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βthere's a really great article from Tomasan goo at theory ventures uh that compared the original JPT interface with the command line interface of the 1980sβ
βWe present the RELRaE framework, a framework that employs large language models in different stages to extract and accurately label the relationships implicitly present in the XML schema.β
βWe introduce SIMA 2, a generalist embodied agent that understands and acts in a wide variety of 3D virtual worlds.β
βHere we introduce AlphaQubit 2, a neural-network decoder that achieves near-optimal logical error rates for both surface and color codes at scale under realistic noise.β
βyou read the AI 2027 report and now you're talking about AI super coders training models and then having this just recursive loopβ
βJosh Gans who's an economist at the University of Toronto has a really nice paper outlining that in an area where we don't know what's going to happen where harms and benefits are both emergent that pβ¦β
βsome of them written by my colleague Daniel Schwarz that those papers showing that 01 preview leads to 10 to 30% improvements in quality and speedβ
βI understand it's not a well-loved benchmark but the Atari 100K benchmark that people have been doing for the last few years I think is a really good way of addressing thatβ
βBBF, the bigger, better, faster Atari 100k kind of uh top dog, it generates really really impressive learning scores in 100k frames. But if we just add a few frames of latency in there, it falls apartβ¦β
βthe gateau agent the the transformer-based learn to play all the Atari games...they demonstrated negative transfer learning where if you took a game a model trained on a dozen agents...it was harder tβ¦β
βThe ARC challenge is like an IQ test for machines that released in 2019... I was releasing this as a way to test and illustrate my definition of intelligence.β
βI first heard about Bitcoin when I was giving talks about quantum money you know in in 2012 or so...could you have quantum money that anyone could verifyβ
βthis protocol uh you mentioned for generating cryptographically certified random bits using a quantum computer. Uh that was a very good example of of this approachβ
βthere is um a conjecture or belief called the quantum extended church touring thesis which would say that every physical system can be efficiently simulated by a quantum computerβ
βinfluential publications like her nature paper on the single atom transistor. She even made these really complex scientific ideas accessible to a broader audience through her TEDex talkβ
βGaussian Embeddings: How JEPAs Secretly Learn Your Data Densityβ
βWe hope you've enjoyed this fascinating exploration of Michelle Simmons's immense impact on quantum computing based on Urugo Schnep's insightful essay. If you'd like to explore more about these topicsβ¦β
βAnthropic wrote a great blog post on this that I'd encourage you to check out.β
βI'm going to start with a quote and it's from Warren Buffett in his 2020 shareholder letter to investors and he said, 'In its brief 232 years of existence, there has been no incubator for unleashing hβ¦β
βWe introduce LessIsMore, a training-free sparse attention mechanism for reasoning tasks, which leverages global attention patterns rather than relying on traditional head-specific local optimizations.β
βa computer scientist named Oded Regv from NYU who published another paper that showed a faster different approach to Shor's algorithm... reduced the number of quantum operations required to factor a lβ¦β
β# Observation of disorder-induced superfluidityβ
βPeter Shor published his algorithm that showed that if we had a quantum computer, we could factor numbers into their primes. We could therefore break codes, break public key encryption systems. And thβ¦β
βSystem card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdfβ
βDid you guys see the LP slides that went on the internet from Toma Brava's LP conference? They kind of highlight that within the broad marketscape, there are companies that are not just going to sit iβ¦β
βWe present DINO-world, a powerful generalist video world model trained to predict future frames in the latent space of DINOv2.β
βDwarkesh, did you read his recent blog post on his AI timelines? Oh, on continual learning, yeah?β
βIt will like change the test to fit the mistakes it made or sometimes delete the tests. It's really fascinating behavior that Anthropic published research on.β
βwhen you were with me on the AI engineer conference you talked about the the touring uh paper which you love and got you started uh in some ways on your machine learning journeyβ
βI invited a talk on the model spec for AI engineer and that was the most viewed uh talk of all of that we've ever had... the model spec is a perfect example of when the models are very capable. You stβ¦β
