<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>boxwrench</title><description>AI research, dev logs, and thoughts.</description><link>https://boxwrench.dev/</link><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-16</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-16/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-16/</guid><description>Five notes: Tailcat&apos;s accountless tunnels, Claude Money&apos;s trust question, System One models that cannot hallucinate, recursive self-improvement through dreaming, and an inbox for long-running agents.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-11</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-11/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-11/</guid><description>Five notes: RTX Spark AI PCs, the Dime headset mystery, building too much, Runway&apos;s realtime worlds, and an anti-hallucination startup.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-10</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-10/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-10/</guid><description>Five notes: Nvidia&apos;s Hydra-0 action-flow world model, a random human life, Google&apos;s Putty vibe-coding experiment, Qwen-RobotWorld, and a visual atlas of agent systems.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-11 (Evening)</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-11-b/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-11-b/</guid><description>Two more: Tencent&apos;s WeKnora knowledge platform and a paper showing sliding-window attention beats linear retrofits.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-09</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-09/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-09/</guid><description>Six notes: Cognition at 47 billion, a Tailwind resource index, goal loops that deliver, AI and the direction problem, crisis as building permission, and the second-brain implementation gap.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>opinion</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-08</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-08/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-08/</guid><description>Five notes: the Astra recurrent-depth safety fight, agentic video in Gemini, the abliteration business question, DLSS 5 perception splits, and the Fed watching token prices.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-07</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-07/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-07/</guid><description>Five notes: a one-shot web-demo bench, Cloudflare cache transcoding, Copilot cost efficiency, new knobs for the brain, and Fable 5.1 worlds from code.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Droppie: my turn to show off Astra</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/droppie-astra-build/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/droppie-astra-build/</guid><description>A tiny living water droplet built with GPT-6 Astra — soft-body physics, WebGPU refraction, and procedural audio.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-06</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-06/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-06/</guid><description>Four notes: Raschka on looped transformers, TxBench antibody evals, Google Pics gated to paid tiers, and the Gemini Flash Cyber overlap.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Little Paw Prints: one prompt, one image, 24 minutes</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/kitten-rescue-manager-loop/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/kitten-rescue-manager-loop/</guid><description>A manager loop running Muse Spark built a complete small game in a single 24-minute run. The structure did the work, not the spend.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-08 (Evening)</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-08-b/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-08-b/</guid><description>Five more notes: Shumer&apos;s 3D-world loop, a benchmark that scores agent construction, Qwen-Drive-1.0, loop engineering patterns, and AlphaGenome Atlas.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-08 (Night)</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-08-c/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-08-c/</guid><description>Eleven more: Images 2.5, Mercury 2.5 diffusion, ID-V2V restyling, cross-model KV transfer, Muse, Gaussian Splat Lite, the KV-caching explainer, tgrep, DIY weather forecasting, a 1-meter LiDAR viewer, and Switzerland&apos;s open-source trial.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-05</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-05/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-05/</guid><description>Five notes: an SSH fighting game with a bot league, Muse Spark 1.3, the Muse superapp leak, test-time training as a scaling axis, and Meta&apos;s organizational second brain.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>models</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-04</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-04/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-04/</guid><description>Three preprints on harness as infrastructure: HarnessDev measures whether LLMs can build their own scaffolding, Harness-of-Harness makes multi-day autonomy composable, and Fast Weight Attention fixes the temporal alignment of recurrent memory.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-03</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-03/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-03/</guid><description>Seven notes: California youth-safety regulation, industrial overcapacity as science catalyst, robotics hardware takeoff, in-context learning&apos;s GPT moment, AI as wet-lab co-pilot, a productivity-miracle claim, and Gemini 3.8 Flash / Flash Cyber.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI Declares the AGI Era</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/gpt-6-astra/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/gpt-6-astra/</guid><description>OpenAI&apos;s largest training run ships with critical-rated cyber capability, looped computation that weakens chain-of-thought monitoring, and task-based pricing pressure.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Normalized LoRA: Fixing the Down-Projection Is Enough</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/normalized-lora/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/normalized-lora/</guid><description>A one-line normalization of LoRA&apos;s A matrix restores balanced early gradients, faster convergence, and mergeability without extra parameters.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>research</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-09-02</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-02/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-09-02/</guid><description>Seven notes: Qwen Max 0902&apos;s 2.4T post-train, Quasar 438B tops Europe, H3-World turns H3 into a world model with 0.2% params, Fable 5.1 decodes a 373-year cipher, Humain M3 in Arabic, a cancer-vaccine primer, plus Dyson&apos;s $499 camera-toothbrush — noted with editorial.