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Empty Commitments When AI Promises It Cannot Keep
Somewhere in a support chat this year, a customer asked an assistant to check back about a request. The assistant answered, in effect, that it would remind the user tomorrow. Nothing in its runtime would run tomorrow....
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Recursive Self Generation Exposes AI Memorization
Somewhere in the training data of every large generative model sits a photograph, a paragraph, a face that was never meant to be retained. The model was supposed to learn patterns, not memorize instances. But it did...
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AI bots waste scammers time at scale
The pitch to a phone scammer is simple: a live human being just answered, mildly skeptical, a little confused, but persuadable. What the scammer cannot see is that the voice on the other end belongs to no one. It is a...
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GAIATrace Captures Full Token Behavior of AI Agents
The agent decides to call a search tool. It does not know, in any meaningful sense, that it is making a decision. It has simply observed a partial result, weighed it against an internal plan, and chosen the next move....
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Silent Security Failures Start Before Vulnerable Code
A software repair agent finishes its work. The tests run green. The syntax checks pass. The patch slots cleanly into the codebase, and by every measure the system offers, the job is done. And yet the code it just wrote,...
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Verifying AI studies when human judgment fails
A research agent completes a study on schedule. The code runs, the tests pass, the manuscript reads cleanly. Nothing in the output reveals that the comparator was swapped after the data arrived, that a failed run...
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Machine That Says It Is Listening
Speech recognition has spent a decade getting very good at one thing: turning a finished recording into text. Play back a podcast, feed it through a model, and the words come out clean. This is offline recognition, and...
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Harness Gains Mostly Come From Visibility Not Quality
When a benchmark score goes up, the usual assumption is that the model got better. A preregistered study of harness search suggests the more useful question is whether the measurement got better, and whether anyone can...
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AI in Academia The Gap Between Claims and Delivery
Last year, a model reached gold medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Only a year later, models are producing new research results, including a recently proposed solution to one of the Millennium Prize...
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Algorithmic Exploration Gets Cheap in EDA Research
A faculty member and seven students sat down to test something uncomfortable. They picked topics they did not know well rooted rectilinear spanning trees, logic optimization, hypergraph contraction, clock tree...
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When Forecasts Know You or Just Your Disease
A clinician sits down with a forecast. The model predicts the next imaging state. The clinician looks at the same scans the model saw, and has to decide whether to believe the number on the screen or the tissue in front...
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Frequency Illusion Audio Jailbreak Audit AI Security Claims
A number that appears in a paper is not the same as a number that survives scrutiny. This distinction matters enormously when the claim concerns artificial intelligence systems that are supposed to refuse harmful...
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