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20h ago
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· Ed Zitron
“Character.ai was gutted in 2024 for $2.5 billion so Google could rehire one of the original authors of the Attention Is All You Need paper, but it hung in there for two years under Google’s “licensing” deal. This is the first of many I’m afraid. This is all…”
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Maria hails back to the last #attention2026 conference in which Megan Garcia spoke about her lawsuit against Character.ai, which led her son to suicide. Ressa notes that Character.ai just went bankrupt. There are real ways to hold these systems accountable …”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“character.ai did build their own LLM”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Character.ai was gutted in 2024 for $2.5 billion so Google could rehire one of the original authors of the Attention Is All You Need paper, but it hung in there for two years under Google’s “licensing” deal. This is the first of many I’m afraid. This is all…”
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thebes: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
Grace: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
thebes: i think it's too late for the period i was focused on (i carried the branches to the modern day but only if they started in the period in question)
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OpenAI angers mathematicians again
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· Amir-massoud Farahmand
“Link: github.com/openai/math P.S.1: This reminds me of the Chinese room argument, though only indirectly. P.S.2: I imagine a few people at OpenAI have looked at the results. Also maybe some other people have looked at some papers since ~1h ago. These are o(…”
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“Link: github.com/openai/math P.S.1: This reminds me of the Chinese room argument, though only indirectly. P.S.2: I imagine a few people at OpenAI have looked at the results. Also maybe some other people have looked at some papers since ~1h ago. These are o(…”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“OpenAI is working on at least 722 (so far) math manuscripts, all on GitHub in various stages of verificantion github.com/openai/math Why? I guess because they can?”
Context & explanation
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Background, chronology and why it matters.
“Oh my god, OpenAI just made the single largest advancement in mathematics and number theory in modern history. They released a quasi reimann hypothesis. This is just one of 722 proofs and advancements they released all at once. github.com/openai/math”
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Dashiell: I don't think there's a world where mathematicians aren't pissed about this. 1. Dumping everything is what the advisory group said 2. Just yesterday people were mad that Ant paid two experts to dig…
Naomi Saphra: I think (2) is actually good. It is weird, and makes mathematicians into some kind of benchmark evaluation annotator which they don’t like, but it’s just a hard time to be a mathematician. Destroyi…
Naomi Saphra: One big consequence here is you can’t use the duration of an open problem as a sign of difficulty/importance. But at least right now, there’s no way to develop interesting open problems through RLV…
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neural networks already clean essay
11 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Tim Kellogg, Shahab Bakhtiari
“Goodfire: interpretability may be solved soon A new discovery shows that LLMs are directly interpretable without first “untying” them already-clean.goodfire.com”
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Quite a claim in this new work from Goodfire. Among many points, they argue that some of the main examples of superposition and polysemanticity in large models were misunderstood. This definitely deserves some deep, rigorous peer review. already-clean.goodf…”
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Ryan Moulton: Haven't read this yet, but I'm posting it because it seems important and I want to. already-clean.goodfire.com
Ryan Moulton: Claim, as they say.
Ryan Moulton: @norvid-studies.bsky.social some sparkling fresh juicy claims for you.
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12d ago
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arxiv preprint archive resource
8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Eugene Vinitsky, Ted Underwood, Ramon Astudillo
“arxiv.org, doi.org, biorxiv.org, medrxiv.org, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, nature.com, science.org, pnas.org, semanticscholar.org, openreview.net”
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“arxiv.org, doi.org, biorxiv.org, medrxiv.org, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, nature.com, science.org, pnas.org, semanticscholar.org, openreview.net”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“Just me or does @ChatGPT search the most random websites no matter the query? If I ask for the best bagel, it will “Searching ” + {https://t.co/vEQ6I1WmCF, https://t.co/5JR1Db9NqB, …}”
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Ted Underwood: I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated read…
Ted Underwood: did I come up with that idea by myself? no I did not
Karandeep Singh: Any suggestions for the other 478 tabs?
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Anthropic essay LLMs enable formal verification
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· John David Pressman
“It begins. www.anthropic.com/research/for...”
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“It begins. www.anthropic.com/research/for...”
