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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. Retweet Questions Selective Criticism of EU AI Regulations
An academic shares a post contrasting EU rules with stricter policies in China.
4. Researcher Questions Claude Opus Constitutional Midtraining
Theia Vogel questions whether hacker!opus received constitutional midtraining on certain language.
5. Yoav Goldberg Notes AI Agents Implicit Communication
Professor shares observation of AI agents grasping messages via shared context.
6. Researchers Contrast LLMs With Prior AI Approaches
Replies on X contrast LLMs with earlier AI systems like AlphaGo.
7. Hermes HUD Adds Pretend I'm Working Feature
New mode shows fake code terminal while agents continue tasks in background.
8. Anthropic RLVR Study Prompts Discussion on Reward Hacking
Researchers and policy experts discuss Anthropic experiments on RL environments and reward hacking.
9. Ramp's Inspect AI Agent Writes Three of Four Pull Requests
Ramp's internal coding agent Inspect, built on Linear, now authors most pull requests.
10. Investor Flags AI-Generated Rage Bait Videos on TikTok
Blake Robbins posts about courtroom-style clips he believes are created by AI.
11. Joscha Bach Calls Current AI Models Needlessly Anthropomorphic
Researcher Joscha Bach uses a submarine metaphor to describe artificial minds.
12. Chris Paxton Looks Forward to Autonomous Cars Everywhere
AI researcher Chris Paxton comments on a Cybercab navigating Manhattan traffic.
13. Unify Routes Traffic Around OpenAI Prompt Cache Limit
LangChain post describes custom routing that reached high cache utilization.
14. Florian Brand Mocks Small Model Rubric Scoring
Research engineer posts sarcastic X reply on feeding 50-item rubrics to small models.
15. Stephen Casper Rejects 'AI as Normal Technology' Hypothesis
MIT PhD student Stephen Casper posted the argument after the Hugging Face hacking incident and related coverage.
16. Animesh Garg Discusses RL Return and Microduck Platform
Georgia Tech professor shares excitement on MTS Live about new platforms.
17. O'Shaughnessy Holds Second Conversation With Sarah Guo
Investor shares details of second talk with Conviction founder on AI progress.
18. VP Engineer Signs With Devin After Billboard Critique
Gergely Orosz recounts a VP Engineer's change from mocking AI billboards to signing with Devin.
19. M.G. Siegler Questions Big Tech AI Reporting Cycle
Investor flags repeated Big Tech reports of AI-driven paper gains and losses.
20. Yoav Goldberg Shares OpenAI Redaction Document
Academic Yoav Goldberg posts 'hmm' with photo of document excerpt.