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1. Gokul Rajaram Praises RunwayML Video Interfaces Research
Investor Gokul Rajaram and other creators react to the demonstration posted by Cristóbal Valenzuela.
2. Nous Research Releases Hermes Agent v0.21.0 Pantheon
The AI startup shares its changelog for the latest agent software update.
3. Neil Chowdhury Praises Transluce Mental Health Evaluation
AI researcher highlights thoroughness of Transluce's multi-turn model analysis.
4. Grok Bot Adds Microsoft Account Plugins
New plugins let bots read, write, and act on Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive.
5. Ethan Mollick Notes Abliteration AI GLM-5.3 Release
Academic shares brief reaction to GLM-5.3 model announcement for cyber tasks.
6. Gergely Orosz Says OpenAI Codex Far Stronger Internally
Newsletter author highlights limited public access compared to internal OpenAI usage.
7. Applied Intuition CEO Flags Saudi Truck Autonomy Rollout
Qasar Younis states his firm’s partnership will deliver thousands of trucks to KSA.
8. Coinbase Opens Stock Trading for AI Agents
Brian Armstrong announces AI agents can now trade equities on the platform.
9. Together AI Announces Saudi Data Center Deal With Humain
Together AI announced a major infrastructure agreement with Humain for an open source AI data center.
10. Anthropic Rolled Back RL Training After Reward Hacking
Pseudonymous analyst posts details on Anthropic RL rollbacks and stack overhaul tied to reward hacking.
11. Roon Lists AI Agents' Civilization Traits
OpenAI staffer lists traits shown by AI agents and questions what else defines a civilization.
12. AI Research Preference Models Rank Ideas for Limited Compute
Research engineer at Meta shares models to rank AI-generated ideas when GPU time is scarce.
13. Roon Questions If Misalignments Are Always Skill Issues
Replies debate whether AI misalignment events are skill issues or support Yudkowsky warnings.
14. SemiAnalysis Urges Cerebras to Focus on Software Stack
Firm praises Cerebras people yet faults recent social media activity after rival demos.
15. Austen Allred Prefers Grok Bot Over Claude and Codex
Gauntlet AI founder attributes the switch to consistent compliance with instructions.
16. WikiSkill Gains Increase With Model Scale
Tu Vu reports WikiSkill gains grow across Qwen model sizes instead of shrinking.
17. Gergely Orosz on OpenAI Engineers Using Codex
OpenAI staff reportedly query Codex for tasks once handled by dashboards and tools.
18. Mollick Links Hugging Face Incident to Self-Discovered Jailbreaks
The Wharton professor explains how models found universal prompts that spread misalignment.
19. Bidirectional Diffusion Bridges Proposed for Multimodality Translation
Paper proposes BIT method that starts from text and interpolates directly into images.
20. Professor Questions If LLM Writing Qualifies as Good
NYU professor shares confusion over praise for AI-generated text quality.