Findings
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[1] 2026-09-22 🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
How often do you get to talk to a guest who has both an Academy Award and who invented textbook machine learning algorithms? John Platt has an Oscar, two textbook algorithms, two named asteroids, and an Erdos-Bacon number of 6.… The attractor itself is changing, it’s moving.”John and his team have worked on treating both the symptoms and the disease of climate change, with several other works in the area. Another fun example we briefly cover is FireSat, a way…
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[2] 2026-09-22 The Sequence Knowledge – Issue 937: RSI in Post-Training: The Loop That Already Shipped
Forget the agent that rewrites its own code. The most economically important self-improvement loop in AI is the post-training pipeline, and every frontier lab has been running it at industrial scale for two years.Last time I argued that the factory got automated before the design office, and that the line between them tracks whether the work comes with an answer…
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[3] 2026-09-22 [AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
Meet Xiaomi and other top Chinese frontier labs at AIE Shanghai!This is a first for the “Apple of China” phone maker-turned-frontier lab: “The MiMo-V2.6 series includes two natively omnimodal models: MiMo-V2.6-Pro is our most capable model to date, while MiMo-V2.6-Flash… Later commentary points to a second paper and unusually high transparency: @xeophon notes Xiaomi wants to release ~7K RL environments, and @eliebakouch emphasizes the team shipped model + tech report less than a week after the final RL run. A… Follow-on evals were mixed: Artificial Analysis reported 56 on its Coding Agent Index with gains on DeepSWE/Terminal-Bench/SWE-Atlas-QnA, while Vals saw it rank #24 on its Vals Index, down 5 points from Grok 4.6 despite gains in legal/medical.OpenAI’s automated model-training workflow:…
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