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>A Bench in Golden Gate Park</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/golden-gate-park-web-demo-bench/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/golden-gate-park-web-demo-bench/</guid><description>The same Golden Gate Park Three.js prompt across several models, with the artifact, one-shot result, wall time, and run harness kept together.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: Same Weights, Two Safeguard Tiers</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/claude-fable-5-1-mythos-5-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/claude-fable-5-1-mythos-5-1/</guid><description>25% cheaper cache reads, 60% fewer cyber false positives, and early lab-validated science from a model that ships as two permissions, not two capabilities.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-08-27</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-27/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-27/</guid><description>Five notes: JIT-Agent synthesizes harnesses on the fly, Michigan Robotics open-sources its curriculum, DualView publishes exact phase-specialized weights, plus an ESP32 dashboard and the long-lived free-APIs directory.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Qwen3.8-Flash: 125B + 51B N-Gram, Four Changes That Preview Qwen4</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/qwen38-flash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/qwen38-flash/</guid><description>Multimodal MoE with GDN+QSA attention, gated residual, n-gram embedding, and Muon — an open-weight preview of the Qwen4 line.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>GLM-5.3-Flash: 320B Total, 18B Active, and a Clean Jump Past GLM-5.2</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/glm53-flash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/glm53-flash/</guid><description>First natively multimodal in the GLM-5 line. 45 layers, hybrid linear-sparse attention with IndexPool, and Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections — MIT weights that stay local-feasible.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-08-25</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25/</guid><description>Four notes from the feed: an experimental vision model, a free agentic model window, CUDA on RISC-V, and a Linux utility for Logitech hardware.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-08-25 (2/4)</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25-b/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25-b/</guid><description>Five more notes: hardware-aware kernels, a tighter matrix multiplication bound, AMD credits, and two SemiAnalysis signals on the CUDA moat.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-08-25 (3/4)</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25-c/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25-c/</guid><description>Diffusion for language, skill-aware RL, explorative modeling, looped MoEs, and a map of 733k papers.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>research</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-08-25 (4/4)</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25-d/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25-d/</guid><description>Sleep for hybrids, aggressive diffusion decoding, AI-found test-time controllers, a virtual cell, a DeepSeek J-Space report, and PagedAttention explained.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>research</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Interesting Finds — 2026-08-25 (5/5)</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25-e/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/interesting-finds-2026-08-25-e/</guid><description>Meta&apos;s Hatch and Watermelon, Perplexity&apos;s local-first Portable Computer, Figure&apos;s Index dataset, Amazon&apos;s automated last mile, Jetson Orin Nano 2, and Keenable&apos;s knowledge index.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>DiffusionGemma: Parallel Denoising From an Autoregressive Checkpoint</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/diffusion-gemma/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/diffusion-gemma/</guid><description>Google DeepMind finetunes Gemma 4 into a discrete diffusion model that generates around 20 tokens per forward pass.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>DSpark in vLLM: Verification Budgeted by Confidence, Not by Configuration</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/dspark-adaptive-verification/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/dspark-adaptive-verification/</guid><description>One setting keeps speculative decoding fast from 1 to 256 concurrent users by skipping low-confidence drafts when the GPU is busy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Qwen3.8-27B: The Dense 27B That Carries the Max Lineage</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/qwen38-27b/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/qwen38-27b/</guid><description>27 billion dense, native vision-language, 262K to 1M context. Hybrid linear attention in a deployable package.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>models</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Muse Glimmer 30B: Agents That Stay on the Bench</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/muse-glimmer-30b/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/muse-glimmer-30b/</guid><description>Meta distilled Spark for the workshop — a 30B model that runs locally and keeps the job on the bench.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><category>research</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Coding Agents Are Not Chatbots</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/copilot-agentic-traces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/copilot-agentic-traces/</guid><description>13.5 million GitHub Copilot sessions show what happens after you press enter.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>research</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>If Intelligence Becomes Cheap, Who Maintains the Result?</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/political-superintelligence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/political-superintelligence/</guid><description>Hall proposes AI that makes democracy cheaper to run. The question is who keeps it running.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>research</category><category>opinion</category></item><item><title>WeatherNext 2: Forecasting as Ensemble Perturbation</title><link>https://boxwrench.dev/posts/weathernext/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://boxwrench.dev/posts/weathernext/</guid><description>Google DeepMind open sourced its most accurate weather model. The mechanism is simpler than it looks.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>research</category><category>models</category></item></channel></rss>