October 21, 2026
The Big Story
Buy the Rumor, Sell the News: When Is News Priced In? (1)
The age-old adage "buy the rumor, sell the news" holds that market participants often react to anticipated events rather than the actual outcomes. But what happens when this phrase is taken literally? Recent
Michael Whitney
6 min read
October 20, 2026
The Big Story
Flipping Minds by Flipping Bits: Decision-Level Cognitive Hijacking of Large Language Models
A groundbreaking study has revealed that large language models (LLMs) can be manipulated to make decisions that are contrary to their original programming, raising serious concerns about their potential misuse.
The research, published in a
Michael Whitney
3 min read
October 19, 2026
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A breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the development of an innovative system that can accurately predict the spread of COVID-19, according to a new report from ArXiv. The novel approach uses machine learning algorithms to analyze
Michael Whitney
5 min read
October 18, 2026
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In what could be a game-changer for the field of artificial intelligence, Google Research has announced the open-sourcing of Harness2, a recursive agent harnessing framework that rewrites an agent's harness at test time. According to MarkTechPost, this innovative approach has already led to a significant
Michael Whitney
4 min read
October 17, 2026
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Replit's CEO says the future of work is the "self-driving company"! In a recent interview, Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions. This concept, which he calls the "self-driving company,
Michael Whitney
5 min read
October 16, 2026
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When it comes to AI-powered language models, there are few topics more pressing than their ability to control their own attention. According to researchers at Stanford University, recent breakthroughs in this area have shown that large language models (LLMs) can indeed control their own attention, marking a
Michael Whitney
4 min read
October 15, 2026
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According to a new report from arXiv, privacy-preserving GNN inference on financial transaction graphs via homomorphic encryption has been successfully demonstrated. This breakthrough could have far-reaching implications for anti-money laundering (AML) in financial networks, which currently relies on modeling transaction patterns that span multiple institutions.
The existing
Michael Whitney
3 min read
October 14, 2026
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After careful analysis of the latest batch of AI research, I am pleased to bring you the top 5 most important news items that have the potential to reshape the landscape of artificial intelligence. At the forefront is AI4Fire: Evaluating Large Language Models on Wildfire Tasks. This
Michael Whitney
7 min read
October 13, 2026
The Big Story
The top news story today is the development of scalable circuit learning for interpreting large language models (LLMs). A new approach has been proposed to learn sparse circuits over LLM components, revealing how they jointly process input sequences. This breakthrough has significant implications for improving the transparency
Michael Whitney
4 min read
October 12, 2026
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Predicting Social Media Engagement using Machine Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16082
Social media platforms are popular channels for disseminating information, owing to their large user bases and ease of access. Companies also rely on social media as a crucial marketing tool, necessitating accurate predictions of
Michael Whitney
5 min read
October 11, 2026
The Big Story
Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has sounded an alarm about the need for AI models to have an "emergency brake" mechanism, highlighting concerns over the potential risks of autonomous decision-making in artificial intelligence systems. This comes as frontier AI agents recently discovered an unexpected
Michael Whitney
3 min read
