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A Princeton Researcher Proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) that Carries Decoder State across Every Token, Fixing 96 Blocks per Token with Unbounded Temporal Depth
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…
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options
ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5 for its AI music generator. In a blind test with nearly 48,000 comparison pairs, listeners preferred the new version over its predecessor. The company says the model was trained only on licensed music. The article…
GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own
GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable agrees to. On drone control, Astra is the first model to beat the human baseline…
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns. The article Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's…
AWS Introduces Pizza Bot: An Open Source Inbox for Background AI Agents
Pizza Bot is an open source, self-hosted inbox for AI agents built on DeepAgents and LangGraph. It combines persistent task state, MCP integrations, configurable approvals, and scheduled workflows across multiple model providers.
Context Engineering Inside the Harness: 4 Mechanisms That Beat Context Overflow and Goal Loss on Long-Horizon Tasks
A shallow agent is an LLM calling tools in a loop, and on long tasks it fails in 2 ways: context overflow and goal loss. This article opens the harness layer that fixes both, with the actual thresholds shipped by…
Implementation of Machine Learning Workflows with NVIDIA cuML, RAPIDS, GPU Benchmarking, Explainability, Clustering, and Model Inference
This practical tutorial demonstrates how to build and accelerate machine learning workflows using NVIDIA cuML and RAPIDS. It covers GPU environment setup, zero-code scikit-learn acceleration with cuml.accel, performance benchmarking across key ML algorithms, manifold learning with UMAP and HDBSCAN, tree-model…
Cognition Releases SWE-2: A Kimi K3 Post-Trained Coding Model That Matches Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode at 64% Lower Cost
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, has released SWE-2, its most capable coding model to date. SWE-2 is post-trained with reinforcement learning from Kimi K3, Moonshot AI’s 2.8T-parameter open model. Cognition reports a score of 50.0% on FrontierCode…
OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May
In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the…
Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and…