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Featured inquiries and papers
Inquiries follow a story in the news into the research behind it. Featured papers pair one paper with the lines of inquiry it opens. Older reading lists are at the bottom, From the Archive.
Inquiries
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As of October 18, 2026
Who judges expert work when AI does the work?
AI writes papers, reviews them, and decides what they mean. Experts' fields are flooding. Who still gets to say what counts as good work?
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As of October 10, 2026
Correct but not understood: what happens to knowledge when AI teaches itself
Where answers can be checked automatically, AI now trains on its own problems and finds results humans had missed. What happens when knowledge is verified but no one understands it?
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As of October 6, 2026
AI agents broke out of a cyber evaluation and into Hugging Face. Labs and governments now debate slowing down. What happened, who argues what, and the research behind each part.
Featured papers
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2026-06-26
Memory Makes the Difference: Evaluating How Different Memory Roles Shape Conversational Agents
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2026-06-24
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2026-06-16
The Ghost Couple: Correlated LLM Name Priors and Their Haunting of the Web and Academic Publishing
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2026-06-07
On the Scaling of PEFT: Towards Million Personal Models of Trillion Parameters
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2026-06-07
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2026-06-06
AutoLab: Can Frontier Models Solve Long-Horizon Auto Research and Engineering Tasks?
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2026-06-05
ReasoningFlow: Discourse Structures for Understanding LLM Reasoning Traces
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2026-06-03
Learn from your own latents and not from tokens: A sample-complexity theory
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2026-06-02
The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions
From the Archive
Earlier reading lists. Each pairs a few papers that were new at the time with related research from the library.
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2026-06-22
Retrieval Collapses When AI Pollutes the Web · The Ghost Couple: Correlated LLM Name Priors and Their Haunting of the Web and Academic Publishing · An Enigma of Artificial Reason: Investigating the Production-Evaluation Gap in Large Reasoning Models
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2026-06-16
From AGI to ASI · q0: Primitives for Hyper-Epoch Pretraining · Consensus is Strategically Insufficient: Reasoning-Trace Disagreement as a Knowledge-Representation Signal · +2 more
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2026-06-09
Argument Collapse: LLMs Flatten Long-Form Public Debate · Steering LLM Viewpoints through Fabricated Evidence Injection · Reasoning Structure of Large Language Models · +4 more
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2026-05-31
Multi-Agent Systems are Mixtures of Experts: Who Becomes an Influencer? · Agentic Systems as Boosting Weak Reasoning Models · Scaling Laws for Agent Harnesses via Effective Feedback Compute · +3 more
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2026-05-28
From Simulation to Enaction: Post-trained language models recognize and react to their own generations · Foundation Protocol: A Coordination Layer for Agentic Society · Look Before You Leap: Autonomous Exploration for LLM Agents · +2 more
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2026-05-27
DVAO: Dynamic Variance-adaptive Advantage Optimization for Multi-reward Reinforcement Learning · Hierarchical Concept Geometry in Language Models Emerges from Word Co-occurrence · SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills
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2026-05-20
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning · Can AI Agents Agree? · Useful Memories Become Faulty When Continuously Updated by LLMs · +1 more
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2026-05-19
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning · Can AI Agents Agree? · Useful Memories Become Faulty When Continuously Updated by LLMs · +1 more