Why Algorithms Begin with 'Correctness'

I believe there are broadly two types of introductory books on computer science. One type is books that get you to start ...
BIOENGINEER

AI Agents That Improve Themselves Face a Safety Paradox, Major Survey Finds

A systematic review of 249 papers finds that the most capable self-improving AI agents show critically low safety levels, ...
BIOENGINEER

Grid-Based Decision Trees Finally Get the Guarantees They Always Needed

A new Machine Learning study shows that greedy decision tree algorithms can stall with zero purity gain, and introduces ...

New MIT and Sakana AI framework uses an LLM judge to cut evaluation costs for self-improving coding agents

MIT and Sakana AI's SIFT framework reduces coding agent evaluation costs by using a language model to rank candidates, ...
Crypto Briefing

MIT and Sakana AI’s SIFT framework cuts the cost of judging self-improving coding agents

MIT and Sakana AI's SIFT framework hit 35.1% on Polyglot in 30 steps and ran a full search for about $34, roughly one-tenth ...

Who is Susan C. Athey and what did she change? Analyzing digital markets with causal inference and machine learning

Susan C. Athey is an economist who has studied ways to analyze digital markets and policy by connecting economic theory, ...
HackerNoon

Giving Browser Agents a Map of Your Product

AI coding agents can build software fast, but testing still wastes time rediscovering the product. Learn how a product ...
Science

A DNA Typewriter records the cell lineage history of a mouse, from zygote to late organogenesis

Mammalian biology unfolds over time, within tissues and organs opaque to our eyes and instruments. We applied DNA Typewriter, ...
Crypto Briefing

Google’s Dream-RSI reduces discovery-agent calls by 162x

Google's Dream-RSI framework slashes AI discovery-agent calls by 162x, dropping from 51,200 to 317 on benchmark tasks while improving runtime and ...
xenospectrum

Google's Dream-RSI Replays Past AI Searches to Improve Its Exploration Strategy

Dream-RSI, from Google and collaborators, replays past search histories to refine how an AI agent explores. We look at the ...
HackerNoon

Middleware: An Architecture Pattern Across Stacks and Frameworks

Middleware as an architecture pattern: the same idea in Express, FastAPI and Redux, how it relates to Chain of Responsibility ...
NPR

Sources & Methods

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...