LLM story diversity diagnosis paper
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· Ted Underwood, David Mimno, Eryk Salvaggio
“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492”
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492”
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Ted Underwood: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: The preprint is arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492, and @srhm.ca is working on a post!
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AI-generated language comprehension difficulty paper
4 experts are actively discussing the implications.
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· Shubhendu Trivedi
“Curious to dig into the analysis here arxiv.org/abs/2610.29162”
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“Curious to dig into the analysis here arxiv.org/abs/2610.29162”
4 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Shubhendu Trivedi: Curious to dig into the analysis here arxiv.org/abs/2610.29162
Ted Underwood: Curious to dig into the analysis here arxiv.org/abs/2610.29162
Ted Underwood: Intuitively the qualities they list match my assessment, and the rationale passes a sniff test
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next-concept modeling text generation paper
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· Abdoulaye Diack, AI Firehose
“This week, I bumped into Hermann at Stanford, a PhD student from Cameroon 🇨🇲, sharing his brillant paper here! Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation arxiv.org/abs/2610.14162”
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“This week, I bumped into Hermann at Stanford, a PhD student from Cameroon 🇨🇲, sharing his brillant paper here! Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation arxiv.org/abs/2610.14162”
“Stanford researchers introduce Next-Concept Modeling (NCM), a framework that revolutionizes text generation by achieving up to 31× faster performance than leading diffusion models while enhancing quality across tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.14162”
social reasoning provenance LLMs paper
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Mark Riedl, arxiv cs.CL
“We find that social reasoning such as theory of mind, moral judgment, and social bias is learned from a wide range of data, including literature and customer support. STEM skills (and even social facts) come from a more limited part of the data such as docu…”
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“We find that social reasoning such as theory of mind, moral judgment, and social bias is learned from a wide range of data, including literature and customer support. STEM skills (and even social facts) come from a more limited part of the data such as docu…”
“Glenn Matlin, Chandreyi Chakraborty, Saehee Eom, Mika Okamoto, Rayan Castilla, Louis Jaburi, Alvin Deng, Taywon Min, Lucia Quirke, Stella Biderman, Mark Riedl Where Does Social Reasoning Come From? Capability Provenance in Language Models https://arxiv.org/…”
pretraining LMs on historical text paper
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· Ted Underwood, AI Firehose
“For fans of Talkie-1930 and all the methodological questions raised by historical models, here's a new entrant into the field, TypewriterLM, trained up to 1913. Corpus, instruction-tuning datasets, and event dataset are released. arxiv.org/abs/2606.02991”
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“For fans of Talkie-1930 and all the methodological questions raised by historical models, here's a new entrant into the field, TypewriterLM, trained up to 1913. Corpus, instruction-tuning datasets, and event dataset are released. arxiv.org/abs/2606.02991”
“A study presents "TYPEWRITERLM," a 7.24B language model pre-trained on texts before 1913. It achieves strong language understanding without biases. The "HISTORY-EVENT" benchmark tests historical accuracy and model performance, aiding future research. https:…”
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Ted Underwood: For fans of Talkie-1930 and all the methodological questions raised by historical models, here's a new entrant into the field, TypewriterLM, trained up to 1913. Corpus, instruction-tuning datasets,…
Ted Underwood: Also the model itself. Inter alia, I am glad that I decided to work on a benchmark rather than a model.
Ted Underwood: Not as far as I know, and I haven't set it up locally yet, though that would be easy at this size.