βwe publish techniques like instruction hierarchy and so with instruction hierarchy you sort of indicate that hey there's this message is from the system this message is from the developer this messageβ¦β
βSo I think uh you know Paul Graham uh the founder of Y Combinator you know the best accelerator in the world um wrote this uh essay about being resourceful and he talks about the qualities of foundersβ¦β
βWe introduce UQ, a testbed of 500 challenging, diverse questions sourced from Stack Exchange, spanning topics from CS theory and math to sci-fi and history, probing capabilities including reasoning, fβ¦β
β# Less Is More: Training-Free Sparse Attention with Global Locality for Efficient Reasoningβ
βOur results establish that both learning and sampling can be performed efficiently in the beyond-classical regime, opening new possibilities for quantum-enhanced generative models with provable advantβ¦β
βWe find surface subgroups in certain one-relator groups with torsion and use this to deduce a profinite criterion for a word in the free group to be primitive.β
βIn this work, we present a surprising connection between attention sinks and compression valleys, tracing both to the formation of massive activations in the residual stream. We prove theoretically thβ¦β
βPaper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13557β
βThus far, LLM-JEPA is able to outperform the standard LLM training objectives by a significant margin across models, all while being robust to overfiting.β
βCritically analyzing recent STM and transport experiments [Z. Ge, et al, arXiv:2510.12009] on 2D electron systems in the presence of random quenched impurities, we argue that the resulting low-densityβ¦β
βA recent STM experiment in 2D bilayer graphene [Y.-C. Tsui, et al., Nature 628, 287 (2024)], under a strong perpendicular magnetic field, has made a direct observation of the existence of three distinβ¦β
βA recent STM experiment in 2D bilayer graphene [Y.-C. Tsui, et al., Nature 628, 287 (2024)], under a strong perpendicular magnetic field, has made a direct observation of the existence of three distinβ¦β
βWe argue that the spatially random localized phase at low filling is the recently proposed disorder-dominated strongly localized amorphous "Anderson solid" phase [A. Babber, et al., arXiv:2601.03521],β¦β
βQuantum-Classical Separation in Bounded-Resource Tasks Arising from Measurement Contextualityβ
βWe argue that the spatially random localized phase at low filling is the recently proposed disorder-dominated strongly localized amorphous "Anderson solid" phase [A. Babber, et al., arXiv:2601.03521],β¦β
βLet me just say on on the job loss question because I think this is really important that Yale just released a study and it showed that in the 33 months after the launch of Chat GPT there was no disceβ¦β
βThere was an article in the Wall Street Journal just last week talking about the uh construction boom that's happening that's benefiting construction workers like electricians like plumbers like workeβ¦β
βDominik Hangleiter weighs in with an informative post about a much debated question: Has quantum advantage been achieved? This is the first post in a three-part series.β
βWe, therefore, introduce DexWM, a Dexterous Interaction World Model that predicts future latent states of the environment conditioned on past states and dexterous actions.β
βThis paper introduces SpidR-Adapt for rapid adaptation to new languages using minimal unlabeled data.β
βI like the Rolling Stone obituary for Kishinger.β
β# Fail Fast, Win Big: Rethinking the Drafting Strategy in Speculative Decoding via Diffusion LLMsβ
β# From Generated Human Videos to Physically Plausible Robot Trajectoriesβ
βChapter 4 in my dissertation from 1986 is "From Crowd to Public." https://pressthink.org/j/rosen-archive/dissertation/reader/#from-crowd-to-publicβ
βThe Claude Mythos Preview system card is available here: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/8b8380204f74670be75e81c820ca8dda846ab289.pdfβ
βRemembrall: Leaning into Memory for Accurate Video Analytics on System-on-Chip GPUsβ
βHere, we introduce Spatiotemporal Pyramid Flows (SPF), a new class of flow matching approaches that model data hierarchically across spatial and temporal scales.β
βAtherosclerosis is not the only possible cause of a heart attack (myocardial infarction), and women are more prone to alternative causes than men. A closer look at the data tells a different story. Fuβ¦β
β# A Lightweight Library for Energy-Based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecturesβ
βDominik Hangleiter continues his thoughtful assessment of the evidence for quantum advantage in random-circuit-sampling experiments. http://quantumfrontiers.com/2026/01/25/has-quantum-advantage-been-aβ¦β
βWe propose Radial-VCReg, which augments VCReg with a radial Gaussianization loss that aligns feature norms with the Chi distribution-a defining property of high-dimensional Gaussians.β
βScaling Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformers with Representation Autoencodersβ
