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The headlines are breathtaking. In 2025, an advanced version of Google’s Gemini Deep Think solved five out of six International Mathematical Olympiad problems perfectly, earning 35 total points and achieving gold-medal level performance—a feat that p...

A recent paper making the rounds claims to have found something surprising: reinforcement learning (RL) doesn’t just teach models to reason—it can also make them better at recalling structured knowledge. The study shows that RL-fine-tuned models sign...

If you’ve been anywhere near AI Twitter or arXiv this week, you’ve likely encountered a striking claim: Transformer language models are injective. Different prompts almost surely lead to different hidden states. Not only that, but we can exactly reco...

We stand at a curious moment in AI development. With each new breakthrough—reasoning models, agentic systems, autonomous colleagues—we’re told we’re witnessing the dawn of true machine intelligence. Yet seasoned observers feel a persistent unease, a ...

The AI research community has recently embraced “amortized learning” and its close cousin, In-Context Reinforcement Learning (ICRL), as promising frameworks for adaptive intelligence. These approaches—sometimes called context adaptation, meta-learnin...

The field of artificial intelligence has entered what I call the Medieval Era—a period marked not by ignorance, but by a peculiar blindness. We have built something genuinely powerful. We’ve consolidated it into a dominant paradigm. And now, mistakin...

We are sold a vision of a soaring eagle, but we are watching a carefully staged performance on a precarious stage we built ourselves. If the fine-tuned LLM is a stochastic parrot, then the contemporary “agentic” system is a carnival act: a parrot on ...

There’s a seductive myth circulating through AI labs and tech discourse: that reinforcement learning “unlocks” reasoning in large language models. That with enough reward signals and clever fine-tuning, an LLM can learn to think—to plan, deduce, and ...