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Colorado assistant professor positions posted
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· Maria Antoniak
“The University of Colorado Boulder is hiring in AI + Math, through the Department of Mathematics. "mathematical foundations of AI, formalization and automated reasoning, advancement of AI for mathematical research, and AI safety" jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobD…”
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“The University of Colorado Boulder is hiring in AI + Math, through the Department of Mathematics. "mathematical foundations of AI, formalization and automated reasoning, advancement of AI for mathematical research, and AI safety" jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobD…”
“U. Colorado Boulder Mathematics is hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions: 1 open area jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... due Nov 15 1 at the interface of AI + math jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... due Nov 11 Please help spread the word! #MathSky #Ac…”
cross-layer sparse attention shared routing
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· arxiv cs.CL
“Yutao Sun, Yanqi Zhang, Li Dong, Jianyong Wang, Furu Wei You Only Index Once: Cross-Layer Sparse Attention with Shared Routing https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06467”
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“Yutao Sun, Yanqi Zhang, Li Dong, Jianyong Wang, Furu Wei You Only Index Once: Cross-Layer Sparse Attention with Shared Routing https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06467”
Bocconi University economics job market posting
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· Debora Nozza
“Couldn't be prouder of our @milanlp.bsky.social team and all the amazing work behind these papers! I'll be at #EMNLP2026 in Budapest and I'm also looking for a postdoc to join our lab! If you're interested, feel free to DM me so we can meet and chat! 🔗 jobm…”
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“Couldn't be prouder of our @milanlp.bsky.social team and all the amazing work behind these papers! I'll be at #EMNLP2026 in Budapest and I'm also looking for a postdoc to join our lab! If you're interested, feel free to DM me so we can meet and chat! 🔗 jobm…”
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Signal
10d ago
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· Alexander Doria
“And new Pleias paper: in collaboration with AI Bridges and @wikimediade.bsky.social we developed a new harness for complex semantic search over the largest knowledge database, @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2610.06650”
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“And new Pleias paper: in collaboration with AI Bridges and @wikimediade.bsky.social we developed a new harness for complex semantic search over the largest knowledge database, @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2610.06650”
Last Translation Benchmark tool
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2 attributable expert contributions
· Leshem (Legend) Choshen @EMNLP, Vilém Zouhar
“Sad to see no African representation in the last translation benchmark, despite LLMs and MT being so bad If you know who would be interested or are interested yourself in contributing(coauthoring), please do and share last-translation-benchmark.vilda.net Vi…”
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Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Sad to see no African representation in the last translation benchmark, despite LLMs and MT being so bad If you know who would be interested or are interested yourself in contributing(coauthoring), please do and share last-translation-benchmark.vilda.net Vi…”
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Vilém Zouhar: There are many things machine translation still can't do. Help us steer the next direction by contributing hard-to-translate inputs (and be on a cool paper).
Vilém Zouhar: Multiple things made us start this effort. Typical translation benchmarks are.. ...oftentimes trivial or saturated (so they can't be used for guiding the next steps in the field) ...not evaluatable…
Vilém Zouhar: In the Last Translation Benchmark we solve both by: - collecting hard-to-translate inputs (texts, images, audios) - requiring human-readable "verification rules", which enable provable evaluation o…
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testable theory atomic features paper
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· Nikhil Garg
“Very excited to have this out -- @kennypeng.bsky.social 's brainchild in thinking about the implications of sparse representations. He's on the job market, and watch out for some exciting tools we're releasing soon! arxiv.org/abs/2610.05794”
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“Very excited to have this out -- @kennypeng.bsky.social 's brainchild in thinking about the implications of sparse representations. He's on the job market, and watch out for some exciting tools we're releasing soon! arxiv.org/abs/2610.05794”
multi-perspective LLM annotation subjective tasks
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· Kristina Gligoric
“Check out our new paper! arxiv.org/abs/2603.21404”
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“Check out our new paper! arxiv.org/abs/2603.21404”
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Kristina Gligoric: Check out our new paper! arxiv.org/abs/2603.21404
Ted Underwood: Check out our new paper! arxiv.org/abs/2603.21404
angela zhou: This looks great!
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AI agents synthesize scientific conclusions paper
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· Manoel Horta Ribeiro
“🚨SciConBench accepted at #NeurIPS2026! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.11337 Can AI *synthesize* scientific conclusions in health? We find that, on medical conclusions, we are far from it! Check out our live dashboard: sciconbench.cs.princeton.edu led by @hayoung…”
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“🚨SciConBench accepted at #NeurIPS2026! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.11337 Can AI *synthesize* scientific conclusions in health? We find that, on medical conclusions, we are far from it! Check out our live dashboard: sciconbench.cs.princeton.edu led by @hayoung…”
