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Links for 2026-05-25 AI 1. “Self-Evolving in the Wild：Over the course of ~35 hours of continuous autonomous execution, the model performed 432 kernel evaluations across 1,158 tool calls. It wrote, compiled, profiled, and iteratively improved the Extend Attention Kernel entirely on its own — 10.0x geometric mean speedup over the Triton reference, measured across multiple workloads.” https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7 2. OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openclaw-creator-burns-through-1-3-million-in-openai-api-tokens-in-a-single-month 3. MagenticLite: A full-stack agentic experience powered by Small Models https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKMQ3CZig_8 4. Notes on Collaborating with Claude Opus https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5abm94pmRn8pXiHtw/notes-on-collaborating-with-claude-opus 5. Will we really put data centers in space? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/65ECgHzWxTRvt8XWK/will-we-really-put-data-centers-in-space 6. Out-of-Context Reasoning (OOCR) in LLMs: A Short Primer and Reading List https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wXioQSLmEiPTmHyf4/out-of-context-reasoning-oocr-in-llms-a-short-primer-and 7. The Internet can’t stop watching Figure AI’s humanoid robots handling packages https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-internet-cant-stop-watching-figure-ais-humanoid-robots-handling-packages/ 8. Hallucinations Undermine Trust; Metacognition is a Way Forward https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01428v1 9. Military capability depends increasingly on data centres. Now governments outpaced in AI are looking to experimental technologies https://www.ft.com/content/5aecd7b6-652f-4edb-b666-71f3f50fc43e?syn-25a6b1a6=1 [no paywall: https://archive.is/fAQrr] Math & Computer Science 1. Terence Tao demonstrates how he uses the terminal-based AI assistant Claude Code to help review, “golf” (shorten/optimize), and stylistically align interactive theorem-proving code in Lean 4. https://youtu.be/l3SCK6V-BFw 2. Chip design from the bottom up: Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope-2 3. Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics From the Ground Up https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-researchers-are-rebuilding-mathematics-from-the-ground-up-20260520/ Neuro(tech) 1. how far are we from human brain simulation and what will it mean for science? https://alleninstitute.org/news/how-far-are-we-from-a-human-brain-simulation-and-what-does-that-mean-for-science 2. GLOBE—a new technology for brain-wide, single-cell recording of cellular activity in vivo. GLOBE can continuously record from nearly a quarter million individual neurons simultaneously across a mouse brain. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.21.726120v1 3. The rules that turn inputs into a functional arrangement for neurons that process vision. https://news.mit.edu/2026/rules-neurons-follow-to-make-sense-of-what-we-see-0521 Science and Technology 1. New Holographic 3D Printing Method Is 70x More Efficient https://actu.epfl.ch/news/3d-printing-tissue-like-structures-with-light/ 2. Large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00508-8 3. New Quantum Processing Technology Points to Life After the Transistor, Maybe https://gizmodo.com/new-quantum-processing-technology-points-to-life-after-the-transistor-maybe-2000759222 4. HUAWEI Presents the Tau (τ) Scaling Law, Enabling Breakthroughs in Transistor Density and System Performance https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/5/ieee-iscas-tau-scaling 5. Using CRISPR/Cas9, scientists have been able to create a gene drive that, in a lab setting, has proven to be able to drive a species to extinction. https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245

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Links for 2026-04-30 AI 1. Thinking Without Words — latent reasoning ≈ verbal CoT at far lower inference cost. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22709 2. Latent Agents: post-training for internalized multi-agent debate. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24881 3. Recurrent Transformer: greater depth, efficient decoding. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21215 4. Predictive strategies emerge in real + artificial agents from shared task structure. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.23.720457v1 5. Conductor: train an AI manager to delegate to diverse AIs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04388 6. Stanford/Arc genome LMs generated complete ΦX174-like phages; ~300 tested, 16 viable; Evo-Φ36 used a distant packaging protein where simple swaps failed. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675911v1 7. Reiner Pope: math behind LLM training/serving. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope 8. The paper that killed deep learning theory. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZvQfcLbcNHYqmvWyo/the-paper-that-killed-deep-learning-theory 9. The other paper that killed deep learning theory. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zcGmdQHX66NhC69v6/the-other-paper-that-killed-deep-learning-theory 10. Why SGD stops just short of the edge. https://akyrillidis.github.io/aiowls/stochastic_self_stabilization.html 11. Recursive forecasting from myopic fitness-seekers. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q2zYtNsh62SCphitt/recursive-forecasting-eliciting-long-term-forecasts-from 12. AISI GPT-5.5 cyber eval: among strongest tested; second to solve multi-step cyber-attack sim end-to-end. https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-openais-gpt-5-5-cyber-capabilities 13. Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer up to 3 years early. https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-ai-detects-pancreatic-cancer-up-to-3-years-before-diagnosis-in-landmark-validation-study/ AI politics 1. NYT: Mythos reactions show frontier AI launches acting like weapons tests; Russian pro-Kremlin outlet: “worse than a nuclear bomb.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropics-mythos-ai.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/Ex7ZI] 2. WSJ: White House opposes wider Mythos access over security + limited government availability. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house-opposes-anthropics-plan-to-expand-access-to-mythos-model-dc281ab5 [no paywall: https://archive.is/zonHZ] 3. China orders Meta to unwind $2B Manus AI-startup deal. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-blocks-foreign-acquisition-ai-startup-manus-2026-04-27/ 4. Anthropic weighs funding at $900B+ valuation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/anthropic-considering-funding-offers-at-over-900-billion-value 5. Pentagon uses GenAI.mil to create 100K agents. https://defensescoop.com/2026/04/23/pentagon-uses-genai-mil-to-create-agents/ Computer Science 1. Dijkstra invented shortest path in 20 minutes over coffee. https://cacm.acm.org/news/an-interview-with-edsger-w-dijkstra/ 2. Leibniz on symbolic computation and the “combinatorial machine.” https://www.leibnizpapers.org/combinatorial-machine.htm Science and Technology 1. Swedish 1.2M-person study: intelligence positively associated with prosociality. https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/135/668/1141/7914156 2. Longevity hype vs real promise of cell rejuvenation. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/magazine/cell-rejuventation-biotech-longevity-research-altos-labs.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/pVtms] 3. Prediction-market accuracy: informed minority, not crowd wisdom. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6617059 4. ML supports unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena in historical observatory images. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18799 5. SpaceX Musk pkg: 200M super-voting shares for $7.5T valuation + 1M-person Mars colony; second award up to 60.4M shares for space datacentres with 100 TW compute. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/spacex-ties-musk-compensation-mars-colonization-goal-2026-04-28/

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