βThe always eloquent Nadya Mason on the promise of Quantum 2.0 and how to build the quantum workforce.β
βI think I talked about it last time, but I wrote a doc called "The Big Blob of Compute Hypothesis".β
βYou mentioned in your talk at scaleup AI today your recent cybernetic teammate paper uh involving a field experiment with 776 professionals at Proctor and Gamble and it demonstrates that AI often funcβ¦β
βOur work establishes IndicFairFace as the first benchmark to study geographical bias in VLMs for the Indian context.β
βA study linking statins, the microbiome, and blood sugar control doesnβt change clinical practice. Full article linked below.β
βEveryone should go read the the Clawed Constitution. Uh argue with it, grapple with it. I found it a very challenging and also a very moving uh read.β
βThe best way of starting with this is to write this article and we made a video about this as well which has had like it's hundreds of thousands of views. It's pretty incredible. Death of a Salesforceβ¦β
βor you know death taxes and AI. We've done we've covered the gamut on everything around taxes.β
β# stable-worldmodel-v1: Reproducible World Modeling Research and Evaluationβ
βIn order to help the public better understand the developments pertaining to AI and mathematics, we suggest quantifying standard levels of autonomy and novelty of AI-assisted results, as well as propoβ¦β
βYou mentioned in your talk at scaleup AI today your recent cybernetic teammate paper uh involving a field experiment with 776 professionals at Proctor and Gamble and it demonstrates that AI often funcβ¦β
β# Causal-JEPA: Learning World Models through Object-Level Latent Interventionsβ
β# Heaps do lie: debugging a memory leak in vLLM. _Blog post by Mistral AI_β
βCan Private Markets Normalize?_Blog post by Ted Seides_β
βDominik Hangleiter highlights the importance of efficient verification of quantum advantage, and assesses the prospects for achieving it soon.β
βWe thank John Preskill for suggesting the phrase βOne Sum To Rule Them All,β which inspired the title of this paper.β
βThe βJVG algorithmβ is crapβ
βCan coding agents relicense open source through a βclean roomβ implementation of code?β
βAnthropicβs Responsible Scaling Policy: Version 3.0β
βIn this paper, we address what's wrong with our conception of AGI, and why, even in its most coherent formulation, it is a flawed concept to describe the future of AI. We explore whether the most wideβ¦β
βBeyond Language Modeling: An Exploration of Multimodal Pretraining _ArXiv paper co-authored by Yann LeCun_β
βThe International AI Safety Report 2026 synthesises the current scientific evidence on the capabilities, emerging risks, and safety of general-purpose AI systems.β
βTo that end, we introduce the Geodesic Hypothesis, positing that token sequences trace geodesics on a smooth semantic manifold and are therefore locally linear. Building on this principle, we propose β¦β
βMotivated by the recent twisted MoTe$_2$ experiment [arXiv:2601.18508], we develop a disordered interacting edge theory of a fractional topological insulator at $Ξ½_{\text{tot}}=4/3$, consisting of twoβ¦β
βStatement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of Warβ
βThis vision paper lays out a 10-year roadmap for AI+HW co-design and co-development, spanning algorithms, architectures, systems, and sustainability. We articulate key insights that redefine scaling aβ¦β
βI am upset by WIRED cover story about the gay mafia supposedly running Silicon Valley.β
βRails testing on autopilot: Building an agent that writes what developers won'tβ
βOur Investment in Accrual _Blog post by General Catalyst_β
βWe study two recurring phenomena in Transformer language models: massive activations, in which a small number of tokens exhibit extreme outliers in a few channels, and attention sinks, in which certaiβ¦β
βThis high-performance QFC connecting ultraviolet and telecom bands satisfies the stringent requirements for long-lived remote ion-ion entanglement in scalable quantum networks [W.-Z. Liu et al., Naturβ¦β
β# FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Pipelining Co-Design for Asymmetric Hardware Scalingβ
βhttps://anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-securityβ
βOur work establishes Rydberg tweezer arrays as a powerful platform for spectroscopic studies of strongly correlated models, offering microscopic control and direct real-space access to emergent quasipβ¦β
βIn this thoughtful essay, Garnet Chan reflects on recent progress using classical heuristics in computational quantum chemistryβand what it means for quantum computing. The lessons he draws can help tβ¦β
βhttps://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.htmlβ
β_ArXiv paper co-authored by Yann LeCun_β
βyou know what e reminds me of Kum have you read John Perry Bar's cyberspace essay from back in the day uh like in the 90s way before your talk probably okay but you have basine um do do you remember iβ¦β