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Visit website →SlopCodeBench Finds Coding Agents' Code Quality Worsens in Most Runs Across Evolving Checkpoints
SlopCodeBench, a UW–Madison benchmark, tests 15 agents on evolving coding tasks and reports that structural erosion increased in 77% of runs.
Cajal-1: 218M-Parameter Model Predicts Whole-Cortex fMRI Responses from Media
The 218-million-parameter model predicts fMRI responses at 20,484 cortical points every 1.49 seconds without a scanner.
Google Open Sources Harness2 for Self-Improving AI Agents
Tested on Gemini 3.5 Flash and GLM-5, the system improves performance on legal and office benchmarks without changing model weights.
Powermove: Open-source Mac video editor where Claude Code writes live extensions
The entire editor, including timeline and effects, is built from extensions that the agent can modify in real time.
Benzi compiler-backed agent cuts source code reading by 43% while achieving 82.4% on SWE-bench Verified
The system uses a compiler to resolve code structure, freeing AI cognition for higher-level decisions at a cost of $12.96.
Proof Before Reuse prevents poisoned skills in agent procedural memory by requiring cross-session reproduction
Requiring two later sessions to reproduce a skill's change before reuse eliminated poison exposure in tests with Claude Haiku 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5.
AuroraASR-1M: A 949K-Parameter Speech Recognition Model Released Under Apache 2.0
The model achieves 11.43% WER on LibriSpeech test-clean with just 1.06 MB of INT8 weights.
Blockway releases Agens Volundr 32B v1 with MIT-licensed inference engine and 262K context support
The new version eliminates repetition loops found in the preview, achieves 0/50 loops on SWE-bench tasks, and introduces an open-source engine enabling 262K context within a 16 GB memory budget.
Anthropic launches Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta, expands Docs/Slides/Design to Free plan
Claude Dashboards and Motion are in beta for paid plans, while Docs, Slides, and Design are now available on the Free plan.
OpenClaw Users Can Join Distributed Research Community via New rStation Skill
The free, open-source skill allows users to contribute unused compute to a swarm solving problems like Millennium Prize Problems and small LLM training.
Investigation Reveals Chat Template Serialization Causes Qwen Tool-Calling Loops
A type-aware chat template patch resolved rendering failures in Qwen-based coding agents without degrading model performance, highlighting that tool loops often stem from serialization errors rather than model behavior.
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-Dory1.0-4B, a Looped Latent-Recurrent LLM with 256K Context
The 4B parameter model uses a looped architecture with interleaved sliding-window and full attention to scale intelligence on a small footprint.
Study Finds 39.3% of AI Search Links Are Unused in DeepSeek and Qwen Responses
A large-scale audit of 160,860 citations reveals that nearly 40% of displayed source links are never referenced in the final AI-generated answer.
llama.cpp adds support for Aleph Alpha's Kolibri-1 MoE model
Kolibri-1 is a 78B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 3.46B active parameters, optimized for German and English reasoning.
Gen-Verse Releases DiscoveryRSI-27B for Recursive Scientific Hypothesis Development
The 27B instruction-finetuned model is designed to generate falsifiable hypotheses and investigation plans within the DiscoveryRSI agentic harness.
Anthropic Adds Free Monthly API Credits to Claude Max and Team Plans
Subscribers to Claude Max and Team plans can now use included monthly credits to build applications with the Claude API.
Qdrant tests Perplexity’s PDF embeddings: 21× smaller compressed vectors, with originals still stored
1-bit TurboQuant compression reduces vector size from 856 KB to 40 KB per page while retaining 96.5% of float32 retrieval scores.
Apple Intelligence to Enter China Beta Testing This Month with Alibaba Qwen Models
Tim Cook confirmed the beta launch in Shanghai, noting that initial features and associated Alibaba Qwen models have received regulatory approval.
ORL Research Achieves 2,788 Tokens/s on RTX 5090 for Diffusion LLMs
The open-source ORL method and dlmrt engine enable diffusion LLMs to reach 7,708 tokens/s on 8x B200 GPUs.
Security Warning: Axqua VS Code Extension v1.0.24 Identified as Malware
The axqua.axqua v1.0.24 extension bundle contains code that silently downloads and executes server-selected binaries on Windows after login.