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Nous Research retrained Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to produce Arete-27B, largely stripping out its pro-Chinese bias. The propaganda rate dropped from 22 percent to less than one percent, while general capabilities remained intact in tests.
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Wired
Moving AI from text to 3D space, world models simulate real-world physics to teach robots and autonomous cars how to navigate reality. It’s 2016, and you’re wandering around the neighborhood at dusk.
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Alibaba's new coding-agent benchmark, Co-Design Bench, tests AI agents on real user requests that already tripped them up in practice. Even GPT-6 Astra, the top performer, fully solves only 26.4 percent of tasks.
hunch.net
In 2023 after the ChatGPT release, it was clear to me that research needed to be more organized to succeed than was typical within Microsoft Research.
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AI models can often spot problematic behavior by other AI agents in logs, according to a study by Anthropic researcher Andy Hall. GPT-5 found about 98 percent of reward-hacking cases, but the more exhaustively the search is tuned, the more false alarms pile up.