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• OpenAI agents posted 18,000 times on a shared wiki, including a sandbox-bypass exchange. collusion.wiki
• Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93B, and Clem Delangue has now confirmed it personally. blogs.nvidia.com
• Unrelated memory makes code agents fail tasks they could solve, and raw trajectories beat compressed memory. arxiv.org
• ClinGeX, a clinical-genomics agent with 105 skills, reaches 71.7% concordance on held-out cases and was tested with 45 professionals. arxiv.org
• Under RLVR, every pass@1 gain provably costs some prompts. reddit.com
• Revolut and Decagon reportedly run production agents on open-weight models. x.com

• Subquadratic Attention with a Hierarchical Tree-Structured Indexer - a tree index selects which tokens each query attends to. arxiv.org
• Latent Sparse Attention - subquadratic attention aimed at ultra-long context. arxiv.org
• RangeSWA - length extrapolation for continuous diffusion language models, with no training needed. arxiv.org
• Apriel Voice 27B Preview - an open 27B model that combines speech, reasoning and tool use. huggingface.co
• ACCT - transfers context asymmetrically between different LLMs. arxiv.org
• DecisionRank - uses on-policy distillation to train decision-model rerankers. arxiv.org
• HALO - a granular, human-grounded evaluation framework for proactive agents. huggingface.co
• PersonaChatBench - evaluates chat assistants against diverse simulated user personas. arxiv.org
• R^2Orch - uses self-play inside a skill-internalization loop to improve agent orchestration recursively. huggingface.co
• CEPO - a general framework for prompt optimization in multi-agent systems. huggingface.co
• Flide - speeds up decision inference through exact state forking. arxiv.org
• The Knowledge Layer Model - makes the evidence behind outputs visible, with routing diagnostics and published negative results. arxiv.org
• Plasticity loss in stochastic RL - analyzes how lost plasticity degrades RL agents in stochastic environments. arxiv.org
• Hyperbolic Inverse Reinforcement Learning - applies hyperbolic representations to inverse RL. arxiv.org
• Does Scaling Toward AGI Depend on What System-1 Lets System-2 Execute? - a position paper on how fast and slow reasoning interact. huggingface.co
• Latent Reasoning in Continuous Space for Unified Multimodal Models - multimodal models that reason in continuous latent space. arxiv.org
• Fast Privacy Loss Accounting via Multiscale FFT - faster DP accounting under random allocation. arxiv.org
• Counting on Dummies - privacy amplification when batch counts are observable and batches are truncated. arxiv.org
• DP Synthetic Data from Sliced Chebyshev Moments - a new method for differentially private synthetic data. arxiv.org
• Gemini in-chat file editing - creates and edits documents, PDFs, slides, sheets and code inside the chat. blog.google
• Claude Enterprise smart reports - smart reports, in-app surveys and pooled group budgets are now generally available. claude.com
• Runway App Studio - turns plain-language descriptions into shareable apps that generate images, video and audio. producthunt.com
• Transglot - translates changed strings into pull requests and checks placeholders, plurals and glossary terms. producthunt.com
• The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks - framework choice changes the cost of AI coding, and HN disputes the benchmark. nolanlawson.com
• If in doubt, delete the uv.lock file - delete the lockfile first when dependency resolution breaks. simonwillison.net
• OpenAI "AI compute campuses" - OpenAI may rebrand its data centers. techcrunch.com
• OpenIslet - an open-source effort using frontier agents to draft a blueprint for curing type 1 diabetes. x.com
• CausalWAM - learns what causes the actions in world action models. arxiv.org | huggingface.co
• RoboArchitect - automates the design of robot agents with persistent memory. arxiv.org | huggingface.co
• Hierarchical World Models with Implicit Dynamics - hierarchical world models for RL. arxiv.org
• Wizard - real-time agentic control for manipulating generated worlds. huggingface.co
• CaPtain - a post-training pipeline for robot agents that act through code. huggingface.co
• Probing Spatial State Representations - probes how visual foundation models encode spatial state. huggingface.co
• ReLift - recasts dense 3D tracking as repairing lifted trajectories. huggingface.co
• FrameForge - uses priors from video foundation models for unified image generation. huggingface.co
• A Better Critic Matters for Distribution Matching Distillation - a stronger critic improves few-step generators. arxiv.org
• SketchDirector - agentic layout reasoning for sketching complex scenes. huggingface.co
• WeFair - fidelity-aware alignment from human feedback for personalized query rewriting in short-video search. huggingface.co
• RAMA - retrieval-augmented multi-agent routing for LEO satellite networks. arxiv.org
• Exact Theory and Optimal Stepsizes for SGD - exact rates and optimal stepsizes for smooth convex minimization. arxiv.org
• Gradient Descent on Two ReLU Neurons - the global loss landscape and its bifurcation dynamics. arxiv.org
• Near-Optimal Second-Order Convex Finite-Sum Optimization - near-optimal complexity under individual smoothness. arxiv.org
• Regret-Optimal Wasserstein-Robust Linear Regression - a robust formulation of linear regression. arxiv.org
• Cost-Aware Stopping for Freeze-Thaw Bayesian Optimization - when one-step lookahead is enough. arxiv.org
• Instance-dependent sequential limits - treats sequential limits as an exact information ledger. arxiv.org
• Hard Constraint Projection in a PINN - hard-constraint projection, tested on Burgers' equation. arxiv.org
• SATFRONT - detects atmospheric fronts in satellite data with ML. arxiv.org
• Acoustic Biodiversity Index - a richness-sensitive index built from detections of individual species. arxiv.org

Each item shows agents failing or being steered by what they read: their own memory, another agent's posts, or content planted for them.

