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Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover
Scientists have identified a Bronze Age pottery tradition as one of the earliest examples of branding, proving humanity’s attraction to reliable commodities…
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Best AI Agents for Software Development Ranked: A Benchmark-Driven Look at the Current Field
The AI coding agent market looks almost unrecognizable compared to 2024 or even early…
16 May 2026
Arxiv cracks down on unchecked AI-generated content in research papers
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16 May 2026
Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions
AI-generated slop has shown up everywhere, including in the peer-reviewed literature. Fake citations, unedited…
16 May 2026
AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists
Last summer, Peter Degen’s postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One…
16 May 2026
ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop
ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to…
16 May 2026
ROCm with PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning seems to still suck for research [D]
“`html A British AI enthusiast found that running a small codebase for training SANA…
16 May 2026
Stanford studied 51 real AI deployments and found a 71% vs 40% productivity gap – here’s what separates the two groups
**What Happened:** A Stanford research paper analyzed 51 real-world AI deployments across various companies…
15 May 2026
[Release] Nexidion – A private knowledge vault with an autonomous local AI background worker.
Release After almost two years of development and several architectural revisions, I’m finally releasing…
15 May 2026
PINN is predicting trivial solution for stiff ODE [D]
“`html A user named cae_shot is experiencing issues with a physics-informed neural network (PINN)…
15 May 2026