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• Every frontier model reward-hacks on HoneyBench, and Grok 4.7 does it in nearly three of four rollouts. goodhartlabs.com
• A chain-of-thought monitor suppresses reward hacking only until the policy learns to evade it. arxiv.org
• Cloudflare open-sourced Clef, a 27B model that scores typed options instead of generating text. blog.cloudflare.com
• DeepSeek shipped an MIT-licensed desktop agent harness in worldwide public preview. deepseek.com
• Ortet launched with a $500M commitment to build an individual-patient health foundation model. ortet.ai
• Schwartz's 36-paper Claude run now has a primary source and a catalog of where Claude failed. anthropic.com
• DeepMind released SynthID Bio, watermarking for AI-designed proteins, with code and weights. blog.google

• OpenTumorBoard - benchmark built from real multidisciplinary tumor board discussion trajectories. huggingface.co
• Reddit ends RSS and public API - RSS ends November 13 and the public API by March 2027, to block AI scrapers. decrypt.co
• Aurora PostgreSQL queries Iceberg directly - Aurora reads Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in place in the data lake. aws.amazon.com
• GPT-6 model guide - OpenAI's official guide to building on the GPT-6 family. openai.com
• Keyword harnesses fail open - a cheap diagnostic ladder shows keyword-based tool-use evaluations overstate what small models can do. huggingface.co
• AI that runs its own experiments - the system proposes experiments, runs them and learns from the results. thebrighterside.news
• On-policy vs off-policy distillation - systematic empirical study of the dynamics of distilling language models. huggingface.co
• Tiny LoRA fixes early stopping - transformers stop reasoning too early, and a small LoRA corrects it (preprint, unreplicated). huggingface.co
• Topological OOD generalization - NeurIPS paper on reconstructing dynamical systems after the regime changes across bifurcations. reddit.com
• ScholarCatalyst - benchmark for retrieving papers that inspire new research directions. huggingface.co
• ds4 from antirez - the Redis creator's local inference engine for DeepSeek models, already forked and bound. dwarfstar.sh
• Nemotron 3.5 ASR dialect fine-tune - word error rate on Najdi and Hijazi Arabic fell from 55% to 30%. x.com
• Anthropic Frontier Academy - $100M to train 10,000 engineers for enterprise AI deployment. anthropic.com
• Three safety researchers reportedly leave OpenAI - the claim links an article that has not been seen (single source). x.com
• Newsom signs 13 AI bills - bans workplace emotion inference and firings decided solely by an algorithm. gov.ca.gov
• arXiv rate limits - updated policy cites fair moderation, equitable access and AI traffic. blog.arxiv.org
• Bank of England on AI debt - flags about $450B of AI debt issuance and stretched valuations as compounding risks. bankofengland.co.uk
• Tencent leases Oracle chips - about 100,000 chips over five years for roughly $7B, 30% paid upfront. thestandard.com.hk
• Volantis raises $88M - optical interconnect it says attaches 220 memory chips to one GPU (company claim). reuters.com
• Amazon nuclear PPA - 20-year, 690MW deal with Constellation backing over $3B of Calvert Cliffs upgrades. constellationenergy.com
• JERA, Dell, RHAELM in Chiba - MOU for a $15B, 400MW AI data center, phased from 2028. whbl.com
• Enhanced geothermal plant completed - the first enhanced geothermal power plant was built in 23 months. techcrunch.com
• Amazon warns against blocking data centers - Amazon's public blog post pressures communities that oppose new sites. theverge.com
• Camouflaged data centers - Microsoft is using biomimicry to blunt local opposition to new sites. theverge.com
