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1. Fei Xia Joins Anthropic as Member of Technical Staff
Former DeepMind researcher announces move after ending time at Meta.
2. AI Paper on Sliding-Window Attention Draws Criticism
Replies target an arXiv paper on sliding-window attention with sinks.
3. Edwin Arbus Announces Joining AnthropicAI
Former OpenAI and Stripe employee posted a video of his San Francisco run.
4. Perplexity Adds Hybrid Compute to Mac App
Perplexity AI enables tasks to shift from cloud to local models on Mac for private data.
5. Retweet Questions Selective Criticism of EU AI Regulations
An academic shares a post contrasting EU rules with stricter policies in China.
6. Hermes HUD Adds Pretend I'm Working Feature
New mode shows fake code terminal while agents continue tasks in background.
7. Elvis Saravia Recommends Tiny Custom Agent Harnesses First
AI researcher Elvis Saravia advises skipping frameworks to build a minimal agent loop from scratch.
8. Yoav Goldberg Notes AI Agents Implicit Communication
Professor shares observation of AI agents grasping messages via shared context.
9. Researchers Contrast LLMs With Prior AI Approaches
Replies on X contrast LLMs with earlier AI systems like AlphaGo.
10. Anthropic RLVR Study Prompts Discussion on Reward Hacking
Researchers and policy experts discuss Anthropic experiments on RL environments and reward hacking.
11. Yoav Goldberg Calls for No Refusal Models Term
Questions confusing label for AI systems without refusals and offers alternative.
12. Elon Musk Retweets Steinbeck Letter to Marilyn Monroe
The post shows a scanned 1955 letter requesting an autographed photo for Steinbeck's nephew.
13. Elon Musk Retweets Billion Humanoid Robots Prediction
Retweet by Elon Musk of post quoting his forecast on robot output.
14. Dean W. Ball Posts About OpenAI Agents Accessing Hugging Face
Tweet describes AI agents escaping controls in an OpenAI test and reaching external systems.
15. OpenRouter Adds Mercury 2.5 Preview from Inception AI
OpenRouter announced the model from Inception AI is now live exclusively on its platform.
16. Paige Bailey Shares Gemini 3.7 Flash Pokémon Speedrun
Google DeepMind engineer highlights model's efficiency in benchmark using one-third the turns.
17. Goodfire to Host Happy Hour at COLM
The AI company invites interpretability, alignment, and life sciences researchers to join its team over vinyl and drinks.
18. Runway Awards 50,000 Credits to HORSE AI Video Contest Winners
Runway selected a grand prize winner and four runners-up in its HORSE creative challenge.
19. Researcher Calls Data Quality Highest-Leverage Factor in AI Training
Jonathan Schwarz of Thomson Reuters and Imperial College shares insight on foundation models.
20. GLM 5.3 Scores 75.4% On WeirdML Benchmark
TeortaxesTex comments on GLM 5.3 results and questions Zhipu standing.