Research from ICLR 2026 From long-context limits to many-shot prompting and speculative prefill, our team presented 5 papers focused on real system challenges in AI.
What works, what doesn’t, and where things break. https://
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04618 https://
arxiv.org/abs/2602.16069
RESEARCH
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ICLR 2026: Five Papers on Real AI System Challenges
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SambaNova Intel Partnership Advances Coding Agents Performance
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April, you were great to us! Welcome to another edition of our Lightning Digest TLDR: SambaNova + Intel DevTalks with Cline New research at ICLR 2026 Upcoming events https://
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BigLaw Bench: Evaluating AI Legal Research Capabilities
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We recently partnered with @harvey on BigLaw Bench: Research, evaluating how well models handle real end-to-end case law research, identifying the right authorities, applying legal reasoning, and delivering answers you can actually use. It also shows where things still break and
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Skill Retrieval Augmentation for Agentic AI Systems
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// Skill Retrieval Augmentation for Agentic AI // Great read for AI devs. (bookmark it) It's on finding efficient ways to incorporate skills for agents. The work introduces Skill Retrieval Augmentation (SRA) and SRA-Bench: 26,262 skills, 636 gold skills, 5,400
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Harvard Neuroscientist Launches Large Memory Model for Proactive AI Agents
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Gabriel Kreiman closed his Harvard lab to build this.
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) 28 avril 2026
20 years of Neuroscience Research.
160+ publications.
This Large Memory Model (LMM) enables proactive memory and allows Agents to automatically surface vital context, without explicit prompting 👀pic.twitter.com/Qpu1PmV1MN https://t.co/YQ67SaKSs4Gabriel Kreiman closed his Harvard lab to build this. 20 years of Neuroscience Research. 160+ publications. This Large Memory Model (LMM) enables proactive memory and allows Agents to automatically surface vital context, without explicit prompting
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AI World Extends Far Beyond Large Language Models
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Yes. But not in LLMs. The AI world is a lot bigger than just LLMs.
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Agent Thoughts as Retrieval Signal for Context Preservation
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Agent thoughts as retrieval signal makes so much sense in hindsight, query alone always loses the conversation context.
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GPU-Poor Labs Drive AI Innovation Through Constraints
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Constraints really are doing the inventing now, all the interesting attention work is coming from GPU-poor labs.
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AGI Timeline Delayed: Unexplained Factors Extend Arrival
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For some reason I can't explain, AGI will now take longer to arrive.
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Anthropic’s Problematic Ransomware Approach Without Ransom
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Only Anthropic does ransomware without the ransom part.