DeepSeek Tests Open Model Economics; Foreign Coauthors
Today’s through-line is control. DeepSeek is reportedly trying to prove that open models and serious capital can coexist, while NIH,…
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GitHub says poisoned VS Code extension exposed 3,800 repos
GitHub said on 20 May that a compromised employee device running a poisoned VS Code extension led to the exfiltration…
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One Wrong Reference, One-Year Ban: ArXiv Hallucinated Papers
Thomas G. Dietterich said on 14 May that arXiv authors should face penalties for arxiv hallucinated papers, arguing in an…
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Discontinued Optane Local LLM Powers a Kimi K2.5 Desktop Run
A user on r/LocalLLaMA reported on May 12 that an Optane local LLM desktop build ran Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 at…
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Firefox Zero-Day: Mozilla Says Claude Mythos Found 271 Bugs
Mozilla said this week that its Firefox zero-day hardening work with an early version of Claude Mythos Preview helped identify…
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A Formula From Another Field Opened Erdős Problem
Erdős problem #1196 now has a serious claimed solution, and the evidence ladder is unusually visible. Liam Price posted GPT-5.4…
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A 14-Author Paper Tries to Make Deep Learning Theory a Science
A 14-author perspective paper posted to arXiv on April 23 argues that deep learning theory is starting to look less…
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A Bundle, Not an App: Claude Design Hits Figma and Canva
Anthropic launched Claude Design on April 17 as a research-preview product inside paid Claude plans. In Anthropic’s launch post, the…
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LLM Failure Modes Start in the Stack, Not the Chat
LLM failure modes are easiest to understand if you stop treating them as personality flaws, “the model lied,” “the chatbot…
