2026
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Quant-Arena: None of 9 LLMs Beat the A-Share Market in 2024
A new benchmark tested nine frontier models on the full quant research cycle. GPT-6 Astra ranked first, but no strategy beat the equal-weighted market on the sealed…

LASAGNA Tests 450 RAG Configurations: The Promised +47% Gain Turns Into Just +17%
The open-source LASAGNA framework ran 450 RAG configurations on eight benchmarks. Three strong retrieval techniques promised +47% individually but delivered only…

LoopRec Picks Compute Depth for Each Item and Beats Baselines on 4 Backbones
LoopRec makes a recommender model linger only on the hard items in a user's history. It uses one shared block and an exit gate on every loop, and it improves…

Researchers Propose PAPAV Framework: Only 3 of 64 Benchmarks Test Verification

NUS Teaches a Model to Find What It Described: gIoU Rises From 57.5% to 68.2%

TenetBench: 11 of 14 LLM Configurations Violate Professional Ethics Codes

DetectorScope Turns the Black Box of AI-Text Detectors into a Transparent One

LLM2Cert verifies 81 of 105 stability and safety certificates
Researchers introduce LLM2Cert and the DynaCertBench benchmark: an LLM proposes Lyapunov functions and barrier certificates, and SMT solvers and Lean check them.

Peking University speeds up video loading for AI by 1.45x
Academician Wen Gao's team releases codec4AI: storing video for random access cuts data by 58.7% and boosts loading speed 1.45x versus LeRobot v3.

LEGO-SCD learns to detect changes in 3D scenes at 17.2 FPS without manual labeling

Mistral Introduces Voxtral 3: 50-Language Recognition and Voice Agents for the Enterprise

Cohere taught a 7B model to assess its confidence twice, cutting calibration error by 52.5%

Claude Designed 17 Proteins Against Scorpion Toxins in 64 Hours

Huawei openJiuwen connects an LLM to lab equipment for electrocatalysis
Huawei's openJiuwen team and its computing platform team closed the loop: an LLM designs an electrocatalysis experiment, and physical instruments carry it out.

Anhui Bets on Humanoids: A Robotics Park in Hefei and a 15.1 Billion Yuan Project
Hefei has opened a robotics park with 14 companies, and Anhui is now citing 31 humanoid models and a 15.1 billion yuan project. Here is what we know about China's…

Lovable Launches Auto-Deletion of "Dead" Apps: 60 Days of Silence, Then the Trash
Lovable's Enterprise plan now cleans up abandoned projects: flagged after 60 days of inactivity, deleted after 7–30 days, with 60 days to restore.

RLSplat teaches 3D Gaussian Splatting to economize: up to 4.1× faster and 9.6× less memory

Stratified Sparse Attention speeds up decoding 2.96x at 1M context

StyleStream 2.0 Cuts Voice Conversion Latency in Half, to 520 ms

Diffusion LLM Agents Learn to Whisper in Vectors: +34 Points on QASC

RoboCasa-Shift: a benchmark shows where VLA robots break in the kitchen
The new RoboCasa-Shift benchmark ran GR00T N1.5 through 1 040 rollouts: two failures with the same ΔSR=0.188 break the robot at the first stage in 19.0% and 36.4%…

WorldStream Builds an Endless 3D World and Remembers Every Player Edit
WorldStream extends a playable 3D world beyond the map, executes language commands, and restores visited places with their edits. It plans on two levels…

A Team of AI Researchers Found a Linear Attention Design That Beat GDN2 at 1.3B

DiffResearch: A Diffusion LLM Makes Deep Research About 6x Faster

Of 1 598 RL Papers, 37 Made It Into Frameworks: An Audit of Seven Open-Source Stacks

Researchers Ran 120 CPT Configurations for Game Agents, From 0.8B to 27B

RoboJudge-9B Judges Robot Videos More Accurately Than Gemini: 0.719 Correlation With Humans
CUHK researchers built an 800-video annotated benchmark and trained a 9B judge for robot videos: 0.719 correlation with humans, 0.089 higher than Gemini-3.7-Flash.

DeCert Teaches AI Judges to Explain Their Verdicts: An 8B Model Scores 76.2 on RM-Bench
The DeCert framework trains generative reward models not just to pick the right answer but to justify it. Qwen3-8B scores 76.2 on RM-Bench, with up to +14.8 in…

0.8B-Parameter OvisOCR3 Outperforms OCR Models: 96.74 on OmniDocBench v1.6
The ATH-MaaS team has released OvisOCR3, a 0.8B model that handles five OCR tasks at once. It scored 96.74 on OmniDocBench v1.6 and took first place on OCRBench v2.

Together AI Launches Post-Training: RL and SFT on B200 at $9 per GPU-Hour

UniPat AI to Put 100 Million Yuan Into Fellows Program for Scientists

USTC Releases "Machine Scientist 2.2": AI Moves From Running Experiments to Creating Substances

















