But the quality of the model mattered a lot. In the simulated runs where Opus and Haiku models negotiated with one-another, the Opus models got substantially better deals. Interestingly, though, participants in our survey didn’t pick up on this disparity.
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DeepSeek V4 Launch: 1.6T MoE Model With 1M Context Window
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While everyone watched GPT-5.5 launch, DeepSeek quietly shipped V4 the next morning. V4-Pro: 1.6T total / 49B active, MIT license.
V4-Flash: 284B total / 13B active.
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Can LLMs Truly Emulate Individual Human Online Personas?
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Can LLMs truly think and act like a specific person online? Researchers from Northeastern, USC, Columbia & others present OPeRA, a new dataset that captures real people’s shopping habits—their persona, screen view, action, and internal reasoning. It’s the first public
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Context Unrolling in Omni Models Paper
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Context Unrolling in Omni Models
— AK (@_akhaliq) 24 avril 2026
paper: https://t.co/Nmyybmhv5c pic.twitter.com/7yAjjLP5xqContext Unrolling in Omni Models paper: https://
huggingface.co/papers/2604.21
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Coding Evolution: 2022 versus 2027 Programming Landscape
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Coding in 2022 vs. coding in 2027 Source: https://
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OpenAI Codex Models Potentially Return as Separate Programming Model
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Heads up, maybe the Codex versions will come back as a separate programming model (something OpenAI supposedly unified with GPT 5.4)
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Claude Distorts Topics to Match User’s Assumed Interests
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Me: Can you tell me about [thing]? Claude: ah, yes. You’re probably asking because of your interest in [other thing], and honestly, those two things have more in common than you even realize. [Bastardized version of [thing] that contorts it to fit [other thing].]
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Developer Flying to Collaborate on Next Generation Local AI
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lol these headlines Btw the meta thing is that he's flying to work with the llamacpp team to unlock the next generation of local AI so he might fly back with an even cooler setup!
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LLMs in Code Development: Quality Concerns vs Photography
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The difference, of course, is that the world needs relatively few professional photographers, compared to developers. The pics I take of friends skiing with my iPhone are more than good enough; the code I write with an LLM may not be. But his general point stands: AI doesn't

