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I Compacted 1,000 Apache Iceberg Files Into 6. Here’s What Happened to Query Performance.

Benchmarking the impact of fewer, larger files across three SQL workloads The post I Compacted 1,000 Apache Iceberg Files Into 6. Here’s What Happened to Query Performance. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

GPT-6 Astra Helped Find a Fusion Math Breakthrough. Here’s What It Proves.

Two independent papers found three families of plasma equilibria long thought unlikely to exist. One researcher credits GPT-6 Astra Pro with helping discover two of them. Here’s what the results prove and what they mean…

When All You Have Are Decoders, Every Decision Looks Like Generation

Not every decision needs a decoder, generation Is not always a decision The post When All You Have Are Decoders, Every Decision Looks Like Generation appeared first on Towards Data Science.

AI Made Data Scientists Faster. Now It’s Expanding the Job.

The real shift is bigger than productivity: AI is reshaping ownership, judgment, and the career path of data scientists. The post AI Made Data Scientists Faster. Now It’s Expanding the Job. appeared first on Towards…

AI Models Can Teach Each Other Skills Without Talking About Them?

A coding-trained AI leaves subtle traces of what it learned even when choosing ordinary words. New research shows another model can learn from those traces and emerge better at coding without ever seeing the teacher’s…

How to Design Architectural Guardrails Around AI Agents

Agent design patterns every data engineer must know The post How to Design Architectural Guardrails Around AI Agents appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Building Fair Evaluation Sets Is a Combinatorial Problem

Here’s how to solve it exactly. The post Building Fair Evaluation Sets Is a Combinatorial Problem appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra: where Sonnet (surprisingly) wins

Anthropic’s newest workhorse model beats GPT-6 Astra on some agentic coding and professional-work benchmarks while charging one-fifth as much per token.

OpenAI Stopped GPT-6.1 Astra. Who Checks the Safety Gate?

OpenAI’s decision to withhold GPT-6.1 Astra shows an internal safety process can stop a model from shipping.

The AI Labs Want Oversight. They Also Control the Evidence.

Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its measured AI R&D work, while OpenAI has reached its “automated research intern” milestone. But neither proves AI is caught in a runaway self-improvement loop. The harder…

A Framework for Identifying, Categorizing, and Explaining Bias in AI-Generated Code

arXiv:2609.30642v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) become integrated into software development workflows, concerns regarding unintentional biases in AI-generated code. Although evidence…

HuPER: A Human-Inspired Framework for Phonetic Perception

arXiv:2602.01634v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose HuPER, a human-inspired framework that models phonetic perception as adaptive inference over acoustic-phonetics evidence and linguistic knowledge.…

AtomWorld-Mem: Memory-Restored World States for Long-Horizon Atomistic Evolution

arXiv:2609.31133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-fidelity atomistic evolution over long timescales requires more than observing the current crystal configuration. Instantaneous atomistic snapshots are often…

JevSoup: System-One Routing for Training-Free LoRA Composition

arXiv:2609.30922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building adaptable AI systems requires effective coordination of specialized capabilities across diverse tasks. Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) enables modular expertise, but…

SciR: A Controllable Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning in LLMs

arXiv:2606.13020v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Three paradigmatic forms of inference recur across scientific reasoning: deduction, induction, and causal abduction. Reliably evaluating LLMs on these in scientific…

PriceBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Price, Quality, and Brand Preferences in LLM Booking Agents

arXiv:2609.31468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs increasingly act as purchasing agents, which makes the LLM, not the user, the one choosing among the options that satisfy a request; its preferences quietly fix…

The Hard Part Comes After Search: Benchmarking Web Agents on Synthesizing, Organizing, and Displaying Knowledge

arXiv:2609.30604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing computer-use agent benchmarks do not fully evaluate agents acting as assistants. A useful assistant retrieves information across complex, multi-step workflows,…