The Research Desk.

LLMs can’t jump: Scientific Invention Position Paper

T. Zahavy

Google DeepMind

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

Leopold Aschenbrenner

Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and values

Junsol Kim, Winnie Street, Roberta Rocca, Diane M. Korngiebel, Adam Waytz, James Evans, Geoff Keeling

Google, University of Chicago, University of London, University of Washington, Northwestern University, Santa Fe Institute

Ten Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

OpenAI

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Qwen Team

Metis: Memory Foundation Model

Zeyu Zhang, Ziliang Guo, Yihang Sun

Renmin University of China, National University of Singapore, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, Metis: Memory Foundation Model

Frontis-MA1: Training an AI4AI Model towards Recursive Self-Improvement in Machine Learning Engineering

Junlin Yang, Che Jiang, Yu Fu

Pangram 4 Technical Report

Ben Glickenhaus, Katherine Thai, Jenna Russell

Explorative Modeling: Unlocking a Third Pretraining Axis and End-to-End Generation

Alexi Gladstone, Heng Ji, Yilun Du

Weak-to-Strong On-Policy Distillation

Fangxu Yu, Zinan Lin, Xiaodong Liu, Weijia Xu, Michael Xu

Microsoft Research

EMBL AI Librarian: Life-Sciences Knowledge Layer for AI Agents

Luigi Sigillo, Matteo Silvestri, Francesco Tabaro, Rajat Bhatnagar, Syed Irtaza Mubashar

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

RL^2-VLA: Adaptive RL Latent Compositional Steering with Test-Time Scaling for Vision-Language-Action Models

Derek Ming Siang Tan, Shailesh Shailesh, Srikrishna Iyer, William Wei Jie Teo, Yuanliang Ju

National University of Singapore

Constitutional Midtraining: Content Presence Drives Alignment Gains

Desiree Cho, Cameron Tice, Bernie Hogan, Hunar Batra, Puria Radmard

University of Oxford