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ai
More Rules, Longer Lists? Benchmarking Self-Evolving Agents on a Hidden-Rule Curriculum — arXiv — cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse — Hacker News — Front Page
😺 Microsoft's binding AI school deal — The Neuron — Newsletter
Help — Product Hunt — Feed (AI launches surface here)
AI backlash heads to the polls — The Rundown AI — Newsletter
Beyond Plausible Prediction: Safety Sufficiency in Web World Models — arXiv — cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Never Complain, Never Explain — Hacker News — Front Page
Circumventing the Computational Hardness of Computational Arbitrage — arXiv — cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence)
culture
Art, performance and heritage on the runway at Lagos Fashion Week — Africanews
money
Full story: A freezer is now critical infrastructure, and grocers act like it is just an appliance
Ebola fatality rate in DR Congo tops 50% as death toll reaches 5,372 — Africanews
technology
China’s CXMT defends push into new DRAM architecture as US chip curbs bite — South China Morning Post
world
Full story: China tells Iran talks are the only way out as US threat hangs over the Middle East
Police arrive at German university pro-Palestine protest — Al Jazeera English
Cuál es el futuro del bolsonarismo tras la salida de Flávio de Brasil y cómo será la oposición a Lula — BBC Mundo
Brussels still 'traumatised' by Brexit, EU foreign policy chief warns — Euronews
Japan can build defense edge on AI, Palantir CEO says — Nikkei Asia
2,000 Salvadoran troops deploy to Haiti to help fight gangs — Africanews