On this day: Aug 28

An in-house test of the automated-researcher route, which delegates alignment research itself to models. An attempt to shift the bottleneck of safety work from human researchers' time to compute, while monitoring researc

A rebuttal paper that sets a baseline — "a sliding window that needs no post-training is enough" — against the strand of linear-attention retrofits that had been in the spotlight as a fix for quadratic scaling. The autho

A strand that breaks down the gap between benchmark scores and what users experience in the field into "a difference in input distribution" rather than "a difference in ability". The finding that writing down the desired

A strategy of giving away a low-cost coding model through Copilot, Cursor, Cline and others to win market share first

A rebuttal showing that the limits of single-vector retrieval are fundamental, dimensional limits that more data or bigger models cannot fix. A theoretical basis for a return to multi-vector, sparse and hybrid retrieval

HNSW became usable in an existing RDB without a dedicated vector DB, directly affecting the shape of the vector DB market