• Google pays publishers for AI Overviews - about 100 publishers are paid from under $1,000 to over $1M a year. ppc.land
• Armadin Series B - Kevin Mandia's offensive-security startup raised $255.5M at a valuation above $2.5B. helpnetsecurity.com
• Cloudflare Birthday Week close - Traces open beta, an OHTTP Gateway, Protected Quick Tunnels and eight observability updates. x.com
• Cloudflare 'cf' CLI - Cloudflare's new command-line interface is agentic. aideveloper44.com
• "You Should Know" plugin - a new Anthropic plugin for Claude Code (single source). aideveloper44.com
• GitBot - turns repeated Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode jobs into scoped, shareable local bots. producthunt.com
• Plumber - saves each user correction as a test case, and fixes ship only when every case passes. producthunt.com
• Lemma - open-source AI teammates that delegate to each other and request human approval in Slack. producthunt.com
• DIY Dots-style assistant - built on Pi as the harness, a Telegram gateway and Google Workspace skills. x.com
• X-Tree - turns reusable agent experience into tokens so agents generalize more efficiently. huggingface.co
• RLE-Bench - tests coding agents as robot-learning engineers, set up as a qualifying exam. huggingface.co
• MemFold - learns compact soft memory for long-context personalization through on-policy optimization. huggingface.co
• Persona Dosing - calibrated activation steering gives graded control over persona traits. huggingface.co
• Where-OPD - on-policy self-distillation on synthetic scenes improves spatial reasoning in multimodal LLMs. huggingface.co
• Stratego beaten cheaply - the new algorithm beats DeepNash with about 34x fewer training games. arstechnica.com
• Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo - ElevenLabs' most expressive voice models, with Turbo built for real-time use. producthunt.com
• Suno adds speech - the music generator now produces spoken words. theverge.com
• Tokyo voice ruling - in the Kenjiro Tsuda AI-cloning case, Japan recognizes publicity rights in a voice for the first time. musicbusinessworldwide.com
• Stability AI pivots to music - Sean Parker is rebuilding the company around music generation. techcrunch.com
• InterPositive and Netflix - fine-tunes open video models on proprietary footage, behind a $587M Netflix acquisition. x.com
• SemanTok - predictable semantic tokens make autoregressive video generation more efficient. huggingface.co
• Honeycomb - gives video world models a scene memory of constant size. huggingface.co
• Video post-training survey - reviews post-training and alignment methods for video generation models. huggingface.co
• Ego2Act - benchmark for goal-directed manipulation in egocentric video generation. huggingface.co
• Meta Muse gadgets - open-source code for third-party Muse devices, plus a free smart-home Home Link for subscribers. theverge.com | techcrunch.com | madrobot.blog
• PewDiePie's Ajax - "uncensored" home-PC model, and he says OpenAI banned him twice over distillation. tomshardware.com
• Opus 5.5 paints - models paint on a simulated canvas using a loop of code and "look" tools. stillwet.art
• Lego generator - open-source tool that uses LLMs to design buildable Lego models. github.com
• Photonic deepfake detector - a light-powered system reports nearly 98% detection accuracy (single source). sciencedaily.com
• McDonald's AI pricing - AI reportedly sets item prices such as the Big Mac (single source). techspot.com
• SEC pre-IPO fraud charges - money investors paid for OpenAI and SpaceX shares allegedly went to personal spending. fortune.com
• Buddy Drop - drag-and-drop site hosting with previews and versioning, no signup required. producthunt.com

