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Research: smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript I tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task: Put https://smolmachines.com through its paces as a…
My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web. LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good…
Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software development". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple of my highlights…
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.
arXiv:2608.16977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are increasingly capable of contributing to mathematical research. In research practice, frontier-model reasoning is a limited resource, and expert mathematical…
arXiv:2608.17275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents increasingly act rather than merely read: across the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, the share of deployed tools that modify external state has risen…
arXiv:2608.10448v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) requires understanding complex interactions between verbal and non-verbal cues. However, most existing approaches…
arXiv:2608.17319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Browser agents perform well on short, clean demonstrations, but real deployment is fundamentally different: agents must sustain dozens of decisions on live websites while…
arXiv:2608.17270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for scientific hypothesis generation. However, evaluating generated hypotheses remains a challenge for trustworthy…
arXiv:2605.25477v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ability to efficiently and reliably learn new tasks has been a foundational challenge in robotics. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated…
arXiv:2602.23545v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the real world, planning is often challenged by distribution shifts. As such, a model of the environment obtained under one set of conditions may no longer remain…
arXiv:2606.15315v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized public transit routing in public transit systems remains challenging due to the difficulty of capturing and integrating diverse user preferences into…
arXiv:2608.17033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to recognize the location of a query image by comparing it with a set of geo-referenced images. Although many datasets have been…
arXiv:2608.17170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithm selection for constraint satisfaction problems requires extracting features that capture problem structure. Manually designing feature extractors demands deep…