It feels like I’m cheating. Which is a very weird feeling to have. It takes a while to unpack. It’s because some code that used to be a point of pride and high IQ and knowledge is suddenly free and instant and it’s very disorienting.
GENERATIVE AI
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Early Grok 4.20 checkpoint achieves +10% gain on Prediction Arena
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An early Grok 4.20 checkpoint has been spotted on Prediction Arena, achieving +10% gain after a 2 weeks long round. Soon?
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Google DeepMind Unveils AI Film Creation Tools at Sundance
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Our animated short film "Dear Upstairs Neighbors" is previewing today at @sundancefest! In creating this film, our @GoogleDeepMind team of Pixar alumni, an Academy Award winner, researchers, and engineers designed new AI capabilities specifically for filmmakers.
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) 26 janvier 2026
Here’s how these… pic.twitter.com/GBOL1vCdNYOur animated short film "Dear Upstairs Neighbors" is previewing today at @sundancefest
! In creating this film, our @GoogleDeepMind team of Pixar alumni, an Academy Award winner, researchers, and engineers designed new AI capabilities specifically for filmmakers. Here’s how these -
Yi Tay leads DeepMind’s reasoning breakthrough with on-policy RL
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From pre-training breakthroughs to leading reasoning + RL work inside Google DeepMind’s Gemini org, Yi Tay has had a front-row seat to how modern LLMs evolved from “scale + objectives” into the on-policy RL era powering today’s reasoning leap. Now he's helping assemble DeepMind’s… pic.twitter.com/JRxIhp0kYg
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 26 janvier 2026From pre-training breakthroughs to leading reasoning + RL work inside Google DeepMind’s Gemini org, Yi Tay has had a front-row seat to how modern LLMs evolved from “scale + objectives” into the on-policy RL era powering today’s reasoning leap. Now he's helping assemble DeepMind’s
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Anthropic-Led Research on AI Model Improvement Published
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This research was led by Jackson Kaunismaa through the MATS program and supervised by researchers at Anthropic, with additional support from Surge AI and Scale AI. Read the full paper: https://
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Frontier Model Training Enables More Capable Dangerous Open-Source AI
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These attacks scale with frontier model capabilities. Across both OpenAI and Anthropic model families, training on data from newer frontier models produces more capable—and more dangerous—open-source models.
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High-Sparsity Attention Tuning for Video Diffusion Transformers
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SALAD Achieve High-Sparsity Attention via Efficient Linear Attention Tuning for Diffusion Transformer
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Anthropic introduces interactive apps for Claude using MCP Apps
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Anthropic released interactive apps for Claude. Interactive apps can respond with interactive UI Widgets to enable additional usecases.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 26 janvier 2026
"MCP Apps is a new extension to MCP that lets any MCP server deliver an interactive interface within any supporting AI product" https://t.co/AtIc1NMvly pic.twitter.com/ijTcAYhA16Anthropic released interactive apps for Claude. Interactive apps can respond with interactive UI Widgets to enable additional usecases. "MCP Apps is a new extension to MCP that lets any MCP server deliver an interactive interface within any supporting AI product"
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Question about ChatKit widgets support for GPT Store and Claude
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New it I didn’t find yet if ChatKit widgets are supported. Wondering if it is possible to build one app for both GPT Store and Claude
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Essential First Read for New Claude Code Users
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if you're just getting into Claude Code, read this first