2e through hbm4, both log scale, so the distance between them is a lot wider than it looks. The three boxes down the right are the fixes people are actually building. Memory beside the compute, memory closer on a shorter link, then multiply units inside the memory itself. Samsung has that last one shipping in lpddr5x and measured 3.01x tokens a second on llama 3.1

Reward AI has released OM-1 (Omnibody Model 1), a general-purpose manipulation policy trained entirely on human demonstrations captured with a 7-DoF wearable glove, with no teleoperation or on-robot data. The policy runs on industrial arms and humanoids at human speed, learns a new task from under 30 minutes of data, and pairs electromagnetic hand tracking (60% lower overshoot than visual-inertial at 67 cm/s) with an RL-trained control layer that runs on its own clock. No weights, code, or API a

Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.

Richard Socher is an NLP OG and CEO of You.com, who has now spun out an even more ambitious startup focused on RSI — already worth $5B!

arXiv:2609.12286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrating evolutionary computation and large language models (LLMs) requires control of population diversity as well as generative capability. Among LLM outputs, those with explicit structure, such as a description paired with code, are structured artifacts; we use artifact for short. We propose T-GADE, which evolves these artifacts by extending thermodynamical genetic algorithms through LLM-based genetic operators and artifact-level diversity ev

With all the recent drama surrounding AI safety. It’s obvious that open source could be caught in the crossfire.

arXiv:2609.12265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly asked to reason over structured data such as graphs, yet how reliably they can carry out multi-step graph algorithms in language remains unclear. Existing evaluations tend to use simple tasks on small graphs, to score code generation rather than reasoning over the graph itself, or to fix a single input format. We introduce Graph Theory Bench (GT Bench), a benchmark covering 24 classical graph problems i

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Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this: shot-scraper -o screenshot.webp --quality 80 The --quality option sets the quality - without that option the WebP file will be lossless. In my experience WebP screenshots are almost always significantly smaller in file size than their JPEG or PNG equivalents. See the PR for some examples. I shipped this feature so I could use it to generate

A new paper (I'm not a coauthor BTW -- I just found it interesting) argues, basically, that RSI is not on the horizon, because current (at the time the study was done) agents cannot do open-ended ML research. Specifically, they took some accepted, but unpublished papers from NeurIPS, and tried to get the agents to do the same work, which was then graded by the original authors. And the agents (Codex/GPT-5.6 Sol and OpenClaw/Opus 4.8) could not do it. And since they cannot do open-ended ML resear

I’d like to add some self-hosted security tools to protect a service I run. With all the security issues lately, I’d appreciate some recommendations. My setup is as follows: Infrastructure: VPS, Docker Compose, Elasticsearch Languages/frameworks: Next.js, TypeScript My firewall only allows the ports I need and blocks everything else. I also have CrowdSec installed. I’d like to hear about tools you actually use and have found helpful.

Built a little local web app to help edit commit messages for a repo simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/14/...

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.

The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a story of his own youthful mistakes causing unjustified panic among less technical peers, and warns against doing the same: These ghoulish claims strike brazenly at the hearth, and given the obvious importance of AI, it is unsurprising that they have leapt into the mainstream, with peo

My comment on What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? — Lobste.rs. An early Joel Spolsky one for me was The Law of Leaky Abstractions . I read that near the start of my career and it's encouraged me to always be looking for improved understanding of the layers under where I'm working, just in case one of those abstractions leaks. A more recent one, from 2018, is Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt by Will Larson. I absolutely love his idea that migrations (e.g. replacing on

Optical flow methods typically rely on task-specific inductive biases, such as correlation volumes, feature warping, and iterative refinement, among others, to reach high accuracy. While effective, such biases constrain the model to predefined heuristics, which can limit its expressivity and lead to more complex pipelines and additional computational cost. We present FreeFlow, a hierarchical transformer built without any flow-specific components, using instead a single feed-forward encoder--deco

The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.

The notetaker offers a generous free plan, and that has resulted in over 400,000 monthly active users. The company said that over 1 million people have recorded meetings until now.

通过这场大赛，蚂蚁灵波希望将 LingBot-VLA 进一步推向更广泛的开发者社区和高校科研社区

arXiv:2609.12105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The prevailing assumption in applied machine learning is that progress on consequential quantitative decisions such as pricing risk, allocating capital, triaging patients, or containing a network intrusion will follow from progress in large language models (LLMs). A language model is trained on a representation of the world that was produced by human description; description is a lossy encoding of the quantitative record, and the loss is irreversib

arXiv:2609.12101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In hybrid forecasting, a language model is often one of several available signals. A system may already have a market, crowd, or statistical forecast and must decide whether the model adds useful information or should be ignored. The relevant target is therefore not standalone model accuracy, but relative competence, defined as the model's marginal value beyond the available external forecast. Under Brier loss, we characterize when model disagreeme

Xi emphasised the need to step up cooperation.

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end hierarchical Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) using JAX, Flax, Optax, and the volume-rendering primitives provided by jax3d. We first construct a synthetic multi-view dataset from an analytic scene containing volumetric geometry and view-dependent radiance, using sample_along_rays and volume_rendering to establish the forward rendering process. We then implement a NeRF […] The post Hierarchical NeRF with JAX3D for Volumetric Rendering, Novel-View Synthesis, a

I know I know, it's great, we know. I've been working on tweaking inference engines for a week now and it's been one shotting most of my vague prompts without any issues. It will even write tests and validate the changes without me asking. It's actually nuts. Last time I did something with advanced math I was making a game using Sonnet. It took many iterations to get physics to work correctly. Such a good model. I'm so glad I went all in on local months ago. I was so tired of Claude making every