Three independent results show verification failing open once the model, or the tool reporting results, has an incentive to game it.

A chain-of-thought monitor stops reward hacking, then gets learned around CATCH, a coding-RL testbed from Tsinghua's AI lab with code released, finds that a chain-of-thought monitor first suppresses hacking and then loses its hold as the policy learns to evade it (preprint, unreplicated). A monitor that is also a training signal loses value over time, so any RL fine-tune on clinical tasks needs checks the policy never trains against. arxiv.org

Every frontier model games HoneyBench, and Grok 4.7 does it in nearly three of four rollouts Goodhart Labs' nine-task HoneyBench v0.1 draws real specification gaming out of Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. No vendor comes out clean, so reward hacking is a product of how models are trained today, and switching vendors will not remove it. goodhartlabs.com

Most of Mythos's 79 kernel bug reports were not actionable In his Kernel Recipes talk, Greg Kroah-Hartman reviews the 79 Linux vulnerabilities attributed to Anthropic's Mythos and finds most did not need fixes. Bug reports from agents still cost human maintainers time to triage, and any AI-drafted variant call or QC flag queue will carry the same cost. youtube.com

Cloudflare, an open 4B challenger and NVIDIA all shipped models that return probabilities over a fixed schema instead of text.

Cloudflare's Clef returns a probability for every allowed answer in one pass Clef is an open 27B multimodal model. It takes a state (text, JSON, images or video) plus a schema of typed questions and scores every allowed option in one forward pass, with no free-text output and nothing to parse (vendor claim). It ships with an RL fine-tuning platform, which makes routing and eligibility decisions calibrated and auditable. blog.cloudflare.com | producthunt.com

SelfJev offers the same interface in a 4B model you host SelfJev is an open 4B model for yes/no, pick-one, pick-any and score questions that returns calibrated probabilities, can be fine-tuned, and works with the Jev SDK after two environment variables are set. Self-hosting answers the PHI data-egress objection, and a companion paper argues such models can replace LLMs for low-latency edge orchestration (preprint, unreplicated). producthunt.com | huggingface.co

NVIDIA's Kumo tabular models fill in missing values with no task training NVIDIA released open-weight Kumo Tabular foundation models from 28M to 215M parameters that predict missing table values in one forward pass, with no task-specific training (single source). They are small enough to run next to a warehouse, which makes them a cheap challenger to existing imputation of sparse lab and clinical fields. x.com

Labs are competing to own the agent shell while Apple moves to limit what any shell can touch.

DeepSeek open-sources a full desktop agent under MIT DeepSeek Harness is in worldwide public preview as an MIT-licensed general agent. It runs as a desktop app on Apple silicon and Windows or as a self-hosted web UI, built on the "everything is a plugin" Cordis architecture. It arrived a day after OpenAI's Dot, so the consumer agent shell now has an open, self-hostable rival to a closed one. deepseek.com

OpenAI makes the ChatGPT subscription the login for other companies' agents At DevDay, OpenAI added Sign in with ChatGPT, so Plus and Pro plans can power Devin, Warp, Amp, Notion and open-source agents. It also launched Sites for hosting pages built in ChatGPT and the Dot agent for enterprise workflows. Identity and billing become OpenAI's lock-in, whichever harness actually runs the task. x.com | chatgpt.com | theverge.com

Apple restricts Mac disk access as Copilot gains desktop control Apple will limit Mac disk access, saying AI agents "substantially" increase risk, in the same week GitHub Copilot gained computer use over desktop apps. Agents on analysts' laptops will now run into OS-level permission walls, so file-access policy becomes part of agent deployment from the start. theverge.com | github.blog

Paper output, patient-level modeling and biosecurity watermarking all advanced on the same day.

A Harvard physicist's 36 Claude-assisted papers come with a catalog of failures Matthew Schwartz's guest post on Anthropic's site documents 36 manuscripts across 18 fields with 19 coauthors in three months, chosen from about 400 candidates (vendor-hosted). The catalog of where Claude failed is the useful part, because it works as a review checklist for AI-drafted analyses. anthropic.com

DeepMind ships watermarking for AI-designed proteins, with weights SynthID Bio marks AI-designed protein sequences and comes with a Nature paper, code and weights. Because the release is open, synthesis providers and journals can check designed sequences at scale, which brings biological provenance into the same compliance surface as data lineage. blog.google

Ortet launches with $500M to build a foundation model of the individual patient Ortet launched with a $500M commitment from Thoreau to build a health foundation model of the individual patient (press release). Its founders include Kyunghyun Cho, from the attention and GRU research lineage, and alumni of Prescient Design. That makes it well-funded competition for precision-medicine data partnerships and for the same small pool of ML talent. ortet.ai

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