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Researchers publish an open “midtraining” recipe that boosts coding agents, with caveatsFew rogue agents can change what group AIs truly believe — even when they don’t say so aloud, study findsNew study finds persistent name-based biases in local large language models‘Librarian Agents’ teach language models to pre-organize long document collections — and boost question-answering accuracy, early tests showLinearity, Not Just Memory, Predicts What Language Models Can Learn NextChange the Number, Change the Answer: How Rating‑Scale Design Alters LLM Text ScoresReproducible safety alignment for a Brazilian‑Portuguese LLM: what worked, what didn’t, and why scale still mattersCan AI Guess What’s Hidden in a Photo? A New Benchmark Tests Vision-Language ModelsStudy suggests task context reshapes how shared components behave inside language modelsStudy finds learned answer selectors can help language models say “I don’t know,” but limits remainResearchers publish an open “midtraining” recipe that boosts coding agents, with caveatsFew rogue agents can change what group AIs truly believe — even when they don’t say so aloud, study findsNew study finds persistent name-based biases in local large language models‘Librarian Agents’ teach language models to pre-organize long document collections — and boost question-answering accuracy, early tests showLinearity, Not Just Memory, Predicts What Language Models Can Learn NextChange the Number, Change the Answer: How Rating‑Scale Design Alters LLM Text ScoresReproducible safety alignment for a Brazilian‑Portuguese LLM: what worked, what didn’t, and why scale still mattersCan AI Guess What’s Hidden in a Photo? A New Benchmark Tests Vision-Language ModelsStudy suggests task context reshapes how shared components behave inside language modelsStudy finds learned answer selectors can help language models say “I don’t know,” but limits remain

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Researchers publish an open “midtraining” recipe that boosts coding agents, with caveats

A team from NVIDIA has published a detailed recipe for a relatively new stage in large-model development called “midtraining,” and shown tha

October 18, 2026EN2 min read
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Few rogue agents can change what group AIs truly believe — even when they don’t say so aloud, study finds

A new controlled study suggests that small numbers of adversarial participants in multi-agent conversations can quietly shift what language-

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Natural Language Processing
October 17, 2026

New study finds persistent name-based biases in local large language models

A new preprint finds that even smaller, locally run large language models can show systematic preferences linked to personal names — and tho

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Artificial Intelligence
October 17, 2026

‘Librarian Agents’ teach language models to pre-organize long document collections — and boost question-answering accuracy, early tests show

Large language models (LLMs) are good at answering questions when the needed facts are nearby in their input. But when relevant information

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Linearity, Not Just Memory, Predicts What Language Models Can Learn Next

A new study suggests that some pieces of information inside large language models are “active” — they not only can be recalled, but also sup

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October 17, 2026

Change the Number, Change the Answer: How Rating‑Scale Design Alters LLM Text Scores

Researchers are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to assign numeric scores to social and psychological constructs in text — fo

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Natural Language Processing
October 16, 2026

Reproducible safety alignment for a Brazilian‑Portuguese LLM: what worked, what didn’t, and why scale still matters

Researchers at Brazil’s LNCC report a careful, fully reproducible effort to align a native Brazilian‑Portuguese language model for safer beh

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October 13, 2026

Can AI Guess What’s Hidden in a Photo? A New Benchmark Tests Vision-Language Models

Researchers have introduced OccludeBench, a new benchmark that probes whether vision-language models (VLMs) can reason about objects that ar

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Artificial Intelligence
October 13, 2026

Study suggests task context reshapes how shared components behave inside language models

Researchers report evidence that the same internal pieces of a language model can play different roles depending on the task context — and t

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October 13, 2026

Study finds learned answer selectors can help language models say “I don’t know,” but limits remain

When should a language model answer a question, and when should it say “I don’t know”? A new study investigates that practical safety questi

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