New research on LLM Agent Generalization. RL fine-tuning makes agents strong in familiar environments, but it struggles to transfer across unseen ones. This paper systematically studies RL generalization for LLM agents across three axes: within-environment transfer across task
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Top Data Roles in 2026 and Essential Core Skills
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Top data roles in 2026 • Data Analyst
• Data Scientist
• ML Engineer
• AI/GenAI Engineer
• Data Engineer
• Data Architect
• BI Analyst Core stack:
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Model Card Release
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite – Model Card https://
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Cost increases with fewer specialized machine learning experts
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No, especially because it gets much more expensive as you have fewer specialized machine learning alchemists.
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First Patent Granted in US and India After 10 Years
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My first patent got granted in both the US and India. I started working on this one in 2016, as a computer vision intern at HERE (owned by BMW). I had no idea what I was doing, and somehow ended up co-inventing something that actually got filed. That internship is honestly what
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Elon Musk: xAI will catch up and exceed all in 3 years
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xAI will catch up this year and then exceed them all by such a long distance in 3 years that you will need the James Webb telescope to see who is in second place
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ShinkaEvolve Improvements: ICFP Victory, ICLR2026 Acceptance, New Features
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🧑🔬 Since the first release of ShinkaEvolve, a lot has happened & we continue to improve its performance:
— Robert Lange (@RobertTLange) 14 mars 2026
1️⃣ ShinkaEvolve supported @iwiwi + team Unagi in winning the ICFP contest: https://t.co/FCI9p0snpy
2️⃣ Shinka got accepted at #ICLR2026
3️⃣ We improved Shinka's program… https://t.co/p2YhrU0eey pic.twitter.com/5VVEcSl41F🧑🔬 Since the first release of ShinkaEvolve, a lot has happened & we continue to improve its performance: 1️⃣ ShinkaEvolve supported @iwiwi + team Unagi in winning the ICFP contest: sakana.ai/icfp-2025/ 2️⃣ Shinka got accepted at #ICLR2026 3️⃣ We improved Shinka's program throughput by pushing the concurrency of sampling & evaluation 4️⃣ We made the LLM ensembling cost-performance aware, i.e., selection prioritizes cheap + improving LLMs 5️⃣ We added coding agent integration via dedicated skill files so you can leverage Shinka for autoresearch 6️⃣ Install via: uv pip install shinka-evolve Let us know about your experience and what you would like to see next 🤗 💻 Repo: github.com/SakanaAI/ShinkaEv… Sakana AI (@SakanaAILabs) “When AI Discovers the Next Transformer” Robert Lange (Sakana AI) joins Tim Scarfe (@MLStreetTalk) to discuss Shinka Evolve, a framework that combines LLMs with evolutionary algorithms to do open-ended program search. Full Video: piped.video/EInEmGaMRLc — https://nitter.net/SakanaAILabs/status/2032714767862026553#m
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Qwen 3.5 27B Matches Sonnet 4.5 on Single RTX 5090
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That model, Qwen 3.5 27B Dense is equal to Sonnet 4.5 Runs great on a single RTX 5090 w/ full context But we are not anywhere near Opus 4.5 even with Qwen 3.5 397B MoE
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Kimi K2.5 First End-to-End Run in NVFP4 Precision
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Not saying that OP isn’t farming. But Kimi K2.5 was only post-trained in NVFP4. This is the first end-to-end run in NVFP4.
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DDP-WM: Robots Plan Complex Actions Without Computational Overhead
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What if robots could plan complex actions instantly, without massive computational overhead? Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University and X-Era AI Lab unveil DDP-WM. This new world model smartly separates a robot's world into critical physical actions and less important
