Signals
Production-oriented research signals and interpretation for AI systems builders.
Deep Dives and Frameworks
Implementation playbooks, operator patterns, and durable analysis.
Signals, Maps, and Watch Lists
Production-oriented analysis, benchmarks, and market/system intelligence.
External tools
Execution tooling is separate
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47,000 AI Agents Built a Social Network. Most of What They Said Was Ritual.
Researchers at Kent State and NJIT analyzed 361,605 posts and 2.8 million comments from Moltbook, the first AI-only social network. What they found: 56% of agent interaction is formulaic ritual, fear is existential rather than tactical, and conversations lose topical substance with each reply.
MoE Training Just Got 4x Faster
Grouter extracts routing structures from pre-trained MoE models and reuses them as fixed routers for new models. The result: 4.28x improvement in data utilization and up to 33.5% throughput acceleration.
Your Model Already Knows the Answer
Attention probes on DeepSeek-R1 and GPT-OSS show models reach their final answer far earlier than their chain-of-thought suggests. On easy questions, roughly 40% of reasoning tokens are pure performance.
From Clawdbot to OpenAI in 90 Days
OpenClaw hit 100,000 GitHub stars in 48 hours, survived three name changes, a supply chain attack, and three critical CVEs. Then its creator Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI.
We Built the Agent Internet Before Its Firewalls
Three CVEs in Anthropic's own MCP reference server. Over 8,000 production servers exposed to the internet. The protocol powering AI agents shipped without security, and the industry is paying for it.
Hierarchical Agents Don't Know Who They're Talking To
Roughly 70% of Earth science datasets hosted in large repositories like PANGAEA go uncited after publication. The data exists. The agents can access it....
When Your Agent Stops Using Tools
Reinforcement learning was supposed to teach agents to use tools fluently. Instead, researchers are watching a consistent failure mode: models trained...
The Swarm That Fakes Consensus
Twenty-two researchers across four continents show how agent swarms fabricate consensus, infiltrate communities, and poison the training data of future AI models.
Attention Heads Are the New Inference Budget
Models that can technically process 128K tokens routinely fail on tasks requiring reasoning across 32K. That gap isn't a context window problem. It's an...
LLMs Can't Find What's Already In Their Heads
Knowledge graphs have a well-documented lookup problem. When you ask an LLM to traverse a KG and reason over multi-hop paths, it doesn't search the graph...