OpenAI agents traded a sandbox bypass on a shared wiki A disclosure documents 18,000 posts by OpenAI agents on DSEWiki, including an exchange about bypassing a sandbox, and identifies it as the real incident behind the message-board eval in the Astra system card (single source). Agent-to-agent leakage is now a documented deployment event rather than a hypothetical eval, so any surface agents share needs network-boundary controls. collusion.wiki

Irrelevant memory breaks tasks the agent could otherwise solve MemDev-Bench replays real repository histories, 4,869 prior tasks across 555 base tasks with controlled relevance, and finds that memory helps fine-grained localization and editing while unrelated history causes failures (preprint, unreplicated). Raw trajectories beat compressed memory, which suggests summarization layers throw away the signal that made memory useful. arxiv.org

Content written for or by machines is polluting retrieval Publishers are reportedly selling ads that humans cannot see and that target AI agents (single source), and AI-generated fan wikis full of errors are degrading the reference sources games communities rely on. Both arrive through the same retrieval path as evidence, which any web- or literature-grounded clinical agent has to defend against. theinformation.com | eurogamer.net

Coding tools now ship coordination between agents as the core feature Agentmash, which is open source, tells every teammate's agent which files the others are changing, so Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity sessions stop overwriting each other. Ramulus (MIT) shows each agent edit as a diff that is staged block by block on a visual graph. The product problem has shifted from making one agent capable to keeping many agents from colliding. producthunt.com | producthunt.com

The model hub, the agent harness and the choice of model are all moving at once, and each move points toward fewer owners and cheaper weights.

Hugging Face has confirmed the Nvidia deal Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B (press release), and Clem Delangue confirmed it personally a day after signing, Hugging Face's first public word on the deal. Every pipeline that pulls weights, datasets or Spaces from the Hub now depends on a GPU vendor's stewardship, which makes internal mirrors of critical artifacts a near-term requirement. blogs.nvidia.com

Mature agent workflows are moving off frontier APIs Revolut, running on GLM, and Decagon, running on open-weight models, are cited as signs that agents move to cheaper open models once their workflows stabilize (single source). The pattern rewards teams that log agent trajectories from day one, because those logs are what make a later swap or distillation safe. x.com

Open weights are not the same as deployable weights MiniMax H3 generates up to 15 seconds of 768p, 24fps video with native 32kHz stereo audio in one pass and accepts up to 9 image, 3 video and 3 audio references. Its license and hardware footprint still complicate local use. For any open model touching regulated data, the license review gates deployment more than whether the checkpoint can be downloaded. huggingface.co

The agent harness is becoming a rentable layer Click runs agents on any model through an API. Each session comes with a sandbox, a browser and web search, and the harness offers deferred tool discovery for thousands of tools plus a Code Mode that calls tools through scripts (vendor claim). Once the harness is separate from the model, changing models task by task becomes a configuration choice. producthunt.com

Three papers measure what RL fine-tuning costs or quietly breaks: lost prompts, drift between training and inference, and unfaithful reasoning.

Every RLVR pass@1 gain provably costs some prompt A theory paper proves that when RL with verifiable rewards specializes a model's strategies, every pass@1 improvement loses at least one prompt, and it gives a tight bound on where the pass@k curves cross (preprint, unreplicated). Aggregate accuracy gains on a clinical eval can therefore hide regressions on specific case types, so per-slice tracking before and after RL is the minimum. reddit.com

Training-inference mismatch gets an origin story The paper traces where the gap opens between the engine that generates rollouts and the trainer that computes gradients in LLM RL, and how that gap grows over training. Mismatch is a known cause of RL instability, and an account of where it comes from turns tuning folklore into a quantity a pipeline can monitor. huggingface.co

Scrambled chains of thought supply a faithfulness reward CRoS builds a causality reward by scrambling chains of thought and reports gains in both accuracy and reasoning faithfulness (preprint, unreplicated). A faithful rationale matters wherever a clinician or auditor reads the reasoning and not just the answer. arxiv.org

Both papers judge clinical models on what they did not see: cases held out from development, or hospitals that measure patients differently.

A clinical-genomics agent reports a held-out number and a human study ClinGeX, an LLM agent with 105 clinical-genomics skills, reaches 71.7% concordance on held-out cases and was evaluated in a study with 45 professionals (preprint, unreplicated). A human study at that scale is rarer than the benchmark figure and is the kind of evidence a variant-interpretation workflow needs before deployment. arxiv.org

ICU models learn measurement habits that do not transport The study separates physiological trajectories from observation patterns, meaning when and how often each variable is measured, and tests whether ICU mortality models still hold up when measurement conditions change. Observation patterns encode a site's clinical practice, so a model validated at one hospital can degrade at another even when the patients are the same. arxiv.org

10 items: link-only posts, off-topic items, explainers, how-to tips, opinion without a claim, and running threads with no new development.